Well this year didn’t really start off the way I was hoping. First, I separated my shoulder which rendered me (mostly) useless at work and interfered with my sleep. That is starting to get better now, but I can see that it’s going to be quite a while until I’m past the injury far enough to use my fancy new golf clubs. Next we had a baby born into the family, so we took a whirlwind trip to Edmonton to snuggle the newest grandchild. When we got back, there were signs of sickness in the air, so we tested and discovered we had picked up Covid in Alberta. So for the last week or so I’ve been working from home, doing administrative stuff. The working conditions are good, and the commute is perfect, but I find myself missing the outside world and, even more, my co-workers. As for the Covid, I got pretty lucky and never got any illness more than the sniffles. Me and my three vaccinations scored a quick KO.
I also found myself pretty disappointed with that story I wrote, so sitting down to write in the blog seemed unappealing. But you have to get back on the metaphorical horse eventually, so here I am.
The big news thing of the last few weeks has been the trucker protest in Ottawa. I am glad we live in a country free enough to allow such a disruptive event, but a few things about it leave me shaking my head. First, their stated aim was to repeal the vaccine mandate for truckers crossing the border, but the USA has the same rule, so pestering the Canadian government wasn’t going to do them any good. Second, most of the secondary things that they were upset about, like masks and social distancing, are set by the provinces, so going to Victoria or Edmonton or Quebec City, or whatever capital you live near, would be a lot more efficient than clogging up Ottawa which can’t do anything about those rules. Then the protest got latched on to by fringe people, waving flags with swastikas and confederate flags, pulling off people’s masks and bullying Asians. The protest didn’t really need the bad publicity, but there it was. I also saw several instances of crowds swearing at and menacing news crews. For what? You want your point of view broadcast for all to see, so why shoot the messenger? If favourable coverage of their grieves was what they wanted, that’s going to have the opposite effect. Thanks Donald Trump and everyone dumb enough to worship his world view for bringing in a new era of public mistrust. It’s funny they say the media are liars, because even when someone says that, they go back and report it as a fair part of the story. Or maybe you want some bias confirmation in the form of Tucker Carlson, who surely is infinitely less credible than the CBC. I have said before: you can tell a lying journalist easily – he’s unemployed, and the ultra right Fox News is not the home of many actual journalists. Plus, it’s American, and we don’t need their bullshit here, we have enough of our own already. And the result of the truckers’ attempt to swing public opinion on Covid restrictions? Around 72% of Canadians disagree with them, and that is higher than when the protest began. Maybe not enough American donors pitched in…
Anyways, sorry about the rant. I’m not even really against the protest, but I’m definitely against bullying journalists and having foreign countries fund internal disagreements. Whenever it happens, the next federal election is going to be some fireworks!
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There’s still time to get it together, 2022, but let’s not leave it too long.