Bruce Dowbiggin
The A-Z Of Covid-19: The Awful, Terrible, No-Good 24 Months

“There is no scientific truth, only replicable science. Then it becomes theory, but not law. And not truth. There are fundamental laws of physics that have been overturned. Law is not truth, law is law, and in science, law can be overturned.” Clayton Fox, Tablet
The Covid-19 pandemic has not been about law or truth or the virus itself. The issue has been the inability of our vaunted healthcare— pride of the nation— to deal with the surge produced in 2020 and 2021. Despite assurances from politicians, administrators and media, it collapsed, causing the deaths of tens of thousands who didn’t have Covid at all.
If nothing else the two-year calamity known as #Covid-19 has provided an entry-level symposium on science. Or “The Science”, according to people like Justin Trudeau who have no idea about science. Here is the A-Z on what we’ve learned about the terrible, awful, no good, very bad 24 months.
A is for Antibodies, natural immunity. T cells. They were, originally, nature’s miracle workers. When anti-vaxxers suddenly claimed they were better than vaccines, natural immunity was shunned by White Coats who demanded compliance to The Science. Now, after the failure of boosters to end the pandemic, natural immunities are again declared ten times better than boosters. Because Science.
B is for Bats. From Chinese caves to your memorial service, the winged creatures were the unloved vehicles that brought the virus to the world. All it took was a little gain-of-function, a few international flights and— voila— five million dead.
C is for Covid Convoy. Truckers were heroes till Skippy Trudeau decided to revoke their border-crossing status for indeterminate reasons. So they came to Ottawa to protest. Trudeau called them Nazis, misogynists, racists and more. Then he hid. Now we have martial law. And maybe a run on the banks. Go figure.
D is for Deaths. With Covid. From Covid. Caused by Covid precautions. Accompanied by Covid co-morbidities. Average age of Covid death is still 82 years old. So make kids wear masks all the time and stay at home. Even though they don’t die of Covid, and they’re very poor spreaders of the virus.
E is for Election. Because, let’s be honest. The Dems were doomed till Covid came along. Not believing their luck they used it to beat Trump. And get the media to STFU about Hunter Biden. Okay, hundreds of thousands died, often away from their loved ones. But you can’t make a Biden omelette without a few broken eggs.
F is for Fauci Fear. He went from Time Man of the Year to Man Out Of Time when his Chinese connections exposed him as a dog killer. Making half a million a year at age 81 didn’t help his image either. Or saying criticizing him was criticizing Science. But that’s what happens when you use burner phones to orchestrate results that keep China happy.
G is for Gain of Function. See Fauci (above). In trying to hide his multiple Chinese flip/ flops on whether he’d funded the deadly virus research Fauci inadvertently revealed he’d funded cruel experiments on beagles. Then he tried to explain medical experiments were better for dogs than being dinner from the Wuhan wet market. Americans still don’t know why he was paying for Frankenstein science.
H is for Hydroxychloriquine. Around forever for treating malaria, hydroxy showed promising results in early therapeutic treatment of Covid symptoms. Then Trump mentioned it. Suddenly the CDC banned it from consideration among the proper people. CNN called it voodoo. If you persisted you were kicked off Facebook. Again, people died, but Joe Biden.
I is for Ivermectin. Or as the MSNBC college of surgeons called it, horse de-wormer— forgetting that established drugs can have multiple applications in therapeutics ie. popular blood thinner warfarin is rat poison. Again, ivermectin was abandoned due to Trump interest. Let ‘em die. He’s not getting any wins.
J is for Junk science. See H) and I) above. Anything not considered a new vaccine produced by mega-corps was junk as far as the WHO/ CDC and Health Canada was considered. (And their pool-boy media) So no early treatment. No vitamin therapy. No Alex Berenson on Twitter preaching heresy about less-than-perfect vaccines. Cancel him in the interest of Science. Or Joe Biden. Take your pick. Neither is what it used to be.
K is for Kids. The fulcrum of unnecessary infection paranoia. So dangerous that U17s were banished home for schooling, had their sports and activities cancelled, were forced to wear masks everywhere but bed. Couldn’t see their grandparents. COVID deaths account for 0.673 percent of all deaths among U.S. children under 17— almost all of them with co-morbidities. They produce samples too minimal to kill Granny. Still they’re masked and distanced in many so-called progressive areas.
L is for Lies. To maintain the purity of the narrative it became necessary to create new realities. The Virus didn’t come from the Wuhan lab. The virus can come off of surfaces. Six feet is the distance to avoid transmission. Cloth and paper masks prevent transmission. You can hold your breath if Magic Johnson says, “Hey, let’s take a selfie”. But greatest of all: 15 days to flatten the curve.
M is for Morbidities. While WHO/ CDC/ Health Canada/ media promoted universal vulnerability, statistics showed that co-morbitdies were real keys to death in over-60s: obesity, hypertension, diabetes, cardiovascular disease, cerebrovascular disease, respiratory disease, kidney disease, and malignancy. While those people were fast tracked for beds, anti-vaxxers were sent to education camps in Australia.
N is for New Normal. Wearing masks 24/7. Distancing in lineups. Obsessive hand sanitizing. Working from home. Fist bumping. Isolating in homes. Parties with four or fewer people. Cancelling friends who don’t agree with your fears. All now normal.
O is for O’Toole Orthodoxy. While Trudeau slavishly followed the WHO (read: Chinese) script, causing severe societal strain, CPC leader Erin O’Toole stood aside twiddling his thumbs as civil liberties and freedoms were eliminated. Played Liberal Lite in a very winnable election. Lost badly. Replaced by the 2022 Convoy. Good riddance.
P is for Passports. Speaking of losing civil liberties and freedoms, the imposition of public-health passports might have been the worst (before the Emergency Measures Act). Allowing waiters, bus drivers, pool boys, bar bouncers, flight attendants and ticket takers to examine your private health record sanctioned by government. Because Science.
Q is for Quarantine. Vestige of when political leaders thought they could out-run the virus using test-and-trace whack-a-mole. Leaving the elderly to die awful, lonely deaths in LT care facilities. Spectacular failure culminating in Trudeau locking up Canadians returning to country in hotels they had to pay for. Upside was seeing every Netflix/ Prime series while locked in home for 14 days.
R is for Rogan. Once a comedian/ martial arts guy, now vilified by the Covid Cult for having dissenters on his wildly popular (10 million +) podcast. Peak Rogan was Neil Young’s demand he be kicked off Spotify for sins against the orthodoxy. After a momentary bobble in which he apologized for upsetting Karens he seems back on message track.
S is for Swab. There may be more annoying things in life than having a swab jammed into your nasal cavities by worker dressed like hazmat specialist. But for the moment can’t think what they are.
T is for Tam & Trudeau. The Glitter Twins of the pandemic in Canada. Reversed all early mask/ travel/ distance research in favour of WHO-recommended Chinese lockdown scheme in mid-2000. Refused to budge despite clear evidence that epidemiologists shouldn’t be running the economy or communications. The origin of the Convoy discontent.
U is for Useless PCR positives. Despite clear evidence from even Fauci that viral testing with too many cycles provided 75 percent false positives, Canadian/ American governments, sports leagues, educators, airlines etc still used them exclusively to ruin your life. And media employed them to achieve peak virus fear. Unconscionable. But Science.
V is for Ventilators. In 2020 they were the lifesaver demanded by people like governors Andrew Cuomo, Phil Murphy and Gavin Newsom. Manufacturers adapted production lines to making them. Then it was discovered they were lethal to the very ill. Now? Crickets.
W is for Wuhan/ WHO. The Bethlehem of Covid 19 and its Three Kings. Concerted efforts by the Chinese, WHO and implicated Western medical pooh-bahs have stalled definitive proof of the virus’ origins. Current line: Wuhan lab: 2-1; Wuhan wet market 5-1. Winnipeg lab: 25-1. Asteroid landing in China: 10,000- 1.
X is for Xi. The Godfather. If he designed Covid-19 as revenge on the West he isn’t saying (at least till the end of the Beijing Olympics). But he couldn’t have done better. The possibilities that this was his strategic use of germ warfare are chilling. Almost as chilling as the people protecting the West are Biden and Trudeau.
Z is for Zeneca, Astra, one of the approved firms that came up with something resembling a vaccine in nine months. These test drugs soon became the only hope for mankind. Therapeutics were verboten. Then it was discovered they had the shelf life of yogurt. So more were ordered. Profits rose faster than Elon Musk’s rocket ship. But why not? They were given blanket immunity from legal prosecution. Because Science.
Bruce Dowbiggin @dowbboy is the editor of Not The Public Broadcaster (http://www.notthepublicbroadcaster.com). The best-selling author was nominated for the BBN Business Book award of 2020 for Personal Account with Tony Comper. A two-time winner of the Gemini Award as Canada’s top television sports broadcaster, he’s also a regular contributor to Sirius XM Canada Talks Ch. 167. His new book with his son Evan Inexact Science: The Six Most Compelling Draft Years In NHL History is now available on http://brucedowbigginbooks.ca/book-personalaccount.aspx
Bruce Dowbiggin
Are the Jays Signing Or Declining? Only Vladdy & Bo Know For Sure

We were watching the Los Angeles Dodgers home opener on Thursday. The defending World Series champs came from behind to beat Detroit 5-4. The big hit was a three-run homer from a player named Teoscar Hernandez off AL Cy Young winner Tarik Skubal

If that name sounds familiar, Teoscar was a Toronto Blue Jay from 2018-2022. He pounded 121 homers in the span as part of the Jays’ order. But when Toronto decided it needed bullpen help he was traded to Seattle in 2022 for pitchers Erik Swanson and Adam Macko. While Swanson has battled injuries and Macko is no-go, Hernandez keeps pounding the ball.
In his one year in Seattle he had strikeout problems but did hit 26 homers with 93 RBIs. In the winter of 2023-24 he signed as a free agent with the aforementioned Dodgers. Batting behind Shohei Ohtani he launched 33 homers and 99 RBIs. He won the All Star Home Run Derby. His key hit in Game 5 of the World Series propelled L.A. to the title. The stacked Dodgers liked him enough to give him a three-year, $66 million contract.
Why are we telling you this? Because the Blue Jays also started their 2025 season at home, matched against the Baltimore Orioles. And while there are reasons to believe the Jays will not replicate their 74-win disaster of 2024, there remain the old bugaboos of injuries and pitching. In the four games against the division rivals they need to beat, Jays’ pitching gave up 24 runs while scoring 18—nine of them in one game.
The splashy acquisition of 40 year old HOF pitcher Max Scherzer has already gone sideways as a bad thumb has put him on the IL. The new stopper, Jeff Hoffman, was rejected on medical grounds by two other teams before Toronto’s money made him healthy. The rest of the bullpen— a disaster in 2024— got off to a rocky start with Orioles hitters playing BP against them. They’ve already DFA’d one pitcher and called up two more from the minors. The re-made pen performed well in Game 4, but how it holds up in their next 158 games is a mystery.
On offence, while their rivals in Boston and New York added sexy pieces to their rosters the Jays were only able to acquire veteran switch-hitting Baltimore slugger Anthony Santander. More typical of their other signees is ex-Cleveland 2B infielder Andres Giminez who in 2023 had the lowest average exit velocity of all AL batters (84.8 mph), and led the AL in percentage of balls that were softly hit (21.7%). He does play a slick second base.
The winter story line for the Jays offence was what to do about Vladimir Guerrero Jr. and Bo Bichette, the erstwhile star-dust twins who were— along with Cavan Biggio— supposed to guarantee titles when they emerged in 2019. Biggio is gone, so the other two carry the credibility of the management team of Mark Shapiro and Ross Atkins. From the outside the Jays seem paralyzed to act.

While the Jays dithered, the price for players like Guerrero and Bichette soared. Using Juan Soto’s Mets $765 M deal as a yardstick Guerrero turned down a Jays offer of just under $600 M, saying he was done talking during the season. If Shapiro/ Atkins had anticipated the market Guerrero would have cost a lot less in 2023-24. If there is no progress by the trading deadline the Jays will be forced to get what they can in a trade.
Shortstop Bichette— a gifted player who battled injuries in 2024—is likewise up for a new deal. He has started strong in 2025 and would command a handsome return in a trade. He says the Jays are waiting to see what happens with Guerrero first. Having sold the pair for years to their loyal fans, having to trade them will be a massive PR blow. And while Jays’ national audience can be an advantage, having a whole country pissed with you is devastating.
The rest of the secret sauce for a Toronto comeback revolves around one of their hitting prospects taking a step forward. Any/ all of Will Wagner, Alan Roden, Addison Barger or Leo Jimenez can have a job if they show their bats are for real. Otherwise Shapiro and Atkins will hope that Dalton Varsho, George Springer and Alejandro Kirk can find a little magic in their aging bats.
A failure to retain talent may prompt fans to recall that Rogers decided that Shapiro and Atkins, who dumped Teoscar, were worthy replacements for the previous GM who’d walked away. The man Schneider and Atkins were hired to improve upon— Canadian Alex Anthopoulos— has made the Atlanta Braves a dominant team. Since AA moved to Atlanta they’ve won 90, 97, 38 (Covid year), 88, 101, 104, 109, 89 games. They’ve won a World Series and two other playoff series. They won six straight NL East titles before injuries sank them last year.
The Braves have developed young everyday superstars like Ronald Acuńa Jr. who don’t get picked off second base. They have built a pitching staff largely from within, not splashy FA signings. They have swagger without cockiness. They are set for years to come.
The Blue Jays? Since AA left they’ve won 73, 67, 32 (Covid), 91, 92, 89, 74 games. They’ve won zero postseason games while missing the playoffs in four seasons. The players they traded are starring for other teams in the postseason. They are again employing an inexperienced company guy as manager.
While it’s true that the sun can’t shine on the same team every day, Jays fans believe it would be nice if the great orb would find their club as it did back in the 1992/93 World Series days. Instead of the reflected glory of past stars winning for other teams. Patience is thin. And time is ticking.
Bruce Dowbiggin @dowbboy is the editor of Not The Public Broadcaster A two-time winner of the Gemini Award as Canada’s top television sports broadcaster, his new book Deal With It: The Trades That Stunned The NHL And Changed hockey is now available on Amazon. Inexact Science: The Six Most Compelling Draft Years In NHL History, his previous book with his son Evan, was voted the seventh-best professional hockey book of all time by bookauthority.org . His 2004 book Money Players was voted sixth best on the same list, and is available via brucedowbigginbooks.ca.
2025 Federal Election
Chinese Gangs Dominate Canada: Why Will Voters Give Liberals Another Term?

There’s an old joke that goes, the Japanese want to buy Vancouver but the Chinese aren’t selling. Glib, yes. But with enough truth— Chinese own an estimated 30 percent of Vancouver’s real estate market— to pack a punch; Especially in this truncated rush to anoint Mark Carney PM before anyone finds out exactly who’s his Mama.
The advertised narrative for this election is Donald Trump’s vote of no confidence in the modern Canadian state. A segment of Canadians— mostly Boomers— see this as intolerable foreign interference in the country’s sovereignty. So rather than look inward at why Canada’s closest partner is fed up with them the Liberal government has chosen a pep rally rathe than any uncomfortable questions.
Namely about Chinese interference in Canada’s politics, the distortion of real-estate prices in Canadian urban markets, the exploitation of banking and the thriving drug trade that underpins it all. And how it’s driving a wedge between generations in the nation. As we like to say, Canada’s contented elites have been sitting in first class for decades but only paying economy.
They’d like you to forget insinuations that Canada is a global money-laundering capital. Better to blame Trump for the “willful blindness” that has Americans and others losing trust in Canada to keep secrets and contribute its fair share tom protecting against the growth of China. (The same geopolitical concern that saw Trump kick the Chinese out of the Panama Canal Zone.)
Thanks to the diligent reporting of journalist Sam Cooper and others we know better. And it’s ugly. An estimated trillion dollars from Chinese organized crime has washed through Canada since the 1990s. They’ve used underground banks and illegal currency smuggling to circumvent the law. They’ve bribed and intimidated. And they’ve poisoned elections.
This penetration of the culture/ economy by well-organized Asian criminal gangs have been around since the 1990s, but under Trudeau they hit warp speed. By the time Trump inconveniently raised the issue of border security in January, Canada’s economy could fairly be characterized as a real-estate bubble with a drug-money-laundering chaser. The Chinese Communist Party now operates “police stations” in many Canadian cities to supervise this activity and report to Beijing.

In his 2021 book Willful Blindness (and subsequent reporting) Cooper patiently records this evolution with brazen Asian gangs using casinos in BC and Ontario as money-laundering outlets to wash drug money and other criminal proceeds, turning stacks of dirty twenty-dollar bills into clean hundred-dollar bills or casino chips. (When Covid closed the casinos they used luxury mansions as private casinos.)
All financed by underground banks and loansharks. This process became known internationally as The “Vancouver Model” to help establish Chinese proxies overseas and extend the CPP ‘s reach. Hey, the real estate kingpin is named Kash-Ing. (Kaching!) It’s currently being used to buy farm properties in PEI, much to the anger of residents (who will still vote Liberal to protect their perks.)
While investigators and some authorities attempted to expose the schemes the perps were protected by compromised government officials, corrupt casino employees and the inability of courts to deliver justice. It’s why Canadians were so shocked that TD Bank was fined $3B in the U.S. for allowing money laundering. “Not us! No way! We’re Simon pure”.
Much of this money ended up in Canada’s feverish real-estate market, with vacant properties creating insane price spirals across the nation. It’s driven the inability of under 40s to buy homes— another major crisis the Liberals are trying to disguise under Mark Carney the compliant banker. Still more of the proceeds were used to build stronger drug-supply chains between Asia, Mexico and Canada— with heroin and fentanyl then distributed to the U.S. and in Canada.

Against this explosion of housing and drug debt were stories of the political influence of these gangs into the Canadian system. The sitting Canadian prime minister, who praised the Chinese form of governing before he reached the PM post, has been seen in photos with underground Asian gang figures. As were previous Liberal leaders like Jean Chretien who made no secret of his lust for the Chinese market. Chinese money was used to build extensively in Chretien’s Shawinigan riding.
Donations to Trudeau’s Montreal riding association and to the Trudeau Foundation were favourites of shadowy Chinese figures. “In just two days (in 2016), the prime minister’s (Outremont) riding received $70,000 from donors of Chinese origin, and at the same time, the government authorized the establishment of a Chinese bank in Canada,” Bloc leader Yves-Francois Blanchet said on Feb. 28.
Donations to Trudeau from all across Canada constituted up to 80 percent of the riding’s contributions that year. In May 2016, one such fundraiser saw Trudeau hosted by Benson Wong, chair of the Chinese Business Chamber of Commerce, along with 32 other wealthy guests in a pay-for-access event. The patterns exposed by Cooper finally prompted a commission by Quebec justice Marie-Josée Hogue looking into Chines interference in Trudeau’s successful 2019 and 2021 elections.

An interim report released last year by Hogue determined that while foreign interference might not have changed the outcome of Canada’s 2019 and 2021 federal elections, it did undermine the rights of Canadian voters because it “tainted the process” and eroded public trust. So petrified was Trudeau of the full Hogue Report that he prorogued parliament for three months and handed in his resignation rather than test his 22 percent approval rating in a Canadian election. Or his luck with the courts.
Luckily for Liberals Trump came along to smoke out Trudeau and allow for the current whitewash of the party’s record since 2015 under Carney. So instead of agreeing with Washington about Canada’s corrupted economy Canadians have decided to engage in a Mike Myers nostalgia fest for a nation long gone. A nation overly dominated by its smug, satisfied +60 demographic that sits back on its savings while younger Canadians cannot get into the economy.
Reaching past the sunset media to those people is Pierre Poilievre’s task. He has a month to do so. For Canada’s long-term prospects he’d better succeed. The Chinese are watching closely.
Bruce Dowbiggin @dowbboy is the editor of Not The Public Broadcaster A two-time winner of the Gemini Award as Canada’s top television sports broadcaster, his new book Deal With It: The Trades That Stunned The NHL And Changed hockey is now available on Amazon. Inexact Science: The Six Most Compelling Draft Years In NHL History, his previous book with his son Evan, was voted the seventh-best professional hockey book of all time by bookauthority.org . His 2004 book Money Players was voted sixth best on the same list, and is available via brucedowbigginbooks.ca.
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