1. Are you watching the Olympics?
Some but not a lot. I miss the audiences, and really, really hate seeing athletes trying to catch their breath after a competition with a big stupid useless mask on their faces.
2. Have you ever engaged in an act of civil disobedience?
No. Unless I can count the jean strike in grade 9. Back when I started High School girls were still required to wear dresses to school, and boys to wear dress pants. Of course we all wanted to wear jeans instead. Within the first couple of weeks of my first term in school, the seniors organized a jean strike, where on a chosen Friday every student in school arrived in jeans. They couldn't suspend all of us. Very shortly after that the school dropped its dress requirements and we all wore jeans for the rest of our school years. The same principle still works; look at the all the people who arrived in Ottawa carrying jerry cans as soon as the Law banned delivering fuel to the truckers. That rule didn't stand up for very long.
3. Should vaccine passports be required at major conventions?
Of course not. Vaccine passports and mandates are completely useless. Getting a vaccine protects only the one person who got the shot, it has no effect on anyone else. So whether or not you decide that the benefits outweigh the risks for you and choose to get the shot is nobody else's business.
4. How long can you last without items hauled by commercial truck?
Quite a while, but it would be inconvenient, and I might have to live on oatmeal and rice. Canada depends on the USA to ship in fresh fruits and vegetables in winter, so those would disappear very quickly. I haven't been driving a lot in the last 2 years; a tank of gas lasts me about 4 months and I just filled up, so no problem there. Could make direct arrangements with local farms for meat and dairy. Might be interesting. A good way to wean us all off Amazon.
5. Who is the most irritating politician you have seen this week?
Justin Trudeau. Not just irritating but also infuriating, disgusting, appalling. Thankfully, his stubbornly stupid behaviour over the last 3 weeks is opening the eyes of people who hadn't seen before what he is really like. They are finally seeing him for the immature, arrogant, incompetent, treasonous little weasel that he really is. Last poll I saw only 16% of Canadians would still want him to be Prime Minister.
Pat
