I was done with politics when COVID started. I was ready for semi retirement and travel with my husband. I thought I might take a part time job. I was going to teach yoga maybe, or just continue working as an electrician. I had decided that politics wasn’t me. It was something I was doing because I had been encouraged to be political, and philosophical while growing up, by my parents.
The book called The Drama of the Gifted Child talks about identity and how we sometimes think we are someone who we are not because of how our parents treat us while we grow up. This was why I had decided I was done with politics. And then COVID happened. People said it was about science. But many of us know, that more than anything it was about political science and corruption.
I have no kids. I have an inner child. I am doing what I can to keep my inner child alive.
Why do kids still have to wear masks in school, in Nova Scotia?
Is it because they are not voters yet? The political science aspect is that we can force the kids to wear masks, but not feel threatened because they are not able to vote.
Is it science? In Spain, where the kids have to start wearing masks when they turn 6, a study showed that there was no increase in cases from the 5 year olds who did not wear masks and the 6 year olds who were forced to, in school.
Are we teaching kids to not speak?
Is this about freedom of expression?
When I try to speak about COVID many people point out that I am not a doctor, are these people aware of how many doctors have been censored and punished when they expressed anything that countered the official narrative?
Section 2 (b) of the Charter of RIghts and Freedoms says that Everyone has the following fundamental freedoms: Freedom of thought, belief , opinion and expression, including freedom of the press and other media of communication.
If I live with courage because I have not allowed myself to fall into thoughts or beliefs that this is a dangerous plague, then I cannot wear a mask and have freedom of expression.
Doctor Strang, 2 years after the fact is now speaking about risk from COVID.
Dr. Strang, Chief Medical Officer of Health said this on Thursday April 7th 2022 “we know much more about who is at most risk of severe outcomes… there are factors like age and medical condition which increase that risk for some people”
According to one study the Infection Fatality Rate was more than 8000 times greater at age 80 years than at age 5 years.
The actions that we take today have consequences for coming generations and the wider web of life.
What is the condition of the world that we want to pass on?
Here is a pledge, a plea and a prayer for our future generations from the book The Children’s Fire.
No law, no decision, no action of any kind shall be taken that will harm the children of this generation and seven generations hence.