Fire Employees for their Health Choices
or the Battle of the University of Waterloo
In Book 4 of the Georgics Vergil describes a plague, which devastates a honey bee community. The cure for the plague is not social distancing, hive lockdowns, masks, vaccines, or vaccine passports. Instead, Vergil describes the rites of the Bugonia, which results in the birth of a new bee community:
Build a house, ten cubits high, with all the sides of equal dimensions, with one door, and four windows, one on each side; put an ox into it, thirty months old, very fat and fleshy; let a number of young men kill him by beating him violently with clubs, so as to mangle both flesh and bones, but taking care not to shed any blood; let all the orifices, mouth, eyes, nose etc. be stopped up with clean and fine linen, impregnated with pitch; let a quantity of thyme be strewed under the reclining animal, and then let windows and doors be closed and covered with a thick coating of clay, to prevent the access of air or wind. After three weeks have passed, let the house be opened, and let light and fresh air get access to it, except from the side from which the wind blows strongest. Eleven days afterwards, you will find the house full of bees, hanging together in clusters, and nothing left of the ox but horns, bones and hair.
In spite of centuries of thinkers and authors accepting Vergil’s claim that ritualized, rotting ox’s flesh can spawn a colony of bees, there is no doubt that this is a scientific impossibility. The most literal minded of us attempt to rationalize the Bugonia and suggest that, while bees are not spawned from decaying flesh, a whole slew of “bee-mimics” could certainly flourish in rotting flesh, and they look enough like a Honey Bee that one might make a reasonable mistake in identification.
However, poetry is not science.
Whether or not Vergil believed that the Bugonia was ritually effective is irrelevant. Vergil is making a broader claim about cultural rejuvenation and regeneration in the face of cataclysmic social collapse. The acts of poetry and art are vital for this regeneration as it exposes the limits of human knowledge and human truth.
We now live in the age of $cientism and Post-Modern Truth-Making.
Human knowledge and human truth have become so trite and quaint.
That so many authors after Vergil read the Bugonia literally should cause us pause. Vergil was more than a poet, he was an authority. Vergil was infallible. The Bugonia must work because Vergil wrote that it worked. David Wootton in The Invention of Science makes a similar claim about Medieval anatomists whose findings did not align with the medical writer Galen (130-200 CE):
Medieval anatomists had frequently lectured by reading Galen aloud and commenting on his text, while assistants opened up the body: the body was intended to illustrate what Galen said, not to correct him when he was wrong. But, even when medieval anatomists had performed their own dissections, what they found (or thought they had found) was what Galen had told them to find. Mondino de Liuzzi (1270–1326), for example, the author of the first medieval textbook on how to perform a dissection, had plenty of hands-on experience, but he still found at the base of the human brain the rete mirabile (miraculous network) of blood vessels that Galen claimed was there, despite the fact that it isn’t there at all – it is only present in ungulates. Leonardo carried out dissections, but he still thought he found a channel linking the male penis to the spinal cord and so to the brain: down it he believed flowed material which became part of the ejaculate and was essential for generation. The first anatomist regularly to disagree with Galen on the basis of direct experience was Jacopo Berengario da Carpi, whose Anatomy was published in 1535, only a few years before Vesalius’s Fabric.43 Only in a culture where the authority of the great classical authors such as Ptolemy and Galen had begun to be undermined could a project like Vesalius’s Fabric be undertaken. In this respect the coincidence in date between the great works of Copernicus and Vesalius points to an underlying correspondence: both lived in a world where respect for antiquity had been fatally weakened, at least among the intellectually adventurous, by the new culture of innovation.
The authority of Galen was so foundational to Medieval conceptions of medicine and science that it could overwhelm objective, empirical observations of Medieval doctors. They could not trust their own eyes.
Authority contaminated their rational minds.
Sound familiar?
Bugonia Redux
Recently, the University of Waterloo terminated 49 employees who refused to reveal their vaccination status. The University of Waterloo claimed,
“We have an obligation under the Heath and Safety Act to protect our employees, and the employees have the obligation to comply," said Nick Manning, vice-president of university relations. "All of those who weren't able to be compliant after progressive measures faced the ultimate result of termination.”
Some of you reading this will certainly applaud this statement while others will view this as a profound violation of Informed Consent, one of the bedrock principles of Modern Civilized States.
There are a number of assumptions made by Nick Manning that require unpacking.
It seems that Mr. Manning has significant and fundamental misunderstanding of the nature of Covid Inoculation. The shots (we are on shot 4…) 1) do not prevent transmission, 2) do not prevent disease, 3) are lab designed for the wild Covid variant (which is so 2020), 4) require additional shots (so currently everyone at Waterloo with two shots is, technically speaking, deemed “unvaccinated”).
It goes without saying that the vaccine lowers the risk of hospitalization and death, but there is a vital caveat that is never stated.
COVID does not impact everyone equally. For example, my risk of COVID death is somewhere between my risk of being mauled to death by dogs and dying by a lightning bolt. It lowers the risk of hospitalization and death in those who are already at RISK of hospitalization and death from COVID. We know who this population is by now (65 and older with significant comorbidities). By far the vast majority of students, faculty and staff at the University of Waterloo are not in danger of COVID. Those who are at risk have done all they can do. It is time to accept human limitations in the face of a virus and move on. If you are afraid, then my advice to you: find other means by which to cure your fear of COVID. Stop with your insipidity.
It has always been this way…
The elderly and comorbid have always been at significant risk from COVID infections. Remember, COVID-19 is a kind Cold; they have been around forever in different forms and kinds and intensities.
In 2003 a team of researchers found the following outcomes of HCoV-OC43 and SARS-CoV infections among an elder care facility:
Ninety-five of 142 residents (67%) and 53 of 160 staff members (33%) experienced symptoms of respiratory infection. Symptomatic residents experienced cough (66%), fever (21%) and pneumonia (12%). Eight residents died, six with pneumonia. No staff members developed pneumonia. Findings on reverse transcriptase-polymerase chain reaction assays for SARS-CoV at a national reference laboratory were suspected to represent false positives, but this was confounded by concurrent identification of antibody to N protein on serology. Subsequent testing by reverse transcriptase-polymerase chain reaction confirmed HCoV-OC43 infection. Convalescent serology ruled out SARS. Notably, sera demonstrated cross-reactivity against nucleocapsid peptide sequences common to HCoV-OC43 and SARS-CoV.
5.6 percent of the residents died (none of the staff developed pneumonia or died…).
Certainly COVID-19 is more lethal to this population (50 % of all deaths from/with COVID came from 1% of the population, namely those in elder care facilities), but this is NOT the population at University of Waterloo.
While we pretend COVID-19 is the worst disease to ever impact human societies (it is not even close), we forget that year in and year out diseases of various kinds burn through the elderly and comorbid populations. Where was Manning in 2003? How many employees did he fire then? Or Was it ok for Waterloo employees to become sick or get each other sick back in 2003? Did Manning feel the need to force his employees to take flu shots, given that the rate of death from the flu for those under 50 is HIGHER than from COVID? Has he banned smoking, given that roughly 8,000,000 people die a year from smoking related causes? Has he mandated exercise regimes and the forced removal of fat through liposuction among the obese population at Waterloo? Has he prohibited sugar, soft drinks, and candy from campus and fired those who chose to sneak onto campus with these anti-science snacks? 17,000,0000 people die of heart disease every year. Where is Manning and the University of Waterloo, when we need you to protect us from ourselves? Were you protecting your students and employees when you followed the destructive government lockdowns that have resulted in severe and significant increases in the following policy harms:
Rise in suicide and suicidality
Rise in mental health issues, depression, and anxiety
Rise in Obesity
Rise in drug and alcohol abuse
Rise in overdoses from drugs and alcohol
Rise in rape, incest and sexual violence
Rise in sex trafficking
Rise in domestic violence
Rise in divorce
Rise in poverty and homelessness
Rise in negative outcomes from preventable diseases
Lowering of academic achievement
Increased harm against marginalized communities
Lowering in speech, emotional and cognitive development among children
Lowering in credibility in health, governmental and social instituions
Violations of civil and human rights (mobility rights, religious rights, freedom of speech, freedom of assembly, and the employment of medical apartheid)
Rise in social division
Rise in crime (murder and robbery)
Rise in economic discrimination
Rise in misinformation (on all sides)
Rise in familial fragmentation
Rise in media malfeasance
Rise in propaganda and nudging
Rise in Pharmaceutical and Governmental collusion
Rise in bankruptcy
Rise in hate speech
Increased failure of small businesses, restaurants, and cafes
Rise in increasingly authoritarian STATES
Rise in increasingly authoritarian technologies like Digital IDs and vaccine passports (vaccine passports are ALREADY a Chinese style social credit system)
Negation of culturally important events like art festivals, communal events, music, parades, and national events
Rise in violations of informed consent through coercive measures such as job loss and social exclusion.
If this is what Health and Safety look like….I will pass.
We are looking for rationality where rationality doesn’t exist.
Manning is performing the rites of the modern bugonia.
It gets worse….
Manning refers to his obligation under the Health and Safety Act. I am assuming he is referring to the Canada Occupational Health and Safety Act or perhaps the Occupational Health and Safety Act of Ontario….
You know where this is going…
As has been the case for nearly the entire pandemic in Canada, “journalists” do not press people like Manning. He claims that Waterloo is obligated to fire people for performing Informed Consent because he is mandated to do so by the “Health and Safety Act.” A proper journalist would do what I have done, that is read through both the Canadian and Ontario Health and Safety Acts and see what is says about COVID and Vaccines.
Spoiler Alert: Neither COVID nor Vaccines are mentioned a single time in either document.
What about diseases?
Surely diseases are mentioned, and this is what Mr. Manning meant?
Disease is found in both documents, but always qualified with a modifier:
Occupational Disease.
Can COVID-19 be construed as an occupational disease? Well, let us look at the legal definition of Occupational Disease.
A disease resulting from exposure during employment to conditions or substances that are detrimental to health (such as black lung disease contracted by miners).
An individual suffering from an occupational disease can seek compensation for his or her condition under Workers' Compensation statutes or such federal legislation as the Black Lung Benefits Act of 1972, 30 U.S.C.A. § 901 et seq. Worker's compensation statutes typically require that the worker contract the disease during the course of employment; that the disease be peculiar to the worker's job by virtue of how it is caused and manifested or how job conditions result in a particular hazard, unlike employment in general; and that there be a substantially greater risk of contracting the disease or condition on the job in a different, more serious manner, than in general public experiences.
COVID-19 is not an occupational disease, and the University is not obligated to protect your health or safety from COVID.
You want to know who IS obligated to protect your health and safety from disease?
You guessed it….
You are.
One More Thing
Manning represents the COVID moment writ large: his statements result in dissolving institutional trust, authority and integrity.
He is uninformed as to the safety profile of the vaccines (this profile becomes worse every day), the efficacy of the vaccines, and the risk profile of those who are most under threat from COVID. He is a very ignorant person in a position of power. There is no worse combination. He also seems entirely uninformed about the OSHA regulations in Ontario and Canada, which he so confidently asserted.
But make no mistake, we can assume the Trudeau government will retroactively change the OSHA regulations to include COVID and mandated Vaccination. Afterall, he bought 10 shots for every Canadian man, woman, and child in April 2021 as we were being told we only needed two shots (this was one of the many reasons I did not choose to take the shot). Canada needs to use those shots. Like Trudeau, Manning is one of the petty tyrants that has risen to prominence during the era of COVID, these insipid, small-minded people who think they are doing the lord’s work and saving lives, when in fact the opposite is the case.
But Manning (like Trudeau) embodies one of the most salient issues in effect during the era of COVID, which the WHO has recently acknowledged in its Strategic Preparedness, Readiness and Response Plan to End the Global COVID-19 Emergency in 2022. The image below should give you a glimpse into the level of analysis informing the action plan (insert BLM inspired, radical leftist protest T-shirt to appeal to the I-Gen, Zoomer NPC).
I will discuss this document in detail next week (it is a pile of shit). The WHO—like Manning—is obsessed with inoculation. The WHO want to inoculate 70 % of the planet (and who even knows what inoculation means any more?). This was their original benchmark and they are not deviating from it, even though the WHO does recognize that negative outcomes of the disease are not equitably distributed.
In fact, equity, equitable, and equitably are used 17 times total in the document, whereas obesity, comorbidity, and elderly are used in total ZERO times. Read that again. This is our level of global cognition. Feel dumb yet?
The WHO still promotes the canard that the vaccine results in immunity.
It doesn’t. You are NOT immune from COVID no matter how many shots you take, and you NEVER will be immune from COVID.
And this is the problem the University of Waterloo and the WHO both share: they have lost credibility as trustworthy organizations because the “narrative” they are forcing us all to accept is not matching the world in which we live. Their narrative does not correspond to Reality.
This is profoundly destructive, and it is something the WHO recognizes:
Rebuilding trust in institutions, leadership and science is a fundamental objective underscoring all work undertaken by Member States, WHO and partners. The COVID-19 pandemic has resulted in what many have referred to as a “trust crisis” that impacts all facets of the pandemic response. This is made more complex by the current and evolving information ecosystem that fails to prioritize and ensure access to accurate, trustworthy, actionable information. Such infodemics are of significant concern, and require tools and approaches to manage them, including listening to communities and networks; supporting trusted voices and leaders; and promoting andmaking accessible, actionable evidence-based guidance.
There is a “trust crisis.” This crisis is a function of our leaders and institutions lacking transparency, mandating policies that have no scientific basis (like mask mandates), promoting vaccines whose safety and efficacy profiles were not established prior to a global inoculation campaign, yet claiming they were 100 percent safe and effective (all reward and no risk), employing policies that have resulted in the destruction of people’s lives through policy harms, violating the ethical standards of informed consent, restructuring society around medical apartheid and vaccine passports, which had no scientific basis with respect to slowing and stopping COVID transmission, mandating vaccination in populations, who are at essentially zero risk of COVID, demonizing and marginalizing those of us who decided not to take the vaccine (this decision looks better and better with each passing day), and allowing Big Pharma/WEF/Black Rock to shape and structure our societies, while barring us from attending funerals, or visiting our dying parents, or forcing masks onto our children, or mandating that their narrative is the only narrative.
There is a “trust crisis” and “infodemic.” Nearly all of our institutions have been exposed as exploiting information in order to “nudge” people into compliance, thereby resulting in the slow disintegration of trust in those institutions. And its about time. All of our institutions have always been this bad. COVID finally has exposed them for what they are: Weaponized Incompetence Factories (WIF for short).
We can now add the University of Waterloo to this growing list of incompetent, unethical, and deceptive institutions.
Remember they have an obligation for Health and Safety. In the COVID era this means they take away your livelihood. You no longer can pay your bills, or support your family. Poverty and unemployment are for your own good.
The Bugonia is alive and well in Waterloo.
What moral and ethical world do you want to live in?
What is truth and how do you know what is true and what is false?
What happens to societies when fictions become “reality”?
What happens when the world has become so irrational that rationality is defined as that which is only “less irrational”?
Now put on your mask.
Download the App.
Take your shots.