Juno News - September 14, 2023


They have returned. Here we go again...

Topics
masks and vaccination mandates new Moderna booster dose
Hosted by
Harrison Faulkner
Mentioned
Theresa Tam Pierre Poilievre Moderna Justin Trudeau Omar Al-Gabra Vera Etches Luddites
Banned from covering Liberal caucus retreat Conservative members push party brass to stand up against gender ideology

Episode Stats


Length

12 minutes

Words per minute

163.37

Word count

2,070

Sentence count

87

Harmful content

Misogyny

1

sentences flagged

Toxicity

4

sentences flagged

Hate speech

4

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Summary

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Dr. Theresa Tam reminds us that it's time to bring back masks, despite record lows in the number of reported cases of COVID-19 cases, and despite the fact that cases are at historic lows across the country, the media and the public health bureaucracy have reappeared.

Transcript

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00:00:00.000 vaccination is fundamental to ending the pandemic and we
00:00:05.160 if you haven't had a full booster with the bivalent vaccine go get it now we still have
00:00:13.240 NACI is reaffirming its guidance on the use of COVID-19 vaccines this fall
00:00:30.000 well despite the fact that everyone has moved on and that cases are at historic lows across the
00:00:36.700 country like an annoying mosquito that won't go away and will buzz past your ears just to remind
00:00:42.400 you it's still there Canada's chief public health officer Dr. Theresa Tam has re-emerged from the
00:00:48.440 shadows to remind everyone that it's time to get the new booster dose and of course that wearing
00:00:53.920 masks should essentially become a permanent measure to stop the spread of COVID and other
00:00:59.100 respiratory viruses because as we all know masks worked so well the last time aren't all the good
00:01:04.680 memories just coming back to you now self-important public health officials wearing giant N95 masks 0.92
00:01:10.660 socially distanced at press conferences telling you to trust them and to listen to their advice
00:01:15.680 pathetic legacy media journalists parroting government talking points and preparing to
00:01:21.160 demonize the Luddites who refuse to take an emergency use booster and don't want to wear a giant muzzle in 0.97
00:01:27.000 their face all day just in time for school to start again the media and the public health bureaucracy
00:01:32.120 have reappeared and if we're being honest with ourselves we all knew they weren't going to be
00:01:36.840 able to stay away for long and now they are well and truly back drop a like in the video help us out
00:01:42.240 with subscribing to the true north youtube channel and the common question for the episode is this
00:01:46.720 will you take Dr. Theresa Tam's advice and take the new Moderna booster shot let me know in the comments
00:01:54.280 and let's get into it we'll dust off the old muzzle Canada that's the advice coming from Dr. Theresa Tam
00:02:00.680 who had a press conference on Tuesday besides telling Canadians that everyone six months of age and
00:02:06.320 older needs to take the new Moderna booster shot they also need to prepare to bring back masks to not
00:02:12.540 only battle the coming COVID season but also other respiratory illnesses despite of course the fact that
00:02:19.020 COVID cases in Canada are at record lows now if you were thinking that legacy media journalists who
00:02:25.200 report on these public health officials might change their tactic given how thoroughly rebuked they were
00:02:31.580 over the past three years for failing to hold accountable any of these officials well you'd be
00:02:36.180 totally wrong because drinking the kool-aid and parroting the propaganda seems to be the same tactic
00:02:41.900 today as it was back in 2021 don't believe me just listen to this journalist ask the question about
00:02:48.260 mask mandates before Theresa Tam reminds us all to break out the masks listen to this question
00:02:54.020 just as a follow-up I'm sorry to cut you off but I just wanted to take note you're all you're all
00:02:58.400 masking which is lovely to see of course but most government ministers are are not now most MPs are not
00:03:03.820 most people on the street are not masking is is there any specific guidance on that going forward at this
00:03:09.760 point I see you're all wearing masks and it's lovely to see but how can we get more Canadians to muzzle 1.00
00:03:15.040 themselves whoa easy there Pravda don't you think trying to sound at least somewhat objective might
00:03:20.380 help your case Canadians don't believe anything you write and maybe it's because you sound like a 0.71
00:03:26.240 propagandist but anyways that's just a side point to remind Canadians that really nothing has changed when
00:03:31.140 it comes to legacy media here's Theresa Tam rolling back the clock like it's 2021 and telling us to get the 0.98
00:03:37.820 masks ready yes Theresa Tam so it is a layer of protection we hope people have developed the
00:03:43.680 habit to be able to use masks as needed during the respiratory virus season not just for COVID but for
00:03:49.060 all the other respiratory pathogens that will be transmitted around this time so I do think now is the time to get
00:03:57.840 your masks ready if you don't already have them in our own particular context we certainly in our area there's been an uptick in some of the COVID-19 indicators for me personally there have been cases around you know even my work colleagues so that's one of the reasons why we are wearing masks today.
00:04:22.560 Now despite the fact that these public health officials really want you to follow the rules this time and wear a mask despite there being record low cases of COVID in the community they probably also at the same time don't want you to read this study from the Cochran review released in January of 2023 which let's just say kind of blows the lid on the use of masking to prevent the spread of viruses.
00:04:47.920 According to this Cochran review study on masking wearing masks in the community probably makes little or no difference to the outcome of laboratory confirmed influenza compared to not wearing masks as well.
00:05:09.380 Now Dr. Teresa Tam is not just telling us to wear masks to stop COVID but also other respiratory illnesses which we'll never get rid of which also means that she's basically saying masks should be a permanent measure against stopping respiratory viruses.
00:05:24.760 Now back in November of 2022 Ottawa's public health doctor Vera Etches was asked by a journalist why children are getting a sharp uptick in an RSV virus another respiratory illness.
00:05:38.240 And she says that because children were masked they were not exposed to other viruses and that suppressed their immunity.
00:05:45.180 Listen to this.
00:05:46.180 Why is it that the little ones are getting so sick right now?
00:05:49.180 Some people are assuming well it's because they don't have the COVID vaccine or many COVID vaccines yet they're so young.
00:05:56.240 Is that the case or is it something else?
00:05:59.880 Well I do recommend that young children have their COVID vaccine.
00:06:03.980 It prevents hospitalization that is clear it's a safe vaccine and there aren't as high rates in children but it's really not just COVID here that's happening.
00:06:13.920 It's the respiratory syncytial virus that's putting particular pressure on young populations and that is a virus that typically it circulates in our community.
00:06:22.760 People are exposed to it over and over again and they build immunity but our mask wearing has stopped viruses over the last couple of years and so people haven't built up the same amount of immunity in their young years to these viruses.
00:06:35.500 So what exactly do they think is going to happen here?
00:06:37.980 We have studies showing that mask wearing is inconclusive to stopping the spread of viruses which we already obviously knew.
00:06:45.960 And we also have public health doctors saying that wearing masks especially in children has prevented them from building up immunity against viruses which they usually can easily defeat.
00:06:56.500 Now no one's really ever accused our public health bureaucrats of being consistent when it comes to giving us advice but I mean this is just ridiculous.
00:07:04.440 And let's just be clear about something when it comes to the masks.
00:07:07.000 Although it's just a recommendation to put on the mask from Dr. Tam, in some places like the Ottawa Hospital, wearing masks is now mandatory.
00:07:17.440 Now besides telling Canadians that it's time to break out the mask again despite COVID cases being at historic lows,
00:07:23.740 we also got news that Health Canada approved the new Moderna spike vax booster shot for all Canadians aged 6 months and older.
00:07:32.140 Now given that Health Canada and the U.S. CDC approved this Moderna vaccine, this Moderna booster vaccine,
00:07:40.140 we wanted to do some of our own research to confirm what study exactly Health Canada relied on to make this authorization.
00:07:47.580 Now if you go looking for the study used to justify the authorization and recommendation of this new vaccine for Canadians 6 months of age and older,
00:07:56.000 you will find one study cited involving 50 participants that received this Moderna booster vaccine and 51 participants that received a different booster vaccine.
00:08:08.140 The median age of the participants was 51 years of age and nobody involved in the study was younger than 21.
00:08:15.900 Now given that the government is recommending that everyone 6 months of age and older take this Moderna vaccine,
00:08:22.820 we did our due diligence as good journalists and reached out to Health Canada and Moderna to see if they have conducted or relied on any other studies involving anyone younger than 18 years of age,
00:08:35.100 given that of course they're recommending 6-month-olds take this vaccine.
00:08:39.620 Neither Health Canada's Media Department or Moderna's Media Department responded to our request for further information.
00:08:45.820 Now it seems as though, based on social media responses, Canadians aren't exactly thrilled about listening to public health officers telling them to take another booster dose. 0.99
00:08:56.100 Not a goddamn chance in hell. Never again, you crooks, one user writes on Twitter. 1.00
00:09:03.120 Health Canada turning into just another government shill. You all should be ashamed of yourselves. What are you doing? Stop it. 0.99
00:09:10.320 It's fall and the migration of the duck-billed unethical vaccine pushers has begun.
00:09:15.700 Characterized by desperate mating calls to attract attention from Big Pharma, which includes classic attraction techniques such as mask wearing, mating calls, cases are up, kids are in hospital, and desperate attempts to be interviewed on TV.
00:09:28.680 I think this person has it pretty much spot on.
00:09:31.600 Ratio of the week time. The winner this week is CTV News Calgary.
00:09:37.000 I think they're a first-time winner on the show, but believe me, this one is well-deserved.
00:09:41.600 Screeching left-wing activists, legacy media journalists, and of course unions have been up in arms over the fact that on a WestJet flight back from the Conservative Party convention in Quebec City to Calgary,
00:09:54.180 Pierre Polyev hopped on the PA system and took a little jab at Justin Trudeau.
00:09:58.580 After the union representing WestJet employees demanded an apology from the airline for allowing Polyev to speak on the PA system,
00:10:06.300 and after washed-up, attention-seeking musician Jan Arden tried to start a boycott campaign against WestJet,
00:10:12.920 well, legacy media journalists at CTV Calgary are now looking to try and smear the airline even further,
00:10:20.040 this time writing on Twitter the following.
00:10:22.820 Our reporter, at TysonFedorTV, is hoping to speak to non-delegates aboard the WestJet flight from Quebec City to Calgary
00:10:30.800 that saw Pierre Polyev speak on the PA system.
00:10:33.920 If you were, please email him at Tyson.Fedor at BellMedia.ca.
00:10:39.520 I hate to break it to CTV News Calgary, but doxing their own reporter who's about to write a hit piece on Pierre Polyev
00:10:46.780 was probably not the best idea, given that his email address and his Twitter handle is now available for everyone to go and mock him over.
00:10:55.760 Of course, I'm not encouraging that toward this unfortunate journalist,
00:10:59.120 but I can't stop anyone from going and doing it themselves.
00:11:03.140 818 replies to only 159 likes at the time of this recording, and the comments are pretty brutal.
00:11:10.900 Not a shred of dignity left whatsoever.
00:11:13.600 CTV working hard to hold government accountable and dealing with the real issues that matter.
00:11:19.280 Just a regular day at the office for CTV, I think.
00:11:22.020 Has he run out of dumpsters to rifle through?
00:11:24.700 Exactly.
00:11:25.400 You see, nobody took any issue, it appears, with Justin Trudeau taking to the PA system on a Toronto subway a few months ago.
00:11:33.680 And before that, Omar Al-Gabra, the failed transport minister, did the same thing on a Via Rail train.
00:11:40.220 But, of course, no outrage was found from CTV News Calgary or any other legacy media outlet when the Liberals did the exact same thing.
00:11:49.460 It is, of course, always a news event when a conservative does it.
00:11:53.260 That's just the rule for how the legacy media plays.
00:11:56.140 All right, everyone, that's going to do it for us this week on the show.
00:11:58.300 Thank you so much for tuning in.
00:11:59.640 Remind you to let me know in the comments section your answer to the comment question.
00:12:03.760 Will you be taking that new Moderna booster dose?
00:12:07.380 All right, my name is Harrison Faulkner, and this is Reishi.
00:12:10.520 We'll see you next time.
00:12:27.380 We'll see you next time.
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