Trucker Blockade Caused Lasting Psychological Damage to Canadians

JLM

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Wife and I just came back a few days ago from visiting family on Toronto, a few hundred yards north of lake Ontario.
She gets up this morning with a sore throat and short of breath.
I tell her it's just a cold, because it was damn cold in Toronto.
a lot colder than 500 miles north where we live!
But she insists on taking a covid test....
And of course, it came back negative!
Maybe she thinks the peace of mind is worth it!
 

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That is very true, every person on the planet is dying. I would just rather do it 10 years from now instead of next week! :)
Maybe if you quit starving your brain of oxygen and take off the mask you will get those ten years . And you may even find some enjoyment while at it .
 

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Maybe if you quit starving your brain of oxygen and take off the mask you will get those ten years . And you may even find some enjoyment while at it .
I've been retired for 23+ years and have enjoyed most of it. If I "cashed in" tomorrow I'd likely not be missing much, on the plus side my health is still reasonable.
 

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I've been retired for 23+ years and have enjoyed most of it. If I "cashed in" tomorrow I'd likely not be missing much, on the plus side my health is still reasonable.
Yes the last two years have been a bitch , too bad they were stolen from you .
 

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Stolen? To the contrary, more like a gift! I've enjoyed good health, thanks to advice from the doctors.............Bonnie Henry for sure! :)
You mean the advice from Saint Bonnie Henry that we should not rely on masks? Or her declaration that masks are not an effective way of protecting yourself and can actually be causing more harm? Or her advice that people should not wear masks unless they are sick, and people certainly shouldn't be wearing them all day long? Did you follow her advice?

Bonnie Henry's advice on masks
 
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You mean the advice from Saint Bonnie Henry that we should not rely on masks? Or her declaration that masks are not an effective way of protecting yourself and can actually be causing more harm? Or her advice that people should not wear masks unless they are sick, and people certainly shouldn't be wearing them all day long? Did you follow her advice?

Bonnie Henry's advice on masks
That’s so last year , follow the evolving science will ya . It has worked for JLM
 
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Ron in Regina

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Anywho….Trucker Convoy, etc….Prime Minister Justin Trudeau may think he’s going to dodge accountability for his recent unjustified use of the Emergencies Act…..& he probably will…but not until he & Jagmeet shut down a committee answerable to Parliament & untimely the Canadian People.
One of the stupidest arguments to emerge during Canada’s pandemic experience was the idea that by flying the Canadian flag, the Freedom Convoy types had ruined the Canadian flag for everyone else. And that Canadians, as a result, were hesitant to display the flag lest they be thought of as anti-vaxxers, COVID-deniers or outright Nazis.

But with the pandemic behind us, with the keyboard class mostly resigned-to-happy with how it went (better than America is all that really counts, right?) I was a bit surprised to see this narrative exhumed, dressed up in a Hawaiian shirt and dragged around town for Canada Day in triumph. The narrative: We have our flag back? Really?
“Canadians reclaim Maple Leaf flag amid Trump threats,” was CTV’s Canada Day headline. “Flying the flag is no longer raising the same sorts of suspicions that the person displaying it harbours sympathies for right-wing causes,” University of Guelph history professor Matthew Hayday told the network.

Without wishing to be impolite at this time of ant-Trump solidarity, this is unhinged. Normal people did not haul down their Canadian flags for fear of being seen as right-wing extremists (which not all Freedom Convoy participants were, of course, but culture wars need their caricatures).
 

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One of the stupidest arguments to emerge during Canada’s pandemic experience was the idea that by flying the Canadian flag, the Freedom Convoy types had ruined the Canadian flag for everyone else. And that Canadians, as a result, were hesitant to display the flag lest they be thought of as anti-vaxxers, COVID-deniers or outright Nazis.

But with the pandemic behind us, with the keyboard class mostly resigned-to-happy with how it went (better than America is all that really counts, right?) I was a bit surprised to see this narrative exhumed, dressed up in a Hawaiian shirt and dragged around town for Canada Day in triumph. The narrative: We have our flag back? Really?
“Canadians reclaim Maple Leaf flag amid Trump threats,” was CTV’s Canada Day headline. “Flying the flag is no longer raising the same sorts of suspicions that the person displaying it harbours sympathies for right-wing causes,” University of Guelph history professor Matthew Hayday told the network.

Without wishing to be impolite at this time of ant-Trump solidarity, this is unhinged. Normal people did not haul down their Canadian flags for fear of being seen as right-wing extremists (which not all Freedom Convoy participants were, of course, but culture wars need their caricatures).
What did the Fuck Trudeau flag do to them? Make them want to fuck Trudeau?