"As tragedy becomes routine, excess deaths feel less excessive. Levels of suffering that once felt like thunderclaps now resemble a metronome’s clicks—the background noise against which everyday life plays." "The same inexorable inuring happened a century ago: In 1920, the U.S. was hit by a fourth wave of the great flu pandemic that had begun two years earlier, but even as people died in huge numbers, “virtually no city responded,” ...

Conservative apologists say that Saskatchewan isn't a very racist or misogynistic place because overall people here are good. And yet our top political leader killed a mother with his truck, and didn't spend a day in jail for it, nor for his drunk driving charges. Then he went out of his way to avoid meeting with a peaceful protester asking for his government to address a suicide crisis, from the same parking lot the Premier happily met Yellow Vest oil terrorists in. This was after the Premier tweeted a Confederate flag.

So you want to change the world for the better?
A Saskatchewan version:
Step 1: turn 18 because you can't vote otherwise. Spend the first 18 years of your life without political influence unless you're an unusual character involved in party politics, student council and activism. If you're not 18 this year, you're probably too late to take the lazy vote-only route. You have to take the lead like Greta.

https://twitter.com/GretaThunberg/status/1129249534092161024?s=19