Let me start by saying I’ve already been having issues with the #Canadian public education system lately-- with the learning lack of learning happening on a day-to-day basis-- so any other unsavoury news that pops up just adds insult to injury.
Which brings me to today’s exciting story: the fire drill. Or, rather, it seems someone in the school may have pulled the alarm-- kids being kids-- but my daughter initially called it “a drill” until I dug a bit deeper.
All I’ve been doing lately is digging a bit deeper, and a bit deeper still-- everywhere I turn-- to get at the elusive #truth of these ridiculous situations we’ve all found ourselves in. And then even when I discover the truth, convincing the people around me becomes a virtually impossible task. Ad nauseum!
THE POST-COVID WORLD
That's how I refer to 2020 and beyond. You may think that's a misnomer because the Kung Flu is still around... but it's not. Whatever they were saying "COVID-19" was actually did very little damage (in the context of ordinary flu and seasonal pandemic metrics) but the mythology they've built up around it and its social and political repercussions are the most sinister stuff we've seen in centuries!
I can be diplomatic and say that this dystopian march toward a homogenous, poor, #socialist world has been happening very slowly for quite some time… while wars and social reforms and political campaigns kept us all entertained, they were cinching the straps tighter and tighter on what would eventually become our straitjacket. Our sterile, ignorant, powerless existence.
That’s the way I see it… and the more layers they add to this picture they're painting-- of safety and compliance and conformity-- the more absolute my convictions become. I can see my shorter and shorter list of rights and freedoms; I can feel the distance being forced between people; I can still read the peer-reviewed medical research being slid farther and farther out of reach; and I can hear the lies being told, then repeated and entrenched in our everyday lives.
I’ll deal with the implications in my own life… I'm a grown-ass man with very little fuse left. But when it comes to my ten-year-old daughter, I’m done fucking around!
Here in Ontario, Canada, they have our children wearing #masks all day-- inside, outside, in the gymnasium, in the classroom-- and they are still mandated to stay a safe distance away from their friends. Neither measure is right.
I’ll be posting again shortly about more specific #COVID-19 gripes and education shortfalls, believe me, but this was supposed to just be a short story from today that I wanted needed to get off my chest.
I guess I have a lot on my chest these days!
So What Was On Fire?
Nothing. There was no fire, as is usually the case in these small school incidents. And I should tell you that it was around -10 degrees Celsius without the wind today, which is 14 degrees Fahrenheit. It’s an important detail…
Because they had all the kids standing outside in the parking lot without a thread of winter clothing on for over FORTY MINUTES-- no coats, no boots, no gloves, no hats… nothing. I bet you can guess what they were wearing though. I’ll give you one guess.
MASKS... THEIR DIRTY FACE-RAGS!
Of course they were. If I had to pick one thing my child absolutely needs if she were to ever be stuck outside in the freezing cold during a school fire, it is undoubtedly a moist, bacteria-riddled cloth to put over her mouth and nose. Yeah, that’s exactly what she fucking needs!
Is my sarcasm coming across?
I really hope so… because I am tired of finding things that piss me off. If the world doesn’t suddenly wake up very soon and get back to some semblance of normalcy, I am going to start literally screaming at people in the street.
“You’re driving by yourself in your own fucking car… take that god-damned mask off before I do it myself and shove it somewhere particularly unpleasant!”
Nobody wants that (even though it might make me feel better temporarily) and people certainly don’t need any more reasons to be further divided…
UNITED WE STAND!
So let’s smarten up, shall we? At the very least-- even if we adults insist on being fragile, compliant morons-- let us not bring our children into this #plandemic madness. They have a chance to create their own better world once we’re out of the way, so let’s not fuck it all up by teaching them to fear it.
Angry sigh: #COVID is a lie.
To be continued… unfortunately.