October 15, 2020 | Virus Porn

Mr. Market wavered a little this week as the virus misbehaved. That silver-bullet vaccine has yet to surface. Europe’s going into lockdown again. You can’t eat inside a Toronto restaurant anymore. A majority of US states have rising infections. And the American president says after being exposed and sick he’s now immune, so whazza problem?

It’s month eight. We may be backsliding. This was not the plan. Winter’s coming. Anxious people this week besieged Ontario drugstores looking for a flu shot. Officials fret supplies will empty before everyone’s been poked.

Inside Canada’s only bubble, the Atlantic provinces were feeling smug and virus-free. Then on Wednesday Westjet said it’s pulling out of the region. A hundred flights a week – all pffft. Bubbles apparently have consequences. It raises the question of risk. Is trying to have zero cases of Covid worth chewing up your economy? Is there not risk in everything? Aren’t leaders elected to find a balance? How much has C-19 messed up our heads?

It gets worse.

In the past 24 hours I’ve been sent the same message multiple times. Ted, in Calgary, tipped me off first. “This is the kind of lunatic stuff being circulated among some evangelical church goers out here in the Bible belt,” he told me, after receiving it from religious relations. I asked him to investigate. He later responded: “Sounds like someone is trying to get people exercised by sowing fears and to take advantage of good people of faith.  Be wary of false prophets having no fixed address!”

Then Henry Makow got into the act, a renowned Winnipeg-based weirdo the mainstream media has labelled, “a prominent anti-Semite and conspiracy theorist.” “This leak from the inner circles of the Canadian government confirms all of our worst fears,” his email yelled. “Bizarrely they offer to forgive all debts in exchange for forfeiting all property?”

What this about?

A well-crafted piece of misinformation purporting to come from a Vancouver-based, “committee member within the Liberal Party of Canada,” who decided to blow the whistle on plans coming out of the PMO because, “it’s going to place Canadians into a dark future.”

The message is bizarre. But the ground this falls upon may be fertile. Let’s hope not.

The road map and aim was set out by the PMO and is as follows:
– Phase in secondary lock down restrictions on a rolling basis, starting with major metropolitan areas first and expanding outward. Expected by November 2020.
– Rush the acquisition of (or construction of) isolation facilities across every province and territory. Expected by December 2020.
– Daily new cases of COVID-19 will surge beyond capacity of testing, including increases in COVID related deaths following the same growth curves. Expected by end of November 2020.
– Complete and total secondary lock down (much stricter than the first and second rolling phase restrictions). Expected by end of December 2020 – early January 2021
– Reform and expansion of the unemployment program to be transitioned into the universal basic income program. Expected by Q1 2021.
– Projected COVID-19 mutation and/or co-infection with secondary virus (referred to as COVID-21) leading to a third wave with much higher mortality rate and higher rate of infection. Expected by February 2021.
– Daily new cases of COVID-21 hospitalizations and COVID-19 and COVID-21 related deaths will exceed medical care facilities capacity. Expected Q1 – Q2 2021.
– Enhanced lock down restrictions (referred to as Third Lock Down) will be implemented. Full travel restrictions will be imposed (including inter-province and inter-city). Expected Q2 2021.
– Transitioning of individuals into the universal basic income program. Expected mid Q2 2021.
– Projected supply chain break downs, inventory shortages, large economic instability. Expected late Q2 2021.
– Deployment of military personnel into major metropolitan areas as well as all major roadways to establish travel checkpoints. Restrict travel and movement. Provide logistical support to the area. Expected by Q3 2021.

As if that were not enough. This twaddle also states plans for a debt jubilee to stave off economic collapse but only if citizens renounce ownership of their properties and assets and agree to new rounds of vaccinations (seriously). The IMF would administer this under a World Debt Reset program.

Says the supposedly-leaked Liberal information: “The ones who refused to participate would be deemed a public safety risk and would be relocated into isolation facilities. Once in those facilities they would be given two options, participate in the debt forgiveness program and be released, or stay indefinitely in the isolation facility under the classification of a serious public health risk and have all their assets seized.”

There’s more. You get the drift. This speaks to the world we inhabit, where right-wing QAnon belief (celebrities and Democrats traffic in human children which are eaten for life-extending chemicals) is tolerated by the American president. It’s the worst of social media, taking advantage of the higher emotions and lower standards brought on by a global pandemic.

Now, why did I just infect you with all of this virus porn?

Because it’s over. You’re now immune!

The chopper is waiting.

Garth Turner October 15th, 2020

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