It was one year ago today the WHO declared Covid a Pandemic, the world went pear shaped and Gord's dad died in the hospital ushering in a whole new era. Things are looking so positive now in comparison, my age group can start booking vaccines soon (unless we run out then I don't know what happens!) rates are going down since the Xmas surge and even in the US Biden is getting shots in arms, almost 3 million a day, it sounded nuts, impossible, back in the Trump era. I think we're all looking ahead to this summer, it seems like all the gloom and doom about vaccine supply was just media blather and we keep approving and receiving vaccines, I think we're up to 3 different kinds now, maybe 4? Biden has passed his landmark Covid relief bill, badly needed cash money for poor Americans mostly so queue the Republican outrage, just remember that this 1.9 Trillion $ is a ONE time expense compared to the Trump tax plan which was a 1.5 Trillion $ hole in revenue annually and nothing compared to the estimated 6 Trillion $$$$$ for the Iraq war, give me a fucking break!!!
The weather is so much nicer this year adding to the positive vibe, last year although warm when we left for Saskatchewan stayed cloudy and fucking freezing around -20C wind chills for the rest of the month and into April! God damnit that was depressing, the world in lockdown, the death of my father in law fresh in my mind and a never ending vortex of cold and cloudy weather, I will never forget that time.
The Jason Kenney hits keep coming, such a terrible government all the time! Vaccine rollout went terribly because folks over 80 don't know what the internet is, like the 85 year old character on SNL recently who said "computers? I use one to play Spider Solitaire" yeah, that's about how that went, so everyone jammed the phone line of course, it was a terrible rollout, disastrous according to local media. My mom says she got a vaccine but it's hard to say for sure because if she did it would be a much longer and complaint filled story, so I am skeptical as she deflected by telling me stories about her sisters getting the vaccine instead, she's not one for Dr.s. Today Covid total cases in Alberta 137,137 and 1,933 deaths, not quite the 2000 club yet, I thought we would reach 2000 a lot sooner actually.
I know everyone is anxious to get back to normal life, yacking about their stupid lives, buying, eating, shopping, travelling, exploiting, consuming, you know the suicide pact we are all in with consumerism and corporatism?, but I don't mind the lock down at all. We have been working from home and we rarely go out in normal times so it doesn't affect us much. I enjoy we don't have airplanes interrupting the peace every 3 minutes! It is hard to have a conversation sometimes in the summer I tell you! I wonder what the bounceback will be like, I can't imagine how the juvenile minds of most everyone under 40 are going to react, maybe like drunks on crack? Is my guess. It's going to be funny or infuriating at the least. I have recently returned to painting as American politics are no longer a complete circus side show, or was it a freak show?, and thinking about the future.
