The Canada thread

[streeb]

We need more trains not truckies. Its the same story here.

I don't really understand what you mean by that As a statement, the convoy was phenomenal, emboldening the participation of hundreds of thousands of Canadians who lined highways and crowded overpasses, or marched in staggering numbers through otherwise captured cities like Vancouver and Toronto, daring to show their faces in urban centres generally represented as religiously adherent to Canada's increasingly deranged COVID narrative. Counterprotests were pitiful in size and uniformly attended by Macbook "anti-fascists" with lattes in one hand and infantile and weirdly homophobic or inflammatory signs in the other ("Honk if you have a small dick.") These idiots aside, polling registered an immediate surge in support of the convoy's modest demand of an end to mandates and passports. Not sure how trains would have achieved -- or revealed -- any of this.

It was crushed, of course, with extreme and shocking prejudice, but that's a whole other story, as I'm sure you know. Many have retreated in fear. The federally funded Canadian Anti-Hate Network took the lead in mischaracterizing this authentic moment of class solidarity as "extremist", and media administered the killer blow, while the fence-sitters were handed whatever excuse they needed to abandon their flimsy principles and the loudest urban neurotics were free to vent their primal fear and hatred of the working class. I can tell you that my wife and I spent at least one day wondering if our bank account would be frozen, much to the vicious delight, I'm sure, of former friends in the city. I have to confess that I couldn't answer with an honest yes when she asked if I thought the convoy had ultimately helped in any way, but, as with many things related to COVID, I appreciate the clarity.

[MacCruiskeen]

Thanks for that, streeb. Has the convoy now left or been removed completely? Did the tow-truck drivers take their pieces of silver and tow the trucks away? Or were the truckers and their many supporters just fined /arrested / threatened into driving back home themselves?

as with many things related to COVID, I appreciate the clarity.

Yes, it's a time of clarification. Revelation, unmasking, unveiling -- the original meaning of "apocalypse", as RFK Jr reminded the gigantic crowd in Berlin in August 2020. That is now (goddammit) 18 months ago, though it feels like yesterday.

It goes without saying that there was no massive increase in "Covid" "cases" -- no increase at all -- after those hundreds of thousands of us came together, undistanced, unfrightened, mask-free, and laughing. I presume the same is true of the truckers in Ottawa, even though they came together in the depths of winter. The whole damn "pandemic" is and always has been such an obvious, obvious lie. Laughable, really. The most noticeable thing about that huge demo in Berlin is how much laughter and unforced kindness and friendliness there was. That's exactly the impression the Ottawa demonstration made on me from a distance.

People instantly get healthier and happier when they gather together fearlessly and speak the truth and laugh at lies. It ain't rocket science. It's the opposite of rocket science.

The federally funded Canadian Anti-Hate Network

I had no idea there was such a thing, but of course there is, inevitably. How I detest these smug sloganeering weasels who declare themselves "Anti-Hate" while seething with it themselves. As if it were possible to love anyone or anything without hating anything that would harm them. Welcome to the Ministry of Love, force-masking children and robbing their parents in the service of shameless greedy murderous sanctimonious liars.

Hate Hate. Hate Hate Speech. Kill it. That's an order.

[Joe Hillshoist]

We need more trains not truckies. Its the same story here.

I don't really understand what you mean by that As a statement, the convoy was phenomenal, emboldening the participation of hundreds of thousands of Canadians who lined highways and crowded overpasses, or marched in staggering numbers through otherwise captured cities like Vancouver and Toronto, daring to show their faces in urban centres generally represented as religiously adherent to Canada's increasingly deranged COVID narrative. Counterprotests were pitiful in size and uniformly attended by Macbook "anti-fascists" with lattes in one hand and infantile and weirdly homophobic or inflammatory signs in the other ("Honk if you have a small dick.") These idiots aside, polling registered an immediate surge in support of the convoy's modest demand of an end to mandates and passports. Not sure how trains would have achieved -- or revealed -- any of this.

It was crushed, of course, with extreme and shocking prejudice, but that's a whole other story, as I'm sure you know. Many have retreated in fear. The federally funded Canadian Anti-Hate Network took the lead in mischaracterizing this authentic moment of class solidarity as "extremist", and media administered the killer blow, while the fence-sitters were handed whatever excuse they needed to abandon their flimsy principles and the loudest urban neurotics were free to vent their primal fear and hatred of the working class. I can tell you that my wife and I spent at least one day wondering if our bank account would be frozen, much to the vicious delight, I'm sure, of former friends in the city. I have to confess that I couldn't answer with an honest yes when she asked if I thought the convoy had ultimately helped in any way, but, as with many things related to COVID, I appreciate the clarity.

Cheers.

I didn't really take that much notice, just thought it was truckies protesting for the right to keep driving trucks without having to show their papers. I didn't think there was that much popular support for it.

We've had that sort of protest in Australia before. Trucks cut off Canberra when we introduced a Carbon tax nearly a decade ago.

I get that people should be able to work but we need to stop shifting goods around countries like ours in trucks. I'm in a disaster zone at the moment, cut off from the world because the roads and bridges are gone. There are thousands of people homeless here after the 4th "one in a thousand year" flood we've had in 14 years. The weather patterns have changed. It never used to happen, this particular series of weather events. And this area has always flooded, just not like this. One of the reasons is we drive trucks all over the place all the time.

We're coming to a point where its either the economy or the future.

FWIW Its disgraceful that the Canadian government pulled that bank account freezing bullshit on you and your missus.

[Joe Hillshoist]

MacCruiskeen » 02 Mar 2022 06:03 The whole damn "pandemic" is and always has been such an obvious, obvious lie.

This is rubbish.

I've got covid now and its a fucked virus altho it hasn't really hit me hard. (Yet?)

My missus is struggling with it and at one point on the weekend I would have taken my 10 year daughter to hospital for observation if we hadn't been cut off from the world cos of the flooding.

[MacCruiskeen]

You caught a cold, during a flood. Commiserations, and get well soon.

[Joe Hillshoist]

You caught a cold, during a flood. Commiserations, and get well soon.

Thanks.

I've had plenty of colds and flus. This is a bastard of a virus. Its worked its way thru every weak spot in my body. Not just me. My daughter's temp spiked over 40C on the weekend. She said she felt like she had been winded. Do you now what that is like? Probably not.

And yes she was fine the next day like nothing happened. But I've got a lot more weak spots and war wounds than her.

I can see how this takes out old people. It does feel relentless. I can also understand how it could have taken out young healthy people before it mutated. There were a few times lately I got dizzy and struggled to move and I feel 10 times worse than I did when I wrote that first comment.

The only thing about this that is good right now... well I don't want to jinx it but it seems to be staying out of my lungs. The worst thing is I couldn't go to Lismore and help the rescue effort. There is heartbreaking stuff happening there.

[Joe Hillshoist]

You can add full body monoclonus to that. I don't think I've ever had that before, especially with a cold, maybe with salvia and mushrooms.

Jack feel free to move these comments if you want.

[MacCruiskeen]

Whatever exactly ails you, I can only recommend the time-honoured treatments you'll already know yourself: take generous doses of vitamin C & D, drink loads of water, go to bed and sleep (and sweat) as much as you need to. Carry on doing all this for days if necessary.

Many things can cause full-body tremors, including sustained stress or sudden emotional shocks. I've had them twice myself, once after nearly drowning, once after getting a piece of very bad news. A catastrophic flood plus worry about people close to you might well have that effect.

Fwiw.

[Joe Hillshoist]

Whatever exactly ails you, I can only recommend the time-honoured treatments you'll already know yourself: take generous doses of vitamin C & D, drink loads of water, go to bed and sleep (and sweat) as much as you need to. Carry on doing all this for days if necessary.

Many things can cause full-body tremors, including sustained stress or sudden emotional shocks. I've had them twice myself, once after nearly drowning, once after getting a piece of very bad news. A catastrophic flood plus worry about people close to you might well have that effect.

Fwiw.

Yeah cheers Mac. Vitamins, garlic and sunshine are good.

Its definitely the bug tho. When I get cold. but I'll be all right it just freaked me out.

THis is Omicron i think., well i'm pretty sure. My lungs feel fine but honestly I'm glad i got vaccinated cos this thing is fucker.

You do what you need to tho. There's enough toxic conflict in the world. If we hadn't been flooded in i'd have been chasing Ivermectin too.

No one should be mandated to take a mRNA vaccine and no one should have their bank accounts frozen by someone who is starting to look like a Nazi sympathiser

[Harvey]

The second and last time (so far) that I had flu I was already weakened by starvation and unable to do anything to help myself. I lay on a wooden shipping pallet for ten days without moving, in and mostly out of consciousness. I made it but wouldn't recommend it as a health strategy...

[drstrangelove]

Wasn't sure where to put this, but I just went to the supermarket to buy scissors and the check out terminal prompted the attendant to ensure I was over 18. She was as confused as I was. This is Victoria, Australia.

[Joe Hillshoist]

Wait there is an age limit on buying scissors in Victoria?

[stickdog99]

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