America’s 1984

I made a brief statement that Trudeau is more of a dictator than president Trump so I guess I need to clarify the details. Trudeau implemented the Emergencies Act to allow their parliament to freeze the bank accounts of Canadian citizens who donated to the Freedom Truckers protest for not wanting to take an experimental vaccine that didn’t stop you from getting Covid or spreading it.

Oh Surfdude. C'mon.

1. When comparing dictators you have to consider their body of work in its entirety, not just a slice of one issue. I don't know much about Canadian politics so I can't comment on what Trudeau did specifically, but if I remember correctly he never incited an insurrection against his own government, and then pardoned all involved; nor did he illegally unleash secret police to snatch brown people, including nannies and gardeners, off the streets and deport them to hellhole prisons overseas without a shred of due process; and I don't remember him trying to extort money from allegedly disloyal corporations, media giants and universities who refused to do his unconstitutional bidding; and I don't think he ever dispatched military troops to city streets on ginned up flimsy excuses to solve problems that don't exist. Who's the dictator now? Strike 1.

2. We have been using the SARS vaccine for many years with great effect, and COVID is in the same SARS family. As I understand it, because the two are nearly identical, all it took to develop the COVID vaccine was to swap out a small slice of DNA from the SARS vaccine and replace it with DNA from COVID. No need to reinvent the wheel here. That's why Trump, working day and night by himself in the lab in the White House basement, was able to develop it so quickly, taking full credit for himself ("I alone developed the COVID vaccine" ). And it was tested on 44,000 volunteers before it was approved, proving safe and effective, thereby saving millions of lives. Strike 2.

3. No scientist or medical professional (and no responsible politician) EVER said that the vaccine would "stop you from getting COVID". What they did say was that the vaccine would greatly improve your chances of avoiding it, and almost certainly keep you from a long hospital stay. (Unlike Trump and Fox, scientists and medical professionals deal in probabilities, not in certainties, always hedging to an extent. It's their stock in trade.) Bet Newsmax didn't mention any of that. Steerike 3! Game over!