To say that our provincial government has failed us during this pandemic would be an understatement.
I was going to go into a list of their failings. I could, but it's too depressing (though they won't stop crowing about how they managed to balance the budged, so people should be happy in spite of the death count climbing).
They recently moved our city from orange to Red in their pandemic plan, which does not do as much as one might expect. Bars and restaurants may only offer take-out/delivery service for the next two weeks, and people going to gyms must wear masks while exercising now.
No change to schools and churches - our two largest vectors of infection. The first is reckless and bizarre, and the second is nothing short of shameless pandering to their religious base. The Conservatives here are similar to the Republicans in the US in that they rely heavily on the votes of the white, elderly and religious right (which frequently overlap). About the only money they have actually spent during this pandemic was writing $200 cheques to the senior citizens in the province. It was a shameless attempt to buy votes in the next election. Sorry all your friends are dying, but here's some money.
When they held the big press conference on Friday to announce the alarming numbers and new restrictions going into place, neither the premier nor the health minister were present. They are hunkering down and avoiding the public. Fucking cowards. Our mayor had to step up and fill the leadership void they've left in our province. You know we have a bad government when people here look longingly at Doug Ford one province over and wonder why our own folks couldn't provide that kind of leadership.
When Doug Ford looks good in comparison, you're really scraping the bottom of the leadership barrel.
Speaking of leaders, this is one of the things that the former owners of the house left behind when they moved. It's nailed to the wall of the laundry room. There are other oddities around the house, some of which I am going to start documenting in pictures over the next few days (at least until the weather improves enough to get outside for pictures again - heavy wind and snow/rain today). They didn't leave behind any other Kennedy memorabilia, and I'd be curious to hear the story behind this one.
This popped up in my YouTube feed yesterday, and I ♥ it. It follows the unravelling of Catra in the first four seasons of the show, and the understated music pairs nicely with it.
What odd expressions on that wall hanging. I half expect to see a subtitle along the lines of "He who smelled it, dealt it; He who reported it, exported it." Or perhaps they're just scanning the air for miniature Russian spy cameras.
I'm still waiting to see what colour the politicians will cook up if it gets worse in the red zones. My money is on purple, but hedged on black.
They went to a few levels of orange restrictions, but once you've moved through tangerine and burnt umber you eventually have to bite the bullet and start in the reds.
The fun part is that they announced the new restrictions on Friday, but are not putting them into effect until Monday so that people can get all of their super-spreader Halloween events out of the way over the weekend.
![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
plonq
no subject
Date: 2020-10-31 11:33 pm (UTC)I'm still waiting to see what colour the politicians will cook up if it gets worse in the red zones. My money is on purple, but hedged on black.
no subject
Date: 2020-11-01 12:04 am (UTC)The fun part is that they announced the new restrictions on Friday, but are not putting them into effect until Monday so that people can get all of their super-spreader Halloween events out of the way over the weekend.
no subject
Date: 2020-11-01 11:38 pm (UTC)