🧵 After much deliberation concerning the events of last week concerning homophobia, biphobia, and transphobia in our Catholic schools, Toronto—St. Paul’s New Democrats have decided to act.

Members of the @TCDSB and other publicly-funded Catholic institutions and boards have repeatedly attacked members of the 2SLGBTQIA+ community. The 2SLGBTQIA+ community is an at-risk community; the COVID-19 pandemic has negatively affected many at-risk 2SLGBTQIA+ youth.
Many Catholic publicly-funded school boards neglect or intentionally omit 2SLGBTQIA+ resources, which may affect the availability of life-saving information and/or resources.
However, we recognize with sadness that there is a culture of homophobia, biphobia, and transphobia in the @TCDSB and in publicly-funded Catholic education based on recent events.
We welcome the 14 January 2021 action wherein the @TCDSB passed a motion to establish 2SLGBTQIA+ resources and to create an advisory committee to deal with issues thereof.
We demand from the @TCDSB that the aforementioned 2SLGBTQIA+ ā€˜advisory committee’ be a respectful and progressive space.
We demand that individuals or organizations with a recorded homophobic, biphobic, and/or transphobic agenda like Michael Del Grande and the @archtoronto be excluded and barred from being on this committee funded with taxpayer dollars.
We invite other riding associations to join in demanding that @fordnation and the Government of Ontario denounce all forms of everyday and systemic transphobia and homophobia and create a transparent and fully-resourced Provincial Strategy to support 2SLGBTQIA+ Ontarians.
We, the members of the Electoral District Association of the @NDP and of the @OntarioNDP in Toronto—St. Paul’s, condemn the aforementioned attacks on 2SLGBTQIA+ youth, recognize their inherent right to existence and value.
Our riding association will be sharing our deep concern with @TCDSB and will lead in the push to purge bigotry from our public schools, whether secular or Catholic.
@JILLSLASTWORD @maritstiles @beyrima @SuzeMorrison @Peter_Tabuns @BhutilaKarpoche @DolyBegum @FaisalHassanNDP @ChrisGloverMPP @RakocevicT @JessicaBellTO

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global health policy in 2020 has centered around NPI's (non-pharmaceutical interventions) like distancing, masks, school closures

these have been sold as a way to stop infection as though this were science.

this was never true and that fact was known and knowable.

let's look.


above is the plot of social restriction and NPI vs total death per million. there is 0 R2. this means that the variables play no role in explaining one another.

we can see this same relationship between NPI and all cause deaths.

this is devastating to the case for NPI.


clearly, correlation is not proof of causality, but a total lack of correlation IS proof that there was no material causality.

barring massive and implausible coincidence, it's essentially impossible to cause something and not correlate to it, especially 51 times.

this would seem to pose some very serious questions for those claiming that lockdowns work, those basing policy upon them, and those claiming this is the side of science.

there is no science here nor any data. this is the febrile imaginings of discredited modelers.

this has been clear and obvious from all over the world since the beginning and had been proven so clearly by may that it's hard to imagine anyone who is actually conversant with the data still believing in these responses.

everyone got the same R

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