Chapter 17 “Lessons Learnt from COVIDs: Governments with no money” Western governments handed out money like candy canes to both individuals and businesses. Various augmentations to unemployment insurance, wage subsidies and low interest loans to businesses just to name a few. Just ask the late Tsar Alexander of Russia about this. Hungry and unemployed peopleContinue reading “Virus#26: Chapter 17 lessons learnt from the COVIDs: Governments with no money”
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Poetry Corner: “Good Riddance Trump”
Good Riddance Trump Such a shame you may have tried to make Make America Great Againand you may have accomplished certain actions preventing America from going down the drain But your arrogance and disdain plus your bullying and attempts at forced shamereally called your self aggrandizement nothing but a cynical political game Your attempted attemptContinue reading “Poetry Corner: “Good Riddance Trump””
Virus#26:Chapter 15:”lessons learnt from the COVIDs: Obedience and Fear”
Chapter 15 “Lessons learnt from the COVIDs: obedience and fear” One of the best ways to control a population is through fear and it is even better when it involves their life. Stalin had executions and Siberia. Mao had re-education camps. Canada had the residential school system. In this case the cause of your deathContinue reading “Virus#26:Chapter 15:”lessons learnt from the COVIDs: Obedience and Fear””
Chapter 14: “Lessons learnt from the COVIDs: the medicos”
Thank goodness the medicos did not run the show during COVID times. You must remember they are there and their whole essence is to save lives. So they were best kept reigned in politically particularly as they were not elected officials. They are technocrats and many quite frankly are nerds with the personality of aContinue reading “Chapter 14: “Lessons learnt from the COVIDs: the medicos””
Virus#26: Chapter 13 lessons learnt from the COVIDs : the politicos
Chapter 13:” lessons learnt from the COVIDs: the politicos” The politicos at first glance seemed to be running the COVID outbreak. The inability of the medical system to handle the initial wave was a result of continual cuts made to the medical system by the politicos. That meant less PPE and less front-line medical workersContinue reading “Virus#26: Chapter 13 lessons learnt from the COVIDs : the politicos”
Virus#26: Chapter 12 lessons learnt from the COVIDs: the cult of the front- line worker
Chapter 12 “lessons learnt from the COVIDs: the cult of the front-line worker” There are the medical professionals and politicians who form the top of the pyramid in the COVID narrative but there are also grocers, gas station attendants, bus and taxi drivers and a whole host of people in “essential businesses” that remained openContinue reading “Virus#26: Chapter 12 lessons learnt from the COVIDs: the cult of the front- line worker”
Virus#26:Chapter 11 lessons learnt from the COVIDs: the failure of social distancing
Chapter 11: “lessons leant from COVIDs: the failure of social distancing” During the COVID-19 waves there was a politico-medico obsession with social distancing to the extent failure to adhere to it could result in warnings from COVID-19 “police forces”, fines, imprisonment and of course the dressing down given by “outraged” municipal, state, provincial and federalContinue reading “Virus#26:Chapter 11 lessons learnt from the COVIDs: the failure of social distancing”
Virus #26: Chapter 10 Lessons to be learnt from the COVIDs: Propaganda’s effect
Chapter 10 “Lessons learnt from COVIDs: propaganda’s effect” In the guise of an advertising campaign Canadians were bombarded with an incessant stream of propaganda. Propaganda is primarily a tool of totalitarian governments to maintain control of its citizens. The volume of it will dim independent thinking. However, at some point, particularly with people not familiarContinue reading “Virus #26: Chapter 10 Lessons to be learnt from the COVIDs: Propaganda’s effect”
Virus #26:Chapter 9 lessons learnt from the COVIDs; people were amoebas
Chapter 9 “lessons learnt from the COVIDs; people are amoebas” At least a toddler has some power of rational thought including the power to stand up to parental dictatorship. That may manifest itself in stubbornness, anger or temper tantrums hence the expression “terrible twos”. The overwhelming majority of the population sucked up the steady streamContinue reading “Virus #26:Chapter 9 lessons learnt from the COVIDs; people were amoebas”
VIRUS#26: Chapter 8 lessons learnt from the COVIDs: people were treated as toddlers
Chapter 8” lessons learnt from the COVIDs; people were treated like toddlers” Now if you have raised children when they get to the terrible twos and have started their growth into toddlerdom you find constant repetition is necessary to correct their behaviour. Keep drilling the message in. In political terms it amounts to parental dictatorship.Continue reading “VIRUS#26: Chapter 8 lessons learnt from the COVIDs: people were treated as toddlers”
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