Thoughts on BC Politics and More

Things have changed ...   Only less than two months ago, I wrote about the challenges of today’s human nature and how difficult has become to communicate. At that time, the novel coronavirus (or COVID-19) was scourging China and a few other Asian countries. And then, a few days after my article, all hell broke loose.  Today, I am in my home office trying to stay safe from this new plague which, as of today, has infected almost 1.7 million people and killed more than 100,000. This is not the first, nor will be the last, time a new virus or a bacterium has brought havoc to the world. The Spanish influenza of 1918 is a scorching example of this.  Ebola, which has a mortality rate of 52% of those infected, happened only a few years ago. Ebola is not new, but it is real and lethal as well.  They say that COVID-19 has a much higher mortality rate than the flu. So, we need to be careful and find ways to fight back. However, we...

Just yesterday, I wrote a post in which I began by asking ... DO WE CONTINUE THE TREND WE ARE ON, with government strongly encouraging people to self-isolate, and to maintain two metre spacing when we are out getting what should be considered ‘necessities’ – or should we open things up to allow for businesses (including bars) to perhaps re-open, but with strict guidelines as to social distancing ? I asked this in light of many people beginning to question whether we are on the right path (using Sweden as the example of a country handling things differently), with the level of self-isolation being asked of us by BC’s Health Minister Adrian Dix and Medical Officer Bonnie Owen, as well as by the federal government. Personally, as you will note from what I had to say, I believe we are.   It occurred to this morning that perhaps a good source for their opinion, would be Shane Woodford who is now a freelance journalist in the European Union, and wh...