Now that 2021 is running out of time I find myself rereading what I wrote around New Years Eve last year. It seems that I hoped the Old Year 2020 would die, but it didn’t, it’s still rotting on its feet and coming after me like a zombie hungry for my brains. And the majority of my fellow Canadians are still hung up on hope and faith. Back then we weren’t yet threatened with being ostracized, even treated like criminals because we were “unvaccinated”. They hadn’t yet really brought out the Vaccinations. Remember?
I think it's way past time for everybody to stop believing, especially in the Covid routine. I'm speaking especially of the alleged new Covid from Britain which is alleged to be many times more "contagious" and which is the excuse to shut down the most economically vital parts of Britain just when the Christmas Season should have provided some relief to the working class and the small business community. This is far too convenient an excuse for what is Martial Law (albeit with with a phoney rebranding) to be believable. Stop believing in stories that are too convenient for those who mean you harm. Statements that are too convenient to be true should be examined as if they were weapons, which they are.
You have been a good citizen, worn the mask, sanitized, kept distant, kept locked down, avoided crowds. But all that meant nothing? The Covid is still contagious. You didn't surrender enough of your life and now you have to give even more of what you no longer have to give? This is not believable. Stop believing in stories that are convenient for those who mean you harm.
It’s the middle of November 2021. In no time at all it will be Christmas 2021, the season that used to rejuvenate the family businesses, the little gift shops and restaurants. What do I want to bet that this season there will not still be people walking the open sidewalks wearing medical masks?
What would I want to bet that this season, this New Years Eve, there will be an end to people waiting in lines, everybody in masks and keeping six feet apart from everybody else, waiting to be allowed to come into the store? What do I want to bet that this season there will be people with open faces taking for granted their natural and guaranteed right to freedom of movement, travelling on planes and trains to visit their families and friends with no one checking whether they have Covid or whether they have government permission to travel registered on their Smart Phones? What do I want to bet that we will all be free of the fear of the police busting in on our little New Years family gatherings like the Quebec police did last New Years?
It’s almost 2022, really. And yet look back at the cusp of 2021, a year ago when we were hoping that that nightmare, the year 2020, would really die and the new year be the year when our country would live again, free and strong like it was. We’re still hoping that 2020 will be over. And it never seems to die. A lot of us Canadians are betting that taking the Vaccine and getting our Vaccination Pass will transport us to normality again. But of course internal passes and masks over our mouths and noses and having to ask permission to breath, as little kids in our public schools are having to do, that’s not normal. We’re just supposed to be dumb enough to accept it as normal. We’re all supposed to believe that those little steps toward Orwell’s 1984 are going to be absolutely the government’s last territorial demand. Yes, kids, I just quoted Hitler.