Hibernation Day #422 | OK. Pacific storm time. #BCStorm We are right on the Strait of Juan de Fuca which is supposed to get feisty tonight. Nothing that interesting yet, but a cold front coming, maybe snow by Tuesday. 1/
We still have some stocking up to do but we have enough food for three or four weeks at current consumption. If it snows seriously in Victoria, we are basically stuck at home for a few days. It never lasts longer than that, until it does. 2/
COVID is fading into the past. Of course you could have said that this time last year and then Omicron showed up and everyone, jabbed and unjabbed, got sick. We need a full year without the Vid to say we're done. 3/
It is astonishing to see the footage out of China where the population is not happy with more lockdowns and the weird quarantine cities being constructed. Real riots and the police pushed back. I don't think that will happen here because lockdowns are not a thing. 4/
Omicron killed the fear. The jabs did very little, the boosters less, people are done. So how will our Libs get their QR-ID in place? I don't think a "climate emergency" is going to fly. The whole country could be under snow this week. Harshes the climate buzz. 5/
Unless there is another, more dangerous, variant, the fear cycle is pretty much done and with it much chance of implementing anything but a voluntary digital id. Instead of fear, maybe use incentives? But what would it take? 6/
Goofy incentives like a $20 grocery gift cert id you get boosted are not enough. If the gov't wants QR-ID there is going to have to be a lot more carrot and rather less stick. 7/
As the narrative collapses and the number of excess deaths rises more and more people are declining the booster and joining the ranks of the filthy unvaxxed. "Up to date" is the hill the jabs die on. The good will, the "do the right thing" bs is no longer working. 8/
This is a wonderful night to hibernate in front of my fire, with the last volume of Chips and a glass or two of Shiraz. I am saving Part 3 of my #POEC round-up for the morning. Trudeau is best faced well rested. Stock up, take D, walk, Winter is here, Spring is in sight. 9/9
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