For twenty months, the BC Ministry of Health was in my face on an almost daily basis.
They closed the restaurants I liked to visit. (Some have now closed permanently in bankruptcy.)
They closed the bars where my wife and I would go drinking and dancing. (Some of those have gone belly-up too.)
They closed the schools. Months off school almost drove my children - and me - crazy.
They closed my beloved YMCA, which was front and center to my personal health efforts. (I'm roughly 20 pounds heavier now as a result of this 'health' intervention from the BC Government.)
I suppose I should be grateful. At least I'm not one of the thousands of people who were driven to suicide or drug overdose by the BC Government's almost totalitarian interventions. At least I managed to avoid sliding into alcoholism, anxiety or depression, as has happened to so many since their social support networks were cut to ribbons.
I've found the solution to all this government meddling, though . If you want to get the BC Ministry of Health off your back, the answer is quite simple: Get sick!
It's now been a week since my wife and I tested positive for COVID and filed that information on line as requested by the BC Government. The response of the BC Government to knowing we were infected with COVID: Nothing. Nada. Zip.
No suggestions on how to boost my immune system. No contact tracing. Not so much as a "Get Well Soon" email from the Government.
My wife is now back at work. At the school where she works, no-one has been told my wife had COVID last week. Apparently 'privacy concerns' prevent the release of this information. It's the same issue at the group home where she works. Her co-workers can't be told because of 'privacy concerns.'
So, here's the deal. If my wife had been diagnosed with syphilis last week, she would have been legally required to identify each and every one of her sexual contacts of this embarrassing fact. But here she's been infected with Omicron, a malady that says no more about her than that she'd alive and has a pulse, and 'privacy' concerns prevent her co-workers from being told!
Let's call a spade a spade. The reason her co-workers haven't been told is that if her co-workers knew how rampant Omicron is in every workplace in this Province, they probably wouldn't come to work!
The good news is that I now have excellent natural immunity to COVID. I now have better immune protection against COVID infection than Bonnie Henry, Theresa Tam, Justin Trudeau, Joe Biden or Anthony Fauci.
As of tomorrow my ten days of COVID purgatory will be over. There is now absolutely zero scientific justification for restricting my social contacts in any way. Where's my immunity mandate, Bonnie? I want to get out and party!
Tomorrow at noon, I intend to be at the BC Legislature protesting the (now completely obsolete) vaccine mandates:
It should be a great party at the Legislature tomorrow. And a spectacular super-spreader event if you’ve missed out on catching Omicron so far.
I say that only partly tongue-in-cheek. Omicron is quite mild, but like other variants of COVID, its virulence is dose-dependent. You are pretty much guaranteed to get Omicron soon, if you haven’t already. If you become infected with Omicron at an outdoor event, it’s almost certain you will receive only a small dose of the virus because it’s not easy to get infected outdoors. That means you’re much more likely to have a mild case of Omicron. And you’ll be doing your part to get this damn pandemic over as soon as possible. Consider it a form of social disobedience.
You can look for me on the news. I'll be the one with the poster saying:
I personally wish I could come to the protest. Government is so stupid the citizens are smarter.
As I've said many times, and will say again, monkeys can run the government better.
OOGABOOOGA VACCINE USELESS - A Wise Monkey.