Wear Your Mask - COVID-19 Thread II

[robkelk]

Getting a bunch of protesters demonstrating at Parliament Hill today - truckers who don't want to get their shots but still want to be allowed to cross the border (so they're complaining to us instead of to Washington), with the accretion of the expected anti-vaxxers - a friend who's actually seen the convoy says it looks like ten pickups for every one commercial truck.

He also called it the "Flu Trux Klan", which I think is apropos; choices have consequences, and these folks don't like the consequences of their choices so they want to be placed above the law.

This protest is continuing.

After keeping people awake all hours of the night every night last week, the protest's organizers offered to have the protesters stop honking their trucks' horns between 9am and 1pm today. Honking resumed at 10am -- which shows how little control the protest's organizers actually have.

Thus, the city is now in a state of emergency. And police will be preventing fuel and food from reaching the protesters.

The city's big winter festival, which was supposed to get thousands of people out of their homes and into the fresh air, is now online only. Mind you, that was going to happen this year anyway, but it's one more straw on the camel's back.

Well, at least Stephen Colbert apologized to Canada about this, so things aren't completely bad... but, yeah, I had to look south of the border to get a chuckle out of the situation.

The entire province is now under a state of emergency, because a second truck-blockade went up at the busiest border crossing with the USA and Joe Biden took notice. (Further discussion about the latter part of that belongs in Politics.)

We'll see what happens this weekend.

Well, the border-crossing protest has been cleared away.

Here in Ottawa...

We're now into the third week of what the organizers said would be a three-day protest... so, once all this is over, be very wary of any time estimates these people give you for delivery.

The court order against sounding horns is being flouted. (And the police continue to fail to enforce the injunction.) So much for "peaceful protest" - the protesters continue to claim they want freedom while they deny people the freedom to sleep at night or attend school or do business.