Intellectuals for Sale
In the first week of March 2020, as news of a virus was everywhere, intellectuals associated with the Yale University school of public health penned a letter expressing the conventional wisdom of the moment: we should not lock down. That harms the poor and vulnerable populations. Travel restrictions achieve nothing.
Quarantine, if it is deployed at all, said the letter, should only be for the very sick and only in the interest of the health of the community. Government should never abuse its powers but instead find “the least restrictive measure” that still protects community health.
The letter writers gathered signatures. They found 800 others in their profession to sign it. This was an important document: it signaled that a China-style lockdown would not be tolerated here. Of course the whole text was discarded by governments at all levels everywhere in the world.
Reading it now, we will find that it makes mostly the same points as the Great Barrington Declaration that came out seven months la...
https://brownstone.org/articles/intellectuals-for-sale/
Ottawa police lawyer moves to dismiss support for embattled detective Helen Grus
OPS lawyer Jessica Barrow argued the disciplinary tribunal should discount dozens of supportive letters, including one containing evidence health officials knew novel COVID vaccines were causing harm
https://www.junonews.com/p/ottawa-police-lawyer-moves-to-dismiss
APP Alberta independence referendum petition issued
Elections Alberta has issued a petition to the Alberta Prosperity Project calling for a referendum on Alberta's independence.
Elections Alberta has issued a petition on Alberta independence to the Alberta Prosperity Project, the office announced on Friday.
Albertans will have the opportunity to sign a petition calling on the province to hold a referendum asking, "Do you agree that the Province of Alberta should cease to be a part of Canada to become an independent state?"
The petition, applied for by Mitch Sylvestre, the CEO of the APP, will need to secure 177,732 verified signatures to trigger a referendum.
"This is a huge day for every Albertan who believes in Faith, Family, Freedom and in Alberta’s right to chart its own course," wrote Sylvestre in a message after his petition question was approved in December.
"We have cleared the first major legal hurdle. Now the real work begins – and we need every patriotic Albertan to stand with us."
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