COVID found many victims amongst elderly long-term care “residents” so many so it virtually culled these “residents”. The worst hit were in privately run senior’s residences and long-term care facilities. The profit motive and proper senior’s care were not a good fit. As more of these facilities were inspected a whole raft of shocking storiesContinue reading ““Virus # 26 Director’s Cut : Chapter 20 Lessons Learnt from the COVIDs: Sick Seniors Get Slammed in Long Term Care””
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“Virus # 26 Director’s Cut” : Chapter 18 “Lessons Learnt from the COVIDs: Collateral Damages : The Death of Employment”
The closures of economies led to the wiping out of smaller businesses. The effect was mass unemployment and the stranglehold by big box businesses. This created enormous anxiety amongst the working population in Western countries that were already living on the edge with a huge debt to income ratio. Yes there were governmental programs thatContinue reading ““Virus # 26 Director’s Cut” : Chapter 18 “Lessons Learnt from the COVIDs: Collateral Damages : The Death of Employment””
“Virus # 26 Director’s Cut: Chapter 16 “Lessons Learnt from the COVIDs; Fuck the Vulnerable Movement”
Initially COVID-19 witnessed a polite population where the only sacrifice was finding toilet paper, surgical masks, hand sanitizer, yeast and bottled water then hiding out at home. Hospital beds just managed to cope with the seriously ill. Now the seriously ill and the fatalities were highly skewed towards the elderly in scandalously filthy and incompetentlyContinue reading ““Virus # 26 Director’s Cut: Chapter 16 “Lessons Learnt from the COVIDs; Fuck the Vulnerable Movement””
“Virus # 26” : Director’s Cut : Chapter 15 “Lessons Learnt from the COVIDs: Obedience and Fear”
One of the best ways to control a population is through fear and it is even better when it involves their life. Stalin had executions and Siberia. Mao and Pol Pot had re-education camps. Canada had the residential school system. In this case the cause of your death if you were not obedient was soldContinue reading ““Virus # 26” : Director’s Cut : Chapter 15 “Lessons Learnt from the COVIDs: Obedience and Fear””
“Virus # 26″ Director’s Cut: Chapter 13:”Lessons Learnt from the COVIDs: the Politicos”
The politicos at first glance seemed to be managing the COVID outbreak. Sadly the inability of the medical systems to handle the initial wave was a result of continual cuts made to the medical systems by the politicos. That meant less PPE and less front-line medical workers, no vaccine or anti virals and in effectContinue reading ““Virus # 26″ Director’s Cut: Chapter 13:”Lessons Learnt from the COVIDs: the Politicos””
Virus # 26 Director’s Cut: Chapter 8 ” Lessons Learnt from the COVIDs; People Were Treated Like Toddlers”
Now if you have raised children when they get to the terrible twos and have started their growth into toddlerdom you find constant repetition is necessary to correct their behaviour. Keep drilling the message in. In political terms it amounts to parental dictatorship. From the Canadian perspective the COVIDs exposed provincial and federal governments asContinue reading “Virus # 26 Director’s Cut: Chapter 8 ” Lessons Learnt from the COVIDs; People Were Treated Like Toddlers””
Virus # 26: Director’s Cut:” Chapter 7 “Was Reopening Premature?”
From a traditional medical perspective re-opening the economy repeatedly during the COVIDs was an error of huge magnitude. But the medico perspective coming from upper middle-class physicians far removed from the economic realities of the working class and small business owners not surprisingly failed to account for job losses caused by the closure of businessesContinue reading “Virus # 26: Director’s Cut:” Chapter 7 “Was Reopening Premature?””
Virus # 26 Director’s Cut : Chapter 5 “Born in Pig Shit: Welcome to COVID-19 Plus”
COVID-19 Plus appeared in 2025. It was thought to have originated near a pork processing plant in the state of Virginia so it can be honestly said to be an American virus. It was not in the slaughterhouse that it was born but rather in a pork feces holding tank adjacent to a huge porkContinue reading “Virus # 26 Director’s Cut : Chapter 5 “Born in Pig Shit: Welcome to COVID-19 Plus””
Virus # 26”: Chapter 4 Director’s Version (A Serialized Novel by Robert K. Stephen)
Chapter 4 “Some of the Path of Destruction of COVID-19” So you now know it originated from Wuhan, China with the co-operation either knowingly or innocently with the American presidential administration. We know that it gave China a relatively tame go but ravaged Italy and Spain initially and gradually took a severe death toll ofContinue reading “Virus # 26”: Chapter 4 Director’s Version (A Serialized Novel by Robert K. Stephen)”
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