As I've pointed out in the other threads, people who eat meat are complicit in facilitating zoonotic pathogens.
There's a vegan thread around here somewhere, isn't there?
As more time goes by, I find myself utterly hating whoever it was that started this off. Never mind incompetent governments and thoughtless holidaying idiots, this would not be happening if that one individual hadn't eaten a contaminated bat. That person is partly responsible for many, many deaths around the world.
As for the incompetent governments and thoughtless holidaying idiots... yeah, not fond of them either. But at least they were stupid afterward. They didn't set the whole thing in motion.
At a time when governments need to actually
lead, my province has a health minister who has decided to be a tyrant who is above the law. So far he's been caught in a conflict of interest (his wife owns a company that provides for-profit health services that he has been busily delisting so people are no longer covered for them and will have to use his wife's business), and when a doctor pointed this out on social media, the minister and his wife went over to this doctor's home, stood on his front driveway, and screamed and yelled at him in front of his family, and threatened some people who called him out in emails. Now he's been accessing private phone numbers for doctors and others who have criticized him publicly, calling them at home, and harassing them.
I guess I'm one of the lucky ones. I've called him out on social media, but since I don't have any medical credentials or a driveway in Calgary he can stand on and scream at me, he settled for banning me from commenting on his FB page (cabinet ministers are not supposed to prevent anyone from doing this unless they're abusive and I haven't been abusive, just critical).
Since this minister was a lawyer before becoming a politician, some people are contemplating an attempt to have him disbarred (since he did do illegal things which lawyers aren't supposed to do). I wish them luck, because he's corrupt, through and through, and completely useless in this pandemic.
There are calls for Jason Kenney (our premier) to fire this crook, but of course that won't happen because one crook won't fire another crook if he does the first one's dirty work.
In the meantime, the voices of sanity in this province are the chief medical officer and the leader of the Opposition. Thank goodness for the provincial medical officers being able to persuade the politicians to follow their recommendations, although a lot have been too little, too late. And thank goodness the Opposition leader was able to shame the government into providing a tiny bit of rent protection (more for workers than for people in my position; we're only protected until the end of April, while the rest have a few more months).
