Wuflu Reaction A Strange Brew

The streets of all the great cities of North America are almost completely free of traffic. For the occasional solitary who does venture out for a spin, in Toronto for example, this has to be the first time in 50 years it is actually possible to get from somewhere in the downtown to somewhere else perhaps not even in the downtown, without a massive spike in blood pressure and hardly a hint of cardiac arrest. It might even be called a pleasure. And when was the last time pleasure and driving in Toronto met, embraced and went out on a date?

I am sure the same is true in Vancouver, or New York, or Houston.

It is an experience to be savoured, for, once the plague lifts, we shall not see the like again in our lifetimes.

While all are rightfully saluting our health professionals, and the grocery clerks, and the truck drivers, there are others to be considered as well. For some lives have been disrupted more than others.

Please during this strange and anxious time, spare a thought and say a prayer for unemployed activists of all stripes, the one-timers, the full-timers, the masked and the unmasked, the blockaders and the street-marchers.

Starbucks is closed, so what is the point of smashing its windows? Not much point either in staging a “die-in” (the term itself should be seriously avoided considering the nature of the crisis we’re in) in front of a fried-chicken outlet. There will be no one there to look at your mock mortality. And if you’re the kind of social justice warrior who’s up a-night worrying about, I quote, “the oppressed bodies of the chicken,” then these are melancholy times. “Dream of feathers and flocks, my young friend — better days will emerge, the Cock will crow and the fast-food chains await your return.”

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See Also:

(1) The ‘new normal’ is going to be a fiscal mess

(2) Ottawa’s COVID-19 debt binge runs very real risk of ruining the next generation

(3) Probe into anti-abortion volunteers proves how ridiculous Canada’s Election Act has become

(4) China proves that in Canada, hostage diplomacy works

(5) How prepared was Canada?