Chapter 1: Origin - part 2 of 2
Canada's Covid Tyrants - Book 1: Two Weeks -
February
Trudeau’s Liberal government continued to defend its open border policy due, in part, to Trump derangement syndrome and the progression of their dialectic. Overnight, any border protections, a typical structure of every government system since the dawn of time, were now cast as evil and racist. Even the utopian paradise of the Soviet Union believed in a strong border, to keep starving people from leaving their paradise. Due to a Western imperialist standard, refugees and immigrants are persons of colour. Therefore, being against mass immigration was racist. The root of this Woke thought is the justification that “White” Western countries colonized and extracted wealth from nations of “Colour”. Mass immigration is justified as revenge for Colonialism. Remember every action of oppressed group is justified by progressive thought, even outright evil actions like rape and murder.
On February 1st, 2020, Justin Trudeau, speaking to his anti-Trump white progressive base, said, “There is no place in our country for discrimination driven by fear or misinformation, this is not something Canadians will ever stand for.” Hajdu added on February 3rd, “Here in Canada we have very different processes in place than in the United States. For example, we do not need to call a public health emergency here because we already have the structures, the systems, and the authorities to spend appropriate dollars necessary to respond, treat and maintain our public health systems.” She went on to take aim at the conservatives “One way might be if the opposition does not sensationalize the risk to Canadians and allows Canadians to understand where they can find a wealth of information.”.23 These comments came on the heels of the Trump administration putting a mandatory quarantine for persons travelling from Hubei province to America. Oddly none of this included the already prepared Emergency Preparedness Plans.
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Trudeau was a shell of himself after the last election, the blackface scandal seemed to suck all vitality out of him. Gone was the silly hair actor hired because of his last name. Gone was the edgy socialist who had to find himself in B.C teaching as a drama teacher before accepting his birthright and ascending to become leader of the liberal party, country and world. Gone was the ascendant king that was sooooo much better than that evil Harper, did you hear about Harper? Harper that DEVIL! Like unemployment might be up but that is because of HARPER. Even if HARPER has been out of office for like 5 years. Trudeau folded after the election; he might have won but his ego was bruised by Canadians roundly rejecting him. Try as he might, Canadians were becoming wise to the racial grift. They did not appreciate the scolder-in-chief.
To demonstrate her virtue Rosie Barton of the CBC (totally non-partisan network of news) worried that “a new viral threat revives an old one: racist scapegoating.” Yet February 4th led to a complete reversal of the tide as Canada’s Special Advisory Committee on Coronavirus recommends that persons travelling from Hubei be asked to self-isolate for 14-days.24 Reality smacking them in the head, progressives dropped the ‘racism’ argument over quarantine as case numbers continued to rise and Canadians trapped in Wuhan were brought home.
This should not be construed as an argument for covid policies that were eventually implemented. Simply recognizing that if the government had taken appropriate steps to prevent entry of Covid into Canada (or other countries) it could have stopped the problem from escalating into a national pandemic. That may have worked but the flippant manner of Canadian health officials prevented this from being an option. Nor did Dr. Tam or any politician or bureaucrat break open the Emergency Preparedness Plan to mitigate economic and social harm. The strategy was, ignore the virus or you are racist. Before complete reversal to sacrifice everything to protect the holy health service. Honestly, it seems like Dr. Tam became convinced SARs-Covid-19 was identical to the original SARS virus, low transmissibility and high-ish mortality rate. Instead Covid-19 was highly transmissible with a low mortality rate. Once covid arrived most covid policies did nothing but exasperate the length of pandemic and economic hardship.
On February 7th Dr. Li Wenliang died from an infection of the Covid-19 in a Wuhan hospital. In an interview with Caixin he stated, “It’s not so important for me if I’m vindicated or not, what’s more important is that everyone knows the truth.”25 Dr. Li had returned to work and tirelessly worked treating patients after being censured by the Party. Reports of Chinese nurses and doctors being forced to work long hours with little to no safety equipment (shortage). Early reports of his death brought a swift backlash in the oppressed country. Video of apartment buildings shouting his name circulated on the internet and other signs of tribute to the doomed whistleblower. However, these early reports were contradicted by official channels claiming that Dr. Li was not dead, and the hospital was fighting to save his life. Hours later his death was officially reported. Demands were made for those that arrested him to apologize and for the national flag to be flown at half-mast. Li was survived by his wife and one child.
Xi Jinping and the CCP suffered their worst PR moment since the Tiananmen square massacre. Worse, they had a martyr that was recognizable, that planted himself beside the truth and would not budge. Unlike the famous ‘Tank Man’, Dr. Li became a Hero that could not be scrubbed from history.
The “wise” father figure of Xi was shattered as the virus and the crack-down on Dr. Li demonstrated their incompetence and fallibility. It would take time for the Party to recover and spin Dr. Li’s death as caused by “local leadership problems” to distance the Party and its leadership from the blame. This would eventually lead to crackdowns and unrest in mainland China (Wuhan specifically but not alone) which was quite unheard of previously.26
On February 19th Canada had eight cases, with seven that originated from China. It would later be revealed that between January 22 to February 18th around 58,000 travellers arrived in Canada from China. 2,030 of them came from Hubei province and only 68 were pulled aside for further assessment. Of those 68 only 3 were flagged for medical exam with the other 65 being let go with a pamphlet.27 23 Chinese Canadian doctors signed an open letter urging leaders to start implementing a 14-day quarantine for anyone travelling to Canada from a hotspot.28 The W.H.O maintained that “travel-bans” are not advised.
Dr. Margaret Harris of the W.H.O explained in April 2020 that they were slow to respond because they were worried about the economic impact that occurred during the 2003 SARS outbreak.22 However, this admission does not explain the statements by WHO director Tedros praising the CCP response “I was struck by the determination of Chinese leadership and its people to end the new coronavirus outbreak. They are suffering the most. Their lives & economy are bearing the brunt of the outbreak as they make sacrifices to contain it. China needs the world’s solidarity & support.”29 This cozy front would provide cover the consistent lying committed by the CCP regime that lied about human-to-human transmission, silenced doctors and scientists, closed domestic flights while pressuring (and calling racist) anyone that would close international flights, blamed US as origin of virus, blamed Italy as origin of the virus, blamed US again as origin of virus, refusing to allow international observers in to investigate the origin of the virus, destroying samples and research, lying about death and case totals, draconian lockdowns, seizure of Hong Kong, genocide of Uyghurs, stockpiling personal protective equipment (PPE) and sending faulty, infected or poisonous PPE to other countries.
In March, all foreign journalists were expelled from China, and this was blamed on Trump’s treatment of propaganda agents (CCP media organizations) of CCP.30 The propaganda media blamed Trump for their expulsion from China for his harsh rhetoric towards the CCP. Thereby repeating CCP propaganda to ‘own’ Trump. Keeping to the Walter Duranty journalistic tradition of covering for foreign tyrants and despots to score cheap political points.
Chapter 2: Complacency