by Peter W. Dunn, PhD

          Marshal McCluhan, professor at University of Toronto, coined the expression, “The medium is the message.” It means that the medium imposes it biases on the content of a message. So if we study the structure of a means of communication, that structure will reveal what is really being communicated, which is often more important than the other, ostensible objective.

          What I want to talk about today is that the very structure of social distancing and masking creates isolation, hatred and alienation. It is true that many people believe that social-distancing message is (1) safety from a deadly virus; (2) love and concern for my neighbor, my family, and my friends (“I wear a mask for you, you wear a mask for me”); (3) protection of the most vulnerable. Thus, safety, love and concern, and protection is what we think we are saying with COVID 19 measures.

          But I cannot love you without being with you. The nature of love requires presence. I can say, “I love you”, but if I never want to see you, be close to you, touch you, hug you and kiss you, then I show by my actions that I actually hate you. Thus, there is a Cameroonian expression, “Love has hands and feet.” The Bible puts it this way, “Dear children, let us not love with words or speech but with actions and in truth.”

          Therefore, I want to present six other key terms that will reveal the true message of COVID 19 measures—and these messages are locked into the very structure of the measures themselves—and yes, they are related to the isolation, hatred, and alienation that are created by the very structure of creating social distance. In other words, social distance cannot do what proximity and presence does. Proximity and presence are the structure of love and concern. But social distancing is the structure of some very bad trends:

Elitism

          The first real effect of COVID 19 measures is elitism. COVID 19 has been a pretext for implementing vast changes to our lives that suit the agendas of powerful people who seek to gain a fortune or to put themselves in positions of privilege. Small businesses are in lockdown because they are deemed “non-essential” but the big corporations like Costco, Walmart, and Amazon continue to thrive in this environment. COVID 19 creates an elite corporate structure by leaving these businesses open while closing down the little guy. In addition, new billionaires, especially in the vaccine and COVID 19 testing industry have been created. They take huge bonuses and thus make it look like the profit levels of their companies are at a reasonable level (and they don’t have to pay these bonuses out in dividends to retail investors in their company).

          Politicians accept private transport to secret islands against ethics rules. Billionaires and politicians are invited to private islands for the enjoyment of young girls not the age of consent. The elite fly in private jets and vacation on private islands and private yachts. They don’t want to reduce their prestige or privilege, but they want to stop you from leaving your house, from flying to a vacation destination, taking a cruise, or visiting an island paradise. And they don’t care how many people they kill to implement this agenda.

          Elitism also means that there are two standards of lockdown enforcement. Here in Ontario in 2020, there were threats of fines against Christians and Jews of up to $1 million and three years in jail for celebrating Easter or Passover (see memo below), but there was no fine for Doug Ford for having a 2020 Mother’s Day party at his own home in violation of the rules that he had imposed on the rest of Ontario. It is thus a hypocritical elitism. Protestors get fines for exercising their Charter rights, but Doug Ford gets off scot-free.

          Another kind of elitism is the attitude expressed by some that the vaccinated will have more privileges, more donuts, more right to travel or attend Leafs’ hockey matches, and even more lottery tickets. I saw an odious woman at ca.nextdoor.com taunt her vaccine hesitant neighbor this way, “…soon I’ll be free and the unvaccinated will be stuck at home. Have fun.  I’m already, finally, planning my first post Covid vacation. You won’t be able to leave the country because no one will let you in.”

Detention

          Detention is an obvious message of the medium of social distancing. People have been locked into their homes via stay-at-home orders from Doug Ford. He has been our babysitter telling us whether we can leave our homes and for what reasons. Actually he is our prison warden. We have been detained in our homes  without habeas corpus. Normally, we would have a right when detained to have a habeas corpus hearing, where the government would have to prove its case that we need to be detained, that somehow each of us a threat to the society and therefore we need to be imprisoned. But to my knowledge there have been zero habeas corpus hearings. And that is because it would be quite an easy matter to show in court that healthy people are not a threat to anyone’s health. The COVID 19 canard that asymptomatic people can be a threat is the biggest lie of the “pandemic”, what immunologist Prof. Beda Stadler of University of Bern called “the crowning of stupidity”.

          Meanwhile people have suffered isolation during the detention. Children in our area are six times more likely to experience suicidal ideation, while our elderly deteriorate in their homes—their families have lost the right to visit them. It is utter cruelty both to the elderly and to their families. And that is the real message of social distancing—not love and concern.

Bullying

          Bullying has been a huge part of the message of COVID 19. Because this virus is so deadly that people are literally dropping dead on the streets before our very eyes NOT. Anyone who dissents from the COVID 19 measures has been bullied: By our premier who has called us yahoos; even our Queen has called those who won’t get vaccinated, “selfish”. On social media, all dissent has been stifled and even censored. Why do I stand on the street corner and shout this message? Because at Nextdoor.com I am currently serving 31 day suspension for COVID 19 heresy. On Nextdoor and on Facebook, my neighbors have gaslighted me, have called me stupid and uneducated (despite my PhD), and belittle me and anyone else that doesn’t tow the line.

          The York Regional Police have also bullied me with illegal fines to keep me from exercising my Charter Freedoms. They stand there hiding behind their masks and tell me that they will fine me if I don’t go home. So yeah, I’ve backed down and gone home to avoid fines and allowed myself to be bullied. In Canada, police have broken federal law (176) to arrest pastors in their churches or in the middle of busy roads. They have fined people for doing ordinary things like exercise. They have been Doug Ford’s instruments of bullying in Ontario.

          Vaccine apologists have bullied people into getting vaccines in violation of every principle of bioethics. I’ve heard of children telling their aged parents that they may not even see their grandchildren, if they, the parents don’t get vaccinated. There is no informed consent in Canada anymore. Here in the province of Ontario, Doug Ford is literally bribing us with our own freedom, because he has tied the end of lockdown with vaccination rates. But Doug Ford portrays himself as caring. In fact, he is the biggest human rights violator and bully in Ontario.

          Masks zealots are also bullies. While the province of Ontario and each region have carved out mask exemption for people based on medical conditions and based on the human rights code, local stores and busybodies continue to bully people with exemptions, insisting against the very law that they must wear masks. I myself have been bullied in this regard. I walked into Hillcrest Mall, and busybody mask zealot angrily let me know that I was going to “get it” for not wearing a mask. They are motivated by fear. They think that I am going to infect them. Even my dentist and my rheumatologist won’t let me enter their offices without a mask. They don’t care about my health—they are motivated by fear and hatred. Indeed, some of my neighbors have wished COVID 19 upon those who don’t wear masks. I’ve seen it on social media. This is obviously not the message of love and concern but of fear and hatred.

Atheism

          Atheism is a part of the message of COVID 19 because churches and synagogues and temples have been ordered to stop meeting or have been reduced to congregations of a fraction of capacity. This is a basic message: While physical food is deemed essential, spiritual food is not. While alcohol is an essential service, religious services are not. While marijuana is an essential high, getting high on God’s presence with the rest of his people is not. In other words, COVID 19 measures are the wet dream of radical atheists who want to destroy religion in Canada.

Communism

          Another real message of COVID 19 measures is communism. Putting millions of Canadians out of work via lockdown of non-essential jobs and giving them instead CERB to prevent them from starving to death, has been the message of communism. Instead of individuals providing for their own needs, we have now a de facto communist state whereby the government provides a living to every person that they have intentional made unemployed. But as we have seen from communist experiments in the last century, it will eventually lead to utter destitution of the population because to pay for this communism, the Bank of Canada is diluting our fiat currency via quantitative easing (i.e., money printing).

Fear (or the New Xenophobia)

          Fear or what I call the New Xenophobia is the most important real message of COVID 19. And this fear is communicated via social distancing and masks most effectively. Fear expresses itself in racism: people of Asian race have been targets of hatred—Go back to China, they have been told. In China, they can’t tell themselves to go back to China, and so they have blamed COVID 19 on Africans, many of whom have fled to escape the scapegoating.

          I too have been victim of bullying. While people bully me on social media, they call me stupid. I am an Asian person with a PhD from Cambridge, and some white people are calling me brainless, stupid and uneducated. What conclusion can I reach except that they hate me also because I am of Korean race? When hatred is the message, racism becomes an integral part of it.

          But we Canadians consider ourselves enlightened and so we frown upon racism. But as we distance ourselves from everyone except possibly the members of our own household (and even after positive test we are supposed to shun them as well), we are demonstrating hatred for everyone. Social distancing is an extreme form of apartheid. It’s not putting some groups into shanty towns and keeping them segregated, but the segregation of everyone from everyone else. I hide behind my mask because I am afraid of you and you project your fear of me by your mask and by your stepping aside while I walk by you, as though I am some sort of untouchable, pariah, or leper. Some Christians even think that wearing masks and social distancing is an expression of love. But Jesus touched the leper. He didn’t shun the sick but laid his hands on them. So we are not following the example of Jesus when we shun the sick; nor did Jesus shun the healthy. We are giving into the COVID 19 narrative, that everyone is a threat to me, and I am a threat to everyone. This is why I call it the New Xenophobia. Instead of just hating foreigners or people of a certain race or colour, I now have the right to hate everyone, including my own neighbor. While the Torah instructs us, “Love they neighbor as thyself”, the COVID 19 narrative says “Thou shalt hate and shun all people including thy neighbors, because they could kill thee.”

Conclusion:

          So the medium is the message. The medium of social distancing, masks and lockdowns by its very structure sends a strong message of isolation, hatred, and alienation. And this is ultimately destructive of our society and culture and leads to bullying and poverty. It is not a wise message as our Torah and Bible texts would instruct us to love one another, to show kindness and not to be afraid of one another. But the message of COVID 19 lockdown is one of pure hatred and disgust with our neighbor. We must stop this nonsense before our children are destroyed by it.

[This speech was presented at the anti-lockdown protest in Vaughan at Bathurst and Rutherford, June 6, 2021]

This memo was sent out to Jews in my area and it implies that a $1,000,000 and 3 years in jail could result from having more than five people at their house at Passover. A similar message was sent to Christians before the Easter holiday:

In the COVID 19 pandemic, governments have encouraged snitches, busybodies, Yentas, gossips, Karens (my apology to anyone named Karen).

This is perhaps the basest of destructive personalities in any country–they destroy the cohesiveness of a society all while believing themselves to be heroes who are saving lives. They are probably most often unhappy people who never got much respect for their pitiful accomplishments, but now they can feel themselves superior to others because the government and the media have empowered them.

I have a friend from Ukraine that said that snitches are frowned upon there because if you snitched on someone they would disappear. Snitches thus cause authorities to pounce on their neighbors–and this is bad because in tyrannical societies, innocent behaviour becomes criminal. Thus, snitches aid the government to tyrannize their neighbors.

Being a snitch is the opposite of the Torah command, “Love your neighbor as yourself.”

by Peter W. Dunn, PhD

Since the beginning of the “pandemic”, I’ve been writing my responses on Facebook and on my blog. I’ve concluded that it isn’t really a pandemic but a “pandemic”. I have examined this “pandemic” from the outset, and I realized from the data coming from the Diamond Princes, that this so-called “pandemic” wasn’t going to be as dangerous as people were claiming. The Diamond Princess still to this day, had a higher positive test rate than any country in the world, per capita. It arguably represented a worst case scenario and should have guided public policy. Diamond Princess had population of 3711 people; 13 deaths; 712 cases.  None of the ship’s crew of younger healthy people died. Only 13 passengers died. What the Diamond Princess meant was that about 80% of people who would be exposed to the virus would have natural immunity and didn’t even test positive, and only 3.5 people of 1000 died, and these were all elderly tourists. COVID 19 did not impress me. There was never any need to lockdown Ontario. All that was needed, was that we protect the most vulnerable people in our population and Doug Ford failed to do this, as most of the deaths in Ontario in 2020 took place in long term care facilities. Later we learned that those people didn’t die of COVID 19 but rather of neglect and dehydration. But no revision of our COVID 19 death stats has ever taken place.

          Thus, the “pandemic” is much ado about nothing. Take the example of the Concord Food Centre “outbreak” that York Region Public Health announced this week, but 21 of 23 cases among employees had already been completely resolved. So we are talking about 2 cases that were still on going. Yentas in our neighborhood are crying out that Concord Food should have been shut down. But what for? The “outbreak” is almost over, and not a single customer has been found to have gotten ill as a result. So on social media, hundreds of self-appointed health inspectors are trying to destroy Concord Food because they saw a young person not wear a mask properly or some other violation. But had they ever thought what it would cost our community to shut down yet another business, and employer of young people? People don’t see the unintended consequences. I can think of a few things would have happened if York health had closed Concord: (1) hundreds of thousands of dollars of food would go to waste; (2) Other stores in our area would have to pick up the slack and that would increase wait times to get in. And standing outside is also arguably unhealthy for some people. But my grandfather died due to being left in the cold for over an hour when he was 90.

My Facebook Predictions regarding Lockdown
          I also made other predictions on Facebook:

• The better that lockdowns work, the longer they must last. That prediction has come true, because our health authorities’ dire predictions of death have been averted, and our leaders claim that we can thank the lockdowns (post hoc ergo propter hoc fallacy). What was 15 days to flatten the curve has become two years to flatten everything.
• The longer lockdowns last the probability that they would kill more people than COVID 19 would approach 100%. This too is true, because while COVID 19 kills primarily the elderly who have lived out their lives, suicides and overdose and domestic murders kill people are leading killers of young people. Do we need to talk about years of life lost?
  
  “Economics Professor Douglas W. Allen, from Simon Fraser University in Canada looked at the effect of loss of employment, loss of education, increased mental health problems, increased domestic violence risk and lost opportunities for healthcare… After comparing regions with and without lockdowns around the world, and after counting the negative effects of lockdown on public health, the economist has calculated that for every year of life lockdowns has saved, it has caused the loss of 282 years of life.”
  
• Inflation: There has been a 26% increase in real estate prices in the GTA as a leading indicator of inflation, as excess liquidity from quantitative easing gets poured into the housing market. Food prices are getting out of hand. People are noticing this. We are entering the kind of inflation that normally is seen in Banana Republics.
• Unemployment: Canada suffered record unemployment as a result of lockdowns.
• Business bankruptcies. Thousands upon thousands of businesses that were shut down during Doug Ford’s lockdowns will never reopen. Hardest hit: probably restaurants and travel agencies.
• Suicides: I saw on Facebook a person working at a psychology clinic here in Thornhill that there are six times as many requests for help from children who are thinking about suicide, and their case load is so heavy that that it takes a year now to get an appointment.
  Or how about this open letter from Canadian pediatricians dated May 20, 2021:
  “We are witnessing a crisis in children’s mental health with a dramatic increase in utilization of acute mental health services. Schools play an essential role in the recovery process. In‐person school provides students with routine and structure, accountability, socialization and recognition of abuse and neglect. For many children, school is where they receive services and supports to meet developmental milestones. In‐person attendance is linked to important long‐term health and well‐ being outcomes and the benefits are particularly apparent in those who are marginalized or have disappeared from the school system.”
• People will be told they have to get vaccinated in order to get their freedom back, and they will beg for it.
  But these vaccines aren’t needed, except perhaps for certain people with weak immune systems, and then the vaccine will be deadly, harmful or ineffectual for those people.
• Doug Ford will lose the next election because he’s stabbed his electoral base in the back. But unlike the other predictions, this will not be a catastrophe, but a relief as Ontario’s self appointed babysitter will be sent back to private life. But what comes after him will also be a disaster if our Freedom Movement doesn’t gain traction.

I felt during those early days of lockdown, that what we needed were mass demonstrations similar to the Raptors parade when our basketball team won the NBA Championship. But alas, we are people who prefer bread and circuses to freedom.

I am here to protest not because I myself have been inconvenienced. That’s true. My rights are daily destroyed by lockdowns and stay at home orders. But I could likely cope for this for years. I am going to fight, not for myself, but for those whose lives have been utterly destroyed.

I’ve since revised Hanlon’s Razor, you know, the saying, “One should never attribute to malice what can be explained by incompetence.” But Doug Ford’s incompetence has been persistent (16 months?) and it has been willful. He had to know that lockdowns would kill people. Maybe he thought that he could save some grannies but he had to know that lockdowns would kill young people and business owners.  So I’ve changed Hanlon’s Razor: Call it Hanlon’s Razor for Covid 19:

“Persistent and willful incompetence is malicious.”

[This is the written form of the speech I delivered at the anti-lockdown protest in Vaughan, Ontario, May 30, 2021]

Please join us every week here at Bathurst and Rutherford to protest for your freedom. Every week until Doug Ford is gone.

By Peter W. Dunn, PhD

(Written form of the speech delivered at anti-lockdown protest at Bathurst and Rutherford, Thornhill, Ontario, May 23, 2021)

My name is Peter Dunn. I want to tell you why I am protesting despite frequent warnings that my exercise of a fundamental Charter right is a violation of the Reopening of Ontario Act. Yes, the York Regional Police have tried to bully us to stop protesting, and indeed, they have succeeded in getting me to retreat 3 out of the last four protests.

I came to Canada for the first time in 1986 and studied at Regent College in Vancouver. I did two master’s degrees, and I went on to do a PhD at the University of Cambridge, England (1996). My main area of competence is the reading and interpretation of ancient texts; and so today, I will interpret the Reopening Ontario Act for you and for the police. I am not a lawyer, but I have confidence in my skills as an interpreter of the intent of texts, an art we call in our field, “exegesis”.

I have been living in Canada continuously since 1995 and in 2011 I became a Canadian citizen. During that time, I had to read the Charter of Rights and Freedoms to pass an exam to qualify to take an oath of citizenship. Since 2011, I’ve been a law-abiding citizen. I pay my taxes; I don’t do violence against my neighbors; I haven’t even gotten so much as a speeding ticket since becoming a citizen. Moreover, I have a history of co-operation with the York Regional Police.

So then on March 17, 2020, Doug Ford announced the first lockdown. I immediately began to decry on Facebook that this lockdown was a severe violation of human rights, including the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms .

Finally, on 25 April, a protest took place here at Bathurst and Rutherford, and this is my neighborhood, and so I participated. The York Regional Police were out talking to protestors, but they handed out no tickets. Then at the May 2 protest, the police told the protestors that they would be handing out tickets after a 15 minute warning to disperse. Then York Regional police handed out tickets to select individuals and the majority went home by 1:30. The third week of this protest (May 9) the police told David Menzies of Rebel News that the reason why people don’t have a Charter Right to protest is because of section 1 of the Charter Rights and Freedom:  “The Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms guarantees the rights and freedoms set out in it subject only to such reasonable limits prescribed by law as can be demonstrably justified in a free and democratic society.”

The police didn’t get around to giving me a ticket and I went home after an hour and half. Last week however I arrived a little late, around 12:45, and the police immediately approach me. Maybe they recognized me. They then told me that they were warning everyone and that we had only 15 minutes before they would start writing me a ticket. At that point, another officer said I had the right to protest, provided I went to the corner and protested by myself.

But I want to examine the York Regional Police’s claim that because of section 1 of the Charter of Rights and Freedoms, we know longer have section 2 rights. This claim doesn’t pass my first test, which is the bullshit test. Everything I’ve learned to this point in Canada, and everything I’d ever seen in this regard–e.g., allowing for example BLM protestors to carry on without tickets, and even just a couple weeks ago, Palestinian protestors in downtown Toronto—no tickets; everything told me that I still had Charter Rights, that the police with guns couldn’t so easily annul my rights on the mere pretext of the Reopening of Ontario Act.

The Reopening of Ontario Act depends on Emergency Measures and Civil Protection Act (EMCPA) for its authority to invoke an emergency. What it actually does is give Doug Ford the unilateral and dictatorial right to call an emergency and to reinstate lockdown and stay at home orders that were declared under the EMCPA. So thus, the EMCPA, which is multiple times invoked in the Reopening Act, remains valid regarding the emergency measures that are thereby declared. And here is the explicit wording of the EMCPA regarding the Charter of Rights and Freedoms:  “The purpose of making orders under this section is to promote the public good by protecting the health, safety and welfare of the people of Ontario in times of declared emergencies in a manner that is subject to the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms.“

The York Regional cops tell me that I no longer have charter rights due to the Reopening Act limiting via section 1 our section 2 rights in the Charter. However, neither the Reopening Ontario Act nor the EMCPA ever appeal to section 1 nor say that its intention is to limit Charter Rights due to a declared emergency. The English language is clear in terms of what the words, “subject to” mean. It means “dependent or conditional upon”. I.e., the Charter Rights are deemed to be higher law than Doug Ford’s emergency decrees.

So in fact, the EMPCA, and thus also the Reopening Ontario Act which invokes the EMCPA for its emergency orders, says the exact opposite of what these officers claim. Rather than take away our Charter rights, the law says explicitly that any emergency measures must be subject to these rights.

Despite this clear wording of the EMCPA, our battle remains uphill. A knowledgeable person reacted to this claim of mine  in this way:  “The real problem with our Charter is that the judges have too much power due to s. 1. Whether the legislation specifically mentions s. 1 or not, s. 1 can be used to limit our constitutional freedoms anytime the judges rule that it is “demonstrably justified in a free and democratic society.” But who makes that determination? Unaccountable, unelected judges. But whatever the law is, it’s up to the police to enforce it. If the police don’t enforce it, then it doesn’t matter what the law is. So in a way, the police do hold the real power.”

Now I also want to discuss the history of Federal Emergencies Act which is also the background story of the EMPCA. The Canadian government on it’s website (here): The federal Emergencies Act replaces the War Measures Act which has been criticized because it resulted in human-rights atrocities, especially the confiscation of property and the internment of the Canadian residents of Japanese ancestry during WW2. Thus, the Charter of Rights and Freedoms were created and now our existing emergency laws are explicitly said to be “subject to” the Charter, not the other way around.

And what do we have today? Atrocities. People are losing their businesses; children are kept in states of captivity; all of us under house arrest without habeas corpus. I urge you, the York Regional Police, that you should be careful, lest you find yourselves on the wrong side of history.

So with this speech, I urge the police to respect the EMCPA and our fundamental Charter rights and back off and let us do our protest. If you don’t, then you, the police, not COVID 19, not Justin Trudeau, not even Doug Ford, but you, the guys with the guns, have plunged our province into a Totalitarian Police State. I urge you, therefore, honour your oath of service, and respect our Charter rights. Thank you.


    

All cause mortality in the USA is not up.

CDC reports 2,452,180 all cause deaths as of November 12. Assuming that the death rate remains stable, this implies (2,452,180/45*52=) 2.83 million deaths for 2020.

Here are the death counts from previous years:

2017: 2,813,503

2018: 2,839,205

So it appears that 2.8 million people die in the USA every year and that nothing has changed this year. Count is provisional, but bear in mind that as we approach the end of year (7 weeks away now), the pictures becomes clearer and clearer.

COVID 19 is a false pandemic.