I’d approached y’all about writing a book…while I was thinking maybe a cookbook…maybe a novel…a lot of you are still focused on COVID and rightfully so…so, I figured I’d best get at this.
In order to appreciate my focus on a pixel of the big picture, it’s kind of important to go over the global situation and while I may be a little pulp fiction…this is really only the beginning of the beginning - and my invite to see how many are actually committed to working inside of our community on creating this perspective and especially on editing…I said that I’m not going this alone, unless I have to…so, let’s just see how this all goes.
I will be regulating the comment and content based off of paid-subscriptions because too many cooks can spoil the soup.
Now…don’t be all mad n shit.
It’s not you and it’s never been about the money…it’s just that I have an incredibly difficult time with keeping up to emails and replies on free content and can easily get lost in the weeds - It’s a me issue and this is my path forward.
I’ll still be working on updates and free content…this is just a much bigger commitment and if I want to see it through, need to do so with a bit of a strategy.
Chapter one:
Remember back in 2020 when we found out that COVID actually came from Wuhan, China…some calling COVID the Wu-Flu?
I was one of those people.
Because it was a respiratory virus, with flu like symptoms that came from Wuhan China.
So..Wu-Flu seemed appropriate enough…but you really had to pick your audience when you whipped out this term because it was “Racist”, or so, some really wanted you to believe.
Just like banning travel from China was also racist - because instead of recognizing that this was the Hotzone for the Wu-Flu, social justice warriors didn’t want people of Asian descent discriminated against - proactive measures.
By NOT doing this…Wu-Flu was able to span the globe in months and up to date (November 2022) we see more than 642 Million Cases (not even close to accurate), globally, according to WorldOMeters ←lol.
But do you remember when Omicron was discovered in Africa and we banned flights into Canada from eight African Countries?
Kind of important to remember that Alpha Wu-Flu - the most virulent strain, didn’t command travel restrictions from China because it was racist…but Omicron Wu-Flu - the least virulent strain from Africa did, because it was no longer racist.
It was really hard to keep up with all of the rules and rationalizations behind them because, welp…not a single one of them made any sense.
Some of you remember…others may not…that in early 2020 - the G20 Tourism Working Group drafted an outline for “Safe and Seamless Travel”→Link, and by July of 2020 it was well received. The idea…travel and tourism was key to economic recovery, where economic disaster was created by the knee-jerk reactions by leaders of the G20.
We created a problem…let’s figure out how to fix it - logic.
Problem is…the fix preceded the problems…proposed in April of 2020 and Thumbs-upped in July of 2020 and presented on October 7th, 2020:
Go back and read that again…to where it says, “vaccination”, you see that right?
Before there was a vaccine…in fact, before there was actually a Global Pandemic, this group of people decided that they’d create a digital passport system based on vaccinations.
I mean…cummon…if these people had this forward of a looking glass, they’d be buying powerball and lottomax tickets and leaving the rest of us the fuck alone…instead, they had a plan to see how much gasoline they could throw on the fire to make this happen.
Those who fail to plan, plan to fail…
And these motherfuckers were planning for their efforts to fail so that they could introduce the Newer and Better Plan →Digital Passports.
From the Canada side of things…most specifically from the Alberta side of things, let’s just recap how this was all playing out.
Early January, we’d see the news reports on Wu-Flu - the Corona Virus.
February - we’d seen people collapsing on the streets in China and heard about global spread.
March 5th - Alberta’s first presumptive case of COVID.
Now…this is kind of important for a couple of reasons.
Fear was being drummed into the general population for the first 2 months of 2020.
It really wasn’t gaining much attention…so,
We needed something that hit close to home in order for us to begin paying attention. (First presumptive case case discovered in Ontario was on January 25th, 2020).
And the key word in all of this is ‘Presumptive’…because at this point, nobody really knew what they were looking for and nobody really knew how to test for it.
So…instead of being able to rely on confirmation…we opted for questioning people on their travel and if they experienced ‘Flu Like Symptoms’, assumed that foreign travel with severe flu symptoms was Wu-Flu.
You might think I’m full of shit here…but feel free to google it for yourself and assemble the pieces together.
By March 5th, 2020 - there were a sum total of 8 ‘presumptive’ Wu-Flu cases in Canada, the first one hitting the province of Alberta and by the 8th…the first COVID death - reported in Canada.
March 12th, 2020 - JT isolates because Sophie brought home a case of ‘the Ro’, gallivanting through the UK for a speaking engagement…wink wink. Sophie was the 158th case of COVID in Canada…presumptive…because she came from overseas and was experiencing “Flu like symptoms”.
Which may or may not be a good time to reminisce about seeing the Matt Damon Movie - Contagion…where his wife played by Gwyneth “Smell my Vagina…Scented Candles” Paltrow, returned from an overseas trip…and on a layover spent a little time with an ex-lover…only to return and die from the Contagion version of Wu-Flu while spreading it throughout the US.
Hey…I’m not calling Sophie a Home-Wrecking Whore, here…just noting the parallels…is all.