Mike's Daily Comment
Current lockdown policies are producing devastating effects on short and long-term public health. The results (to name a few) include lower childhood vaccination rates, worsening cardiovascular disease outcomes, fewer cancer screenings and deteriorating mental health – leading to greater excess mortality in years to come, with the working class and younger members of society carrying the heaviest burden. Keeping students out of school is a grave injustice.
Keeping these measures in place until a vaccine is available will cause irreparable damage, with the underprivileged disproportionately harmed.
Sunetra Gupta, Epidemiologist, Oxford University
Martin Kulldorff, Epidemiologist, Harvard
Jay Bhattacharya, Epidemiologist, Stanford
Unherd.com
“If they can get you asking the wrong questions, they don’t have to worry about answers.” Even better when there are no questions at all.
We may need climate lockdowns to halt climate change. That might mean governments limiting private vehicle use, banning consumption of red meat, etc. We must do capitalism differently to avoid that. (ed. note: i.e. socialism)
~Mariana Mazzucato, professor in the economics of innovation and public value at University College London
What “diversity” never means is diversity of thought and opinion, for deviations from the far-left narratives are punished, those taking a critical view of identity politics are “cancelled,” marginalized and fired. Universities have entirely abandoned academic values in favor of so-called “social justice” identity politics.
~Philip Carl Salzman, Emeritus Professor of Anthropology at McGill University, Senior Fellow at the Frontier Centre for Public Policy, Fellow at the Middle East Forum, and a Director of Scholars for Peace in the Middle East.






Shoe-in for the Hall of Fame of Bad Ideas
Posted by Michael Campbell
on Wednesday, 7 October 2020 6:40
The Alberta Federation of Labour has a plan to increase unemployment and reduce government revenues simply because some people don’t share their political views.