EZRA LEVANT ļ½ The PR campaign for the latest virus just dropped ā Iām not impressed
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Ezra Levant explains why you should never be impressed with a PhD, and why you can get a PhD in anything these days. He also talks about the new Omicron variety of the virus, and explains why Jill Biden's PhD is actually in education.
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Hello, my friends. You may have heard of a Greek letter called Omicron.
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That's the new terrifying name for the latest scariant, or variant, of the virus.
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They skipped over another Greek letter because it sounds too much like the name of the president of China.
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So there's no politics here, folks. Don't worry about it.
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Tonight, the PR campaign for the latest virus just dropped.
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It's November 29th and this is the Ezra Levant Show.
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Why should others go to jail when you're a biggest carbon consumer I know?
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There's 8,500 customers here and you won't give them an answer.
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The only thing I have to say to the government, the wire publisher, is because it's my bloody right to do so.
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If someone has a PhD in physics or math, that is one seriously smart person.
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But these days, I'm sorry, you can get a PhD in anything.
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I noticed that Jill Biden, the first lady, insists on being called doctor.
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I started reading her doctoral dissertation, her thesis, and I felt like I was reading a high school paper.
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My monologue today is actually about the new Omicron variety of the virus.
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Just in time to justify shutting down the world for Christmas.
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Just in time to make sure Pfizer makes its quarterly financial projections.
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You've really got to let me read to you from Dr. Jill Biden's doctoral thesis.
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It's called Student Retention at the Community College, Meeting Students' Needs.
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I'm going to literally read to you from the beginning.
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I want to show you what can get you a PhD in America these days.
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I'm not going to read the whole 80-page paper to you plus footnotes.
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I want to read about a page of it to show you why you should never be impressed with a PhD
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until you understand, are they an Albert Einstein PhD or, I don't know, a gender studies PhD?
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The community college classroom is unlike any other classroom in America.
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In an average-sized class of 20 students at Delaware Tech, for example,
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most of the seats will be filled with young students who have just graduated from high school.
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At least five seats will be filled with middle-aged men and women who have lost their jobs due to downsizing and or outsourcing.
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One or two seats will be filled with students who have graduated from a GED program.
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Some seats will hold older women whose children have just entered college.
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Now these women are taking the opportunity to earn college degrees themselves.
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One-quarter of the class will be African-American.
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One seat will hold a Latino, and the remaining seats will be filled with students of Asian descent or non-resident aliens.
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At least one-quarter of the students will have children.
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Some will be the first in their families to attend college.
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Few will have taken honors courses in high school,
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while many will have taken remedial courses, special education, or vocational training.
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with the remaining one-third attending college on a full-time basis.
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It just sort of blather, chit-chat like that for 80 pages.
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The voices of students, faculty, and advisors have been heard and recorded in this executive position paper.
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Several themes regarding students' needs have emerged.
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In the area of academia, faculty, students, and advisors all feel that students are underprepared for college.
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A mandatory study skills course would help to remedy that problem.
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In addition, better advisement must be implemented and practiced.
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In the social realm, students need a place to gather in order to align themselves with other students and their institution.
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In the psychological area, a psychologist must be hired to administer educational testing and offer counseling.
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A wellness center could complete the holistic approach to meeting students' needs.
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Delaware Tech has the capacity to be so much better than it is presently.
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The key to student retention is a coordinated, cohesive effort by administration, faculty, staff, and students.
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A student retention plan requires diligence and effort, but most of all, leadership.
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And I can tell you that 79 pages in between was pretty much the same.
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I'm sorry, you cannot have the same accreditation.
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My point is, beware of experts, especially if someone says something like this.
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So if they get up and criticize science, nobody's going to know what they're talking about.
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But if they get up and really aim their bullets at Tony Fauci, well, people could recognize there's a person there.
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But they're really criticizing science because I represent science.
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I think that's how a cult works, or a superstition, or a political campaign, but it is not science.
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As Dr. Richard Feynman, a PhD who won a Nobel Prize in physics, by the way, for his PhD,
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he said science is the belief in the ignorance of the experts.
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If someone says you can't criticize them, they are saying they do not believe in science.
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In fact, he says that maybe people who criticize him ought to go to jail.
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Senator Cruz told the attorney general you should be prosecuted.
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So what do these PhDs say, these experts, who say you can't criticize them?
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They say there is a new variant of the virus, and they've named it Omicron.
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And like all viruses, they change, they mutate.
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And what's odd is that they're still providing vaccines based on the first variant.
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I find that odd, but they've moved through the Greek alphabet.
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And the next letter was supposed to be Xi, which in English is spelled X-I.
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But of course, X-I is also how you spell in English the name of the president of China,
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So X-I is a Greek letter, but it's also the name of the Chinese president.
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So the experts, the scientists who aren't allowed to criticize, the PhD people,
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they literally decided to skip the letter Xi because it would embarrass the president of China,
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So this Omicron virus, what a laugh, was announced.
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And almost immediately, it was found everywhere.
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I'm more of a Feynman-style thinker than a Fauci-style thinker.
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I ask questions, even if they're dumb questions,
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because I think that's what journalism is about, asking questions, and science too, really.
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So how did doctors around the world suddenly know that they had this Omicron scarient all at once?
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It's just quite something that this all went from announcement to fashion trend in about 48 hours.
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Not just that, but politicians went into full panic mode immediately, altogether, almost as if on cue.
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Israel, one of the most locked down and vaccinated places in the world, it's so vaxxed that if you only have two doses,
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you're considered to be a dirty, unvaxxed person.
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Israel has announced they are banning every single person from every single country around the world.
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Forget about people making pilgrimages in the Holy Land, or even just vacations.
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Just play to people visiting family, doing business.
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Imagine locking down your entire country like it's a prison.
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Wasn't being super vaxxed supposed to end these lockdowns?
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Trudeau told us that it was super duper racist to ban people from China last year.
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In 2020, they said anyone who was worried about the virus at all was really racist.
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Now they're banning African countries from flying to Canada.
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Of course, there is still a way for people from Africa to come to Canada.
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Our own reporter Alexa Lavoie was there the other day.
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And there is literally no one guarding the road.
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If you are caught, you're released back into the country.
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Boris Johnson, the UK Prime Minister, he panicked like a cushion that bears the imprint of whoever
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The measures that we're taking today, including on our borders and on face masks, are temporary
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At that point, we should have much greater information about the continuing effectiveness
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I very much hope that we will find that we continue to be in a strong position and we
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But right now, this is the responsible course of action to slow down the seeding and the
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spread of this new variant and to maximise our defences so that we protect the gains we've
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worked for so hard and so that we can continue to save lives.
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Joe Biden banned flights from Africa, too, but he waited until the weekend was over.
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I mean, the virus was fine to come to America on Sunday, but not on Monday.
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I mean, there are 24 letters in the Greek alphabet.
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But the thing is, the South Africans who discovered this new Omicron variant, they say it's actually
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Looking at the mildness of the symptoms that we are seeing, currently, there's no reason
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for panicking as we don't see severely ill patients.
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I also checked with the hospitals, some of the hospitals in my area, and one of the biggest
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hospitals, they only have one patient currently that's COVID positive on a ventilator, and they
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don't even know whether it's COVID, you know, it's Delta or whether it is Omicron related.
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We acknowledge that it might change going forward.
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But the hype that's been created currently out there in the media and worldwide doesn't
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correlate with the clinical picture, and it doesn't warrant to just cut us off from any
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traveling and ban South Africa as if we are the villains in the whole process.
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I mean, they're not that worried, but they're a bit surprised that they're being banned from
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The Democrats in the United States went nuts when Donald Trump bans people from several
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They went nuts when Trump banned flights from China.
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Joe Biden called it racist to ban people from China, but now he's banning black people from
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He said, is it too soon to call Omicron a vaccination?
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Mild symptoms after getting it, followed by immunity.
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Natural immunity from a variant that doesn't make you very sick.
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Bad news for Pfizer, which I think is why there has to be this fuss for Pfizer, not just
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to sell vaccines into Africa, but to sell them to young children here in North America
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Well, it really will never end until we make it end.
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Here's, what, 100,000 people in Michigan who decided they're done being scared by the
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If that game were in Florida, though, there'd be nonstop condemnations of the governor,
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but Michigan's governor is a Democrat, not a Republican.
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In fact, Florida has the lowest rate of the virus these days, even though it has a very
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It's had the lightest touch in government policies.
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Then teasing a little freedom, and then repeat?
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In Canada, I fear for the worst, because we don't have anyone in authority standing up,
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not a soul, certainly not our cowardly conservative party.
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They say you need to get all of your boosters up to date on an ongoing basis, so there's no
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They say privileges will be granted to fully vaccinated people only.
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And in case you've missed it, they have a helpful picture.
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Like, I don't know, when you used to get a card at a coffee shop, or the Subway sandwiches,
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buy five, get a sixth for free, collect all your points.
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It will never end, my friends, until you end it.
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I think it starts by not being afraid, personally.
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I think it continues by not being part of the mania.
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I think it means not becoming antagonistic, not looking for a conflict, but not being passive
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Maybe even once in a while, saying something about it.
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Well, you know, the game show called Who Wants to Be a Millionaire, Regis Philbin, was one
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It was popular for a while, and it implies that being a millionaire is something pretty
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But what happens with hyperinflation when you literally have, as has been seen in Weimar,
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Germany, or in Venezuela, or other places, what when you have actual million-dollar bills?
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In some places in Africa, money was so devalued that they weighed it.
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They had to lop off six zeros to make sense of it.
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Well, the answer is, not me, if a millionaire only buys you a can of Coke.
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Joining us now via Skype from Winnipeg is our friend Spencer Fernando, the boss of SpencerFernando.com.
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Spencer, I'm not saying we're on the brink of hyperinflation, but my God, all the elements
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But why don't you tell me what the warning signs are for the kind of inflation Canada
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is experiencing and could be about to experience?
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One thing to watch out for is when you see, you know, a period of when the economy should
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be doing very badly, and then the government starts printing a bunch of money and distributing
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You'll actually see the economy look like it's doing very well for a short period of
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And part of the reason is people start to feel like, okay, you know, it looks like the
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So, I better spend it as quickly as I can, because the longer I wait, you know, the less
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So, you'll see a large surge in spending, and it looks like the economy is booming.
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And then, obviously, that ends up leading to some serious problems, because once that initial
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burst of spending goes away, you're left to see what the economy looks like.
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And so, I think I'd be very, you know, wary of the Liberals trying to do that, trying to
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make it look like the economy is going to be very well.
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It's distributing square, thinking that's going to turn out.
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I think one of the things that worries a lot of Canadians, at least in big cities like Toronto
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and Vancouver and other cities to a smaller extent, is the cost of housing.
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First of all, if you have inflation, interest rates could be going up.
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And at the same time, the price of housing is going up, you know, just in terms of absolute
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I suppose that could be a benefit to someone who owns their own home, I suppose.
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If interest rates start going up and money starts becoming less valuable, I think that
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People can no longer afford to pay their mortgages and they get in a pickle?
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I mean, you have a lot of people also who borrowed against the value of their home.
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A lot of people have used, they've, you know, borrowed, they've gone into debt and then tried
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And so, if home values start to decline, then people get in real trouble.
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The other problem, too, of course, is that, you know, it's a sign of serious inflation
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problems when you see something like housing surge so much in a year, right?
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Because what you're not really seeing, it's not that houses are really getting more valuable.
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It's that each individual unit of money is getting much less value.
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So, houses are, you know, they're fixed assets.
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You can't just create a whole bunch of houses in one year and massively inflate the housing
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So, it's something that's relatively stable in supply year over year.
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And that's how you can tell that money is declining in value very dramatically.
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I mean, they're trying to tell people the inflation rate is, what, 4.7%, but housing is up, what,
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And in a year when the economy should have been struggling, right?
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I mean, we're not talking about it's been an economic boom for years, so we're expecting
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In a normal market, you would have expected housing to have been down over the past two
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years, and obviously, that's not what happened.
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So, I think that's another warning sign of inflation and massive money printing is that things that are
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fixed in quantity, or at least relatively stable in quantity, start going up dramatically in
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I'm looking at your latest essay, The Throne Speech, Justin Trudeau's brilliant plan to
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fix surging inflation by spending a bunch of money.
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Of course, that's like putting out a fire by spraying it with kerosene.
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And it shows, it's entitled Central Bank Assets Growth, Balance Sheet Assets to Nominal GDP.
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And I don't want to get too technical, but the reason this chart is interesting to me
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is it shows what other banks around the world are doing, what the U.S. Federal Reserve is
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doing, what Japan is doing, what the Europeans are doing.
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So, it's, you know, are we, if we're going mad, well, is the whole world going mad too?
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I mean, a lot of countries did some pretty dramatic things to get through the year of
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the pandemic, but we're pretty much through that now.
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And this graph shows that Canada is triple, quadruple, quintuple as insane, out-of-control
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It's like, we really, like, when I started off by talking about Weimar Germany or Argentina,
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those are the worst cases in the world for inflation.
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It looks like something that Argentina would do.
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Yeah, I mean, the U.S. is probably catching up under the Biden administration, right?
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I mean, I think it was Kamala Harris said, oh, the $1.2 trillion infrastructure program cost
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Obviously, people are going to pay for it one way or another.
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But, yeah, I mean, the printing of money in Canada is excessive.
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And in addition, you look at the pandemic support programs, those are supposed to be emergency
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So every time there's a problem in the country, they seem to just think, okay, we'll just
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And if you keep doing that, obviously, you keep valuing your goods.
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So obviously, the price of goods is going to go up.
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And I think that's something people really need to understand about inflation.
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You know, people feel like, oh, if businesses are raising prices on them, that's not really
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what's happening, that your money is being robbed of value, your time and your effort is
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being robbed of value, your purchasing power is being taken away from you.
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And then when you go to buy something, it looks like the price has gone up because your money
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So I think people really need to understand that.
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You know, governments obviously want people to blame all the evil capitalists, the big
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businesses are punishing everybody with price increases.
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But really, it's the government that's causing the problem.
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So, I mean, I'm not looking to you for financial advice.
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Yes, I know that's not your profession, but it sounds like you're sort of bearish on the
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Do you think that people are going to flee these currencies which are manipulatable by
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I mean, the criticism of Bitcoin is, well, what's beneath it?
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Can it be pumped up by, you know, manipulations?
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Every one of those criticisms I've just listed, I think, could be said about Canadian currency
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Do you think people are going to get out of Canadian dollars and try and get into things
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that governments can't meddle with, like Bitcoin?
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Yeah, I certainly think you're going to see a lot more of that.
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I mean, you know, people talk about Bitcoin, you know, who controls it?
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There's no central authority that decides, you know, to manipulate Bitcoin, right?
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I mean, there can only be 21 million of them, you know, ever.
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Gold is in some ways less scarce because you can still find more of it.
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But the supply of gold doesn't go up that much.
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You see, people are going to look at things like gold, silver, Bitcoin, all things that
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are relatively stable in value or stable in supply.
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And that's how you can really see how your money is being eroded.
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And you talk about, you know, who can manipulate currency.
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I mean, there's an unlimited potential supply of Canadian dollars.
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It can be created at the whim of, you know, the head of the Bank of Canada.
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And it can be created, or at least there can be pressure for it to be created by governments
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like the Trudeau government just running massive deficits.
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And then the Bank of Canada often feels obliged to, you know, finance those deficits.
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Yeah, you should be worried about the Canadian dollar, worried about central banks and fiat
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I wouldn't be worried about crypto being manipulated.
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I'd worry about our supposedly sound and responsible governments, you know, screwing over the value
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Yeah, and never forget that George Soros made one of his most spectacular fortunes by betting
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against the British pound and breaking the Bank of England.
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It wouldn't surprise me that vultures like that are circling.
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Now he's got even more capital at his disposal.
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Well, I will try and understand this file more in the months ahead because I get the
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feeling that we are returning to that dark 70s feeling of stagflation, stagnating economy,
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It's a reminder of Pierre Trudeau, Jimmy Carter days, and I'm afraid we're re-entering them.
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I really encourage you to sign up on his website for his regular email.
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Fortu Nisko says, where is the court's opinion that provided the legal reasoning that the
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quarantine hotels are not actual places of confinement?
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Well, it was the ruling by no one less than the chief judge of the federal court of appeal.
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So if you go to the federal court website and you can search for it, the plaintiff included Rebel News and Kian Bextear, employee at the time.
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So if you go to the federal court of Canada and then click on decisions, you can search for it.
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I think the key word to search for would be Rebel or Kian.
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And in the ruling, the judge said it's not a detention at all, let alone a detention that we have to just that we can justify.
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The Charter of Rights and Freedoms guarantees us a list of freedoms.
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But there's that wiggle room that says you can infringe them if you meet certain tests.
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So step one is, did the government infringe your freedom?
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Step two is, was that infringement reasonably justifiable in a free and democratic society?
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So normally, everything the government does to you is a kind of infringement.
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The battle is, is it reasonable in a free and democratic society?
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The judge in that court case said, it's not even an infringement.
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We don't even have to justify it because it's not a detention.
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Char West says, congrats to Rebel News once again.
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No one works harder for the freedom of speech than your media outlet.
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And you do have to give credit to the three men themselves who are under enormous pressure
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from the government, from police, from the community.
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And obviously, women who are battling too, our key lawyer for Arthur Pawlowski is a great lawyer
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It is rare to have that kind of courage to dissent.
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Baltazar Gapka says, funny, for the first time in history, the ineffectiveness of a medicine
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is being blamed on those who refuse to take it.
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It's got to be one of the most vaccinated places in the world.
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It makes me very uncomfortable as someone who's affectionate towards that country.
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And I see similar overreactions all around the world.
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It's almost as if the worse the vaccines perform, the more they're being forced on people.
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It's almost as if the timing here was to buttress calls for more jabs against children in Canada.
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I don't think you're allowed to ask those questions anymore, are you?
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Or Anthony Fauci will say you're attacking science itself.
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Until tomorrow, on behalf of all of us here at Rebel World Headquarters, see you at home.
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And let me leave you with a video from the United Kingdom,
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where our own Louis Brackwell interviews someone from within their health system.
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What would be your message to other nurses, doctors, or any other worker from the NHS who feel like they can't speak out about this subject?
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Having considered the consultation responses, the advice of my officials and NHS leaders, including the chief executive of the NHS,
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I have concluded that all those working in the NHS and social care will have to be vaccinated.
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I encourage NHS workers and care workers who do not want to get the vaccine to reach out and tell your story.
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Your anonymity is extremely protected with us at Rebel News.
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So in recent light of the vaccination regulations for NHS workers, where potentially over 100,000 workers from the NHS won't be allowed to keep their jobs by April 2022,
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this regulation is going to be affecting lots and lots of different types of NHS workers.
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I have with me an occupational therapist who works at the NHS to give their side of the story.
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Thank you very much for taking the time out to speak to me today.
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First question, how are you feeling about this regulation and how is this going to impact you?
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I'm very looking down at the moment and I felt like this was coming for a long time, especially since they announced it for the care workers.
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So I have been expecting it, but that doesn't make it any easier to face.
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I actually work in the community rather than a hospital.
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But as of today, I am no longer allowed to go into care homes.
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There's actually a couple of us in my team who don't want the vaccination for different reasons.
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And obviously we're a very small team, so that is really going to impact community service.
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I don't know what to do because obviously my own personal mental health is being negatively affected by this.
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I feel like they're almost using this over the winter to get through what's probably going to be a really difficult winter,
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which it always is, and then potentially face this happening for when things close and down a bit.
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I'm guessing there's many of your colleagues who are in fear of speaking out.
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I know a couple of people who are in a similar situation to me, but it's really hard to kind of,
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especially in my NHS, find people who are similar to me.
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I can't exactly kind of put anything out on the trust email to say how we get a group together or anything.
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So there's only like a person in my team who's in a similar position and friends who I've previously worked with or went to uni with.
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I'm guessing there's no union or any sort of protection that would be far in your corner for this.
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No, so I'm part of UNISIN and I believe that UNISIN hasn't been great throughout the whole care workers situation.
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But I do know that they can't lose 100,000 staff.
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So the NHS will just fall to its knees and that's the thing, is that the government's intention.
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Do they want to privatise it through the back door essentially without it being as obvious?
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We obviously had a brief discussion about nurses being used over the winter period when it's obviously the NHS's busiest time.
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Do you feel used and do your colleagues feel completely used?
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I feel used, yes, because I know that I am a good worker.
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I've always, I've never taken a nick with my daughter.
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I've always, you know, I know I'm a good worker, which is what really annoys me to be honest.
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And I am thinking about going off on sick leave at some point because I don't want to be used.
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I don't want to be taken for a ride essentially.
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I know a couple of colleagues in the same position are going to do the same, which essentially is similarly to your next death in a poor position.
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But I don't want to produce it like that as a human being.
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I think mental health is definitely more important than a job at the end of the day.
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And what would be your message to other nurses, doctors or any other worker from the NHS who feel like they can't speak out about this subject?
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Start speaking out, start forming groups and support networks and hold the lines actually, just wait that out.
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Could you explain to me the situation about waiting lists?
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I know we had a previous conversation about this off camera.
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Could you please give your verdict on the seriousness of this situation?
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Yeah, it was a serious situation in pre-pandemic.
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Our community therapy waiting list was about 60 to 70 patients.
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When the pandemic kicked off, we were told to start seeing community patients.
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And we were kind of on standby for the hospital.
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I kind of picked up a bit of a fuss and said, look, I don't feel I'm being utilised.
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There's a very place that should be out there in the community, seeing patients.
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And eventually we just started our community patients again.
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And now we've got a waiting list of over 300 patients.
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A lot of these patients have deteriorated on their mental health because a lot of them are scared to leave in the house.
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It's had a massive impact on patients like elderly people's abilities to function.
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And these waiting lists are just going to keep increasing and increasing.
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So to then say, oh, we're going to fire 100,000 staff if they don't have the data, doesn't make sense.
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And to me, that's going to impact patient safety massively.
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If that many people are zapped or leave the jobs in the next few months, then the NHS is going to completely fail, which is really sad.