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Saturday, May 1, 2021
Disneyland is poised to reopen, yet Californians are at the same time working to unseat their Governor for having been too restrictive.
The mind boggles.
Governments everywhere are enacting liberty-stifling rules ‘just in case’ that will close travel, impose curfews and arrest people who defy the health officials/politicians’ rules-du-jour. So, yes, we need restrictions – but consistency across the country that stays on the cautious end of the spectrum.
Everyone everywhere is adjusting, pandemic fears easing as things began opening up …
Everyone wants a return to normalcy, but we dare not.
This pandemic seems to have gone on so very long. We’ve grown so weary of the facts and politics – we want it to be over.
Yes, we are coming through a third and hopefully final wave/surge, but everything is uncertain just about everywhere. Now, again, we can’t go to restaurants, but we can golf. In Ontario, you can’t golf. No appearance of logic, no ubiquitous plan, no consistency. In B.C., you can’t travel outside your local community, let alone enter or leave the province – which seems draconian, but they are doing better than Alberta, so who can quarrel?
Adding to our sense of ease and relaxation are rising levels of vaccination and declining levels of severe illness and deaths. So life here in my community, life in my business, and my quality of life feel like it’s getting back to normal – and it’s not nearly, but I realize that feeling I have is because I’m getting used to how it is now. But case counts are rising again, warnings are coming from on high, and too many people are ignoring sound advice, being reckless, and COVID-19 remains a relentless enemy.
Opening up, and then closed down, or part-measures to blunt the curve once more.
We’ve added surges and variants to our vocabulary, and we know what those graphs mean – the risk our hospitals will be overloaded, so people who need medical service of any kind won’t get in the door. Imagine, what kind of nightmare would that be?
We live in a developed world cocoon of tranquility compared to the rest of the world. Yet, as bad as things are here – they indeed are – in terms of pressure on hospitals and dangerous rates of infection and new cases of COVID-19, the news coverage from India is stunning. They aren’t the only 3rd world developing country in strife, but they are getting the headlines. They are, as we are, dealing with the results of complacency.
Nobody wants an India kind of horror, but we must not be complacent.
Reader feedback:
I agree. Isn’t it amazing how many things our brain can work on at the same time, including the things it is working on that were not even consciously aware of, LH, Lethbridge, AB
Hi Mark: I, too, watched the documentary Tuesday night on Netflix. As a former snorkeler, I particularly enjoyed the breathtaking underwater photography, and found the closeness of man/octopus extremely emotional, BR, Calgary, AB
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