Thread by @jaycurrie

I rather like the idea of 15 minute cities. Most of what you need within 15 minutes walking, biking or using public transit. Cool. However, I don't think that is what our unelected, climate change ambitious, planners have in mind. They want 15 minute restrictions. 1/

Whole different animal. A well designed, relatively dense, built environment with shops and services well located is, frankly, where I live now. I don't walk as much as I should but could easily get most of that I need within 15 minutes. 2/

However, one son plays hockey and likes the driving range, another had a job a 15 minute drive from home. Sure, they could take the bus...sort of. Public transit is far from perfect in Victoria, not awful, about 80%. 3/

So we do a bit of driving. And that driving seems to be the target of the 15 minute city zealots. The Oxford model monitors your car and fines you if you take your car outside your zone more than 100 times a year. 4/

The 100 times a year is, of course, the proverbial thin end of the wedge. Once in place it can be ratcheted back or tied to some measure of your carbon emissions or your overall "social credit" score. 5/

Three years ago I would have said that was a crazy conspiracy theory. Then QR-ID for jab status was imposed and, worse, enforced. Ostensibly for "health" reasons, actually as a means of coercing greater jab uptake. 6/

What was astonishing, and more than a little depressing, was the remarkable degree of compliance with the QR-ID program. If "they" wanted proof of concept, they got it. For the roughly 80% jabbed the QR-ID was just another thing for the greater good. 7/

Remember, there was no official opposition to the program at the federal or provincial levels: in BC the Libs were largely silent, the Greens enthusiastic. In Ottawa, no official party or any member of the legacy media objected to ArriveCan in principle. 8/

It took the Convoy to actually kill off the provincial QR-IDs and the gormless feds kept up ArriveScam for months. And the feds are putting other digital id initiatives out for tender as I write. 9/

This needs to be a major issue in every election campaign in Canada. Politicians need to be put on the spot about digital id, asked point blank if they would oppose the re-imposition of QR-ID. 10/

Of course, we have now entered the era of 'stealth" campaigning where politicians can run campaigns without encountering unvetted members of the public and will refuse to talk to "independent" media. Breaking through that will be tough. 11/

Even tougher you are not allowed to "leave your zone" or sign on to the net without a "trusted identity" (which is the logical extension of QR-ID). Saying #NoDigitalID needs to start right now. 12/12