Flying the flag at half-mast has become meaningless.
Shame on us. We have lost a signal of respect and regret that had significant meaning—shame on us for electing and tolerating such nonsense.
Loss of meaning
Truth in Advertising
I saw a bus billboard the other day. The sponsor was the Union of Public Employees for the Province. The message suggested that we all benefited from the work of Civil Servants.
What happened to ‘contact tracing?’
Histories of past epidemics show the importance of contact tracing.
But the subject has vanished from the public discussion and the media pays it no mind.
Maybe the media is not interested in solutions, only in the problems.
Woke
The politically correct crowd is changing our language to change us. They have added a new verb, woke.
We can fight fire with fire; we can create words that aim the speaker to a trajectory of thought.
A virtual farewell
A dear friend of mine passed away recently. He contracted and reacted badly to the Covid virus, which I prefer to call the Wuhan flu.
His wife was not able to be at his side. She was allowed to see him through Facebook as they removed life support.
This Time is Different
All financial crises are defaults in debt repayments. Nearly all of them start with government defaults.
Like all other debts, government debts come due and must be repaid; usually, with more debt, the government borrows money and pays the loan payment due; in the financial jargon, the obligations are ‘rolled over.’
Relying on our betters, the road to perdition
I commented to a friend, “with the loosening of the virus restrictions, we are finally being treated like adults.”
Correctly sensing my disapproval of the lockdown rules, he replied, “Well, they have to aim for the lowest common denominator.” He continued, “Some people are just not going to govern themselves properly.”
Hope and Despair
I alternate between despair and hope. Despair because of public acceptance of government encroachments on our freedoms; we are slipping towards a new ‘Dark Age’ where we will be oppressed and subject to faceless government workers.
Socialist government
We have elected a socialist government in BC. It is amazing to think that we have eliminated the horrors perpetrated by the National Socialist Democratic Party from our memories; and are willing to elect socialist governments today. When will we learn?
Socialism
Stephen Lewis once said, “I don’t understand how a person can be a Christian and not be a socialist?” I remember thinking, “I don’t understand how a person can be a socialist and claim to be a Christian?” My understanding…