{"id":55445,"date":"2020-10-27T08:36:31","date_gmt":"2020-10-27T13:36:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=55445"},"modified":"2020-10-27T08:36:31","modified_gmt":"2020-10-27T13:36:31","slug":"enough-conspiracy-lets-stick-to-data-and-science-to-end-the-lockdowns-part-1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=55445","title":{"rendered":"Enough conspiracy, let\u2019s stick to data and science to end the lockdowns, Part 1"},"content":{"rendered":"

Enough conspiracy, let\u2019s stick to data and science to end the lockdowns, Part 1<\/a><\/h3>\n

(Part 2 is\u00a0available here)<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n

A couple of recurring conspiracy theory themes keep being circulated to me, they are specific to Canada but I\u2019m sure these are typical across all locations.\u00a0 I find these maddening because there is plenty of factual, well sourced and scientifically verified counterfactuals to draw from when being critical of the near universal mishandling of pandemic response by national governments worldwide.<\/p>\n

For lockdown skeptics, embracing or amplifying fact-free hysterical conspiracy theories makes them look like lunatics, so they should stop doing that.<\/p>\n

Allow me to dispense with the two big Canuck-themed conspiracy theories and then inject some much needed sanity into the conversation via a\u00a0recent Triggernometry podcast<\/a>\u00a0with guest Ivor Cummins.<\/p>\n

These conspiracies are:<\/span><\/p>\n

#1) The Federal Government RFP to build \u201cinternment camps\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n

Sent to be multiple times privately. \u201cHave you heard about the interment camps?\u201d. Etc. They all refer to this actual, Canadian federal tender #6D112-202772\/A \u201cService Provider(s) for Federal Quarantine \/ Isolation sites\u201d<\/a>\u00a0which really does exist.<\/p>\n

It sounds bad, doesn\u2019t it. \u201cFederal Quarantine \/ Isolation Sites\u201d you mean like this kind of thing, nationally?<\/p>\n

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That\u2019s actually a screen grab from\u00a0Amazon\u2019s Utopia series<\/a>, which is a reboot of an earlier\u00a0BBC series by the same name<\/a>. I haven\u2019t finished watching the Amazon version, but the BBC was originally about an elite cabal\u2019s conspiracy to depopulate the planet by creating a false pandemic and then releasing a vaccine that would make people who took it, sterile. Pretty far out,\u00a0 huh?<\/p>\n

Anyhoo, back to reality and the Canadian RFP for \u201cThe Interment Camps\u201d. If you actually\u00a0read the tender<\/a>,\u00a0<\/em>you would see that the specification calls for\u00a0 bids to provide \u201cLodging for up to 1600 people spread across Canada\u201d.<\/p>\n

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\u2026click on the above link to read the rest of the article\u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Enough conspiracy, let\u2019s stick to data and science to end the lockdowns, Part 1 (Part 2 is\u00a0available here) A couple of recurring conspiracy theory themes keep being circulated to me, they are specific to Canada but I\u2019m sure these are typical across all locations.\u00a0 I find these maddening because there is plenty of factual, well […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[158,24297,379,29428,23383,30511,607],"class_list":["post-55445","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-liberty","tag-conspiracy","tag-conspiracy-theories-2","tag-government","tag-lockdowns","tag-mark-e-jeftovic","tag-out-of-the-cave","tag-pandemic"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55445","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=55445"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55445\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":55446,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55445\/revisions\/55446"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=55445"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=55445"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=55445"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}