Honking On For Freedom and Death

AS THE DEATH TOLL from Covid 19 in the United States approached the previously uniimaginable one million mark, folks all across the fruited plain and up into Canada became increasingly weary of being told to get vaccinated, to wear masks, and social distance. So much so that at the national, state, and local level all vaccination and mask mandates, rules, and regulations were beginning to fall by the way side, as mandates were allowed to expire among much controversy, arguing, and confusion concerning the best way to fight Covid 19 on a societal scale. People are tired of wearing a mask for two years, tired of sending their children to school wearing masks, tired of keeping their children home from school, tired of having businesses closed and store shelves Empty. Especially tired of being told that if they can just hang on a litttle longer, this will all be over, and life can get back to normal. People are starting to plainly see that the old normal isn't coming back. The next stage appears to be that the virus will settle into a yearly routine, like the good old annual flu, and be with us forever, with annual vaccinations available, thank goodness. The big semi tractor-trailor get together north of Detroit, in southern Canda, focusing on blocking the bridge across which merchandise is shipped between the two countries, was blocked long enough by horn honking trucks and drivers to disrupt the economy, make the trucker's point, and arouse the anger of enough people to summon law enforcement into action to dispell the "truck in". A great deal fo support for the vehicular protest came from within the United States, in the form of participants, trucks, and money. This is in a sense amazing since soon the one millionth american victim of Covid 19 will die; one night think by now that all Americans would understand the necessity of vaccine and makase mandates from government and business, and would kindly refrain from participation in mass anti-vax & mask protests. Without such measures, the American death toll might have been many times the current number, into the many millions. Describing such rules and regulations as "tyranny" is a considerable stretch, considering that the vaccine and mask mandates are only temporary, were always intended to be only temporary, that is isn't as if people's possessions or freedom are being stripped from them and they are being flung into dungeons to rot and die, but rather, are only being subjected to minor inconveniences for the sake of the public health and safety. Overwhelmingly, the protets, including the recent big one in Canada, are coming fro within the ranks of right wing libertarian types, the same people who have all along promulgated crazy wacko anti-vax conspiracy theories and refused to get vaccinated. Unsurprisingly, they are the ones who are now sickening and dying in the greatest numbers. Tragic though this is, its predictable and explainable, and, all things considered, the situation could be far worse.