oldhippie I saw the footage.
The mounted cops came in riding very close together, on what seemed to be draft horses, or at least draft horse crosses.
The woman with the walker was in their way, the horse hesitated and was kicked on by the rider.
She seemed to be moving after she was trampled, so I didn’t repeat the report of her death, knowing that disinformation is the way the mockingbird media discredits dissidents.
I also oppose injuring horses, with marbles or anything else. (There was a deranged antifa woman who stabbed a horse in Boston last year. As far as I know she went unarrested or prosecuted.)
This is a totalitarian human outrage, not a spontaneous horse attack. It is the humans who should be held accountable for their atrocities.

Posted by: wagelaborer | Feb 19 2022 20:38 utc | 404

oldhippie… i just posted a link for you.. check back later when b clears it, as it didn’t go thru…

Posted by: james | Feb 19 2022 21:08 utc | 406

@265 and others vetinLA
Did you visit your local hospitals whilst you were told what to do? Did you check anything what you were told by the boss?
Whilst I didn’t go check my local hospital during lockdown in the UK, another citizen of my city did. She was arrested the following day in a dawn raid for filming in hospital (seems a bit extreme, no?).
Empty Hospital
Did you do Desert Storm? I did (Royal Signals). Do you remember the testimony about babies being tossed from incubators? Do you remember the MSR? Who lied and who died?

Posted by: Some Random Passerby | Feb 19 2022 21:09 utc | 408

Posted by: retiredmecheng | Feb 19 2022 16:51 utc | 375
“Now if the anti-vaxxers have some mental health issues…..”
“I am really interested in hearing the perspective of those on this blog who have elected to not be vaccinated…”
No you’re not.

Posted by: ted001 | Feb 19 2022 21:54 utc | 410

you guys are giving retiredmecheng too much credit on the covid stuff, he said do they feel that they should have equal rights to hospital treatment as those that elected to be vaccinated? without any sense of sarcasm, shame, or awareness…
there are some pretty ugly videos of police violence in canada. makes me angry, then sad. and then i remember someone i was and think wait a second, this is happening in canada, in fucking canada?!
my wife is off to look after her mum for a few days so i am going to go full hermit for a good ~48 hours with some music and cats. will see if it remains ssdd when i wake up on wednesday. it is raining which is nice

Posted by: Rae | Feb 19 2022 22:03 utc | 412

Posted by: DG | Feb 19 2022 22:02 utc | 409
They are clueless to where it all leads.
I could say our ‘retired mechanical engineer’ contributes absolutely nothing to society, his contributions to the betterment of the world ceased on his retirement. He is a drain on the hospital system, he consumes valuable resources & generates unnecessary green house gases & CO2. I find this sort of person to be extremely selfish by taking multiple doses of the vaccine & thus denying vulnerable children in Africa the opportunity of living a safe & productive life for many years to come. He should be denied all medical treatment, except morphine for pain relief (we do have some humanity) & left to die with minimal cost to the community.
Rather unpleasant. Nasty, vicious, totally lacking in any humanity.
But who am I to argue if people want to set the precedent…

Posted by: ted001 | Feb 19 2022 22:38 utc | 414

@281 retiredmecheng
If is a bloody big word for two letters.
If my uncle had a vagina he’d be my aunt. My wife regularly says that we should not dwell on what ifs.
You have zero proof that the hospital is overloaded with cases, all you have is hearsay.
And I’ll bite on you anti vaxxer call. I’m anti vax. I wasn’t always, my son’s are 26 and had every jab they were supposed to get as kids. They make their choices as adults.
Time moves on and I’m now living with a wonderful woman who has two autistic children. Their conditions made me seek answers to under why they are the way they are.
Sadly, I cannot find the link right now, but I will find it and post.
There has been a recent study on vaccine adjuvants. There are two types. Mercury and aluminium. The study sadly did not cover aluminium (which hasn’t been studied in all the years it’s been used). The take away results are that obviously, mercury is extremely toxic and any vax using it should be avoided at all costs.
I grew up just down the road from Edward Jenner’s birthplace and it was taught as part of local history. I’d let Jenner Vax me, but modern pharma (that only cares about money, profits) can go run and jump.
And you should be grateful to folks like me and my family.
We’re the control group that’ll show you’ve been hooked and shafted.

Posted by: Some Random passerby | Feb 19 2022 22:46 utc | 416

I chose to NOT get the covid jab, because too much of this thing is fishy, starting with the fudging of the numbers, making it impossible to get a proper read on the situation. What numbers can be trusted ?
Fishier than a fish factory. Where there’s smoke, there’s fire, and there’s A LOT of smoke. I find it amazing so many people don’t see it.
I wear a mask when I go into stores, and disinfect my hands. These are a minor but acceptable annoyance. But I won’t let them inject me with this experimental concoction.
I shared my information-gathering with my friends and family, strongly recommending they avoid the shots, but they all got the shots anyway. My opinion can’t compete with their doctors’ recommendation. I’m just hoping they won’t suffer health issues as a result.
Fortunately conversations with my folks about the covid and “vaccines” stayed friendly, and respectful of personal choice.

Posted by: Featherless | Feb 19 2022 23:16 utc | 418

Posted by: Some Random passerby | Feb 19 2022 22:46 utc | 414

The study sadly did not cover aluminium (which hasn’t been studied in all the years it’s been used). The take away results are that obviously, mercury is extremely toxic and any vax using it should be avoided at all costs.

What really happened at Simpsonwood and why it matters today
While talking to RFK Jr. about Jake Tapper, I learned what happened Simpsonwood. It’s a fascinating story of corruption 20 years ago. Not much has changed it seems. The CDC is still corrupt.

If you read my story about RFK Jr. and how he became an anti-vaxxer, it mentions the Simpsonwood transcripts.
There is a book, “Evidence of harm” that talks about what happened there in detail. Some people think the author wasn’t sure who was telling the truth. That’s not true. The book author takes an objective viewpoint, leaving it to the reader to determine who was telling the truth. If your brain is working, it’s easy to figure out.
Basically, Simpsonwood was a meeting where the CDC was scrambling to figure out how to cover up the “signal” caused by thimerosal in vaccines.
Here is the original Verstraeten study which shows the connection with autism. RR=7.6 is huge. It means mercury causes autism.
Here is a transcript of the Simpsonwood meeting which was held to figure out what to do about the paper.
It’s a long read, so this excerpt gives you the highlights in a much shorter amount of time. The key thing was the study by Verstraeten. Version #3 was presented at that meeting.
This web page describes each version of the Verstraeten study. Search for “A “SIGNAL” DISAPPEARS ACROSS FIVE GENERATIONS OF STUDY.” In that section they’ll talk about a signal that “won’t go away.” They basically massaged the numbers to make the association “go away” so they wouldn’t have to admit making a mistake which would be a PR disaster.
In short, the CDC was more interested in covering their ass (making the signal go away) than protecting kids.

Posted by: pogohere | Feb 19 2022 23:26 utc | 420

Misotheist | 411
Solzhenitsin was a fascist
Meh. In 2022, Everyone has a label.
Where does “fascist” fit now within the pantheon of pejoratives: “J6 insurrectionist”, “anti-vaxxer”, anything “denier” “right wing trump support deplorable” [long-winded], “conspiracy theorist”, “white” supremacist; anti Semitic; freedom fighting jidhadist; moderate rebel; separatist; or… what did they label that elderly woman in a mobility device that was trampled by the horse and may, or may not have died?
I think she was instantly ascribe an epithet like “right wing extremist”, or “anti mandate moron” some such.
From biblical times until this politically “correct” era, she would have been a “cripple”.
Since she was too incapacitated to remove herself from the path of a riot control animal, maybe now she’s “collateral damage”, or “roadkill”.
Labels just don’t do the work they one did.
Yours, yours works though.
“Misotheist”. That’s a slick label.

Posted by: Melaleuca | Feb 19 2022 23:33 utc | 422

Purportedly the woman injured by the horse:
https://m.facebook.com/story.php?story_fbid=10159815125879116&id=820919115

Posted by: Keith McClary | Feb 19 2022 23:47 utc | 424

to oldhippie:
You write a lot of things that turn out to be false. It reminds me of MSM reporters.
the MSM reporters operate a lot like you do – they write whatever they choose to believe…
the MSM reporters and also you believe the facts that they choose to look at and disregard all else…
The MSM reporters have an excuse, which is that they get paid very well for what they write because they learned the skill of writing that which is appealing to others.
What is your excuse?

Posted by: jinn | Feb 19 2022 23:50 utc | 426

Posted by: retiredmecheng | Feb 19 2022 23:18 utc | 417
“@all science deniers:…” – that’s always a good start…
Still interested to hear your response as why you – an elderly, retired & non productive member of society, should get access to health care over a fully vaccinated young person with years of productive contribution to society in front of them.
After all the Canadian hospital system is so overburdened & under extreme stress that the last thing needed is elderly high maintenance patients using valuable resources that can be better deployed elsewhere.
Maybe you consider yourself an exception?

Posted by: ted001 | Feb 20 2022 0:09 utc | 428

Posted by: ted001 | Feb 20 2022 0:09 utc | 426

Still interested to hear your response as why you – an elderly, retired & non productive member of society, should get access to health care over a fully vaccinated young person with years of productive contribution to society in front of them.
After all the Canadian hospital system is so overburdened & under extreme stress that the last thing needed is elderly high maintenance patients using valuable resources that can be better deployed elsewhere.

Perfectly valid question. Thank you.
All other things being equal, and if health care services are in short supply, a younger person should get access before I do. In fact, I am due to get a replacement hip, but the surgery has been delayed because our hospitals are overrun. I accept this, even though many hospitalized patients are anti-vaxxers, and that segment is grossly over-represented in our hospitals and ICUs. Now for younger patients, needing cancer surgery, or cardiac care, I am not so sympathetic to those that elect to disregard the advice of our public health authorities, and the body of science (imperfect as it is) that they represent.

Posted by: retiredmecheng | Feb 20 2022 0:22 utc | 430

What is odd is when people who swallow the Establishment propaganda whole and then regurgitate it back wrap themselves in the cloak of Science™.
Actual science requires data collection and then reassessment. People still chanting last year’s “We’re all in this together” and “Do it for others and the common good” are showing that they are unable to process over a year’s worth of data collected since then. Embarrassing! (Just kidding, they seem incapable of embarrassment).
We already know that the injections don’t stop the recipients from catching or from spreading the disease. Therefore the “Do it for others” propaganda line is hopelessly outdated.
Anyone who actually knew how to use the scientific method would stop using those slogans.
Here’s a fun project to do to increase your knowledge of how propaganda works.
When your local paper runs a story on how “overwhelmed” your local hospital is with covid patients, look it up on this website (for US only).
https://protect-public.hhs.gov/pages/hospital-utilization
What an eyeopener it turns out to be!
It turns out that the propaganda has nothing to do with reality! No, I’m not kidding! Try it for yourself in your own home!
Also, remember that hospitals in the US fired over a million workers in the first flush of the pandemic when we were told that we had to “flatten the curve” to save the hospitals.
That seems counter-intuitive, but again, propaganda turns out to have nothing to do with reality!
https://www.npr.org/2020/05/10/853524764/amid-pandemic-hospitals-lay-off-1-4m-workers-in-april

Posted by: wagelaborer | Feb 20 2022 0:33 utc | 432

Retiredmecheng : “…the advice of our public health authorities, and the body of science (imperfect as it is) that they represent.”
There is definitely a consensus on covid and the “vaxes”. Because those that speak against that “consensus”, even medical professionals and experts, are censored, deplatformed, fired and otherwise demonized. Such policy is transparently political and anti-scientific, and so cannot serve public health.

Posted by: Featherless | Feb 20 2022 0:43 utc | 434

Remember when it was “two weeks to flatten the curve”.

Posted by: Melaleuca | Feb 20 2022 0:16 utc | 427
Actually, that would have been possible with a more intelligent and better disciplined society. Not only did China manage to beat covid, they did so without a roadmap. All the rest of the world had to do was copy their example, but we were too stupid and selfish. And now here we are…

Posted by: farm ecologist | Feb 20 2022 0:50 utc | 436

Posted by: Some Random Passerby | Feb 20 2022 1:37 utc | 435
Actually, the same hospital had normal visiting rules prior to the omicron outbreak, so I see nothing nefarious about the current restrictions. And they do allow visitors for patients that are not expected to survive, although unfortunately not all hospitals have such a humane policy.

Posted by: farm ecologist | Feb 20 2022 1:46 utc | 438

@418 pogohere
Much appreciated. Will show my wife later this AM.
@428 retiredmecheng
Here in the UK, they’d have slapped a DNR on your notes purely due to your age. Maybe things are different across the ocean, but here they went for the old with relish. Blanket DNR orders for entire care homes.
@436 farm ecologist
Did you watch the video I linked for the empty city hospital (that, thanks to centralisation, is the main county hospital)? It was recorded during the “deadly” Delta outbreak, not Omicron.

Posted by: Some Random Passerby | Feb 20 2022 2:04 utc | 440

Did you watch the video I linked for the empty city hospital (that, thanks to centralisation, is the main county hospital)? It was recorded during the “deadly” Delta outbreak, not Omicron.
Posted by: Some Random Passerby | Feb 20 2022 2:04 utc | 438
I’m not sure what to make of it. My understanding of the UK healthcare system is that it was basically gutted by Thatcher and has probably gotten worse due to chronic underfunding since that time. Without healthcare workers, a hospital is just a building – could that be the case here?
A few impressions:
-Odd that there was no check-in and she was able to walk straight into the hospital.
-A few patients could be seen but not too many. Had these wards and clinics already been shut down prior to delta (see above), or was that done during the outbreak?
-Delta was the most infectious variant known at that time, and they could have been overzealous in keeping the general public away from covid patients (but then why leave the entrance unguarded?).
-The response to her “crime” was unnecessarily heavy-handed.

Posted by: farm ecologist | Feb 20 2022 2:50 utc | 442

@ vetinLA 369
As for me and mine, we’re all vaxed and boosted, with no negative effects, and no trips to the hospital. The future? Who knows? We’ll see. I’m 74, and still feel as well as a 74 yr. can expect. Same for the rest of my family. I find that, considering the differences in people, personal experience. .
I agree with you. (Got a few years on you also.) There is however the feeling that we’re dinosaurs, vestiges of the draft. . .Like, swing over and get your five shots prior to movement. Yes sir, three bags full. And that’s that . .back then. . . but no more, apparently. Will we go with the flow? Probably not, but that’s us. We’re us and they’re them. “Differences in people.”

Posted by: Don Bacon | Feb 20 2022 3:12 utc | 444

white mug
‘white guys dindunuthin, its the blacks, its the chinaman, its the joos..’
Fortunately not all whites are born equal, some do get it..
Like I pointed out many times already, somebody wanna make chinaman the pariah of 21C
https://johnmenadue.com/eve-ottenberg-bigotry-unboundthe-us-medias-anti-china-propaganda-blitz/

Posted by: denk | Feb 20 2022 4:26 utc | 446

@ denk 444
somebody wanna make chinaman the pariah of 21C
For most of the last 4,000 years, China was the most powerful country on the planet. For the last 200 years China went down and now it’s coming back and a lot of people are uncomfortable with that not only because of the power, but racism is also a driver.
In the US in 1882 it was the Chinese Exclusion Act which prohibited Chinese laborers—defined as “both skilled and unskilled laborers and Chinese employed in mining”—from entering the United States. The passage of the act represented the outcome of years of racial hostility and anti-immigrant agitation by white Americans. Chinese laborers had made the cross-national US railroads possible, but they weren’t needed any longer. So don’t come in, and those of you in get out.

Posted by: Don Bacon | Feb 20 2022 5:12 utc | 448

One problem westerners have with Chinese is that they don’t act like us. Westerners say: What’s the problem today? Lick it. Beat it.
For Chinese, it’s the Philosophy Of Flow — Taoism
What is it all about?
It’s often compared to a stream going down a hill.
“That which offers no resistance, overcomes the hardest substances. That which offers no resistance can enter where there is no space.
Few in the world can comprehend the teachings without words, or understand the value of non-action”
Lao Tzu, Tao Te Ching, Chapter 43.
A well-known concept that has emerged from Taoist philosophy is Wu Wei, that can be translated as “non-action” , “effortless action” or the paradoxical “Action of non-action”. In a practical sense, we can describe Wu Wei as the state of flow, often referred to as the “the zone” by athletes. When athletes are in zone, they engage in action without striving, and move through time and space effortlessly. There are no extremes, no worries, no ruminations, everything seems to flow in a natural course.

Posted by: Don Bacon | Feb 20 2022 5:36 utc | 450

Posted by: james | Feb 20 2022 5:33 utc | 447
Hi James,
So if I am understanding your request, you seem to be saying that the answer to the FOI request (hospitalization and ICU usage) differs from what we have been told on our provincial covid dashboard, and differs dramatically from the almost daily briefings from public health officials (Dr. Bonny Henry et al), and from our health minister Adrian Dix.
Yours is a legitimate question, and I will ask a few of my contacts to see if I can find a good explanation. I suspect someone is misinterpreting something, but let’s see where this goes.
Maybe also there is a health practicioner from BC that can chime in on this?

Posted by: retiredmecheng | Feb 20 2022 5:54 utc | 452

@ retiredmecheng | Feb 20 2022 5:54 utc | 450… thanks… yes, that is what i am seeing/saying.. mind you, the numbers only go to march of 2021, but this covers the first year of covid, and the numbers in ICU does not go up any… so the talk about ICU’s being overfull and etc is not borne out via this freedom of information link for the first year of covid… cheers..

Posted by: james | Feb 20 2022 6:00 utc | 454

I am reading a ZH posted Mises Institute posting about the coming new cold war and what it means for the MIC. It hit me skimming the article that what we could be seeing other than outright kinetic war drum beating is COLD WAR drum beating….keep the money flowing to the Mic.
Makes some sense and explains all the hysterics. Even the Mises story calls BS on the need to increase Mic spending

Posted by: psychohistorian | Feb 20 2022 6:07 utc | 456

James | 452
retiredmecheng
Jim A Ryan
“Barflies”
What James is posting re the data for hospital admissions in BC Canada has also been found regarding NSW Health and also Scotland. And a number of jurisdictions globally.
No. I no longer have links and sources and journals and websites.
Last year I was a walking compendium. But no more.
I found and sourced all this material very early. And did my darnedest to tell everyone, get the message out. What I discovered was, terrifying. What I know about what is happening and why is, … horrific, horrifying, and for most people simply too extreme to be believable.
Call me Cassandra. I spent the better part of a year screaming into the wind. I simply don’t give a fuck now. It’s too late.
People, it seemed, until now, simply did not want to know.
Links went unread, pages painstakingly compiled, edited down, printed, were thrown into trash without ever being taken from the envelope.
I became the butt of jokes and smirky derision for my kooky conspiracy theories.
And gradually, but noticeably, the links and sources and websites and posts, began to disappear.
Reputable source material was systematically removed from general availability. Material could disappear without trace in mere hours. No search engine could produce a result. Valid questions were shouted down, and dissent became unacceptable.. thought crimes were no longer a joke, but real.
Gatekeepers for the narrative appeared at all levels.
People, be they family, friends, acquaintances, online avatars, everyone seemed to just want the convenient, appealing lie.
FACT: These are not “vaccines”. That is not their legal definition. They are “experimental therapies”.
Bill Gates stated on stage at the Munich Security Conference yesterday:

This^ is what we, who committed the heinous crime of “doing our own research”, knew a year or more ago.
I saw here a few threads back, a discussion on Marek’s disease
I was genuinely surprised when people said they did not know about this.
It was something I was trying to explain back from mid 2021. [not here, as I am new to posting, …. but I’ve noted people here too seem to have been banned for covidthoughtcrime]
ADE- antibody dependant enhancement. Again, a topic I tried to introduce to people in “real life” and online.
Greeted everywhere with indifference, at best, bleeding into extreme hostility.
I gave up. The Australian vaccination rates climbed through 60 to 80% to now 95%.
When adults actively resisted being presented with anything that challenges or contradicts the easily proven-to-be-false narratives, I chose to resign from my “campaign”.
That I’ve had to stay silent as beautiful, dearly loved teens and young children in my family are wilfully poisoned with this diabolical “experimental therapy” is tragic and heartbreaking to me.
The mRNA “science juice” ™️ is extremely dangerous. The adverse health effects are already becoming apparent, this will continue, and will escalate.
Of course there will now be a campaign to dis-correlate adverse effects with the jab.
Of course. And cognitive dissonance will play its part.
It is frustrating that now, now people (some) people are having doubts, and think they’d like to dabble in the “alternative” information; now there is some, slight, belated interest. Regrettably, most of the best and most cogent material has vanished.
Voices have been silenced.
And more than just a few have paid with their lives.
§ Save this while you can.
Already the link I saved from #munich security conference
“Cannot be played in your region”.
“Sadly.”
https://twitter.com/disclosetv/status/1494810193175195652?cxt=HHwWiMC5re380L4pAAAA

Posted by: Melaleuca | Feb 20 2022 7:59 utc | 458

Gloucester Hospital. (The one that was filmed as empty)
Going back many years to my fathers retirement, a subsequent stroke, and being placed in Gloucester Hospital for the elderly. (I do not remember the exact name of the department.) We lived in France at the time.
My wife visted him and was horrified at the conditions she found him in. A ward with about 40 bed-ridden patients and only TWO hospital personnel to look after all of them. Many were sitting in shit (as the saying goes) all day. She was able to save him, (get him out of there) and found another home.
Point of the story being is the LACK of personnel, (and I presume that the two nurses were doing their best.) There was already an effort to run down the NHS to allow “Private” companies to profit from Health services. I also presume that there were enough “administrators” to fill up the bureaus and coffee lounges.
*
This PR “overloading” of the Health services has been an aim, evidently, by the Governments of the UK. Add in the mismanagement, eviction of patients and others “to make way for” Covids, and the placing of people with Covid in nursing homes; There is cause for a real accountability about the unnecessary deaths that ensued.
Never forget, never forgive.

Posted by: Stonebird | Feb 20 2022 8:56 utc | 460

FACT: These are not “vaccines”. That is not their legal definition. They are “experimental therapies”.
Posted by: Melaleuca | Feb 20 2022 7:59 utc | 456
I do agree with that.
I went with the original two shots, because I did know of people who kicked the bucket thanks to the bug, and I know medical personnel who were in the thick of the first waves, scared shitless.
But like fuck am I going to get any third or further “booster shots”.
Just how often do they want to punch that shit into us? Every month?
Just how shitty ineffective is the experimental treatment that it needs to be reapplied every five minutes?
If it truly is a health and sanitation issue, why the fuck are the vaccine and vaccine surrogates politicized? If the actual intent is stemming a plague, surely the “nationality” of prophylactic treatments is wholly irrelevant?
The politicization of vaccines and “vaccines” is deep into “our precious bodily fluids” territory – the kind of bullshit that could only be cooked up by honchos deranged enough to only drink distilled water and pure alcohol.

Posted by: Misotheist | Feb 20 2022 11:04 utc | 462

Sorry,forgot the link in previous post:
https://odysee.com/@Vivresainement:f/fin-du-monde-covid:2

Posted by: willie | Feb 20 2022 11:44 utc | 464

Posted by: Hope | Feb 20 2022 11:27 utc | 461
Yes, I believe those two “viral-vector” vaccines would be considered “vaccines” under the former definition, as would inactive vaccines like Sinovac’s Coronavac.

Posted by: Blue Dotterel | Feb 20 2022 12:10 utc | 466

462#
Sorry again,can’t find my “previous post”,meant to support oldhippie for his astute ob=servations of police behaviour.

Posted by: willie | Feb 20 2022 12:21 utc | 468

No doubt Putin watched the Olympic Gold medal hockey game and was disappointed.
The Finns showed up for the whole game and Russia didn’t show up until the 3rd period.
There’s the Rule of the Last Inch and then there’s my rule of wanting it more to the last drop, and Russia failed to apply both.
They should have watched the women’s game between Canada-USA. That’s how you deliver a Gold Medal game.
On the Canada note, too bad the breathless baby Trudeau had to get his way implementing police state tactics instead of dropping the mandatory vaccine. Apparently even protests without trucks are now verboten. Glorious and Free my ass.
Dynasties anywhere are a bitch everywhere.
I’m talking Trumps, Bushes, Clintons and Trudeaus.
Back to the Olympics: the Chinese brought it in a pandemic. Great job!

Posted by: Circe | Feb 20 2022 12:49 utc | 470

Re: retiredmecheng #375, #391
@many
I have grave doubts whether “retiredmecheng” is, in fact, even an engineer. It is 100% clear that even if he/she is, this person has never practiced engineering.
It is also notable that this person has never once provided a single piece of data – not evidence, not even links to anyone else much less a credible source.
Either “retiredmecheng” is a troll or a typical PMC – maybe a retired professor in Ottawa.
Everyone is entitled to their opinions, but this one’s opinions are singularly uninformed and yet is so preachy.

Posted by: c1ue | Feb 20 2022 15:35 utc | 472

Posted by: farm ecologist | Feb 20 2022 16:05 utc | 473

However, if the number of beds is constant (e.g., no new covid hospitals, a la Wuhan), then a possible explanation could be that covid patients have displaced non-covid patients. It might also be possible to account for the ~7% decrease in regular hospital admissions over 2020/2021 due to longer average hospital stays (note that the duration of each stay is not indicated) and/or patients with “less urgent” issues being forced to wait to minimize spread of the virus.

Yes, I think you have identified what is going on. Or in other words, non-urgent surgeries and treatments have been deferred, due to a finite amount of beds, and/or due to staffing shortages.
Why else would surgeries be deferred if it wasn’t for shortages? And yes, one of those deferred was mine.
I too look forward to the official explanation. I am afraid though that the question might not be framed specific enough. It would have been better to compare one month of data in the FOI to the specific covid dashboard for that month, and to pick a month where surgeries were known to be deferred.

Posted by: retiredmecheng | Feb 20 2022 16:32 utc | 474

thanks for the replies everyone… i appreciate it..
@Melaleuca | Feb 20 2022 7:59 utc | 458… that is fairly disheartening to read… i was the one who brought forth a quote a couple of weeks back on Marek’s disease… i was unaware of this, so i suppose i am guilty of not staying on top of all the information that has been flying since covid… thanks for sharing your perspective..
@ farm ecologist | Feb 20 2022 16:05 utc | 473… thanks… i like your optimism and possible explanation for these numbers… hard to know, but it is possible… hopefully someone or @ Jim A Ryan can shed more light on this… happy sunday morning!

Posted by: james | Feb 20 2022 16:48 utc | 476

Posted by: james | Feb 20 2022 16:48 utc | 476
Hi James, is there a way that I can send you a private message? I’m kinda wary about posting my email address, and maybe you are more courageous than I am?

Posted by: retiredmecheng | Feb 20 2022 17:01 utc | 478

This is an excellent article
Those who are still singularly focused on the dangers of Covid presumably think that Trudeau is right. But with the highly infectious and much milder omicron variant, hospitalization and death rates are plummeting worldwide, as the virus, after spreading like wildlife, starts to burn itself out.
Even if vaccine mandates are enforced, few of the unvaccinated will manage to get both doses before they are exposed to the virus and develop natural immunity anyway. Omicron has made the already dubious need for vaccine mandates and quarantines largely moot. The evidence suggests natural infection provides – for the vaccinated and unvaccinated alike – stronger and longer-term immunity of the kind the vaccines have so far failed to deliver.
https://www.unz.com/jcook/as-trudeau-cracks-down-the-left-drives-protesters-into-the-rights-arms-again/

Posted by: ld | Feb 20 2022 17:06 utc | 480

Rebel Reporter shot by police
disturbing video
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bc1rjRH3TEk

Posted by: ld | Feb 20 2022 18:50 utc | 482

@c1ue #195:

I never said Belarus suspended exports of Potash.

And I never said you said Belarus suspended exports of potash. My comment #172 was addressed to Sun Tzu, not you.
In my other comment about potash, #148, which was addressed to you, I expressed full agreement with you and provided some additional information.
Please re-read my comments.

Posted by: S | Feb 21 2022 21:52 utc | 484

Re rail freight. Another thing to be aware of is axle loading and what axle loading a rail line is designed for. A couple of figures I run onto the other day. A rail line in west Australia that carries a lot of wheat has a design of slightly over 20 ton axle loading. Dedicated lines from the iron ore mines to ports in the north west have axle loadings of around 35 tons, the most recent one built has an axle loading of around 42 tons.

Posted by: Peter AU1 | Feb 22 2022 15:40 utc | 486