Where'd That Come From?

The common belief that Covid 19 resides mainly in crowded environments needs a re-think.

A report in my home town paper from Saskatchewan indicated that there were as many if not more Covid 19 infections in the province's far north.

Plague infections in sparsely populated bush and mining country? What are the chances?

Planetary Rescue?

Planet Earth doesn't exactly need Al Gore, David Suzuki and the Green Party to fight for its health. It can do what needs to be done by itself.

It's doing that right now with a very refined, very accurate campaign of easing up on the human infestation. Despite advanced science and medicine, Covid 19 looks like it will do what needs to be done.

Toppling Statues:

Toppling statues of historic figures is today the socially acceptable thing to do. There are people who think nothing important ever happened before the invention of cell phones. 

Even John A. MacDonald and Winston Churchill mean nothing to this bunch.

Apparently, today's navel gazers would replace them with heroes from the ranks of celebrities, scofflaws and rappers. 

Latest hero of the day as the protesters see it is the guy who got throttled by a heavy cop while resisting arrest in Minneapolis.

A statue erected to this hero would have to bear the inscription Died with an overweight cop's knee on his neck while resisting arrest.

This appears to be what today's heroism is made of.

Racial Prejudice:

Some people think putting more restrictions on the police will somehow help them gain racial equality.

That's faulty logic. Police work is difficult enough when dealing with people who have no respect for the law. That's why we need them.


People who tend to regard others as inferior for whatever reason, delude themselves into thinking everyone of the same skin color is just as prejudiced.

There's little anyone else can do about such attitudes. Goading others into joining in their protests serves only to divide rather than unite.

Trying to achieve equality by making it illegal to think otherwise will not work. You have to personally qualify. And for that, you have to re-examine your own thinking. 

Trump Right Again?

Here's an alternate analysis of what is actually going on with the pandemic situation.

The only sure thing about the virus is that only a small fraction of the people infected die.

The biggest problem appears to be to find out who is infected and who is not.

It is possible that over the years, some variant of the corona virus has infected all of us as the flu virus. It has mutated into Covid 19 in some people. The defensive microbes in some of us have suppressed it to the point of it being undetectable, while being lethal in others.

The Covid 19 variant is picking off the vulnerable among us.

Efforts to develop a vaccine are commendable, but too late for some.

President Trump is probably right in questioning the efforts of the UN's World Health Organization.