Yes, thanks Bruce for covering this protest and letting us know that the anti-science, anti-mask, anti-vaxx folks, who don’t know the definition of altruism, and have drunk the Kool-Aid, are here amongst us and not just in Ottawa and Windsor. I’m surprised they weren’t carrying Trump flags and Confederate flags and demanding that they have leadership roles when they form the new government. In the immortal words of Forrest Gump, “My momma always said ‘stupid is as stupid does.’ “
It truly boggles the mind how after 2 years of listening to volumes of information from doctors, immunologists, virologists, epidemiologists, and other scientific bodies, there are STILL so many people ‘out there’ who feel this whole Pandemic is all about their own personal inconvenience.
This Pandemic began with a ‘mutant’ virus, which had never been seen before, so scientists had to start from scratch to try and figure out how to handle it. Public Health protocols have had to change over time, as the virus mutated and scientists learned more about it. The vaccines, developed to combat the first variant, may not be as protective against the more recent variants – hence the need for booster doses. And this could go on for some time yet.
Seems the majority of those complaining about ‘forced vaccinations’ and ‘loss of freedoms’ are too young to remember the Polio epidemic from 1948–1955, when hospitals were filled with patients in ‘iron lungs’ – those massive contraptions which were the precursors to today’s ventilators. There was confusion and panic, people were told to avoid gatherings and crowds, and there were closures of sports events and swimming pools.
There was also a mad scurry to develop a vaccine, and we all willingly lined up to get it as soon as it was made available. I don’t recall anyone complaining about it, in fact it was welcomed with open arms.
This change in attitude appears to be the result of the overwhelming bombardment of misguided personal opinions on ‘Social Media’, which are accepted by far too many as ‘fact’, while scientific reports are shunned and regarded with suspicion.
Two years later, and after 5.8 million deaths worldwide, a fringe is still droning on with the same selfish nonsense: masks to decrease virus transmission are “muzzles”.
Kids CAN learn something, namely that the most simple and trivial effort (wearing a mask in indoor public places) can help others in a time of emergency. Masks do not stop people breathing. Covid, on the other hand, has stopped millions of people from breathing.
Maybe the pandemic is winding down and becoming something milder, partly because so many people are vaccinated and protected. And maybe another, more dangerous variant will come along. Either way, it doesn’t change the fact that many of these public health measures were necessary for saving lives and keeping hospitals functional. The “freedom” that so many anti-mask and anti-vaccine protesters march about is often the freedom to ignore reality, to do whatever they want regardless of whom it hurts or kills, and simply the vanity of not wanting to wear a mask.
Yes, the restrictions have been difficult for everyone, some more than others. Honking horns and shouting “freedom” isn’t the solution to a problem that, not so long ago, was making morgues overflow in places all over North America, Europe, and elsewhere, and forcing people to store bodies in portable freezers. Memory is short, obviously. Luckily, the majority has a sense of duty and compassion that lasts longer than the memory of “freedom” protesters, because the majority realize that real freedom doesn’t truly exist without responsibility.
Deranged people are 'giving their two cents worth' of opinions and of course making their judgemental and disrespectful commentary and pushing their government's fascistic dictates for how all others are to submit to medical death cult tyrants at this Bruce Wark's article:
