What Will it be??

When the corona virus finally finishes its work, allowing humanity to return to normal, what will that new normal be?

Are we going to return to looking for someone to blame for all grievances, be they personal, political, social or historic? 

Or is the virus going to inject a little much-needed perspective into our lives? 

That is what happened during the war years. That is why the post-war years were so productive of positive human effort. There was a big lesson recently learned. People were now ready to accept what was happening to them as much better than fighting for their lives.

Nobody felt automatically entitled to everything within reach.

Mob Rule:

 Should be interesting to watch the US judiciary get out of the hole they dug themselves in by the George Floyd mob scene. Leaving the verdict as it stands validates Mob Rule in the United States of America. 

It's where the jurors respond more to the activists orchestrating an ugly mob scene in the streets than to the evidence as presented before the court.

Also, leaving it as it is makes policing in the US a dangerous, garbage type of occupation, something only an immature gunslinger mentality might aspire to. 

That can lead only to  eventual attempts at mob control using armored vehicles and .50 mm Browning machine gun to keep the peace. Almost certainly not exactly what the US founding fathers had in mind..

Relaxed Vigilance?

 Has the advent of the vaccines relaxed us enough to contribute to the second, and possibly third waves of infections?

The Brits have succeeded in jabbing the largest percentage of their citizens according to the media. How are they doing? Do they have Covid 19 on the ropes yet?

Their numbers ought to be a good measuring stick on what's going to happen here if our salvation army ever gets our act together.

Climate Change Canada??

 So there's a new bureaucracy in Ottawa dedicated to stopping our planet's natural functions. It's called Climate Change Canada.

Wow! Wonder how they plan to do that? It has always been understood that if the weather changes, we adapt. Same goes for climate.

Over millions of years the planet endured ongoing climate change. The dinosaurs endured climate change until an oversized boulder from space relieved them of that responsibility.

Maybe our climatologists on Parliament Hill should take the time to check with the people who specialize in planetary dynamics to see if there is such a thing as a natural mechanism to keep the climate exactly the same all the time.

And if there isn't, why are they making an issue and an expensive bureaucracy out of it?

Fatherly Advice:

 Very refreshing to see a rational attitude re: the pandemic from a government official.

Earlier in the week, Ontario Premier Doug Ford somewhat reduced the panic and offered a bit of sage advice to Ontarians along with some easment of the lockdowns. 

Ford said he understood the growing frustration and he trusts people will take responsibility for their own behaviour during the period of eased regulations.

That's good advice.

Garbage News?

Local hooligans appear to have taken to picking on Canadians of Chinese origin lately, possibly looking for someone to blame for the pandemic..

Not a nice thing to do. If they looked, they should have noticed oriental faces absent from the rioting mobs both in Canada and the US. 

They appear to be somewhere else, probably going to school or doing something useful.

Attitudes:

 One of the surgeons working on the skin problem over my left cheek last week asked if I'd had my Covid shot yet. 

When I said not yet, he asked why not. I told him I thought they're prioritizing it all wrong. 

"It should be people who have a stretch of years to live yet, not old guys like me." 

He disagreed. Said he'd hate to be the one making decisions like that.

Think he's serious, or just trying to be nice?.

 making decisions like that.