Juno News - Latest lockdowns prove vaccine mandates don’t work

00:00:00.000 Justin Trudeau calls the unvaccinated racist misogynistic extremists. Meanwhile, Canada goes

00:00:06.060 into lockdown again, proving once and for all that vaccine mandates do not work. I'm Candice

00:00:11.300 Malcolm and this is The Candice Malcolm Show. Hi everyone, thank you so much for tuning into

00:00:19.320 the program. Thank you so much for joining us today and I hope everyone out there had a wonderful

00:00:23.860 Christmas holiday. I hope you had the opportunity to spend some time with your family, with loved

00:00:28.340 ones and I hope that all of the craziness around COVID and the lockdowns didn't disrupt your

00:00:34.100 Christmas holiday too much at my household. My son, who's two years old, got COVID. He came

00:00:38.920 down with COVID and we sort of did our best to make sure that he didn't infect the baby.

00:00:43.160 We have a one-year-old as well and, you know, making sure that we could still sort of carry

00:00:47.660 on. But it was definitely a low-key Christmas. We basically barely left the house other than

00:00:52.060 just to go for little walks here and there. But it was nice as well. We got to just really

00:00:56.240 reconnect with the family and spend lots and lots of time with the kids. I mentioned this

00:01:00.740 on social media, but I deleted all of my work-related apps from my phone. So I didn't have any sort

00:01:07.120 of distractions from social media. I was able to read a lot, spend a lot of time with the

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00:02:36.900 what we're able to do with the tremendous support that we have out there. All right. So two stories that I

00:02:42.940 want to get to on the podcast today, the first one is the big story, the big news story of the day.

00:02:48.260 Ontario announced yesterday that we are once again going into lockdown. As my colleague Anthony

00:02:52.520 Fury put it, it's two weeks to flatten the curve. Once again, two years later, and we are back to

00:02:57.060 square one, back with the exact same public policy solution that we had two years ago and we knew

00:03:01.260 nothing about COVID. And that is everybody just stay inside, lockdown. We're not going to have

00:03:05.260 anything open and we're going to try to hopefully curb the spread of COVID. So Ontario closes schools

00:03:11.180 until January 17th, bans indoor dining and cuts capacity limits. So Ontario announced sweeping new

00:03:17.100 restrictions that will see schools closed to in-person learning until at least January 17th,

00:03:22.160 a ban on indoor dining, gyms shuttered and capacity limits put in place for retail as COVID-19 cases

00:03:28.040 soar in the province. The new restrictions, which also include slashing gathering limits to five people

00:03:33.260 indoors and 10 people outdoors, comes into place on January 5th and will be in place for 21 days,

00:03:38.560 the government announced Monday. So no, not two weeks to flatten the curve, three weeks this time.

00:03:43.360 And Ford says that it took him 30 seconds to make the decision. Here's what that looked like.

00:03:50.720 You know, this took me about 30 seconds to make a decision. It was a decisive decision. And we're

00:03:57.120 going to make sure that we go through this and be as cautious as possible and use every tool in our

00:04:04.240 toolbox, uh, to sustain not only our healthcare, but our economy as well. Well, well, it's good to

00:04:11.200 good to know that premier Ford is really thinking it through really putting a lot of thought and energy

00:04:14.960 30 seconds to make a decision to completely, completely destroy the economy. Once again,

00:04:19.600 close small businesses, people losing their job, uh, the severity of this lockdown. And it took the

00:04:25.360 premier 30 seconds to make the decision. What a disgrace. What a joke. Well, Ontario is not alone.

00:04:30.880 Quebec has also imposed new rules, imposing a curfew because, because everyone knows that COVID

00:04:36.240 strikes at night, that COVID is more dangerous at night after 10 PM, it just becomes way more viral

00:04:41.600 and you'll get way more sick. So, so, so that's the justification apparently over in Quebec that

00:04:46.000 you have to have a curfew. Otherwise more people get COVID, uh, try to try to make sense of that.

00:04:51.680 Restaurants are closing as well and further delays to return to schools. So Quebec did at first and

00:04:58.080 British Columbia is right there as well. We reported on this over the holiday that they banned

00:05:02.160 dancing and partying on New Year's Eve and Christmas. They put all kinds of restrictions

00:05:06.320 in as well over the holidays. So here we have indoor organized gatherings of any size or not allowed.

00:05:11.120 This includes gatherings like New Year's Eve parties, wedding receptions, and other celebrations.

00:05:15.600 Indoor events at venues can only have 50% capacity. That includes events like concerts,

00:05:20.400 sports, and movies. Bars and nightclubs are closed. Restaurants, cafes, and pubs can only have a

00:05:25.360 maximum six people per table and must use physical distance and barriers between table. Indoor adult

00:05:31.680 exercise, fitness, and dance activities are not permitted. So all of this is because Omicron is

00:05:37.360 here, because it spreads, because a lot of people are going to catch COVID. And now I just want to read

00:05:42.640 you, this is the way that it is being reported in Ontario. So, so we're supposed to believe basically

00:05:47.600 the thinking is that Omicron spreads a lot. It's very mild. It doesn't impact people as much in the

00:05:53.200 severe ways as the previous variants as Delta and the previous variant. However, just a sheer number

00:05:58.480 of people getting COVID will lead to more hospitalizations. They estimate that about

00:06:02.320 one in 1,000 people who get COVID will end up in the hospital. And so if all these people

00:06:07.040 are catching COVID, so the thinking goes that, that the hospitals will soon get overrun. But,

00:06:11.600 but let's just pause for a moment and look at the actual numbers, because I think the numbers are

00:06:15.120 incredibly important. And they paint a picture that just shows that this is basically just all

00:06:19.520 complete hysteria. Okay. The province says that there are 1,117 people in hospital as a result

00:06:25.600 of COVID-19. Health officials reported that there were 1,300 hospitalizations with the virus on

00:06:32.160 Saturday. Okay. So we have about 1,300 people in the hospital. Of that, the ICU admissions continue to

00:06:38.560 rise. So, so 224 people are in hospital, in the ICU, in critical care because of COVID. A week ago,

00:06:46.000 there were 168 ICU patients, the seven day rolling average of patients in the ICU sits just under 200.

00:06:53.440 According to the Ontario hospital association, 112 patients with COVID are on a ventilator. So keep

00:06:59.360 those numbers in mind. Okay. We have a rolling average of about 200 people in the ICU in Ontario.

00:07:05.840 Okay. Let's, let's have some facts here. This was the ICU usage in previous waves. And this is according

00:07:11.600 to the Ontario science table, which is the authority that Doug Ford relies on. These are the people

00:07:15.920 who give us the information and basically tell us what to do. And as you know, they're very,

00:07:20.160 very pro lockdown. Okay. So these are their numbers. Okay. So the peak number of patients

00:07:24.800 in the ICU with COVID related illnesses during the first wave. So this is April 12th, 2020 was 283

00:07:31.200 patients. Next, the peak in wave two, which was January 15th, 2021, almost a year ago, there were

00:07:36.400 450 patients in the ICU, 450. Keep in mind the rolling average right now is just under 200. And the peak of

00:07:45.120 wave three, which was April 30th, 2021 was 940 patients in the ICU. So, so, so, so what we're

00:07:53.040 talking about right now is a fraction of what we have been through and what we've lived through.

00:07:58.080 So the idea that we're locking down now, because we have almost 200 people on average in the ICU,

00:08:03.680 when at the peak, we had nearly a thousand people in the ICU, just begs the question, how is the hospital

00:08:08.960 capacity has gone down? Hospital capacity has gone down. We can't even absorb as many people in the

00:08:14.720 hospital and in the ICU as we could seven, eight months ago. It makes no sense. This is just pure,

00:08:19.920 pure hysteria. So we know that Omicron is more mild compared to earlier strains. All of the data

00:08:26.080 that we see out there show that it is, it spreads faster. It's, it's more viral. However, the impact

00:08:31.920 is less. This is over in the national post. Ford is inflicting pandemic pain, but offering little gain.

00:08:36.640 Data shows that about 1% of those infected with Omicron will end up in the hospital.

00:08:41.120 Although few of those will need the ICUs. So we're using the most blunt tool that we have

00:08:45.680 in the political toolbox, shutting down the entire economy once again. And yet we're dealing with a

00:08:50.960 strain that isn't even as deadly as before. And as I just demonstrated, the ICU capacity is nowhere

00:08:57.280 near as full as it was seven, eight months ago during the second wave or during the third wave. So again,

00:09:02.640 the politics are completely ignoring the science and the facts here. So in preparing for the show,

00:09:07.600 we're looking for ways to just quantify how much more mild the Omicron variant is compared to

00:09:14.240 previous strains, Delta and the initial strain. And you know, one of the interesting things that you

00:09:19.040 see is that the media will report a single death, a single Omicron death as news. So here we see CTV

00:09:26.000 reporting its first Omicron related death in Kingston, Ontario. Okay. We're looking at a disease

00:09:31.360 that over the past two years has killed scores and scores of Canadians, tens of thousands of people,

00:09:35.440 upwards of 20,000 has killed millions of people worldwide. And yet a single death from the

00:09:40.400 Omicron variant makes the news. It is a front page story when one person dies, which goes to show you

00:09:45.840 that that is not deadly. It's not killing people in the same way that previous waves were. Of course,

00:09:51.680 we don't know if there were comorbidities or what the real cause of death in this case is. We just know

00:09:55.680 that the person who died also had COVID and it was also confirmed to be the Omicron case. Even the

00:10:00.080 Globe and Mail here is reporting as COVID-19 cases rise, Ontario studies suggest that Omicron is less

00:10:05.760 severe. So it says in the study, Public Health Ontario compared Omicron cases with symptoms that

00:10:11.200 emerged between November 22nd and December 17th with Delta cases and found that after adjusting

00:10:16.000 for vaccination status and region, the risk of hospitalization or death was 54% lower with Omicron.

00:10:22.880 The agency says Omicron appears to be the first dominant variant to show a decline in severity,

00:10:28.240 but warned that due to its higher transmissibility, the absolute number of hospitalizations and impact

00:10:33.520 on healthcare is likely to be significant despite reduced severity. So this is good news. This is

00:10:40.000 all a good news story. It's telling us that COVID is mutating and each mutation is getting less

00:10:45.520 deadly. That's what you want. Eventually, you just want her mentality. You want everyone to have had it 1.00

00:10:49.680 to build up the natural immunities and or build up immunities through the vaccine, if that's what you

00:10:54.800 choose to do. And that way we'll be able to fight against it. And it won't be a pandemic any longer.

00:11:00.480 But rather than seeing this as a good news story, instead, it's like doom and gloom end of the world.

00:11:04.640 So many people are getting it. We've got to lock down. We've got to shut down the entire economy,

00:11:08.480 which just shows you the mindset of the politicians and legacy media. They just want to go, go, go, go,

00:11:13.040 go and push doom and gloom until the end of time. Meanwhile, Omicron is subsiding in South Africa.

00:11:18.800 South Africa, as you know, is where the Omicron variant originated. That's where we first saw it.

00:11:24.080 Well, the good news over there is that Omicron has passed its peak in South Africa, causing

00:11:28.560 relatively few deaths and hospitalizations, according to authorities down there. This is

00:11:32.800 in the Washington Post. It says South Africa appears to have passed the peak of Omicron

00:11:37.600 variant driven fourth coronavirus wave. The country's cabinet announced Thursday,

00:11:41.600 adding that there were only a marginal increase in fatalities, which remained low compared to

00:11:45.440 previous spikes. The number of infections fell by roughly 30%, just under 90,000 for the week,

00:11:50.800 ending in December 25th, Christmas, down from some 127,000 in the prior corresponding period.

00:11:57.200 Government data show the number of hospital admissions has also been significantly lower

00:12:01.840 over the past one and a half weeks. The country's medical system has capacity to provide routine

00:12:07.040 health services. Authorities said in a statement Thursday, adding that the government would roll back

00:12:11.440 certain pandemic control measures. And this is reiterated by the World Health Organization,

00:12:16.080 who said that Omicron spreads, but severe cases remain low in South Africa. And finally, Bloomberg,

00:12:21.600 this is really interesting. Omicron may cut Delta infections, South African study shows. So if you're

00:12:27.520 infected with Omicron, it could actually protect you. It gives you strengthened immunity against other more

00:12:33.280 deadly strains, including Delta. So if you get Omicron, in some ways, it's a good thing because then

00:12:38.640 you're more protected, you have more antibodies, your body's able to fight off the original more deadly

00:12:44.080 and more painful COVID strain in Delta. So there's a couple big takeaways from all of this. I think the

00:12:49.200 first one is, at this point, I think that Canadians should universally demand better from our healthcare

00:12:54.480 system. Our healthcare system is rigid, centrally planned, limited capacity, limited funding. It does not

00:13:01.040 offer the flexibility that we need to get through the pandemic. This is completely obvious to anyone paying

00:13:05.280 attention that we just don't have the flexibility needed to deal with a pandemic, to deal with surges

00:13:10.800 in the hospitalization rates and the need for ICU capacity. Part of the reason that Canada doesn't have

00:13:16.720 a Florida where we don't have a Ron DeSantos, we don't have a politician willing to just say,

00:13:20.960 you know what, we're not going to lock down. We're not going to take these drastic measures.

00:13:24.000 And, you know, Florida is being rewarded for that. A million people moved to Florida last year.

00:13:28.000 Canada doesn't have that because we don't have the healthcare system. We don't have the healthcare system

00:13:31.680 to be able to absorb these kind of shocks. I think at this point, two years into the pandemic,

00:13:36.800 it's time for more people to start talking about this. It's time to see some political

00:13:39.840 courage. It's time to see more conservatives standing up for the idea that our healthcare

00:13:43.920 system needs major reform. Now's a great time to do it. Here's what my colleague Andrew Lawton

00:13:48.480 wrote over on Twitter. He said, if after two years of COVID, the hospital system is still facing an

00:13:53.440 existential threat, perhaps you should stop listening to the people in charge of that system. That is

00:13:58.000 absolutely right. Now is the opportunity for change. And I wish that more people would champion this

00:14:02.640 cause and just say enough is enough. We don't want to have this limited rigid system anymore.

00:14:07.680 And the second big takeaway is that vaccine passports do not work. This whole idea that all we have to

00:14:13.840 do is get everyone vaccinated, and then we'll be able to go back to life as usual, that all of the

00:14:18.160 places that you want to go to, as long as you're vaccinated and you're willing to show the government

00:14:22.080 this piece of ID saying that you're vaccinated, you can have a normal life and that everything will go back

00:14:27.440 to normal. That has been proven completely wrong. Once again, Andrew Lawton makes his point over on

00:14:31.680 Twitter. He says, any government that shuts down sectors in which a vaccine passport was previously

00:14:36.400 mandated is admitting the vaccine passports did nothing. That's absolutely correct. They don't 0.98

00:14:40.720 work. They don't work because if they did work, we wouldn't have to shut down again. This is a fatal

00:14:45.200 conceit. All the politicians right now, Doug Ford, Quebec, Justin Trudeau, by locking down,

00:14:50.320 they are simply admitting that their scheme, their unconstitutional scheme of having this vaccine

00:14:56.240 passport, these vaccine mandates. It doesn't work. It doesn't work because if it did work,

00:15:00.000 we wouldn't be where we are. Okay. Let's talk about Justin Trudeau. Let's talk about Justin

00:15:03.920 Trudeau because it seems like he's sort of coming undone. Here is what Trudeau tweeted on New Year's

00:15:09.840 Day. He said, get your first shot, get your second shot, get your booster, get your kids vaccinated,

00:15:15.040 and let's get out of this pandemic for good. So again, reiterating this idea that all you have to do

00:15:19.360 is get vaccinated, vaccinate yourself, get jabbed over and over again, get your little kids vaccinated,

00:15:24.640 and we will get back to normal, pushing this idea that vaccinations will end the pandemic.

00:15:29.200 That's not true. It's not true because most people are vaccinated right now. And here we are

00:15:33.280 going into another wave. We know that a lot of people who have been vaccinated are still catching

00:15:38.000 COVID. They're still, I mean, how many stories have you heard of people that you know, people in your

00:15:42.240 family, people in your friend group and your colleagues at work who are vaccinated and yet still

00:15:46.720 got COVID because different strains, different mutations, you're not protected. You're not fully

00:15:50.560 protected, 100% protected. So no, this idea that getting vaccinated will get us back to normal,

00:15:56.080 it's just not true. Lauren Southern over on Twitter made a really good point. She said this, she said,

00:16:00.240 BC is over 90% vaccinated and still in lockdown. People don't trust you anymore. And then, and then

00:16:06.000 she has these two pictures. So one side is all the things that are promised to people if they get

00:16:11.600 vaccinated, saying that that proof of vaccination will allow you to do all these things. And then followed

00:16:16.480 by all the things that just got banned on December 22nd. So we can go through them. So, so BC assured

00:16:21.440 you that if you got vaccinated and had approved vaccination, it would allow you to go to indoor

00:16:26.160 ticketed events, indoor patio and dining, nightclubs and casinos, movie theaters, gyms, pools, and

00:16:31.120 recreational facilities, high intensity indoor group exercise, indoor organized gathering, and indoor

00:16:37.280 recreational classes. That of course is all not true because here we go, BC same public health

00:16:42.640 organization. December 23rd gatherings inside are limited to 10 guests. All must be vaccinated. 0.61

00:16:48.720 No indoor organized gatherings of any size, including parties, all indoor venues reduced to 50%

00:16:54.800 capacity, adult gym, fitness centers, dance studios, closed bars, and nightclubs closed maximum six people

00:17:01.440 per table at restaurants, all events and venues required to scan the BC Vax code, no sports tournaments.

00:17:09.360 So no, the vaccine passports did not work and no vaccinations will not get us out of the pandemic.

00:17:15.600 Absolutely untrue. Now, second, there's this video circulating online. It's trending all over the

00:17:20.480 place over the holiday. And I'm told that it actually came from September that Trudeau said this on the

00:17:25.360 campaign trail for whatever reason, probably because the interview is in French. This just exploded online

00:17:30.800 over the past few days and there's been so much reaction to it. So I want to show you this clip

00:17:35.840 of Justin Trudeau in French and just coming out there angrily saying the worst of the worst possible

00:17:41.760 things about unvaccinated people, just completely unloading on them, othering them, demonizing them,

00:17:49.040 doing all the most despicable, horrible things that a prime minister should never do when talking about

00:17:53.600 his own citizens. But here is the unhinged clip of Justin Trudeau and there's subtitles in the bottom

00:18:00.240 in case you don't speak French. But here he is saying that unvaccinated people are extremists,

00:18:05.520 they don't believe in science, they are misogynistic and they are racist.

00:18:09.040 Yes, we are going to get out of this pandemic. And we know all those people who are

00:18:15.520 trying to hesitate a little bit, we will continue to convince them, but there are also people who are

00:18:20.400 far away from the vaccination. Who are extremists. Who are not in science, who are

00:18:25.360 often misogynistic, who are often racist also. It's a small group but who takes place. And there,

00:18:33.760 we need to make a choice as a leader, as a country. Do we tolerate these people? Or do we say,

00:18:39.920 well, let's see, the most people, almost 80% of the Québécois have done what they need to do,

00:18:44.960 they have been vaccinated. We want to return to things that we like to do. It's not those people

00:18:50.480 that are going to block us. So doubling down on this notion that if all we have to do is get

00:18:54.720 vaccinated and we will be out of the pandemic, which is false, it's not true, saying that we should not

00:19:00.240 tolerate people who are unvaccinated. I don't know what that means. If you're not going to tolerate 1.00

00:19:03.440 someone, what's the alternative? Like, kicking them out of the country, throwing them in prison?

00:19:07.520 What exactly is Trudeau saying by that? And then again, just flat out equating the unvaccinated with

00:19:14.880 the worst of the worst, saying that you must be racist, you must hate minorities, you must hate

00:19:19.360 women if you don't want to participate in an experimental vaccine. I mean, this is just really 1.00

00:19:25.440 letting the cat out of the bag. And there's been huge reaction to it. So here is Jordan Peterson

00:19:31.120 saying our prime minister's careless words have become internationally scandalous,

00:19:35.040 and he links to a Great Britain news segment. I'm going to play this segment because it's really,

00:19:39.520 really quite good. Neil Oliver is a tremendous speaker and thinker. He's just been incredibly

00:19:45.600 articulate throughout the pandemic, really explaining, articulating some of the biggest problems

00:19:50.400 of our times. And here he is zeroing in on Trudeau's angry, unhinged rant and really dissecting some

00:19:57.600 of the problems here. I'm going to play this right now. Do you think he really believes it,

00:20:01.440 Neil? Or is this part of a bullying campaign to shame the unvaccinated into getting jabbed?

00:20:12.560 Goodness. I mean, who can really look into somebody else's heart, into somebody else's

00:20:16.960 head and say what they really believe? But this is a man trained, you would think,

00:20:23.200 in media relations, you know, to the highest level. And he must have, you know, a good understanding

00:20:30.560 of what happens when you see things in public. You know, so it must at some level, although I would

00:20:38.000 contend that he's angry, and some of that was dripping out in his words, he would also it would

00:20:43.360 also be calculated and tactical. And yes, to it begins, it begins or it advances that process of

00:20:52.240 demonizing people that you don't agree with. So there's something about the way those people are

00:20:58.800 behaving, something they're doing or not doing that you don't like, maybe you just don't like those

00:21:03.680 people. But you need to find reasons to legitimize your hatred of them. And so it's not enough for him

00:21:14.080 to say, just that these people haven't taken a vaccination that he would prefer that they did.

00:21:20.480 He's trying to turn the majority of his population against that group of people. And he's doing that

00:21:27.280 by seeking to demonize them by saying that they're not just they're not just refusing the vaccine. 1.00

00:21:32.880 They also hate black people and they hate women. And we know it's all right to, and we know it's all 0.99

00:21:37.760 right to, you know, to punish people like that. You know, so what's next for Justin Trudeau,

00:21:42.800 you know, does he finally go on television and just say, right, the time has come, let's get them.

00:21:47.920 You know, he's he's setting people up as being lesser, as being other, as being despicable,

00:21:54.640 as being guilty of things that are, you know, that are socially unacceptable, misogyny, racism,

00:22:00.480 and to bolt those crimes onto the fact that there are people out there who are hesitant about an

00:22:06.480 experimental medical procedure. I think it's a disgrace. I think it's borderline criminal.

00:22:11.440 So that's that's absolutely right. Sometimes it takes an outsider to look in to be able to

00:22:15.920 properly, again, articulate and dissect what is happening in his country and what is happening

00:22:19.680 with Justin Trudeau. Justin Trudeau, frankly, has become unhinged. His language, his rhetoric,

00:22:24.400 it comes across as hateful, as angry, as ineffective. That's not going to convince anyone to get

00:22:29.280 vaccinated. Calling someone a racist and saying that they're misogynistic if they don't agree with you

00:22:33.200 is the absolutely worst way to convince someone to come around to your point of view. So Trudeau is

00:22:37.680 just a lost soul at this point. He has no idea the way to lead a country and and it's just really

00:22:43.280 despicable to hear him talking about Canadians that way. Thank you so much for tuning in.

00:22:48.480 I'm Candice Malcolm and this is The Candice Malcolm Show.

Juno News - January 05, 2022

Latest lockdowns prove vaccine mandates don’t work

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