A new war on your civil liberties, all in the name of the Pandemic. Ezra Levant explains why you should not be worried about getting sick at the beach. Plus, a look at the latest in the homeschooling crisis.
00:01:37.420How was your weekend? The weather in most places in Canada was great. Finally, summer
00:01:47.640is here. Get out of the house, feel normal again after being really under house arrest
00:01:51.680for four months. What a laugh. They said it was just two weeks to flatten the curve. Now
00:01:57.180they're saying they might not even open up the schools in September. That's more than two
00:02:02.100months away from now, but the teachers' unions know they'll be paid no matter what, so why not
00:02:06.560keep the party going? They're having a blast. I see that a lot of families have tried homeschooling.
00:02:13.640They were sort of forced to, and some of them are desperate for schools to start up again,
00:02:18.480but some families are realizing this is the best thing that ever happened to them.
00:02:24.060I saw this news story over the weekend from North Carolina. The system, this is the page,
00:02:30.800it's a homeschooling page. The system is not currently available due to an overwhelming submission
00:02:36.300of notices of intent. It will be back online as soon as possible. We apologize for any inconvenience
00:02:42.900as we work to process NOIs as quickly as possible. So those are families who are serving a notice on
00:02:49.420the state that, thanks very little, we'll take it from here. They crashed the system.
00:02:54.380So yeah, but still what a mishmash. Some things are open, some are closed. Some are open depending
00:03:00.720on your politics. I haven't seen a single politician condemn a Black Lives Matter protest for spreading
00:03:07.040the pandemic of you, and yet if Trump supporters rally, why that's a national public health hazard.
00:03:13.940I see that Harvard University has decided in advance that it doesn't really feel like opening
00:03:18.740up at all next year. It just won't. It'll still charge students 50 grand a year US for online
00:03:27.200classes. Can't you just watch those on YouTube for free? Well, of course you can, but Harvard was
00:03:33.520never really selling its knowledge, at least not in the last generation. It was selling its name and
00:03:38.640exclusivity. Anyone can know what a Harvard grad knows, but only the select few can also pay 200 grand
00:03:46.260US for a four-year degree in women's studies. That's what it is for sale, snobbery and class,
00:03:52.480and there's always a demand for that. Hey, did you see this? This is from Ontario, but it could really
00:03:58.460be from anywhere in Canada or the United States or the UK, some of the worst. Like I said, it was a
00:04:03.160glorious July weekend. Most parts of the country, if you're fancy, you can go to your private cottage or
00:04:08.480cabin or lake house. But if you're not fancy, you don't have a private cottage or cabin or lake house.
00:04:13.660You can't afford one, but the beach is just as much fun and it's free. Yeah, no. Look at this,
00:04:22.580Florida or Toronto? Sadly, Toronto went for a Sunday stroll at Bluffers Park. While some are
00:04:29.880respecting social distancing, many more are not. No City of Toronto bylaw officers in sight. Yeah,
00:04:37.840those insane Florida people, so irresponsible. I mean, CNN said so. Insane Republicans down there,
00:04:45.640except the Florida, which has exactly 50% more people than Ontario. It doesn't have 50% more deaths
00:04:54.640from the virus than Ontario. Ontario is deadlier. But sure, if you're an anti-American media party
00:05:01.460reporter in Toronto who gets all their info from CNN, have at her. But it's actually safer to be in
00:05:07.660Florida than Ontario, if that's your thing. But look again at the photo. It's a shot at a certain
00:05:12.640angle. I think in art that's called foreshortening. I'm not sure. It looks pretty crowded, right? Except
00:05:18.800everyone's standing, well, because everyone's standing so close to each other. But as you can see,
00:05:23.100some people are smaller than others and some are much, much smaller than others. But in real life,
00:05:28.360they're not smaller. The photo is taken at a certain angle to make everyone look jammed up on top of
00:05:32.880each other. But in fact, that photo, which has a hundred people in it, shows a stretch of beach
00:05:37.840hundreds and hundreds of years long. It's an optical illusion that everyone's jammed together
00:05:44.000through foreshortening. But the greatest trick is this. A global news reporter goes to the beach to enjoy
00:05:51.080himself and is mad that other people have gone to the beach to enjoy themselves.
00:05:56.660This was a great reply to that global reporter. But look at what the global news reporter did.
00:06:03.320He tagged in his photo, John Tory, Doug Ford, and the public health officer. He's tattling on people.
00:06:09.100He's not reporting. He's being a scolding. He's calling the manager, manager, manager,
00:06:13.700I'd like to report someone else at the beach. If you think that's a bit much, well, look at what some
00:06:18.640politician said at Ontario's Forsega Beach, about 90 minutes drive from Toronto. Look at this.
00:06:23.900We saw human behavior at its worst. Overcrowding an issue at Wassega Beach, Ontario on Canada Day.
00:06:34.080You know, I've been to Iraq to refugee camps from the Islamic State. I've talked to survivors of the
00:06:42.320terrorism. I met a Yazidi rape slave who had fled to Germany who told me she was raped 240 times by
00:06:51.960terrorists before she lost count. They have slaves there. Even still, every day we learn about horrific
00:07:00.200treatment of humans by other humans, about civil rights being destroyed, about violence and crime,
00:07:04.980and even genocide today. But none of that compares, you see, not to CTV News, not to the barbarity of
00:07:13.080Islamic terrorists or open air slave markets in Libya, not the Soviets or the Nazis, we saw human
00:07:20.160behavior at its worst. Overcrowding at the beach on Canada Day. Wassega Beach, eh? Sear that name into your
00:07:30.200memory. That's another Flanders Fields or My Lie. If you click the link, you get this story from the CTV.
00:07:36.740I mean, just look at that horror. People, you know, sitting in the sun, not in their own business,
00:07:46.100and funny enough, not wearing masks when it was 30 degrees out. The town of Wassega Beach is cracking
00:07:53.320down on overcrowding at the beach. Town officials said the Canada Day crowds were the final straw.
00:08:00.800After three weeks of physical distancing issues, are those really the worst people in the world? I mean,
00:08:05.920the beachgoers, not the shrieking town hall politician nobody. I'll read some more. Town
00:08:10.400council also passed a bylaw that would see fines of up to $750 for anyone caught in the closed areas
00:08:16.020of the beach. Just let me say, if you are one of the people who gets those insane tickets,
00:08:21.280just send them to us at fightthefines.com. Don't pay the tickets. Fight them, okay? But is it true
00:08:28.460that going to the beach makes you the worst person in the whole history of the whole world? And by world,
00:08:33.080I don't just mean planet Earth, but all the other planets in the solar system. Are you the worst
00:08:36.960person in the solar system? No, that's just what some weirdo politicians and bullies are saying.
00:08:44.480Here's what Dr. Bonnie Henry, the public health officer for British Columbia said. Now,
00:08:49.040I'm not interested in picking and choosing my public health officer in a great big public health
00:08:54.680officer brawl, because frankly, any one of them will say anything on any given day. But just listen to
00:08:59.960her for a second, if you would, take a listen. There has been, there was one study that we've
00:09:04.660been looking at that looks at 138 different clusters, and there was a single one that was
00:09:10.260associated perhaps with people in close contact, close contact outdoors. So the transmission risk
00:09:18.520is much less outside, as far as we can tell, in that we, as long as we keep our physical distances
00:09:25.120from people, so being outside, as long as you're with your group, your home, your bubble, that is fine. And maintaining your distance from others. The risk that somebody who is sick is spreading this virus from coughing or sneezing outside, and you walk by them very quickly, even if it is within six feet, that risk is negligible. You know, that's not the way this virus is mostly transmitted.
00:09:55.120The risk would be infinitesimally small. If somebody runs by you, somebody walks by you, even if they were in within six feet.
00:10:03.120Wow, she used the word infinitesimal. I think that means tiny. Well, not to get all sciencey on you, but she's right. Here's the Globe and Mail.
00:10:14.120To date, 312 detailed studies have been published about clusters of coronavirus infections. There is not a single case of infection by casual contact outdoors. I think I read that one to you another day. Here's an expert from the United Kingdom in their reputable Telegraph newspaper.
00:10:32.120Casual interactions outside don't seem to be driving coronavirus transmission. Exclusive interview with one of the UK's top epidemiologists on immunity, contact tracing, and Britain's exit strategy. Adam Kacharski is an associate professor.
00:10:44.120At the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine. Sounds serious.
00:10:47.120So what does he have to say in response to this question of going to the beach? Well, he said, this is the question he got.
00:10:53.120Modeling has suggested outdoor environments pose less risk than indoors. What are the implications for efforts to ease a lockdown?
00:11:01.120And he answered, when we're looking at things like super spreading events, typically they occur in quite close knit settings, offices, restaurants, parties, gatherings.
00:11:11.120Casual interactions outside don't seem to be driving transmission. What we need to untangle is whether that's a feature of the environment or whether it's due to the proximity and duration of the contact.
00:11:20.120But in the UK, where people have been able to go outside, we've still seen a substantial decline in transmission.
00:11:26.120And biologically, it would make sense if you were catching the virus after going vaguely near someone in a park, then we'd have a much bigger problem on our hands.
00:11:33.120Oh, so it's not a big problem. That's good to know. Now, I don't trust anything coming out of China, of course.
00:11:40.120But if you do, and Trudeau does and so do all the media, here's a study out of China on this very point.
00:11:46.120New study finds few cases of outdoor transmission of coronavirus in China.
00:11:52.120A new study of the more than 300 outbreak clusters of COVID-19 in China reveals that the majority of the outbreaks were fueled by indoor transmission of the disease, while outdoor transmission was scarce.
00:12:03.120The filtered data presented 318 outbreaks, encompassing 1,245 confirmed cases of the virus, across 120 cities.
00:12:11.120The location of the outbreaks were divided into six categories – homes, transport, food, entertainment, shopping and miscellaneous.
00:12:18.120Nearly 80% of all the outbreaks occurred in a home setting, while 34% came from a transportation setting.
00:12:25.120Additionally, most of the home outbreaks resulted in three to five cases.
00:12:30.120However, researchers were only able to find one outbreak that took place in an outdoor environment involving just two cases.
00:12:38.120So, pretty much being outdoors is the safest place in the world.
00:12:45.120It's not being the worst person in the world.
00:12:50.120It's actually just being a normal person who isn't going to get sick.
00:12:53.120Here's how BC has fared under that Dr. Bonnie Henry, as opposed to, say, Ontario.
00:19:05.120He's the front line for so many of us, whether it's free speech or rule of law
00:19:11.120or a sensible pro-Western, pro-democratic foreign affairs policy.
00:19:18.120I've said before that Trump's reelection this November is probably more important to the fate of freedom in Canada even than our own election.
00:19:28.120And I'm not saying that out of any dismissiveness for Canada.
00:19:31.120It's just so important for everywhere from Iran to China.