Hibernation Day #473 | The reason why Victoria gardens are brilliant is that we start gardening in January. Or, at least, tidying up. Brilliant Day, high of 13 but much warmer in the direct sun. I did a bunch of defensive pruning. 1/
The thing about this little micro-climate is that stuff that survives grows like topsy. Today I was cutting paths to the places I want to actually prune next week. If I don't the blackberry and wild roses are impassable. And the ivy. Oh, God, the ivy. 2/
But it was warm enough to sit out on my deck when I was done and enjoy a well earned beer. For most of us, normal, with a few bumps, has returned. The bumps are not being able to travel to the US without proof of 2 jabs, understocked shelves, long waits for stuff. 3/
Not good, but OK. My desire to go to Maui is constrained by the wretched junior resource market. As always there are a few markers, and good for them, I say. They annoy my sweet Susan but I really don't care. Like jabs, they are really none of my business. 4/
Over at #bcpoli the maskers are demanding that Dr. Bonnie Henry be fired for failing to re-impose mask mandates. I happen to think she is right but, more to the point, I doubt mandates could be re-imposed. A lot of people are simply done with the COVID narratives. 5/
To get masks, much less QR-ID, to work there has to be public buy-in. People have to be scared. I don't get the sense that anyone is scared anymore. Like most instances of public panic, COVID hit a peak last Fall and has been declining ever since. 6/
Lots of people are still getting COVID and 2022 had more COVID deaths than 2021 (yeah Jabs!), but the panic has gone. And the panic was the only thing which let PHO and gov't get away with the jab mandates, QR-ID, masks, plexiglass and cute little arrows at the grocery. 7/
There are still a few people clinging to the idea that COVID is a killer disease; but many people have had COVID and lived to tell the tale. The CFR of .03 has been borne out. It is about as fatal as the flu. Yes, nasty for the old and very frail, but generally, not so bad. 8/
As I have said before, it will be choppy as the narrative implodes. Especially as the jab deaths and injuries begin to mount up. For the moment, the jabbed are trying hard to whistle by the graveyard. Jabbed deaths are coincidences..no, really. And how rude of you to ask. 9/
Reality is, once again, poking its nose into the tent. Kids don't die of heart attacks, athletes don't drop dead on the playing field, cancer patients in remission do not suddenly have Stage 4 recurrences. 10/
The unjabbed are annoyed with the entirely unscientific and unconstitutional penalties they have been made to pay. But they're fine. What they know is that they have not had a gene altering jab with unknown consequences stuck into them. 11/
Were I the gov't or PHO, I would be much more worried about the jabbed, the obedient, the trusting. If the jabs turn out to be as dangerous as they look to be, 80% of the population is going to be really, really mad. And worried. And volatile. 12/
Myself, I am going to drink a nice read wine in front of my fire and read Chips (there is a lot of Chips). I took my walk, I will take my D&K and sleep soundly. Stock up, Winter is (sort of) here. Spring is coming, my bulbs have broken ground. 13/
Hibernating is easy with a good book, people you love, a great dog and a brilliant house. We are very lucky. A lot of other people are not so lucky. These last couple of years have been very hard on the poor, the single, the badly housed. We all need to do better. And help. 14/14
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