As many jurisdictions in the United States and elsewhere are bringing their lockdowns and restrictions to a halt, Ontario is buckling down. Impervious to the real world data demonstrating the immense death and destruction caused by lockdowns, and the uselessness of mask mandates, PCR testing and social distancing, this largest Canadian province continues to oppress its citizens with its catastrophically harmful, unscientific edicts.
“A three-week lockdown in some parts of Ontario was recommended by the government’s COVID-19 Science Advisory Table this week, which warned of “exponential growth,” fuelled by variants of concern, which now account for over half of new infections.” says the National Post, in an article titled ‘Canadians still stuck in the endless lockdown cycle’
Notwithstanding the copious amount of evidence that lockdowns do not control the spread of the virus, and despite the fact that this province’s numbers have never been out of control, the ICUs have similar burdens as recent years, that the vast majority of infected people requiring hospitalization are elderly, and nearly half with co-morbidities, Ontario’s Science Table, and other Covid-interested organizations such as Global Canada, continue to propagate fear-mongering, doomsday predictions, and advocate for heavy and hard lockdowns.
The Ontario Science Table was created as a covid response team to inform and advise the government. Ontario Premier Doug Ford religiously bends to their warnings, and his policy decisions — to lockdown or to open — are heavily influenced by their forecasting models and pseudoscience.
Peter Juni, the Ontario Science Table’s scientific director, recently stated to the CBC, “Right now in Ontario, the pandemic is completely out of control," referring to a paper published on ‘variants of concern’ and a projection of ICU admissions in younger patients.
He further went on to warn that “winning this race” with vaccinations alone wouldn’t be enough.
This is very concerning, considering Peter Juni’s most recent fear-mongering warning to the government to impose a “complete lockdown of all indoor spaces.” which includes shutting down travel between regions and paid leave for what is referred to as ‘essential workers’.
Meanwhile, in Texas, where all restrictions have been lifted, including mask mandates and social distancing, cases and deaths are on a steady decline, as one would expect from a respiratory virus this time of the year, in line with the well known Hope-Simpson curve.
The Ontario Covid-19 Science Advisory Table is comprised of over 30 academics from various disciplines, most of which, like Juni, are members of the University of Toronto’s Dalla Lana school.
They focus on predictive modelling of cases and deaths based on the comparison of current behaviours vs. no intervention vs. heavy restrictions and lockdowns. Their mysterious methodologies have a notoriously terrible track record, with their estimations of sickness and death consistently multiple times higher than reality.
For example, David Fisman, epidemiologist and professor at Dalla Lana, and one of their highest profile and most vocal members on social media, tweeted on January 12th, 2021, that there was ‘tsunami of death’ coming, which of course, turned out to be false. Ironically, he hoped there would be “consequences for those who knowingly pushed disinformation.”
In a paper Fisman co-authored with Juni in May 2020, they drew the astonishing conclusion that “seasonality is likely to play only a minor role in the epidemiology of COVID-19, while public health interventions (school closures, restricting mass gatherings, social distancing) appear to have a major impact.” This directly contradicts decades-long, strongly supported science on seasonality for respiratory infections.
Admittedly, the authors state that the “study has a number of important limitations.”, in total seven, of which the first is “because of considerable differences in testing practices between different geopolitical areas, actual rates of COVID-19 could not be reliably estimated.”
The paper also states that “China was excluded as its epidemic growth had decelerated and the outbreak appeared to be contained.”, mirroring the official narrative told by the CCP, that ‘non-pharmaceutical interventions’ such as lockdowns could contain the virus.
It therefore appears that the study is extremely flawed, and is merely a piece of propaganda to support the justification for the imitation of China’s lockdown experiment and other extreme, never-before-heard of social mitigation measures, rather than sound science.
Fisman is also an extremely loud advocate for restrictions that are seriously detrimental to children despite all evidence of their unnecessary nature and immense harms, such as school closures, mask mandates, and social isolation. In May 2020, he lamented how he had not hugged his own children since the beginning of the Covid debacle.
As if that wasn’t enough, Fisman has a multitude of conflicts of interest listed in his resume, which include big pharma brands Pfizer and AstraZeneca, JP Morgan & Chase, the We foundation, the Ontario Nurses Association and the Elementary Teachers’ Federation of Ontario.
Anthony Furey reported for the Toronto Sun that Fisman “was retained by the Elementary Teachers’ Federation of Ontario to offer an argument against the Ontario government’s school reopening plans at an Ontario Labour Relations Board hearing. This work was taken on at the same time Fisman was serving on the science table, which advises the government on matters including school reopenings.”
He was accused of hiding this significant conflict of interest, and became extremely defensive and denigrating to his critics.
When this was brought to light, Chrystia Freeland, Federal Deputy Prime Minister, publicly rushed to his defence. What reasons would the right hand of the Prime Minister have to get intermingled in petty social media disputes and slight press criticism regarding provincial-level politics?
Then we have Global Canada, a previously dormant organization founded in 2014 by Robert Greenhill, that suddenly became very active in October 2020, following a mega financial contribution of over half a million dollars by the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation. They funded a “taskforce” called The COVID Strategic Choices Group, meant to inform the gov't pandemic response with a goal of Zero Covid, citing Australia, New Zealand, and Taiwan as examples to follow.
They call this strategy the “Canadian Shield”, and its methodologies include test and trace, isolation, and heavy, hard, ongoing national lockdowns, with closed borders, all of which it advocated for in a policy paper published on December 30, 2020 called, “Building the Canadian Shield”
Ontario Science Table members, including David Fisman, promoted the paper upon its publication. Although they are separate entities, the Covid Strategic Choices group created by Global Canada has members on the OST, such as Andrew Morris, and who contribute to the OST, such as Ashleigh Tuite, mathematical modeller and assistant professor at U of T’s Dalla Lana.
Interestingly, shortly after the time that Global Canada was revived after receiving Gates money, Tuite, who regularly publishes papers with Fisman, attended a virtual conference in Beijing on Covid response, featuring key notes speakers from the WHO and Chinese Center for Disease Control and Prevention.
Another example of the enmeshment is the social media bromance between Ontario Science Table’s David Fisman and Zero Covid hysterics such as Ryan Imgrund and Irfan Dhalla. This trio is notorious for sharing doomsday scenarios and grossly exaggerated predictions.
If we consider the notion that Global Canada is a globalist organization founded on the apocalypse-is-nigh principles of “global impact” and social justice, it makes sense that members of its Covid council are Malthusians; cult-like ideologues who believe humans are a cancer to the planet.
Robert Greenhill founded Global Canada in 2014, a “multistakeholder initiative committed to improving Canada's global impact”, after returning to Canada following his significant, over half a decade long role as managing director at the World Economic Forum.
Greenhill began his career working for McKinsey, a controversial consulting firm with deep ties to the Bill and Melinda gates foundation, the WHO, and the opioid crisis. McKinsey offered Covid pandemic guidance and recovery support to the U.S. and other governments around the world, including an unsolicited offer to Ontario for 1.6 million dollars.
McKinsey’s former global managing director Dominic Barton offered a “big helping hand to Ottawa’s economic advisory council—for free” in 2016, while active at McKinsey. He has very close ties with the Liberal Party, and has now moved onto his role as Canadian ambassador to China.
McKinsey’s Ontario headquarters are conveniently located at the university of Toronto campus, the same U of T that boasts the majority of the Ontario Science Table’s members.
If this web of characters and organizations seems overwhelmingly obscure and confusing, it’s because it is. There are many more alliances to investigate in the Ontario Covid Zero Swamp, but let’s end with Eileen Devilla, Toronto’s ‘top doctor’, and yet another university of Toronto faculty member at the Dalla Lana school.
Aside from the obvious conflict of interest resulting from her husband’s ties to big pharma, she has been an unrelenting public health tyrant throughout this last year, exercising her unelected powers to switch off the lights on thousands of businesses and households in Toronto, including the permanent closures of an incommensurable number of restaurants in the GTA. The Adam Skelly fiasco, when his BBQ restaurant had the locks changed overnight and over 250 police officers showed up the next day in a breathtakingly unprecedented abuse of force, were all the direct result of Devilla’s orders.
DeVilla is a fear-mongering lockdown lord, with a stone-cold disposition, but there are cracks in her armour. She recently posted on social media: “Data show a worsening Covid19 resurgence in TO, including hospital and ICU admissions among younger people.”
After a humiliating confrontation by Covid19 data analyst Kelly Brown, where he stated, “Dr. de Villa, I do not see in the data the rises in hospital & ICU admissions among younger people that you are referring to. What am I missing? There appear to be no material changes in the age makeup, including stable average age among Toronto ICU patients.”, and pointed to the actual data, Devilla quietly changed her post from “data show” to “we’re hearing”.
These are the types of blatant lies, omissions and misinformation that the Covid Zero Cult are guilty of. Their sticky spiderweb is infested with conflicts of interests that include big pharma, the bill and Melinda gates foundation, the WHO, the WEF and possibly links to the Communist Party of China, and this is just the tip of the iceberg.
They produce questionable scientific papers in what appears to be an attempt to provide the conclusions they seek, in order to justify their harmful recommendations.
How can these conflicts and the perverse incentives they create possibly lend themselves to good, sound and holistic public health policy helpful to the constituents and society they serve?
They have been consistently and dramatically wrong about their predictions, yet aggressively continue to push for hard restrictions, indefinite lockdowns, and abusive policies that disproportionately affect small businesses and children.
The Ontario Science Table’s David Fisman even went so far as to endorse “intentional mass unemployment.”
Even if their terribly inaccurate modelling projections turned out to be correct, or their apocalyptic prophecies came true even once, Lockdowns were never a part of the repertoire for dealing with a pathogen, or any other government-declared emergency. They violently oppose every pre-existing public health guideline in the western world for how to deal with a pandemic. The amount of destruction, suffering and death resulting from the brutal lockdowns has been cataclysmic, and will ripple into the future of all its victims. They are the true ‘tsunamis of death’.
To quote Peter Juni’s latest statement of moral panic, “it’s important now that everybody just wakes up and comes out of denial.”
Thank you to the team of researchers & collaborators for this piece.
Many thanks, Kate! I have forwarded this to all of my friends and family with the hope that they get involved. I have tried my best but I am but one voice. On another thread I have
Listed the 11 questions I would like journalists to ask our politicians and appointed health experts and not one even acknowledged my email. Any suggestions? How do we put your observations in front of these people and demand answers?
Great work here. If people want to do research and collect the data before they comment that would be a great eye opener to them. Check New Zealand for other big viruses that we have had in the past and maybe that's a clue to why their cases are lower. Also perhaps check on what they call a case. China is open because they don't count a case like we do. So how can you compare cases when you don't use the same criteria? You need to think on the matter with common sense and logic.
You can have all this data and still miss the very fact about Sweden. They did not close down life and they did not die like flies. Children in younger grades went to school and they continued with outdoor activities restaurants and bars . They put in some precautions but that was all. They did exactly the same mistakes as Ontario Quebec and many countries in the LTC sector . They admitted it. But the main point to come from Sweden which was your real live peer reviewed study was the pathogen that was considered so deadly to shut down countries was not so deadly after all to the majority of the world. Sweden did it Right. Reading too much into data can hide the real facts. Simple logic. Look at Italy. High death counts due to many factors. Fear gripped country mass vaccination of sick at beginning of the pandemic elderly homecare workers ran away leaving the elderly without care. So they died Just like happened in a Quebec seniors home. Not to mention the owner of that home had money laundered for the Mafia. When all was looked at in Italy the majority died with 3 or more other medical conditions. When Italy opened up rather quickly beginning May the numbers went down. Why. Because people got outside in the fresh air and sunshine and started to focus on living not dying. They started back to work and enjoying the freedom after being locked up for 2 months like animals in cages. They mental health started healing which affects physical health.
I have watched many videos on you tube and common sense and logic is what sets them apart from any political doctors or shills for politicians who have their hands in the cookie jar of big pharma.
Manipulation of people using fear and love your neighbour rhetoric is plain wrong. You need to take of your own health before you can take care of others and this false sense of security with the mask creates far more problems then it was supposed to solve. As Dr. Anthony Fauci that flip flopping doctor stated ..masks are nothing more than virtue signalling and make the wearer feel safe. Common logic for that statement is you don't wear a mask if it hurts your own health just go look good. Very stupid thinking. Does anyone know what Dr. Faucis stated about Ebola which is a far deadlier virus then covid 19. If you don't research you might be interested that he stated that anyone coming from the Ebola stricken countries did not need to quarantine if they had no symptoms. This decimates the 14 day quarantine of travellers to Canada and 14 days isolation after testing positive with no symptoms or around a positive test individuals. Very interesting the articles and stance pre covid. Check out U of T David Fishman what he has stated in the past. Very different from now. Also why was David Fishman calling for lockdowns in January. The Chinese admit right from the Chinese CDC they never isolated the SARS covid 2 virus so how could Drosten come up with a PCR test that was peer reviewed one day and then his friend started making lots of money off the PCR test and of course Drosten was too. Many questions to ask based on research. Too many holes. Yes we know there is a virus but did the lock downs and Fear create a tsunami of deaths and also monetary incentives made more deaths get labelled covid 19? Read through the World Health's daily bulletins from last March. Quite revealing too. Many suggestions ignored about learning to coexist with the virus and continue with life while protecting the at risk.
Why are we changing the meaning of normal. Why are we changing the meaning of life and living using new normal? Makes no sense. We want the old normal along with the massive amounts of money they suddenly found that they never could before to help the poor and vulnerable. To make sure no.one goes to bed hungry or can't pay their housing . To make sure everyone has a job and is paid appropriately. To provide joy to every citizen and allow them to experience many meaningful excursions and opportunities.
This obsession with testing and cases has made the evil rich and put many into poverty. Daily death counts is absolutely horrendous to the mental health and wellbeing of people. Psychiatrists and those who support lockdowns are the worst. Get back to living and not the fear of dying and hiding till you think it's safe. PTSD is massive across the world from lock downs. Humanity has been subjected to mental abuse from the media and politicians and they can't weasel out of that. Lockdowns are not for the good or safety of the people they are destructive.
Give your head a shake till your brains can start working again if you have been put into such a state of Fear that is unjustified. Not supported by data and real life countries living again while others continue in lock downs and perpetual daily fear.
All those fake people who called for more restrictions and then got mad at Premier Ford's restrictions on Friday are not genuine. It's a to cover up their inadequacies and failures. Remember they closed down parks gave out tickets for standing too long in a park for 3 months last year. Yup 3 months. So their fake ...it's not good to close parks now outs what intelligence they have.. they did last year what they are saying hurts our children. Thanks for outing you hurt our children for 3 months . Wait actually more like over a year you have hurt all if us.