I liked that Dr. Bonnie Henry, our local heroine, with her own fan page, complimented the people of BC for their good behaviour. I believe too that our good behaviour reflects the history here of good leadership and good police. The corruption is in the white collar money laundering elite thievery and the street level lower class gangster driven drug trafficking. In the middle class, what communism and dictatorships, historically, wish to destroy because of the history of the Magna Carta, we’ve been rather well treated by the police and authorities.
We need to thank our judges and lawyers for the civil liberties , that while fought for them and earned, are now protected by these very respectable public institutions. It is not this way elsewhere. In Communist countries and other dictatorships the people generally know that the government is their enemy. The corruption is rife and whatever the government says is purely self serving. So why not break the law. Why listen to these uniformed rich thugs and their corrupt courts telling you to stay inside. There’s only the threat of violence and force that keeps people ‘obedient’ elsewhere. Here we trust our authorities mostly.
Unfortunately at the national level we have the most unethical and corrupt politician in the history of Canada who fired the female aboriginal Attorney General simply because she would not countenance a dirty evil deed by a wealthy corrupt Quebec corporation backing the unprincipled PM.
Despite that our Canadian premier’s especially Mr. Horgan of the BC NDP have been outstanding in their service to their people. The tentacles of Chinese bribery and U.N. globalism haven’t reached to the state and city level so in this crisis we’ve seen none of the WHO political nonsense that has plagued the scientific and medical communication and response at the national level.
We also have a free media other countries don’t have. The news of the CBC reads increasingly like the People’s Daily. But we still have access to the internet. Local news like Global and even nationally, the National Post are mostly publishing the truth. China would not allow any social media in it’s dictatorship unless it could be restricted to ‘state propaganda’. We don’t realize how dangerous it is for those living under dictatorships to get anything but propaganda.
The vast majority of Canadians historically have been law abiding, cooperative people who are now not appreciating increased taxation as a kind of punishment for what Dr. Henry correctly identifies as good behaviour. Thankfully our local government is planning to relax the restrictions in a few weeks because we’re over the major medical threat and peak of the first wave of the pandemic. My friend Kirk shared the metaphor, just because we are getting closer to the ground doesn’t mean we can take off the parachute. The Corona virus is still there.
The spread and speed of spread to vulnerable populations has been dramatically slowed by quarantine and social distancing, hand washing and masks. The Scientific medical community has had time to identify cures like Hydroxychloroquine and Remsifer. We’ve also learned better identification and management. The public health services and virtual offices and even robots in the ICU have all been developed in a miraculous matter of weeks. What in the HIV epidemic took years, we’ve done in 2-3 months. The pandemic would not have occurred if science rather than politics and self interest had ruled in China. Italy was sacrificed before we knew the old and immunosuppressed were most at risk. Until the testing of the quarantined cruise ships and Iceland’s research we didn’t know that 50 % of people get the virus but not the disease. They develop natural immunity. It’s 3-5 days of the disease being spread in the asymptomatic in the first few days. All this was unknown. In New York we learned that the fomites carrying the virus were the metal railings in elevators, the buttons and the dense spaces. Unfortunately Canada’s chief health minister told people not to wear masks despite the success of this measure in Singapore, Taiwan and South Korea. Thankfully BC had Dr. Bonnie Henry who was not swayed by politics , but instead with the support of the Health Minister Mr. Dix, focussed on preventing disease and saving lives with truth.
We had the Chinese fentanyl epidemic of overdoses and in our DTES the poorest of people, the sick and homeless addicts are now being hit by the Chinese Covid 19 virus despite all the attempts by the free Chinese of Taiwan to warn us all about the Communist lies and it’s take over of the WHO. Now we see that the leaders of the Hong Kong uprising are all being rounded up and persecuted. Days before this pandemic was ‘allowed’ to spread, after it’s most likely leak from a Wuhan Virology lab , the million strong Hong Kong revolt was subjected to brutal crackdown. Nothing like a pandemic to solve internal domestic problems and further what an added advantage is the western democracies suffer and that insufferable critic of Communism Mr. Trump gets swept away as well. Better to have ‘useful idiots’ like Canada’s Mr. Trudeau to do trade with. He gave us 16 tons of emergency equipment against medical advice in February, stolen from our doctors and nurses. The communist chinese gave back defective crap that may as well be aimed at killing first responsders. . The Communist Chinese Central Committee, all hard men, with only one very hard token woman, has always laughed at the ‘softness’ ‘effeminate” ‘democratic’ west.
Meanwhile I’ve worked from my home with a virtual office daily seeing and talking with patients, rather enjoying only commuting from the living room to the office without having to use my car. Even the low price of gas can’t entice me to return to hours a day of sitting in my car despite my using the time to listen to medical podcasts and speaker meetings. At home I walk the dog more and exercise and feel healthier and less like a lemming or sardine. I loved the year I commuted an hour each way by train in London only because everyone had a seat and I could read and write on the train. This standing room only makes commuting with public transport unsavoury. Elsewhere women only cars and cars or times for the elderly or disabled have humanized the public transport. Perhaps we’ll see more of that. Gender fluid I’ve not felt safe on public transit at night and been thankful for my car. Safety grows more important with age.
At home I feel safe. Not just from the cornavirus but increasingly from the lawlessness of the drug addicted and the arrogant. I’m thankful in many way for this quarantine which has overall worked so well here compared to elsewhere because it reminds me that I see a skewed slice of the population. Having my life and my dog’s life threatened repeatedly in my work and felt the callous disregard of the immediate authorities who live themselves in elite gated communities I became more and more exhausted. The suburbs were safer. My home is the safest and I’m just so thankful to have the space to relax and let go of the tension of going out and mixing with strangers every day.
People forget that for hundreds of thousands of years humans didn’t mix and lies like “Diversity is our strength’ would only fly on television and pornography raised populations. The workplace can be diverse but all the scientific literature shows that our homes need to be places of safety and routine where we recuperate. I feel I’m recuperating among civilized neighbours who mostly walk their dogs on leashes and say good morning and good evening. Even most of the cyclists slow to pass and there’s a regard for others which I so often missed in the road rage world of self absorbed superior diverse drivers.
It’s Saturday. It feels like a Saturday. I don’t work. I’ve an open slate. Yesterday I did the laundry and a variety of errands including picking up my Harley. I’m looking forward to a ride, perhaps to the country. A little wind therapy and motorcycle meditation goes along way to bringing me closer to God and stilling the busy beast and settling the monkey mind. If I think of anything else but the ride I’m toast. Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance really speaks to the two wheel experience.
Thank you God for helping us through this time. Thank you for all the good people in the world and the good leadership we have locally. Thank you for kindness and love and thoughtfulness. Hallelujah!
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