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The only away-from-home indoor dining I've done in the past 8 months has been wolfing down a sub in an empty subway that had a mandatory mask policy.
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The only indoor visiting I've done since February has been with my granddaughter, son and DIL, and with my DIL's family (bubble of 10) and that only began in late June after the lockdown.
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I shut down the recreation activities I'm responsible for (karate club) in March and didn't restart them in September.
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In late June, I finished the installations I'd committed to and haven't taken on any contract work since, working on my own projects instead.
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I started wearing a mask in indoor public places in summer, long before it was mandated.
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I've significantly curtailed outings to public places. We shop as infrequently as possible. We order more stuff online than I would be comfortable with in any other circumstances.
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I know that I am privileged in these regards: I'm self-employed, and I don't have to work to keep groceries on the table. I don't expect others who are less fortunate to not work. But there is so much more we, as a province, could have been doing.
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Or perhaps, I should say there's so much less we could have been doing. I don't see the point of going through the litany of missed opportunities now.
I know many others who have been even more vigilant than me. I know many others who are at far greater risk than I am.
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I know many others who have been even more vigilant than me. I know many others who are at far greater risk than I am.
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And today I listen to our Premier say he "hopes" people might have a normal Christmas, as if hope were a strategy, as if wishes constituted a plan. As if he'd just read The Secret and figured he'd really stumbled upon something with this positive thinking shit.
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And, folks, I'd like to conclude this thread on an upbeat note, but I'm staring down a Christmas without my small family, without my 18 mo old granddaughter, ...
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and I'm just so damn disappointed, and so damn frustrated, and more than just a little bit angry at people who can't be bothered to care for the well-being of their neighbours and at people in power who can't make a fucking decision to save our souls.
11/11
fin
11/11
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