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Bruce Dowbiggin

The A-Z Of Covid-19: The Awful, Terrible, No-Good 24 Months

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“There is no scientific truth, only replicable science. Then it becomes theory, but not law. And not truth. There are fundamental laws of physics that have been overturned. Law is not truth, law is law, and in science, law can be overturned.” Clayton Fox, Tablet

The Covid-19 pandemic has not been about law or truth or the virus itself. The issue has been the inability of our vaunted healthcare— pride of the nation— to deal with the surge produced in 2020 and 2021. Despite assurances from politicians, administrators and media, it collapsed, causing the deaths of tens of thousands who didn’t have Covid at all.

If nothing else the two-year calamity known as #Covid-19 has provided an entry-level symposium on science. Or “The Science”, according to people like Justin Trudeau who have no idea about science. Here is the A-Z on what we’ve learned about the terrible, awful, no good, very bad 24 months.

A is for Antibodies, natural immunity. T cells. They were, originally, nature’s miracle workers. When anti-vaxxers suddenly claimed they were better than vaccines, natural immunity was shunned by White Coats who demanded compliance to The Science. Now, after the failure of boosters to end the pandemic, natural immunities are again declared ten times better than boosters. Because Science.

B is for Bats. From Chinese caves to your memorial service, the winged creatures were the unloved vehicles that brought the virus to the world. All it took was a little gain-of-function, a few international flights and— voila— five million dead.

C is for Covid Convoy. Truckers were heroes till Skippy Trudeau decided to revoke their border-crossing status for indeterminate reasons. So they came to Ottawa to protest. Trudeau called them Nazis, misogynists, racists and more. Then he hid. Now we have martial law. And maybe a run on the banks. Go figure.

D is for Deaths. With Covid. From Covid. Caused by Covid precautions. Accompanied by Covid co-morbidities. Average age of Covid death is still 82 years old. So make kids wear masks all the time and stay at home. Even though they don’t die of Covid, and they’re very poor spreaders of the virus.

E is for Election. Because, let’s be honest. The Dems were doomed till Covid came along. Not believing their luck they used it to beat Trump. And get the media to STFU about Hunter Biden. Okay, hundreds of thousands died, often away from their loved ones. But you can’t make a Biden omelette without a few broken eggs.

F is for Fauci Fear. He went from Time Man of the Year to Man Out Of Time when his Chinese connections exposed him as a dog killer. Making half a million a year at age 81 didn’t help his image either. Or saying criticizing him was criticizing Science. But that’s what happens when you use burner phones to orchestrate results that keep China happy.

G is for Gain of Function. See Fauci (above). In trying to hide his multiple Chinese flip/ flops on whether he’d funded the deadly virus research Fauci inadvertently revealed he’d funded cruel experiments on beagles. Then he tried to explain medical experiments were better for dogs than being dinner from the Wuhan wet market. Americans still don’t know why he was paying for Frankenstein science.

H is for Hydroxychloriquine. Around forever for treating malaria, hydroxy showed promising results in early therapeutic treatment of Covid symptoms. Then Trump mentioned it. Suddenly the CDC banned it from consideration among the proper people. CNN called it voodoo. If you persisted you were kicked off Facebook. Again, people died, but Joe Biden.

I is for Ivermectin. Or as the MSNBC college of surgeons called it, horse de-wormer— forgetting that established drugs can have multiple applications in therapeutics ie. popular blood thinner warfarin is rat poison. Again, ivermectin was abandoned due to Trump interest. Let ‘em die. He’s not getting any wins.

J is for Junk science. See H) and I) above. Anything not considered a new vaccine produced by mega-corps was junk as far as the WHO/ CDC and Health Canada was considered. (And their pool-boy media) So no early treatment. No vitamin therapy. No Alex Berenson on Twitter preaching heresy about less-than-perfect vaccines. Cancel him in the interest of Science. Or Joe Biden. Take your pick. Neither is what it used to be.

K is for Kids. The fulcrum of unnecessary infection paranoia. So dangerous that U17s were banished home for schooling, had their sports and activities cancelled, were forced to wear masks everywhere but bed. Couldn’t see their grandparents. COVID deaths account for 0.673 percent of all deaths among U.S. children under 17— almost all of them with co-morbidities. They produce samples too minimal to kill Granny. Still they’re masked and distanced in many so-called progressive areas.

L is for Lies. To maintain the purity of the narrative it became necessary to create new realities. The Virus didn’t come from the Wuhan lab. The virus can come off of surfaces. Six feet is the distance to avoid transmission. Cloth and paper masks prevent transmission. You can hold your breath if Magic Johnson says, “Hey, let’s take a selfie”. But greatest of all: 15 days to flatten the curve.

M is for Morbidities. While WHO/ CDC/ Health Canada/ media promoted universal vulnerability, statistics showed that co-morbitdies were real keys to death in over-60s: obesity, hypertension, diabetes, cardiovascular disease, cerebrovascular disease, respiratory disease, kidney disease, and malignancy. While those people were fast tracked for beds, anti-vaxxers were sent to education camps in Australia.

N is for New Normal. Wearing masks 24/7. Distancing in lineups. Obsessive hand sanitizing. Working from home. Fist bumping. Isolating in homes. Parties with four or fewer people. Cancelling friends who don’t agree with your fears. All now normal.

O is for O’Toole Orthodoxy. While Trudeau slavishly followed the WHO (read: Chinese) script, causing severe societal strain, CPC leader Erin O’Toole stood aside twiddling his thumbs as civil liberties and freedoms were eliminated. Played Liberal Lite in a very winnable election. Lost badly. Replaced by the 2022 Convoy. Good riddance.

P is for Passports. Speaking of losing civil liberties and freedoms, the imposition of public-health passports might have been the worst (before the Emergency Measures Act). Allowing waiters, bus drivers, pool boys, bar bouncers, flight attendants and ticket takers to examine your private health record sanctioned by government. Because Science.

Q is for Quarantine. Vestige of when political leaders thought they could out-run the virus using test-and-trace whack-a-mole. Leaving the elderly to die awful, lonely deaths in LT care facilities. Spectacular failure culminating in Trudeau locking up Canadians returning to country in hotels they had to pay for. Upside was seeing every Netflix/ Prime series while locked in home for 14 days.

R is for Rogan. Once a comedian/ martial arts guy, now vilified by the Covid Cult for having dissenters on his wildly popular (10 million +) podcast. Peak Rogan was Neil Young’s demand he be kicked off Spotify for sins against the orthodoxy. After a momentary bobble in which he apologized for upsetting Karens he seems back on message track.

S is for Swab. There may be more annoying things in life than having a swab jammed into your nasal cavities by worker dressed like hazmat specialist. But for the moment can’t think what they are.

T is for Tam & Trudeau. The Glitter Twins of the pandemic in Canada. Reversed all early mask/ travel/ distance research in favour of WHO-recommended Chinese lockdown scheme in mid-2000. Refused to budge despite clear evidence that epidemiologists shouldn’t be running the economy or communications. The origin of the Convoy discontent.

U is for Useless PCR positives. Despite clear evidence from even Fauci that viral testing with too many cycles provided 75 percent false positives, Canadian/ American governments, sports leagues, educators, airlines etc still used them exclusively to ruin your life. And media employed them to achieve peak virus fear. Unconscionable. But Science.

V is for Ventilators. In 2020 they were the lifesaver demanded by people like governors Andrew Cuomo, Phil Murphy and Gavin Newsom. Manufacturers adapted production lines to making them. Then it was discovered they were lethal to the very ill. Now? Crickets.

W is for Wuhan/ WHO. The Bethlehem of Covid 19 and its Three Kings. Concerted efforts by the Chinese, WHO and implicated Western medical pooh-bahs have stalled definitive proof of the virus’ origins. Current line: Wuhan lab: 2-1; Wuhan wet market 5-1. Winnipeg lab: 25-1. Asteroid landing in China: 10,000- 1.

X is for Xi. The Godfather. If he designed Covid-19 as revenge on the West he isn’t saying (at least till the end of the Beijing Olympics). But he couldn’t have done better. The possibilities that this was his strategic use of germ warfare are chilling. Almost as chilling as the people protecting the West are Biden and Trudeau.

Z is for Zeneca, Astra, one of the approved firms that came up with something resembling a vaccine in nine months. These test drugs soon became the only hope for mankind. Therapeutics were verboten. Then it was discovered they had the shelf life of yogurt. So more were ordered. Profits rose faster than Elon Musk’s rocket ship. But why not? They were given blanket immunity from legal prosecution. Because Science.

 

Bruce Dowbiggin @dowbboy is the editor of Not The Public Broadcaster (http://www.notthepublicbroadcaster.com). The best-selling author was nominated for the BBN Business Book award of 2020 for Personal Account with Tony Comper. A two-time winner of the Gemini Award as Canada’s top television sports broadcaster, he’s also a regular contributor to Sirius XM Canada Talks Ch. 167. His new book with his son Evan Inexact Science: The Six Most Compelling Draft Years In NHL History is now available on http://brucedowbigginbooks.ca/book-personalaccount.aspx

BRUCE DOWBIGGIN Award-winning Author and Broadcaster Bruce Dowbiggin's career is unmatched in Canada for its diversity and breadth of experience . He is currently the editor and publisher of Not The Public Broadcaster website and is also a contributor to SiriusXM Canada Talks. His new book Cap In Hand was released in the fall of 2018. Bruce's career has included successful stints in television, radio and print. A two-time winner of the Gemini Award as Canada's top television sports broadcaster for his work with CBC-TV, Mr. Dowbiggin is also the best-selling author of "Money Players" (finalist for the 2004 National Business Book Award) and two new books-- Ice Storm: The Rise and Fall of the Greatest Vancouver Canucks Team Ever for Greystone Press and Grant Fuhr: Portrait of a Champion for Random House. His ground-breaking investigations into the life and times of Alan Eagleson led to his selection as the winner of the Gemini for Canada's top sportscaster in 1993 and again in 1996. This work earned him the reputation as one of Canada's top investigative journalists in any field. He was a featured columnist for the Calgary Herald (1998-2009) and the Globe & Mail (2009-2013) where his incisive style and wit on sports media and business won him many readers.

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From Hall of Fame To Hall of Shame? Shohei Faces Banishment

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Holy Backtrack, Batman. With MLB Opening Day— the North American, not Korean version— days away, the sport’s biggest star is up to the bill of his new L.A. Dodgers cap in gambling controversy. Turns out that interpreter Ippei Mizuhara, Shohei Ohtani’s closest companion since coming to North America in 2018, has committed “massive theft” and stolen a reported sum of at least $4.5 million to pay off debts to an alleged illegal bookmaker.

At least that is one story. There are others. After the Dodgers’ first of two games in Seoul last week, Mizuhara admitted that his buddy Ohtani had “loaned” him $4.5 million to pay off a gambling debt which has a paper trail to California and possibly Japan. Sooner than you can say Cy Young, Ohtani’s lawyers said, nay, nay… he didn’t lend anything to Ippei, and Ohtani is severing his relationship with him.

(Which is just as well, because the Dodgers were firing Mizuhara already.) Then Mizuhara did a complete reversal, telling ESPN that Ohtani had no knowledge of his gambling debts, and that Ohtani had not transferred money to a bookmaking operation in California, where there is no legal gambling. About this time someone got to Mizuhara and told him it might be a good idea if he 黙って (Japanese for damare or STFU).

Friday, reports emerged showing large amounts being bet in Japan on games played by Ohtani and his lousy performance in those games. While no one has been able to say the bets were placed by the pitcher or those around him, there are a few games that look highly suspicious. Monday, Ohtani sought to distance himself from his former buddy.

What is undeniable is that payoff money came from Ohtani’s account. And that for almost five years, a gambling addict had complete access to the inner workings of the California Angels dressing room. What injury insights and insider knowledge might Ippei Mizuhara have traded for gambling debts or favours? MLB and the police say they are investigating, but if it can be shown the Ohtani had any betting interest in his own team or other MLB games he will— based on the Joe Jackson and Pete Rose examples— be banned for life from MLB.

Also, are these stories exposing Ohtani about something else? Some believe the allegations may be revenge for Ohtani signing a friendly contract that backloads most of his compensation till after he retires— thereby depriving tax-hungry California of hundreds of millions in taxes.  Finally, why was MLB, which purports to have a security department, caught flat-footed here, and why are they only “gathering information”? Not a good look on any of these fronts for a business already struggling to re-capture lost audience share.

For those who like comedy we can only hope this mess has the entertainment value of the NHL when its greatest star ever was caught gambling with a shady character outside Philly. Okay, Wayne Gretzky never bet on sports , which was then illegal everywhere in North America outside Las Vegas. Never. Perish the thought.

When the Gretzky story broke in 2006 we were informed by people throughout hockey—including many sniffers in the sports media who still have jobs— that it was Wayne’s wife Janet and his pal Rich Tocchet who had the gambling problem. The walls around No. 99 went up quickly to protect him. There was concern about Gretzky’s eligibility to manage the 2006 Olympic mens hockey team.

VANCOUVER, BC – OCTOBER 20: Head coach Wayne Gretzky and assistant coach Rick Tocchet (R) of the Phoenix Coyotes discuss a play during their game against the Vancouver Canucks at General Motors Place on October 20, 2005 in Vancouver, Canada. The Canucks defeated the Coyotes 3-2. (Photo by Jeff Vinnick/Getty Images)

For weeks the police and the NHL did a dance around the Gretzkys, placing most of the blame on Tocchet as the point man who financed and placed bets. Much was made of No. 99’s simon-pure record, even though wiretaps later showed his knowledge of the scheme and of Janet’s “involvement”.

Janet, who was taking the heat for hubby, later whined to Chatelaine Magazine. “It’s unfair that Wayne and I have had a great marriage for 20 years and a nice family, and the people in the media could care less if they are trying to cause friction in your marriage, trouble in your family, and make your kids feel a certain way. That was a little hurtful, because it was like, ‘Why? What have we ever done to you?’”

Um, as the wife of a hockey legend, you were, at the very least, dealing with illegal gambling when any such activity at the time was strictly verboten in the NHL and with the cops. That’s what you did. Your marriage had nothing to do with it.

Just to prove that Gretzky is not the type to get involved with the sleaze of gambling he immediately signed up to advertise sports betting as soon as it became legal in 2022. He’s done commercials with Connor McDavid yukking it up over parlays and teasers. He’s the hockey face of legal gambling. But he’s not a gambler.

This story was never going to be told straight in 2006 with Gretzky’s name involved. He’s just too big in Canada to be taken down for a silly betting scheme with a few goombahs in Tony Soprano’s old Jersey neighbourhood. You could tell by the indignation of Team Gretzky in the day that they were calling in their markers… er, discussing the issue with friendly media on burying the story.

MLB can just hope that it has enough lackeys of its own in the press and friends in the DOJ to keep the Japanese Babe Ruth out of trouble. But the bases are full and the runners will be in motion with the next pitch

Bruce Dowbiggin @dowbboy is the editor of Not The Public Broadcaster  A two-time winner of the Gemini Award as Canada’s top television sports broadcaster, he’s a regular contributor to Sirius XM Canada Talks Ch. 167. Inexact Science: The Six Most Compelling Draft Years In NHL History, his new book with his son Evan, was voted the seventh-best professional hockey book of all time by bookauthority.org . His 2004 book Money Players was voted sixth best on the same list, and is available via brucedowbigginbooks.ca.

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Don’t Bother Asking. Justin’s Only Got One Daddy Now.

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Why did almost 600 people cram a hotel room in Charlottetown Sunday to hear speakers (including former RCMP and CSIS employees) describe Chinese efforts to buy up their land and influence the political process in PEI and Canada? In a province as sleepy as PEI, 600 people travelling from every corner of the province on their own dime to attend a Sunday political rally is the equivalent of the Truckers’ Convoy.

Then why, say organizers, were there no local CBC or CTV reporters covering the event? (A CTV documentary unit was there, but to get video for an October broadcast.) They’d been told of the meeting that forced hotel staff expecting 300 people to add a second room and hundreds of chairs. And why did no local papers send reporters?

With a federal election possible this year, there must have been some politicians there to hear the speakers, right? Get the temperature of their voters? Nope. Zero cabinet members, MPs or MLAs were in attendance. Probably they were off voting on fatuous NDP motions in the Commons telling Israel not to defend itself.

By contrast, if ten people shouting “Charlottetown4Gaza” had gathered in front of the PEI legislature building you have to know that Justin Trudeau’s paid media would have been there to record the keffiyehs and the masked antifa thugs. As of this writing there has been no reference to this hotel event in the PEI or larger Canadian media.

Meanwhile, Veterans Affairs, which is headquartered in PEI, dedicated an entire recent struggle session to disparaging white Canadians and calling the military racist. You want to know how PEI will go from all-red to all-blue next time? This weekend’s meeting will suffice. The Tim Horton crowd ain’t buying.

This detachment from The Other happens with greater frequency as Canada’s Tiffany media turn further inward and the demonization of the non-416/613/514 fact increases. Despite government efforts to pour millions into corporate media that no one watches or trusts anymore. As Stephen Taylor noted, “The worst people in Canada never had so much access to government.”

The unreported story of the 2022 Truckers Convoy was not mounted police trampling old ladies in the crowds. Okay, that was a story, too. No, the principal takeaway was how completely unaware the Family Compact was of the dimensions headed toward them. From the puny police presence to Justin Trudeau’s deer-in-the-headlights response to complaints about his unyielding vaccine regime. “How dare they?” Establishment Ottawa thought it could finesse the whole thing, bring in the purchased media to rough up the protesters verbally, get the Liberal base outraged about… uh, honking horns and Bouncy Castles.

How’d that work? The images of ordinary folks lining the convoy route and the groundswell of disgust over Trudeau’s Covid calumny never penetrated their bubble. And when it did, crashing into the placid vaches qui rit beside the Rideau, their only response was to cite a vestige of War Measures Act to protect their privilege against unarmed protesters. And have CBC hacks talk about “gold-standard” policing and wonder aloud if Putin was behind it all.

Contrast that treatment with the recent demonstrations on Parliament Hill where Hamas supporters weren’t asking for the right to refuse useless Pfizer shots. They were talking about death to fellow Canadians and the eradication of a democratic ally of Canada (or was before Monday night’s vote.) It was hard to tell who police were protecting: the free-speech public or the protesters with their hate speech.

Why? People misunderstand the motivation of Team Trudeau. Yes, they are obsessed with keeping their power to order $1,822-a night Dubai hotel suites to discuss climate Armageddon But most of all, they fear being ostracized by the “cool kids”. The pecksniffs of the Left are the modern equivalent of the Greek aristoi, the aristocrats who labelled themselves “the best”. The Hellenic equivalents of Barack and Michelle.

Their greatest fear, even 5,000 years ago, was finding themselves lowered to the Kakoi, the rubes and hicks in Athenian society,  shunned by their former aristoi buddies. Required to be the catchers, not the pitchers in the Ottawa circle jerk. Today’s status seekers are mortified they will be pilloried by their heroes, Racial Maddow, Joyless Reid and the At Issue panel.

Isolation is their nightmare. So while they recognize that Justin can’t dance and Melanie don’t rock ’n roll, there’s safety in staying under their skirts. They won’t have to turn on CBC or CTV and confront rubes in Charlottetown who’ve noticed that Team Trudeau is selling PEI off by the pound to the CPP. They’ll be able to trade Saturday Night Lies skits with fellow travellers.

And that’s not such a bad life, is it? Especially when someone else is paying.

(For more information about concerns in PEI with land purchases see video below)

Bruce Dowbiggin @dowbboy is the editor of Not The Public Broadcaster  A two-time winner of the Gemini Award as Canada’s top television sports broadcaster, he’s a regular contributor to Sirius XM Canada Talks Ch. 167. Inexact Science: The Six Most Compelling Draft Years In NHL History, his new book with his son Evan, was voted the seventh-best professional hockey book of all time by bookauthority.org . His 2004 book Money Players was voted sixth best on the same list, and is available via brucedowbigginbooks.ca.

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