1. Restaurant closures in San Francisco
2. Ottawa Byward Market being gutted by crime
‘CRISIS MODE:’ ByWard Market business owners express safety concerns as crime rates increase
“Clients don’t come downtown anymore, it’s not safe.”
John Rmor lost $40,000 in theft in August after a two-night robbery at his business in the ByWard Market. Now he is closing for good.
Rmor, owner of the John Rmor designer shoe and leather store, announced the closure of his business on Nov. 29 after weeks of back and forth with his accountants.
The owner said a cascade of events, including safety concerns, have led to high operation costs. Rmor had hopes for his store to recover during Black Friday.
“We suspected that Black Friday would help us recover some money,” said Rmor. “But clients don’t come downtown anymore, it’s not safe,” said Rmor.
Since Rmor’s substantial loss on Aug. 28 and 29, crime rates against retailers have increased significantly.
“I never worry about the material things because I can’t do anything about it,” Rmor said. “But people can hurt you for these silly things.”
With the left, the point is never the point. The issue is never the issue. The revolution is always the issue. When a city destroys main access roads in a city like Ottawa for bike lanes where its ice and freezing cold for half the year and no one uses these bike lanes except for a crazy tiny few, it clearly is not for better transportation planning.The proimary effect is the one people notice.
Now about Ivermectin:
In this linked article, which is about Matt Perry, Alex Berenson makes a one line snark about Ivermectin. But in the context he makes it, and adding it to the context of this article, it is a perfect fit. Look at the primary effect that was obvious and predictable and ignore the justifications for the policy and you have your answer.
Lately, ketamine “therapy” has taken off in the United States. A Website called “Get Joyous” offers to deliver ketamine lozenges for $129 a month – no commitment! Billboards advertising it loom over major cities.
Ketamine’s advocates point to studies showing it is a fast-acting treatment for depression. “Following the excitement and hype surrounding ketamine’s fast-acting antidepressant effects, numerous private clinics started offering ketamine, sometimes in a repeated manner,” researchers wrote in 2018. “The safety of such repeated ketamine infusions has not been fully investigated in large clinical and well-powered studies.”
But because the Food and Drug Administration has approved ketamine for human use, physicians are free to prescribe it as they see fit (a rule that applies to every approved drug, except maybe ivermectin, but that’s also a story for another day).
(The whole article is important, interesting and well written in it’s own context and no paywall. It is recommended for Alex’s own purpose as well)
This short article is to illustrate the meta point. Destructive, pernicious policies justified by a veneer of reason that appeals to decent people or for decent seeming reasons must be understood to be what they are. To create cracks in the foundations of our civilization in every possible way and in the most destructive manner. Abortion laws and now MAiD in Canada are not about compassion for the suffering. They are to remove the concept of the sanctity of life we were all raised with. Abortion was pretty much always an option for women who really needed it. Remember Pierre Trudeau’s minister of justice who got caught forging a permission slip to get his lover an abortion who was married to someone else at the time? Both abortion and apparently forgery were ok even back then. And frankly, nearly every very elderly person who dies in hospital is killed by pushing too much morphine. We all know it. We are all OK with it because at the individual level, decisions are made where quality of life Vs. extreme measures are obvious. And even then, not always 100% right.
So the legalization to the point of celebration of these things is about something else.
A little post-hoc addition for the point. Although I could probably add things day and night for months. The following Tweet is from the NZ Dept. worker who “leaked” what should have been publicly available data on vaxx safety to the actual public.
Rosa Koire:
More Rosa:
In spite of overwhelming proof that liberalism is a failure, if elections were held today, not one liberal would be voted out in SFO.