“Some of us did tell you so at the time... and were ridiculed or ignored. Well, told ya so.”, Dr. John Robson

 

We told you so!

In a Tweet from Dr. John Robson today he stated, “Some of us did tell you so at the time... and were ridiculed or ignored. Well, told ya so.”, referring to an article written by Matthew Lau who is an Adjunct Scholar for the Fraser Institute originally published in the Toronto Sun Toronto on Sun, June 29, 2022 and republished by the Frazer Institute entitled; Politicians made horrific error closing schools during COVID

“Another schoolyear has come to an end. Eventually, there must be a full accounting of the extraordinary restrictions of economic and civil liberties that governments imposed in the past two-plus years to mitigate the pandemic. The evidence—what was justifiable, what was not—is not all in but is everywhere piling up, and one fact is becoming increasingly clear: the politicians who ordered the closing of schools, and the activists who cheered them on, made a horrific error.

The most culpable politicians in Canada are in the Ontario government, which closed schools for a cumulative 29 weeks during various stages of the pandemic—longer, as the Ontario Science Advisory Table noted, than all other provinces and most European countries. This despite the fact it was widely known since the beginning that children have a high level of immunity to the coronavirus. And that according to widely available data, including in the relatively early stages of the pandemic, that schools are not the “super-spreaders” of disease some fearmongers claimed.

In fact, a new study published in Health Affairs concludes that closing Ontario’s schools in December 2020, with some regions not reopening until February 2021, reduced the number of estimated coronavirus cases in the province by only 0.08 per cent, a minimal result that lacks statistical significance.

This is not an isolated finding. UNICEF reported in November 2020 that “data from 191 countries collected from February to September 2020 show no consistent association between school reopening status and COVID-19 infection rates” while noting that the European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control concluded that “child-to-child transmission in schools was uncommon and not the primary cause of COVID-19 in children who were infected during the time they attended school.”

In the United States, Brown University economist Emily Oster and other researchers collected data on coronavirus cases in classrooms. By September 2020 their data covered 100,000 students learning in-person; by February 2021 it covered about 12 million students, about half learning in-person. As Oster wrote a year into the pandemic, “in the early rounds of data collection, it became clear schools were not super-spreaders. This has been reinforced again and again in our data, in other data, in the lived experience of the last year.”

Similarly, authors of a working paper circulated by the National Bureau for Economic Research in February 2021 examined data from Michigan and Washington and concluded, after controlling for relevant factors, the relationship between in-person learning and increased coronavirus cases was “close to zero on average.” And a Germany study from October 2020 found schools reopening after summer break did not increase coronavirus cases.

What was the cost of school closures, which achieved essentially zero public health benefit? A massive hit to the social and educational development of children, widespread distress for parents, significant economic disruption and more.

A U.S. study found steep test score declines due to school closures, disproportionately affecting the most disadvantaged children. A survey of Ontario parents found about three-quarters believed their child fell behind in school during the pandemic. The school closures were temporary, but many of the effects—including reduced educational development—will be long-lasting.

As time passes, the evidence on the costs and benefits of coronavirus restrictions will continue to accumulate. But it’s already clear that the politicians responsible for school closures made a horrific error and they should be held to account.”

https://www.fraserinstitute.org/article/politicians-made-horrific-error-closing-schools-during-covid

And although this piece reveals the irreversible damage done to our children from closing schools it also hints at the economic damage of lockdowns. Damages which will have grave consequences on international and regional economies for decades to come. Yeah, we told ya so alright! Yes, with no pleasure whatsoever we warned you, yet few would listen to our factual assessment of state policies which were destined to fail.

Today we are witnessing skyrocketing inflation and interest rates as a result of printing money out of thin air, a global energy crisis brought on by insane green energy policies that literally contradict the laws of the conservation of matter and energy applied in concert with idiotic foreign policies. Yet the West pursued energy dependency on illiberal, authoritarian regimes to supply us with gas and oil rather than ethically mining and refining our own resources. The war in the Ukraine, the emerging Russian-China coalition, which has resulted from unworkable foreign policies, is placing the entire free world at risk of war with totalitarian powers that have leveraged our dependence on them to destabilize global hegemony in their favour. At home we have an ever-increasing centralized government featuring a bureaucratic war on the free movement of people and goods. In Holland there is even a war on the farming industry during a time of food shortages as demonstrated by the current enormous tractor protest there. The Dutch government has claimed there is too much nitrogen in the soil, the very fertilizer which drives the engine of crop production during a food shortage! Well, I could go on and on. What we are witnessing on a global scale is a level of statism which would make Hitler, Lenin, Stalin, and Mao green with envy over the coordinated global takedown of free markets and economic well-being.

 

Most often, however, it is the little things that make me pause and wonder how on earth people can be so enamoured of our corrupt political class which exists in the defiance of common sense and the Rule of Law. The small annoying incidences which make me increasingly aware of how completely deluded the “hangers-on” are who exist on the fringes of the current powerful class of moralizing elitists and therefore are dependent on their largess and march in lockstep to their ideological delusion.  

Just the other night I discovered yet another reason to detest this Godless capital city which detests constitutional limits on government and peaceful lawful protests. Anne-Siri and I went to our favourite roadhouse and took a booth. Seated in the booth next to us were two WOKE ideologues who were complaining bitterly to a sympathizing waitress about the U.S. Supreme Court's decision regarding Roe versus Wade. I have several thoughts regarding their faux moralizing hubris and ignorance.

Firstly, the overturning of Roe versus Wade places the control of abortion into the hands of each State as a recognition of State's rights guaranteed in the U.S. Constitution. It therefore does not prevent women from accessing an abortion.

Secondly, Trudeau's government has repeatedly exceeded its legal constitutional mandate to govern and is using our police as its personal STASI to enforce arbitrary dictates on Canadians. This blatant fact wasn't even on their radar which only proves how wilfully blind they were.

Thirdly, I couldn't believe the level of zeal these women expressed couched in self-righteous arrogant virtue over the right to end a human life.

As I sat next to these feminazi ghouls, I lost my appetite.

They were the same species of deluded women who scream my body my choice when murdering the unborn yet have insisted that everyone receive the mRNA inoculation by approving whole heartedly that our federal government should enforce this intrusive protocol on us in defiance of our Charter of Rights and Freedoms.

They served to make my dining experience yet another reminder of why I hate living in this Neo-Marxist city of WOKE ideologues who are far too dull witted to understand the difference between American State's rights and our abusive centralized system of governance that abhors local democracy and personal autonomy.

Worse, they didn't care to understand the law and its proper application. They just march in lockstep to the witless dolt PM of ours who had the temerity to lecture the U.S. Supreme Court how to interpret their Constitutional law while he ignores the very Charter laws his father's government repatriated to Canada!

A pox be upon this lawless generation! And yes, we told you so. When eloquent academics are dedicating their entire careers to warning us where we are headed ideologically and that government policies based on ideological possession can only result in societal ruin, we are obliged to heed their legitimate concerns!