The Candice Malcolm Show - Latest lockdowns prove vaccine mandates don’t work

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

00:00:05.060 Meanwhile, Canada goes into lockdown again, proving once and for all that vaccine mandates

00:00:09.660 do not work. I'm Candace Malcolm, and this is The Candace Malcolm Show.

00:00:17.360 Hi, everyone. Thank you so much for tuning into the program. Thank you so much for joining us

00:00:21.580 today. And I hope everyone out there had a wonderful Christmas holiday. I hope you had

00:00:25.340 the opportunity to spend some time with your family, with loved ones. And I hope that all

00:00:29.580 of the craziness around COVID and the lockdowns didn't disrupt your Christmas holiday too much

00:00:35.360 at my household. My son, who's two years old, got COVID. He came down with COVID, and we sort of did

00:00:40.680 our best to make sure that he didn't infect the baby. We have a one-year-old as well, and making

00:00:45.860 sure that we could still sort of carry on. But it was definitely a low-key Christmas. We basically

00:00:50.780 barely left the house other than just to go for little walks here and there. But it was nice as

00:00:55.280 well. We got to just really reconnect with the family and spend lots and lots of time with the

00:00:59.040 kids. I mentioned this on social media, but I deleted all of my work-related apps from my phone.

00:01:05.780 So I didn't have any sort of distractions from social media. I was able to read a lot, spend a

00:01:11.260 lot of time with the kids and with my family. So I'm very grateful for that opportunity. And we're

00:01:16.380 back now. Happy 2022 as well. And we're ready to dive back into the world of journalism, to bring you

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00:02:36.940 what we're able to do with the tremendous support that we have out there. All right, so two stories

00:02:42.740 that I want to get to on the podcast today, the first one is the big story, the big news story of

00:02:47.960 the day. Ontario announced yesterday that we are once again going into lockdown, as my colleague

00:02:52.200 Anthony Fury put it, it's two weeks to flatten the curve. Once again, two years later, and we are back

00:02:56.940 to score one, back with the exact same public policy solution that we had two years ago when we knew

00:03:01.280 nothing about COVID, and that is everybody just stay inside, lock down, we're not going to have

00:03:05.300 anything open, and we're going to try to hopefully curb the spread of COVID. So Ontario closes schools

00:03:11.220 until January 17th, bans indoor dining and cuts capacity limits. So Ontario announced sweeping new

00:03:17.140 restrictions that will see schools closed to in-person learning until at least January 17th,

00:03:22.200 a ban on indoor dining, gyms shuttered, and capacity limits put in place for retail as COVID-19 cases soar

00:03:28.340 in the province. The new restrictions, which also include slashing gathering limits to five people

00:03:33.300 indoors and 10 people outdoors, comes into place on January 5th and will be in place for 21 days,

00:03:38.600 the government announced Monday. So no, not two weeks to flatten the curve, three weeks this time.

00:03:43.400 And Ford says that it took him 30 seconds to make the decision. Here's what that looked like.

00:03:50.760 You know, this took me about 30 seconds to make a decision. It was a decisive decision. And we're going

00:03:57.320 to make sure that we go through this and be as cautious as possible and use every tool in our

00:04:04.280 toolbox to sustain not only our health care, but our economy as well.

00:04:10.040 Well, it's good to know that Premier Ford is really thinking it through, really putting a lot of thought

00:04:14.360 and energy, 30 seconds to make a decision to completely, completely destroy the economy once

00:04:19.240 again, close small businesses, people losing their job, the severity of this lockdown. And it took

00:04:25.320 the Premier 30 seconds to make the decision. What a disgrace. What a joke. While Ontario is not alone,

00:04:30.920 Quebec has also imposed new rules, imposing a curfew because, because everyone knows that COVID strikes

00:04:36.840 at night, that COVID is more dangerous at night. After 10 PM, it just becomes way more viral and you'll

00:04:41.960 get way more sick. So, so, so that's the justification apparently over in Quebec that you have to have a

00:04:46.760 curfew. Otherwise, more people get COVID, try to make sense of that. Restaurants are closing as well

00:04:53.480 and further delays to return to schools. So, Quebec did it first and British Columbia is right there

00:04:59.080 as well. We reported on this over the holiday that they banned dancing and partying on New Year's Eve

00:05:04.280 and Christmas. They put all kinds of restrictions in as well over the holidays. So, here we have indoor

00:05:08.760 organized gatherings of any size or not allowed. This includes gatherings like New Year's Eve parties,

00:05:13.480 wedding receptions, and other celebrations. Indoor events at venues can only have 50% capacity.

00:05:18.600 That includes events like concerts, sports, and movies. Bars and nightclubs are closed. Restaurants,

00:05:23.400 cafes, and pubs can only have a maximum of six people per table and must use physical distance

00:05:29.320 and barriers between table. Indoor adult exercise, fitness, and dance activities are not permitted.

00:05:35.640 So, all of this is because Omicron is here, because it spreads, because a lot of people are going to

00:05:40.840 catch COVID. And now, I just want to read you, this is the way that it is being reported in Ontario. So,

00:05:45.880 so we're supposed to believe, basically, the thinking is that Omicron spreads a lot. It's very

00:05:50.520 mild. It doesn't impact people as much in the severe ways as the previous variants, as Delta

00:05:55.960 and the previous variant. However, just a sheer number of people getting COVID will lead to more

00:06:00.520 hospitalizations. They estimate that about 1,000 people who get COVID will end up in the hospital.

00:06:05.960 And so, if all these people are catching COVID, so the thinking goes that the hospitals will soon

00:06:10.760 get overrun. But let's just pause for a moment and look at the actual numbers, because I think

00:06:14.360 the numbers are incredibly important. And they paint a picture that just shows that this is basically

00:06:18.840 just all complete hysteria. Okay. The province says that there are 1,117 people in hospital as a

00:06:25.320 result of COVID-19. Health officials reported that there were 1,300 hospitalizations with the virus on

00:06:32.200 Saturday. Okay. So we have about 1,300 people in the hospital. Of that, the ICU admissions

00:06:38.120 continue to rise. So, so 224 people are in the hospital, in the ICU, in critical care because of

00:06:44.600 COVID. A week ago, there were 168 ICU patients. The seven-day rolling average of patients in the ICU

00:06:51.240 sits just under 200. According to the Ontario Hospital Association, 112 patients with COVID are on

00:06:58.360 a ventilator. So keep those numbers in mind. Okay. We have a rolling average of about 200 people

00:07:03.800 in the ICU in Ontario. Okay. Let's, let's have some facts here. This was the ICU usage in previous

00:07:10.360 waves. And this is according to the Ontario science table, which is the authority that Doug Ford relies

00:07:15.160 on. These are the people who give us the information and basically tell us what to do. And as you know,

00:07:19.640 they're very, very pro lockdown. Okay. So these are their numbers. Okay. So the peak number of patients in

00:07:24.920 the ICU with COVID related illnesses during the first wave. So this is April 12th, 2020 was 283

00:07:31.240 patients. Next, the peak in wave two, which was January 15th, 2021, almost a year ago, there were

00:07:36.440 450 patients in the ICU, 450. Keep in mind, the rolling average right now is just under 200. And the

00:07:44.440 peak of wave three, which was April 30th, 2021 was 940 patients in the ICU. So, so, so, so, so what we're

00:07:53.080 talking about right now is a fraction of what we have been through and what we've lived through.

00:07:58.120 So the idea that we're locking down now, because we have almost 200 people on average in the ICU,

00:08:03.720 when at the peak, we had nearly a thousand people in the ICU, just begs the question,

00:08:07.960 how is the hospital capacity has gone down? Hospital capacity has gone down. We can't even

00:08:13.160 absorb as many people in the hospital and in the ICU as we could seven, eight months ago. It makes

00:08:18.520 no sense. This is just pure, pure hysteria. So we know that Omicron is more mild compared to

00:08:24.600 earlier strains. All of the data that we see out there show that it is, it spreads faster. It's,

00:08:29.720 it's more viral. However, the impact is less. This is over in the national post. Ford is inflicting

00:08:34.760 pandemic pain, but offering little gain data shows that about 1% of those infected with Omicron will

00:08:40.040 end up in the hospital. Although few of those will need the ICUs. So we're using the most blunt tool

00:08:45.160 that we have in the political toolbox, shutting down the entire economy once again. And yet we're

00:08:49.880 dealing with a strain that isn't even as deadly as before. And as I just demonstrated, the ICU

00:08:56.120 capacity is nowhere near as full as it was seven, eight months ago during the second wave or during

00:09:01.320 the third wave. So again, the politics are completely ignoring the science and the facts here. So in

00:09:06.840 preparing for the show, we're looking for ways to just quantify how much more mild the Omicron variant

00:09:12.760 is compared to previous strains, Delta and the initial strain. And you know, one of the interesting

00:09:18.600 things that you see is that the media will report a single death, a single Omicron death as news. So

00:09:24.600 here we see CTV reporting its first Omicron related death in Kingston, Ontario. Okay. We're looking at

00:09:30.680 a disease that over the past two years has killed scores and scores of Canadians, tens of thousands of

00:09:35.240 people, upwards of 20,000 killed millions of people worldwide. And yet a single death from the

00:09:40.440 Omicron variant makes the news. It is a front page story when one person dies, which goes to show you

00:09:45.880 that that is not deadly. It's not killing people in the same way that previous waves were. Of course,

00:09:51.640 we don't know if there are comorbidities or what the real cause of death in this case is. We just

00:09:55.560 know that the person who died also had COVID and it was also confirmed to be the Omicron case. Even the

00:10:00.120 Globe and Mail here is reporting as COVID-19 cases rise, Ontario studies suggest that Omicron is less

00:10:05.800 severe. So it says in the study, public health Ontario compared Omicron cases with symptoms

00:10:11.080 that emerged between November 22nd and December 17th with Delta cases and found that after adjusting

00:10:16.040 for vaccination status and region, the risk of hospitalization or death was 54% lower with

00:10:22.360 Omicron. The agency says Omicron appears to be the first dominant variant to show a decline in severity,

00:10:28.280 but warned that due to its higher transmissibility, the absolute number of hospitalizations and impact

00:10:33.560 on healthcare is likely to be significant despite reduced severity. So this is good news. This is

00:10:40.040 all a good news story. It's telling us that COVID is mutating and each mutation is getting less

00:10:45.560 deadly. That's what you want. Eventually, you just want her mentality. You want everyone to have had it 1.00

00:10:49.720 to build up the natural immunities and or build up immunities through the vaccine, if that's what you

00:10:54.840 choose to do. And that way we'll be able to fight against it and it won't be a pandemic any longer.

00:11:00.520 But rather than seeing this as a good news story, instead, it's like doom and gloom,

00:11:04.040 end of the world. So many people are getting it. We've got to lock down. We've got to shut down

00:11:07.400 the entire economy, which just shows you the mindset of the politicians and legacy media.

00:11:11.800 They just want to go, go, go, go, go and push doom and gloom until the end of time.

00:11:16.440 Meanwhile, Omicron is subsiding in South Africa. So South Africa, as you know, is where the

00:11:21.000 Omicron variant originated. That's where we first saw it. Well, the good news over there is that

00:11:25.880 Omicron has passed its peak in South Africa, causing relatively few deaths and hospitalizations,

00:11:30.920 according to authorities down there. This is in the Washington Post. It says South Africa appears

00:11:35.720 to have passed the peak of Omicron variant driven fourth coronavirus wave. The country's

00:11:40.280 cabinet announced Thursday, adding that there were only a marginal increase in fatalities,

00:11:44.120 which remained low compared to previous spikes. The number of infections fell by roughly 30%,

00:11:49.320 just under 90,000 for the week ending in December 25th, Christmas, down from some 127,000 in the

00:11:55.720 prior corresponding period. Government data show the number of hospital admissions has also been

00:12:00.840 significantly lower over the past one and a half weeks. The country's medical system has capacity

00:12:05.960 to provide routine health services. Authorities said in a statement Thursday, adding that the

00:12:10.280 government would roll back certain pandemic control measures. And this is reiterated by the

00:12:15.160 World Health Organization who said that Omicron spreads, but severe cases remain low in South

00:12:19.480 Africa. And finally, Bloomberg, this is really interesting. Omicron may cut Delta infections,

00:12:25.160 South African study shows. So if you're infected with Omicron, it could actually protect you. It

00:12:30.600 gives you strengthened immunity against other more deadly strains, including Delta. So if you get

00:12:36.600 Omicron, in some ways it's a good thing because then you're more protected. You have more antibodies.

00:12:40.760 Your body's able to fight off the original more deadly and more painful COVID strain in Delta.

00:12:46.600 So there's a couple big takeaways from all of this. I think the first one is at this point,

00:12:50.760 I think that Canadians should universally demand better from our healthcare system. Our healthcare

00:12:55.320 system is rigid, centrally planned, limited capacity, limited funding. It does not offer the

00:13:01.480 flexibility that we need to get through the pandemic. This is completely obvious to anyone paying

00:13:05.320 attention that we just don't have the flexibility needed to deal with a pandemic, to deal with surges,

00:13:10.760 in the hospitalization rates and the need for ICU capacity. Part of the reason that Canada doesn't

00:13:16.200 have a Florida where we don't have a Ron DeSantos, we don't have a politician willing to just say,

00:13:21.000 you know what, we're not going to lock down. We're not going to take these drastic measures.

00:13:24.040 And you know, Florida is being rewarded for that. A million people moved to Florida last year.

00:13:28.040 Canada doesn't have that because we don't have the healthcare system. We don't have the healthcare

00:13:31.240 system to be able to absorb these kind of shocks. I think at this point, two years into the pandemic,

00:13:36.840 it's time for more people to start talking about this. It's time to see some political courage.

00:13:40.200 It's time to see more conservatives standing up for the idea that our healthcare system needs

00:13:44.840 major reform. Now's a great time to do it. Here's what my colleague Andrew Lawton wrote

00:13:48.840 over on Twitter. He said, if after two years of COVID, the hospital system is still facing an

00:13:53.480 existential threat, perhaps we should stop listening to the people in charge of that system. That is

00:13:58.040 absolutely right. Now is the opportunity for change. And I wish that more people would champion

00:14:02.520 this cause and just say enough is enough. We don't want to have this limited rigid system anymore.

00:14:07.480 And, and the second big takeaway is that vaccine passports do not work. This whole idea that all

00:14:13.560 we have to do is get everyone vaccinated and then we'll be able to go back to life as usual,

00:14:17.560 that all of the places that you want to go to, as long as you're vaccinated and you're willing to

00:14:21.320 show the government, this piece of ID saying that you're vaccinated, you can have a normal life and,

00:14:25.960 and that everything will go back to normal. That has been proven completely wrong. Once again,

00:14:30.120 Andrew Lawton makes his point over on Twitter. He says, any government that shuts down sectors in

00:14:34.600 which a vaccine passport was previously mandated is admitting the vaccine passports did nothing.

00:14:39.800 That's absolutely correct. They don't work. They don't work because if they did work,

00:14:42.440 we wouldn't have to shut down again. This is a fatal conceit. All the politicians right now,

00:14:46.920 Doug Ford, Quebec, Justin Trudeau, by locking down, they are simply admitting that their scheme,

00:14:52.840 their unconstitutional scheme of, of having this vaccine passport, these vaccine mandates,

00:14:57.800 it doesn't work. It doesn't work because if it did work, we wouldn't be where we are. Okay,

00:15:02.120 let's talk about Justin Trudeau. Let's talk about Justin Trudeau because it seems like he's sort of

00:15:05.640 coming undone. Here is what Trudeau tweeted on New Year's Day. He said, get your first shot,

00:15:12.040 get your second shot, get your booster, get your kids vaccinated, and let's get out of this pandemic

00:15:17.000 for good. So again, reiterating this idea that all you have to do is get vaccinated,

00:15:20.600 vaccinate yourself, get jabbed over and over again, get your little kids vaccinated,

00:15:24.680 and we will get back to normal, pushing this idea that vaccinations will end the pandemic.

00:15:29.240 That's not true. It's not true because most people are vaccinated right now. And here we are

00:15:33.320 going into another wave. We know that a lot of people who have been vaccinated are still catching

00:15:38.040 COVID. They're still, I mean, how many stories have you heard of people that you know, people in your

00:15:42.280 family, people in your friend group and your colleagues at work who are vaccinated and yet still

00:15:46.760 got COVID because different strains, different mutations, you're not protected. You're not fully

00:15:50.600 protected, 100% protected. So no, this idea that getting vaccinated will get us back to normal,

00:15:56.200 it's just not true. Lauren Southern over on Twitter made a really good point. She said this,

00:15:59.960 she said, BC is over 90% vaccinated and still in lockdown. People don't trust you anymore. And then,

00:16:05.800 and then she has these two pictures. So one side is all the things that are promised to people if they

00:16:11.480 get vaccinated, saying that that proof of vaccination will allow you to do all these things. And then

00:16:16.120 followed by all the things that just got banned on December 22nd. So we can go through them. So,

00:16:20.440 so BC assured you that if you got vaccinated and had approved vaccination, it would allow you to go

00:16:25.640 to indoor ticketed events, indoor patio and dining, nightclubs and casinos, movie theaters,

00:16:30.520 gyms, pools, and recreational facilities, high intensity indoor group exercise, indoor organized

00:16:35.400 gathering, and indoor recreational classes. That of course is all not true because here we go,

00:16:41.320 BC same public health organization, December 23rd. Gatherings inside are limited to 10 guests.

00:16:47.320 All must be vaccinated. No indoor organized gatherings of any size, including parties,

00:16:53.080 all indoor venues reduced to 50% capacity, adult gym, fitness centers, dance studios,

00:16:57.880 closed bars and nightclubs closed, maximum six people per table at restaurants, all events and venues

00:17:04.600 required to scan the BC VAX code, no sports tournaments. So no, the vaccine passports

00:17:11.160 did not work and no vaccinations will not get us out of the pandemic. Absolutely untrue.

00:17:17.240 Now, second, there's this video circulating online. It's trending all over the place over the holiday.

00:17:22.040 And I'm told that it actually came from September that Trudeau said this on the campaign trail

00:17:26.440 for whatever reason, probably because the interview is in French. This just exploded online over the past

00:17:31.480 few days and there's been so much reaction to it. So I want to show you this clip of Justin Trudeau

00:17:37.080 in French and just, just coming out there angrily saying the worst of the worst possible things

00:17:42.120 about unvaccinated people, just completely unloading on them, othering them, demonizing them,

00:17:49.080 doing all the most despicable, horrible things that a prime minister should never do when talking about

00:17:53.640 his own citizens. But, but here is the unhinged clip of Justin Trudeau. And it's, there's subtitles

00:17:59.880 in the bottom in case you don't speak French, but, but here he is saying that unvaccinated people

00:18:04.600 are extremists, they don't believe in science, they are misogynistic, and they are racist.

00:18:09.080 Yes, we're going to get out of this pandemic for vaccination. And we all know people who are

00:18:15.880 trying to hesitate a little bit. We're going to try to convince them. But there's also people who are

00:18:20.440 strangely opposed to vaccination. Who are extremists. Who don't believe in science,

00:18:25.080 who are often misogynes, who are often racist. It's a small group, but who takes place.

00:18:32.600 So, doubling down on this notion that if all we have to do is get vaccinated and we will be out of

00:18:42.600 the pandemic, which is false, it's not true, saying that we should not tolerate people who are unvaccinated,

00:18:49.080 I don't know what that means. If you're not going to tolerate someone, what's the alternative? Like,

00:19:05.640 kicking them out of the country, throwing them in prison. What exactly is Trudeau saying by that? And

00:19:10.600 then again, just flat out equating the unvaccinated with the worst of the worst, saying that you must 0.98

00:19:16.520 be racist, you must hate minorities, you must hate women if you don't want to participate in an 0.93

00:19:22.760 experimental vaccine. I mean, this is just really letting the cat out of the bag. And there's been 0.98

00:19:27.960 huge reaction to it. So here is Jordan Peterson saying, our Prime Minister's careless words have become

00:19:33.480 internationally scandalous. And he links to a Great Britain news segment. I'm going to play this

00:19:38.200 segment because it's really, really quite good. Neil Oliver is a tremendous speaker and thinker.

00:19:43.800 He's just been incredibly articulate throughout the pandemic, really explaining, articulating some of

00:19:49.400 the biggest problems of our times. And here he is zeroing in on Trudeau's angry, unhinged rant,

00:19:56.200 and really dissecting some of the problems here. I'm going to play this right now.

00:19:59.320 Do you think he really believes it, Neil? Or is this part of a bullying campaign to shame

00:20:08.040 the unvaccinated into getting jabbed?

00:20:12.600 Goodness. I mean, who can really look into somebody else's heart, into somebody else's head,

00:20:17.320 and say what they really believe? But this is a man trained, you would think,

00:20:23.240 in media relations, you know, to the highest level. And he must have, you know, a good understanding of

00:20:30.760 what happens when you see things in public. You know, so it must at some level, although I would

00:20:38.040 contend that he's angry, and some of that was dripping out in his words, it would also be calculated and

00:20:44.680 tactical. And yes, it begins or advances that process of demonizing people that you don't agree with.

00:20:56.360 So there's something about the way those people are behaving, something they're doing or not doing,

00:21:01.080 that you don't like. Maybe you just don't like those people. But you need to find reasons to legitimize your

00:21:09.160 hatred of them. And so it's not enough for him to say, just that these people haven't taken a

00:21:16.840 vaccination that he would prefer that they did. He's trying to turn the majority of his population 1.00

00:21:24.680 against that group of people. And he's doing that by seeking to demonize them, by saying that they're not

00:21:30.440 just, they're not just refusing the vaccine. They also hate black people, and they hate women. And we 0.99

00:21:35.880 know it's all right to, we know it's all right to, you know, to punish people like that. You know,

00:21:41.000 so what's next for Justin Trudeau? You know, does he finally go on television and just say,

00:21:45.000 right, the time has come, let's get them. You know, he's setting people up as being lesser,

00:21:51.960 as being other, as being despicable, as being guilty of things that are, you know, that are socially

00:21:57.800 unacceptable, misogyny, racism, and to bolt those crimes onto the fact that there are people out

00:22:05.240 there who are hesitant about an experimental medical procedure. I think it's a disgrace. I

00:22:09.880 think it's borderline criminal. So that's, that's absolutely right. Sometimes it takes an outsider to

00:22:14.440 look in to be able to properly, again, articulate and dissect what is happening in his country and

00:22:19.240 what is happening with Justin Trudeau. Justin Trudeau, frankly, has become unhinged. His language,

00:22:23.640 his rhetoric, it comes across as hateful, as angry, as ineffective. That's not going to convince anyone

00:22:28.840 to get vaccinated. Calling someone a racist and saying that they're misogynistic if they don't agree with you

00:22:33.240 is the absolutely worst way to convince someone to come around to your point of view. So Trudeau is

00:22:37.720 just a lost soul at this point. He has no idea the way to lead a country and, and it's just really

00:22:43.320 despicable to hear him talking about Canadians that way. Thank you so much for tuning in. I'm

00:22:48.680 Candice Malcolm and this is The Candice Malcolm Show.

The Candice Malcolm Show - January 04, 2022

Latest lockdowns prove vaccine mandates don’t work

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