{"id":75477,"date":"2022-08-06T03:00:39","date_gmt":"2022-08-06T07:00:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/?p=75477"},"modified":"2022-08-05T15:10:26","modified_gmt":"2022-08-05T19:10:26","slug":"follow-the-science-or-just-make-it-up-whatevs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/2022\/08\/06\/follow-the-science-or-just-make-it-up-whatevs\/","title":{"rendered":"“Follow the science” or just make it up<\/em>, whatevs"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Canadian government has squandered vast amounts of moral capital pushing “the science” to intimidate Canadians to follow their directives, but in another stop-me-if-you’ve-heard-this surprise … there was no actual science<\/em> to follow<\/a>:<\/p>\n

A year ago, the Canadian government was preparing to implement travel restrictions that made the rest of the world look sane, trapping the filthy bodies of the unvaxxed \u2014 who hadn’t received the sacrament of the mRNA injections, giving them the “freedom to be safe” \u2014 in a societal cage. Litigation followed, and plaintiffs got their hands on government communications showing that officials spent the weeks leading up to the travel ban trying (without success) to figure out a basis for implementing it. This week, the independent Canadian journalist Rupa Subramanya obtained those documents, and reported on them:<\/p>\n

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Putin Putin Putin! TRUMP! Sedition!<\/p>\n

Here, for comparison, is a highly educated policy analyst in the United States, offering his thoughtful response to critics of the mRNA injections:<\/p>\n

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This is a societal wildfire, or at least it aspires to be. We’ve trained<\/em> people to not discuss<\/em>; we’ve taught people \u2014 “liberals” and “intellectuals” \u2014 that disagreement means that someone is being a Nazi, or working for Putin.<\/p>\n