Jordan Peterson: Government Adviser Told Me COVID Rules Based On Opinion Polls, Not Science

Authored by Paul Joseph Watson via Summit News,

Jordan Peterson says he spoke to a senior government adviser who told him Canada’s COVID restriction policies are completely driven by opinion polls and not science.

“In relation to the COVID restrictions, I talked to a senior adviser to one of the provincial governments a couple of weeks ago,” said Peterson.

“He told me flat out that the COVID policy here is driven by nothing but opinion polls related to the popularity of the government,” he added.

No science, no endgame in sight, no real plan, and so what that means is that the part of the population that is most afraid of COVID,” are driving the policy.

Peterson pointed to figures that prove people vastly exaggerate the risk of being hospitalized by COVID due to relentless government fearmongering campaigns.

The author said he found the conversation “extremely disheartening” because he had hoped lockdown policies were “at least driven by something remotely resembling a scientifically informed plan.”

Peterson said the government adviser was “irate at what had been happening, enough to consider resigning.”

As we have previously highlighted, populations in virtually every major country believe COVID to be an exponentially greater threat than it actually is.

A poll in France showed that the average person thinks the infection to fatality ratio is over 16 per cent, when it is actually 0.1-0.3 per cent.

As we previously highlighted, a poll conducted in summer 2020 found that the average American believed 9 per cent of the population, around 30 million people, had died from coronavirus when the actual figure at the time was less than 155,000.

People in the U.S. also believed that 20% of Americans had caught coronavirus, 20 times higher than the number of confirmed cases.

In Sweden and the UK in particular, people also vastly overestimated the number of lives COVID-19 had claimed, with the average Brit thinking coronavirus had killed 100 times more people than the actual figure.

Governments scare the living hell out of citizens to elicit a fear reaction, then point to poll numbers calling for more lockdown measures in order to justify more lockdown measures.

It would be funny if it were not so sinisterly Machiavellian.

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31 Comments
hardscrabble farmer
hardscrabble farmer
November 20, 2021 8:31 am

Maybe after he’s been clean and sober for another decade, but right now he looks and sounds like an erudite homeless guy.

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m
  hardscrabble farmer
November 20, 2021 11:14 am

Translation:
“Waaah, this Peterson guy hasn’t ripped the gov’t a new one on ‘vaccines’ – like he did with free speech against C-16!

{pouting} If he’s not perfect in all matters, I choose to detest this guy.”

Wilbur Ross
Wilbur Ross
  m
November 20, 2021 6:08 pm

The guy is a fraud who said something you wanted to hear, so you follow him off a cliff.

m
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  Wilbur Ross
November 21, 2021 8:27 am

Yeah, so you exactly know what I’m doing or not doing? I compliment your mind reading skills.

In other news, you might want to sharpen your reading comprehension skills.

Wilbur Ross
Wilbur Ross
  hardscrabble farmer
November 20, 2021 11:27 am

Right. He just climed out of his cardboard condo and is looking for a barrel fire and a slug of MD.

CCRider
CCRider
November 20, 2021 9:07 am

The thing that astounds me about propaganda is that it works on smart people. If it just worked on dopes it would be worthless.

Dangerous Variant
Dangerous Variant
  CCRider
November 20, 2021 10:59 am

Indeed. Propaganda like the plandemic is a long-con. The conman owns the mark not because his game is so smart but because his game targets the mark’s desires to be seen as smart. Good propaganda relies upon the targets own insecurity driving them toward higher status.

The “confidence” in a con resides in the mark not the con. In this case the ‘smart, morally right thing to do’ was a carrot in front of the donkey. To turn away from the carrot now is to have to admit to being conned AND to give up the accumulated social status. The doubling down will continue.

Ken31
Ken31
  CCRider
November 20, 2021 7:35 pm

Emotions, values, morals, principles, even education – why do people think these are dependent upon “smarts”?

Anonymous
Anonymous
November 20, 2021 9:13 am

A. PJW beclowns himself believing and promoting the “official” numbers on covid “confirmed cases” as well as deaths.

B. Five months go Peterson was telling people they should “get the damned vaccine” so that “we can get over this”.
He’s dead to me.

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  Anonymous
November 20, 2021 11:16 am

See my reply to HSF above.

Abigail Adams
Abigail Adams
  m
November 20, 2021 7:59 pm

Clueless, as usual.

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  Abigail Adams
November 21, 2021 8:28 am

Argument-free, as usual, MANLY Abigail.

Abigail Adams
Abigail Adams
  m
November 21, 2021 8:35 am

I have never been accused of being argument-free. Interesting. If you take this guy seriously, you’re clueless.

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  Abigail Adams
November 21, 2021 11:40 am

Again, not an argument.

Smoke em if you got em
Smoke em if you got em
November 20, 2021 9:33 am

Will be interesting to see how many go for the boosters and how many conclude enough is enough. Anecdotally I know of several jab victims that will not get the boosters …. They realize they have been lied to. Perhaps this will be the genesis of a blowback with teeth.

brian
brian
November 20, 2021 10:43 am

A couple of doctors here in British Communista have filed complaints with the rcmp against the medical board against a number of politicals. They are asking for an investigation into 13 infant deaths, miscarriages from vaccine, and whether there is conflict of interests with these board members and the chief med official bonnie henry.

The rcmp will have no choice but to assign a detective to the case. Of course the rcmp will assign a good ol boy but one never knows, they might accidentally assign a detective thats not willing to be jabbed .

Lets hope, and pray, that this gathers some steam.

Yahsure
Yahsure
November 20, 2021 11:03 am

It was easy for me to see that the jab was a bad idea, the government was involved. The same people are telling us that inflation is a good thing.

Balbinus
Balbinus
  Yahsure
November 20, 2021 12:16 pm

Don’t you know inflation is transitory? After gasoline gets to $100 dollars a gallon it will slowly slide back to where it was, $70 a gallon. I’m from the government and I’m here to help.

Cricket
Cricket
November 20, 2021 11:03 am

I’ve no doubt our government is not basing the continued lockdowns, mask mandates and forced segregation of those who choose not to publicly disclose their medical information on anything backed by science and nearly 2 years of real world data. This is about the great reset and forcing previously free people into worldwide serfdom by forcing digital ID on everyone, and soon after we will be subject to social credit scores and endless government control and surveillance of every aspect of our lives.

I can only pray these tyrant’s best laid plans for our fate will be thwarted. I take heart that our leaders are mostly incompetent, arrogant people who’ve have few successes in real life beyond getting elected so their prospects of pulling off this scheme are slim.

Balbinus
Balbinus
  Cricket
November 20, 2021 12:24 pm

I’m so excited! I just received my social credit score from the US Department of Internment Camps. It’s -3. The letter went on to tell me I have won a 3 year all expense paid holiday on the ocean at Nome, Alaska. I report tomorrow to the BNSF terminal where I will join the other winners. I love my caring government.

John Pietrusiewicz
John Pietrusiewicz
  Balbinus
November 20, 2021 3:50 pm

Awesome. You can gold mine on your off days and spare time. You can also look at and wave at the Russians while enjoying the beautiful view.

Balbinus
Balbinus
  John Pietrusiewicz
November 20, 2021 4:02 pm

Do you suppose it will be some of the Russians who helped Mr. Trump on the 2016 campaign? Good folks.

C.A.L.
C.A.L.
  Balbinus
November 20, 2021 9:22 pm

I think that holiday on the ocean is really ‘on the ocean’ and your new camp site is a drifting ice floe.

Wilbur Ross
Wilbur Ross
  Balbinus
November 20, 2021 10:33 pm

BNSF stops a Bellevue WA. I take it they’re letting you walk the remainder.

Jdog
Jdog
November 20, 2021 2:22 pm

It is not being driven by opinion, it is being driven by agenda. Big difference.

John Pietrusiewicz
John Pietrusiewicz
November 20, 2021 3:42 pm

I can’t figure out who is the bigger moron, the author of this article or Jordan Peterson. I knew that 99% of covid information was BS after the first week in February 2020. They made a movie about it, Plandemic, well over a year ago.

Abigail Adams
Abigail Adams
  John Pietrusiewicz
November 20, 2021 7:56 pm

It does appear they’re both fighting for the prize.

Abigail Adams
Abigail Adams
November 20, 2021 7:55 pm

Is he suggesting that we’ve been bamboozled? Shocking.

John Pietrusiewicz
John Pietrusiewicz
  Abigail Adams
November 20, 2021 8:15 pm

The covid agenda may be fake. How shocking and absurd.

Steve
Steve
November 21, 2021 3:40 am

This gent is supposed to be one of society’s few remaining independent intellectuals. Yet, he took the jab!