Pfizer says it just doesn t know if its drugs will harm young children, and you will be shocked, but not surprised. That's in today's show from Ezra Levenoran, host of the Ezra Levin Show on the Rebel News Network.
00:05:49.640And by the way, BNT162B2 is just the technical name of the Pfizer vaccine, so don't be confused by that.
00:05:55.860Two primary doses of the 10-microgram BNT162B2 vaccine, given three weeks apart in 5 to 12 years of age, have shown a favorable safety and tolerability profile, robust immune responses against all variants of concern, and high VE against symptomatic COVID-19 in a period where the Delta variant was predominant.
00:06:21.560The number of participants in the current clinical development program is too small to detect any potential risks of myocarditis associated with vaccination.
00:07:05.540Long-term safety of COVID-19 vaccine in participants 5 to 12 years of age will be studied in five post-authorization safety studies, including a five-year follow-up study to evaluate long-term sequelae of post-vaccination myocarditis and pericarditis.
00:07:40.240Israeli safety surveillance databases suggest that incidence rates of rare post-vaccination myocarditis peaks in individuals 16 to 19 years of age, males, and declines in adolescents 12 to 15 years of age.
00:07:53.200In addition, the dose for children 5 to 12 years of age is one-third the dose given to older vaccines, 10 micrograms versus 30 micrograms.
00:08:00.980Based on this information, it is reasonable to predict that post-vaccine myocarditis rates are likely to be even lower in 5 to 12 years of age than those observed in adolescents 12 to 15 years of age.
00:13:35.920You know how the animal of the Liberal Party, which is a very survival-oriented animal, you know how it thinks.
00:13:41.700And so I appreciate columns like this.
00:13:43.820Let me just read the headline of this.
00:13:46.540Liberals don't have a mandate to do much of anything.
00:13:49.780And you talk about their throne speech and how they've got big plans, but how they really had one of the smallest election results in history.
00:13:57.000I want you to put your thesis forward, and then I want to throw a slightly different way of looking at it at you.
00:14:03.220But tell me—sum up this great column for us in a minute, if you please.
00:14:08.640Well, you know, as I started off by saying in the column, I am going to mention every time they get up and talk about the mandate that they have for this massive change or that massive spending or, you know, turning Canadian society upside down, expanding the role of government.
00:14:25.560And I'm going to mention that they received the lowest percentage of the popular vote of any government in the history of Canada.
00:14:35.200So in more than 150 years, there's never been a government that has had a lower percentage of the popular vote than the current Trudeau government.
00:15:08.100So I don't understand what it is that they think they have Canadians' permission for.
00:15:14.100Yeah, well, I think that's an excellent way of looking at it, is how weak their mandate is, how pointless the election was, other than, you know, they saw an opportunistic moment and they took it.
00:15:27.920But I want to read two quotes from your column.
00:15:31.960And this is of Mark Holland, who's the government house leader, which, if I understand that position, his job is to take the prime minister's priorities and move it through parliament.
00:15:44.640So, you know, there's the whip whose job is to make sure everyone is following the party line.
00:15:49.760The house leader is, OK, how do we marshal parliament to get these bills passed?
00:16:51.420Here's a guy who gets the lowest mandate of any government in history, and he's saying, I'm not looking to tolerate anyone disagreeing with me.
00:17:00.160I'm the boss, and we're not going to tolerate anyone asking questions.
00:17:04.680That's the new definition of chutzpah, Lorne.
00:17:06.520Yeah, I think so, and I think that's an excellent point to make as well, and that here are the liberals who came in with this very low mandate, no mandate to do what they were doing before the election.
00:17:22.040And now they're saying, yes, we talked about all this before the election.
00:17:27.060Don't stand up in the House of Commons and say you disagree with our internet censorship or with extending the pandemic benefits or with expanding the government by about 40% over pre-pandemic levels.
00:17:41.740Don't come in and try and stop our changes to the Labour Code that will make all federally regulated businesses subject to having bilingual workplaces, even if they're in Merritt, B.C. or in Antigonish, Nova Scotia.
00:17:58.880We talked about these things before the election.
00:18:01.440We also talked about them during the election, which I would dispute because I don't think they talked about much of substance during the election.
00:18:08.400I think they mostly just slung insults at the Tories.
00:18:12.540But nonetheless, they said, we've talked about these in the last Parliament.
00:18:15.860We talked about them during the election.
00:18:17.820We have 20 sitting days between now and – they're down to 18 now.
00:18:22.860But they have 18 sitting days between now and Christmas.
00:18:28.560You must pass all of this stuff without debate because we said you should.
00:18:33.700And that kind of disregard for democratic traditions – can you imagine – can you imagine what the Liberals would be doing?
00:18:42.540They would be screaming and wringing their hands, and they would be gagging if Harper had ever done anything like that.
00:18:50.840Oh, I remember getting into a discussion with a Liberal right after the 2015 election.
00:18:55.340And this will give you an idea of how unbalanced they're thinking it.
00:18:59.420After the 2015 election where Harper lost to Trudeau, I got in a discussion with a Liberal in Vancouver who said, oh, thank God we got rid of that dictator Harper.
00:19:37.140My first point was, that's typical Liberal audacity to claim they have a mandate, an impatient mandate, even though they have the lowest result in history.
00:19:47.760But let me look at it from a darker point of view.
00:19:51.900For two years now, we have not had a fully functioning parliament.
00:19:56.720Most of the health orders that have governed our lives far beyond the scope of health have not been debated, are not in legislation.
00:20:03.480They're done either at the cabinet level, just written by the cabinet minister staff, or even worse, by public health officers who are not even part of cabinet, who have been delegated this power down the chain of command.
00:20:17.240So we have a very weak parliamentary democracy right now.
00:20:22.040Parliament has not sat as much as it ought to.
00:20:24.580There are restrictions on who even can go into the building.
00:20:28.020I believe the media has become more complacent than ever.
00:20:31.620They're cheerleading on the key issues of the day.
00:20:34.740I see that some media companies are positively cheering for this internet censorship.
00:22:05.820And these guys wouldn't allow it back.
00:22:08.580You know, I think we're somewhere in between what I'm saying and what you're suggesting.
00:22:15.660I would have more respect for them in a way if they were sitting down and plotting this all out,
00:22:21.860that they were thinking, aha, how can we do this?
00:22:24.400How can we restrict Canadian democracy and not make it look like that's what we're doing?
00:22:29.140And, you know, if they were plotting to restrict civil liberties, if they were plotting to diminish parliament,
00:22:37.480if they were plotting to restrict democracy, I think that they're just naive twits who are softly skipping into all of this.
00:22:47.940And I think that a lot of the people in our business in the mainstream are just don't – they don't have the cynical point of view anymore.
00:23:00.200I mean, one of the great things that I think about being a journalist – and, I mean, you and I used to work side by each across a desk from one another in a news magazine.
00:23:08.740One of the fun things was being able to be a cynic, being able to say, hey, look, these guys are always trying to pull some –