#Canada (Not) Together And Other Random Rants

The nerve of some people.

It's palpitatingly nauseating and irritating.

Our economy slow burns to the ground with millions of people and thousands of businesses facing uncertainty or permanent closures, and how do Canadians react?

With rainbows and anthems.

And as I just saw as my wife changed channels, a 1 1/2 hour Stronger Together cheese-ball showcase of musicians drooling on about being 'stronger together'.

This is a show for one group of people in a bubble entertaining another group of people in a bubble.

I highly doubt a person who lost his or her business or job is watching this nonsense. I doubt they will find solace in Michael Bubble or Hayley Wickenhockey.

Every Sunday at noon we're invited to sing 'O Canada' (and its revised lyrics to which I will protest to my grave) in an empty gesture of solidarity.

It's all a bunch of people who can afford to stay home and engage in such a tone deaf exercise. The reality is the people who are doing the  'raw, raw, raw' spiel are likely not feeling a single inch or pain in all this.

Government workers are still getting paid. As are people working in the corporate world.  That's a good chunk of people who have the luxury to play 'Stay home, save lives'.

Wanna be in this together? I mean, if you're serious.

Share the pain. 20% PAY CUT FOR EVERYONE. That way next time this happens you think twice before blindly accepting someone else pay the price for your comfort.

No, you say?

Then we're not in this together.

Simple.

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Never mind, the fatality rate of this weird and serious virus has fallen close in line with the flu (and not ten times as Dr. Hero (Fauci) posited). Never mind all we see now are conflicting reports and new studies trying to figure this out. Never mind that a good chunk of the problem in Canada is in Quebec and specifically in the disastrous old folks home system.

But boys, let's burn this down!

Stay home, save lives!'

The government is gonna pay us all to survive!

Bah, bah, bah.

And they say the people who are protesting wanting to go back to work because they see their lives slowly falling apart are crazy?

It takes some kind of sociopath to not realize at this point the unintended consequences of our ill-thought actions are already starting to show.

Let's take a quick peek shall we? This is an engage on Twitter regarding Britons stating to lose patience. One area that hits home is when a loved one passes.

"“It is so important that key workers are treated with kindness and respect at this time. Thank you

@Ken__newhall on supporting our bereavement staff.”

People who are actually grieving not so much.

Let's continue. Read the thread here.

“alex potter

Do you really think 6 is acceptable when most councils are saying approx 10? Most crematoriums host over 100 normally, so 10-15 is surely more realistic! For goodness sake..dont make a bad situation worse than it already is!”

“Roger Harmer

Yes I do. Its 6 family, but you also have the celebrants and the funeral staff so its more like 10 – 12 at the funerals in most cases. Push that up to 15 or 20 and you increase the risk of more people dying from picking up the disease at the funerals. It’s as stark as that.”

So a family of seven is screwed and Roger thinks it’s ok.

‘Sorry Brenda. You can’t come to see mom. Could you prepare the sandwiches since you’ll be stuck mourning at home because fuckheaded pant shitting turds like Roger said so?”

But as if Roger isn't bad enough someone chimes in with this beaut:

"We’re not in a state of normality. The public have to flex with that, no matter how painful. A close friend passed 2 weeks ago. He would have had 200 at his funeral but instead 5 close family members attended and the rest took part over video. Spirituality isn’t a physical thing."

To which someone replied on another site to this comment: "Christ, what an asshole. Spirituality? I don’t think you know what that word means. The formal grieving process (wakes, funerals, sitting shiva,…) is about offering whatever comfort you can give to those in mourning. One of my neighbors lost his 27 year old daughter a few months ago (probable suicide). Though we’re not close, we attended the wake out of a sense of obligation. When I approached him to offer condolences, he burst into tears and embraced me. This, from someone who is effectively a stranger. The only reason this happened is that I was physically present – this is precisely the point. Cut off that ability to be there and you are depriving the survivors an essential means of grieving."

Don't forget closure. In death, we feel it's necessary to be close to one another but yet somehow all these basic human emotions are being asked to be suppressed. To me, this is just about as depraved we can get. The coronavirus is not smallpox. It's not a murderous virus. We're letting our fears drive our decisions.

I think he's right. We're losing all sense of perspective over this. And clearly as those comments show, a common sense of human decency.

'Oh shut up and take your medicine-Ann Frank did it for tow years-You can't live without a haircut' types who say these things are borderline sociopaths with no soul.

Cue up those 'What we did wrong!' articles in the media.

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There are doctors are having a field day with this. Their calculus is simple. 'We don't know much about this virus, there's no virus, ERGO SOCIAL DISTANCE INDEFINITELY AND IF WE MUST KEEP IT SHUT DOWN!'

One doctor even claimed to not re-open sports for kids.....until a vaccine is found. Which is preposterous because, tell you what, I don't think one is gonna come any time soon - if at all.

In fact,  I don't think the Coronavirus can be eradicated. We're going to have to learn to live with it. At least be glad it's not a killer virus. So spreading false hope is damaging. It's not helping people. The sooner we accept the reality, the better.

A union rep for teachers in Quebec said schools shouldn't open until September and even then only progressively. September to December is just three months. Yeh, real smart there.

What are people thinking? Doing it this way is just prolonging the inevitable. I say, like removing a band-aid in one shot, you have to get things rolling again. By her way and logic, t's going to take two years thinking (wrongly I believe) doing it slowly we can somehow manage around it. It's out there. Whether you do it gradually or not it's going to do what it does. It could be an 'all or nothing' scenario'.

In other words, learn quickly the adapt like we do the flu. Yes, there's no vaccine but neither does the cold. And yes, I know it's much worse than the cold but what choice do we have? Keeping isolation and shut downs is far more dangerous. Might I add teachers (like all government workers) may be ok for now as they continue to get paid but the economic fall out will get or touch everyone in some way or another and to some degree. In their case, if we end up in a deep depression, be ready for pension cuts, frozen wages and stagnant RRSP growths. Unions are out of their minds and doing a disservice if they think they're going to negotiate better pay while millions who produce the wealth and income used for taxes to fund the bureaucracy are out of work siphoning tax dollars on welfare to survive.

In my opinion, this is why it's imperative to reopen in May. We need leadership that leads; not follows. That means taking very uncomfortable decisions.

If parents are too scared to send their kids to school, so be it. Don't set up petitions forcing others to follow your lead. Let the rest of us go on with our lives and don't dare try and pull this 'you're not saving lives' shit with me.


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I'm not an expert but I'm a pretty astute observe of politics, history and how human nature works and it doesn't take a genius to know you can't get people hooked on this 'new normal' because it's not an event that should demand we uproot things. It may call for some changes (and don't expect any type of action that can be construed as enlightened and productive from the Liberals - or even the diluted Conservative party for that matter - who are still playing identity politics) including habits. However, it's worth noting our entire urban planning and social landscape isn't built on 'social distancing'. Think public transportation. A service the left absolutely sees key in the fight to fight climate change.

Fun times ahead.

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I keep hearing about how Korea does things. Here's a shocker: We're not Korea. Not in social mores, not in temperament, and not in culture. In the West, by and large save for a couple of countries, we're drama queens.

We go from one extreme to the next. We're not disciplined and can't seem to self-moderate (and those who keep a balance always pay the price for the actions of fools, who then with usual self-absorption not rooted in any self-awareness, lecture the rest of us on what to do. Think the celebrity class here. Have they not shut the fuck up since this thing began?).

In Korea, they were sufficiently sober enough to learn from SARS/MERS (this includes ignoring anything the liars in the CCP in China say) and adjusted quietly.

Here? Even a simple task of producing and how to wear a mask becomes a trendy Broadway production. I was listening to a Danish and Korean doctor reveal how those countries did things and what Canada could learn from it. Count me in as one of those who isn't confident we can. Some of the  ideas needed to be implemented mean putting your nation first and this won't happen until the poison of identity politics ceases in North American politics. Just go read the vile comments of the head researcher looking for the vaccine in the USA on her Twitter account - if she hasn't deleted them.

The second a scientist goes political, they should either have the decency to resign, if not be fired.

I'll finish with the point that while we should learn from Korea, places like North America and the Mediterranean will never be like Koreans. So keep this in mind.

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This is the reality. The media is going to string people along with 'A possible vaccine?' and 'Bill Gates is on the case!' articles but don't buy into it.

At this point, even the dopiest of dopey people should be able to understand our reaction was borne out of incompetence and fear and now we're finding out how hard it is to 're-open' because one of our most primal emotions is FEAR.

And boy did we do a job on people. It boggles the mind how we can suspend all independent thought and exercise personal discretion and bow to authority figures.

Newsflash: Right now, all moves are to protect their own asses.

Everyone has lost the plot in their effort to control the narrative. Now they should all shut up and do their damn jobs.

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A friend of mine was telling me how he's been in virtual meetings all week for his company. They're having all sorts of 'famous experts' (is there any other kind? Everyone listens to the 'best' expert) come in and talk about how to deal with lying in isolation. They'll tell you everything that should be obvious to a rational person. But apparently, there are enough nervous nellies with no hobbies outside their work to justify insufferable pointers.

My friend was repeating all the points as if he had discovered plastic again. Notice how the virus blew up the anti-plastic 'science' movement in its self-serving face. 

I agree with the premise that Covid actually reveals the anti-science stupidity of the left. They keep claiming how 'scientific' they are. When they say that they mean the marching orders they get from selected talking heads like Degrassi-Tyson, Nye, Suzuki, Gore (just typing those names I can smell the stagnant stench of sophistry) etc. They don't mean exploring science on their own and exercising free thought and skepticism. Hence why they call everyone a denier or 'anti-scientific'. They're projecting.

I digress.

Then again, (my friend) is a passionate guy who can't seem to self-moderate so he needs to listen to others to get some direction. What was helpful to him was strange to me.

'I was drinking too much alcohol. Did you know alcoholism is on the rise?'

Just last month we had a heated discussion about the potential unintended consequences as I threw out at him several examples likely to happen and now he was acting like I was on his level. Of course I knew, it was literally one of the first things I told him! If you shut down everything but leave liquor stores open even the modest drinker is going to increase consumption. Duh. And so on.

Now we know people aren't getting surgeries performed, private hospitals like Mayo Clinic reporting $9000 million short falls, life-saving tests aren't being performed etc.

Not to say nothing of a black market forming around those services ridiculously shut down.  Hello. Is this thing on?

Despite my pleads, I was told I lacked humanity. But to me, I'm actually considering the trade-offs and cost-benefits that affect EVERYBODY.

My opinion? By the time, we get around to examining the macro-economic impact of all this, we'll likely be in Great Depression territory and with it will come all sorts of social malaise. It will be far worse in second and third world nations.

It's vital we understand this if you keep pushing for a shut down. If you think it's not worth it, then we must begin to reverse course. The second the economy was shut down, rather than tell people a vaccine is right around the corner or that the tests aren't perfect or continuing to report 'scary' numbers cautioning people to accept all this as a means to an end, we should have understood the potential implications of such actions that way we weren't going to wing this in two-week slivers.

We will have a left a trail of anti-human destruction.

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If this persists, we cross over into immoral territory. We only allow the fear that was only fluttering around the mind to settle and entrench itself into the mind set.

You will not be able to pull people back into rationalism.

We've taken away their right to earn a living. We've thrown them into the welfare system awash with programs that the entire country will pay a price for. We already have the NDP - being the clueless hacks of human nature - calling for the CERB to be permanent. Sure, let's incentivize people to not work just like illiberal ignoramuses like AOC and other socialists calling for a general strike.

Where is the money going to come from? Do they literally believe money is literally just printed and not a result of wealth creation that gives weight, credence and cadence to the value and production of it?

Have we become this illiterate and shockingly stupid?

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So back to this together and unicorns thing. You don't get to stay home, save some money because your Starbucks outings have been cut in half, and shout at people for being 'irresponsible' while calling for an indefinite set down as you shit in your Huggies. There's nothing brave or humanist in this stance.

It's in fact cowardly. And singing anthems to try and hide this cowardice only makes it pathetic because I guarantee you, the people suffering aren't singing the anthem.

They're busy trying to figure out their next move in life while you get to be assured yours stays in tact.

By understanding the true dictum of 'walking in someone else's shoes' only then will I take you seriously.

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The cure is already worse than the disease. Never in history have we been foolish enough to put healthy people in lockdown while shutting the economy down.

And if you truly love your fellow Canadian.

You understand we need to get up and running.

ASAP.

I was willing to give a month or two. Now, if you force this beyond what is necessary, it's an immoral disgrace.

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In short? The trade-off has been problematic.

The raw numbers, including the infectious fatality rate (around .1 and .2 I believe putting it on par with the flu) and the reality this virus has been around longer than first thought thus likely making the quarantine ineffective, aren't justifying what we've done to not just our economy but our mental health.

For one or two months, I can understand the shut down but now that we know that while it's still a precarious and serious situation we are better informed (as testing evolves) allowing us to move forward without necessarily 'overwhelming the system'.

Speaking of testing, we can do it without being invasive. I'm hearing about all these apps that monitor what people go in order to track Covid and even the potential of mandated micro-chips with a vaccine.

Resist this temptation. People who consent to this stuff have no idea what they may be consenting to. Disease tracking can be done by compiling data like we do economic data. This takes vision, organization and an agency mandated to run it.

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I saw way too much politics get in the way. We need to be spared of 'it's racist' to do this or that and quite frankly, where Canada is concerned, we need to rebuild our health infrastructure for infectious diseases perhaps without Dr. Tam. She compromised and betrayed her scientific credentials the second she played politics with the race card. She also likely is too closely aligned with internationally agencies like the WHO.

Scientists need to be scientists and stay in their lane.

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Who will be our Gandalf?

Positively 4th Street.

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Notice how negative the progressive left is acting in all this. The same sad, sulking, sophistry corrodes their minds with climate change.

They weirdly enjoy misery.

Sometimes I wonder if the powers that be over shoot the numbers on purpose knowing it won't reach '44 000 deaths' so as to hide their incompetence behind a cynical mask of 'See? We had to shut it down! We saved lives!'

Ah. But at what cost?

This is going to be the magic question.

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My Speech to Canada

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I find it pretty rich Canadians keep laughing at Trump when our response hasn't been exactly world beating. Trudeau, despite his ineptness and weird concept of leading, continues to play identity politics while in Quebec the state of the facilities for the elderly has been a national disgrace.

He who lives in glass houses shouldn't throw stones. Period.

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Ontario - the province that put Trudeau back in power - is keeping schools closed until May 29. Which is basically an insulting way of saying until September.

Very disappointed with Ford. And if even less impressed with his 'Yahoos protesting' quip. Here's the thing Doug, you're trampling on civil liberties for something that may be working. I happen to think anyone still pushing lockdowns are behind the curve.

Oh well. The Conservative party of Canada is more interested in a safe and syrupy brand Michael Chong and Andrew Scheer bring. Toast and jam politics. Boring and not inspiring.

It's a Red Tory party. They're the New Liberals' while the Liberals have scootched over to the Progressive Party.

The People's Party is where true conservatives have gone.

Anyway if you want to see how sheep think just read the comments here at Global News.

Oh, I'm sorry. I thought this was a democracy. You do realize in a free society with ostensibly free mind and people with agency people will challenge authority right?

That means the democracy you putzes so revere is HEALTHY.

A people who don't rebel is dead one inside.

Rather than mock, why don't for once set aside your parochial view and understand where they're coming from?

Which is why I'm thoroughly disappointed with Stan Shmenge and politicians like him who call out people. This is on the level of 'deplorables'.

I say give 'em all the finger.

This song I dedicate to all the people who got a nerve. How bitter do I feel about people who don't seem to take a moment for all the lives ruined because of this continued lockdown? Worse speak as thought they should just take it?  Like Bob Dylan bitter.

You've got a lotta nerve to say you are my friend
When I was down you just stood there grinning.

You got a lotta nerve to say you've got a helping hand to lend
You just want to be on the side that's winning.

You say I let you down you know it's not like that 
If you're so hurt why then don't you show it.

You say you've lost you faith but that's not where it's at
You had no faith to lose and you know it.

I know the reason that you talk behind my back
I used to be among the crowd you're in with.

Do you take me for such a fool to think I'd make contact
With the one who tries to hide what he don't know to begin with.

You see me on the street you always act surprised
You say, "How are you?" "Good luck" but you don't mean it.

When you now as well as me you'd rather see me paralyzed
Why don't you just come out once and scream it.

No, I do not feel that good when I see the heartbreaks you embrace
If I was a master thief perhaps I'd rob them.

And I know you're dissatisfied with your position and your place
Don't you understand it's not my problem.

I wish that for just one time you could stand inside my shoes
And just for that one moment I could be you.

Yes, I wish that for just one time you could stand inside my shoes
You'd know what a drag it is to see you.

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