Thread by @EmpireinWinter

'All in less than one week, Israel has repealed restrictions and is backing off vaccine mandates, even as cases and deaths are hitting new highs, and implausibly so in the most vaccinated and boosted country in the world.'

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'The UK has backed off too. Same in Denmark, Ireland, Finland, and Norway. Switzerland has joined in, and Sweden has rolled back its plans for a vaccine passport. Saskatchewan is ending all restrictions.'

'It is surely not a coincidence that all of this accelerated the same week as the trucker convoy formed in Vancouver and made the trek across the entire U.S./Canada border, in the snow, ending up in Ottawa and gathering many tens of thousands of citizens to protest.'

'The prime minister fled the city and went to his bunker, making what looked like hostage videos that denounced the truckers with all the usual epithets. '

'What’s even more striking is that the media in the United States and Europe did not cover the convoy, probably the largest in history and certainly the most important protest in modern times in Canada.'

'The topic never ended up on the front page of either the New York Times or the Wall Street Journal. And yet: the effect was hugely powerful. Public opinion in Canada swung 15 percent to create a solid majority against all restrictions and mandates. '

NZ's Ardern, praised for #ZeroCovid, prior to vaccines, then (apparently) overruling advice, abandoned Zero, relying on vaxx...

'Now with wave after wave of cases, even...Jacinda Ardern is rolling back quarantine mandates and gradually reopening the country. '

'All wars come to an end, but governments rarely think in advance about the exit strategy. Instead, they kill & destroy until exhaustion sets in and then try to sneak away hoping that everyone will just move on.'

'That’s pretty much how things fared with the Iraq War, and the results were devastating for the whole world.'