Prime Minister Justin Trudeau insists that we must "follow the science," but ridiculously provides no science for us to follow. So let us do a little arithmetic together, shall we?
We are approaching 90% of adults being vaxxed in Canada. The health authoritarians say we have been experiencing a "pandemic of the unvaxxed" for the past year, which would suggest that probably 80% of the unvaxxed must, by now, have been infected. That, in turn, means 80% of the surviving unvaxxed have natural immunity, which even the CDC admits is 6 times better than the vaxxes. Added together, that means around 98% of the population has as much protection as it is possible to get (short of stocking up on ivermectin and hydroxychloroquine).
So what are the lunatic politicians waiting for? 100% protection? Is the difference between where we are now and where we will get to with even the most draconian mandates worth fighting over? Is bumping up the percentage of the protected by another 2% really going to make any practical difference? If our health-care system is so fragile that it can't handle the mild omicron surge with 98% of the population protected, we have bigger problems than the politicians are admitting. We should be questioning our cherished socialized medical system.
The science SCREAMS that the mandates have long outlined their usefulness. The more the idiot politicians double down on their anti-protest enforcements - declaring states of emergency, stealing the truckers' fuel supplies, stealing their money, beating up elderly supporters - the more I support the truckers. Civil disobedience and passive resistance have a long and honourable tradition. I do not apologize; I applaud.
Now is NOT the time for the truckers to go home. Their message obviously has NOT gotten through to the politicians. The politicians are on an ego-driven crusade. I'm hoping the blockades expand, that the noise and disruption increase, until the politicians in all parties back down, admit they have over-reached, and give us our freedom back. The tyrants need to be disciplined, put in their place. They have disgraced themselves; they do not deserve being given a face-saving option any more.
To all you supporters of the mandates who are masquerading as "innocent victims" of the trucker protest I say: Don't worry, it's only two weeks to flatten the tyranny! If you weren't worried about the business closures and economic disruption of the past two years, it is too late to start pretending to care now. I have no sympathy. "We're all in this together."