I must admit at the moment that I am experiencing a great sadness because of the abhorrent state of sa国际传媒. I immigrated to sa国际传媒 in 1975. I felt privileged to be accepted into such a kind, polite and gentle society — renowned for its peacekeeping role in the world.
sa国际传媒 has been good to me and my family. My children were able to get a good education. Our health concerns have been appropriately addressed — maybe with somewhat longer wait times than I would have wished, but nevertheless I still have 20/30 vision and my wife is doing OK with two artificial knees and one hip. I had the opportunity of voting for my federal, provincial and municipal politicians.
Compared to my experience of the system in the U.K. before I emigrated the taxation here is fair.
So I am perplexed and upset by protest groups who feel that they are “fighting for freedom.”
Freedom? Freedom from what?
Any Canadian is free to choose whether to have the vaccination against COVID-19 or not to have it. Nobody is being held down and forced to take this immunization. If a person chooses not to have the vaccination then they will lose some privileges. That, however, is their choice.
This becomes problematic where health-care workers, who remain unvaccinated, will put their patients at risk. These workers have a choice of either receiving the vaccination or changing their profession to some administrative, non-clinical role. Their medical knowledge will still be used usefully but just not hands-on to the frail and vulnerable.
Many anti-vaxxers clearly want to eschew the injections. Fair enough. It is, however, difficult to understand why there are the rallies and demonstrations attempting to persuade others to join the unvaccinated ranks.
Much of this, they state, is because they want the right to choose, and not be directed by governments. sa国际传媒 is a big country, but there are 38 million citizens. To avoid chaos a certain amount of direction is needed.
Can the reader imagine how things would be if drivers did not drive on the right side of the road? It is compulsory to wear seatbelts. It is criminal to drink alcohol and drive. Are these not “choices” imposed over the years — and coincidentally, for the comment good.
Some protesters seem to be unaware of the relative past history. I refer to the First and Second World Wars. At those times healthy youths were conscripted into the army to be shipped off to Europe where there was a good chance they will be injured or killed.
At home food was severely rationed. Gasoline was a scarce commodity. Everybody’s home had to be showing no light. Have these privations been for naught?
Behind all this I have grave concerns about the sovereignty of sa国际传媒. Citizens are against citizens. Protests are in danger of damaging the economy.
I do believe many of the protesters really believe that they are trying to save the world. They are not. They are at risk of being infiltrated and used by the Canadian and U.S. ultra-right.
There is ample evidence of this with the large cache of arms found, $5 million in out-of-country donations, protesters openly saying they will not move until the Canadian government falls, and scenes of law enforcement officers offering moral support to the protesters.
One protester was carrying a sign “make sa国际传媒 great again.” Well, we know where that comes from.
But sa国际传媒 is great. We need to rebuild our pride in this wonderful country. I would even suggest that the national anthem should be sung much more often as, for example, at the beginning of stage shows, political meetings, sports events and any chance or excuse to celebrate this kind, polite and gentle society.
Canadians cannot take their parliamentary democracy for granted.
Come on, Silent Majority. The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good persons to do nothing.
