by: lise ravary
i am mad as hell. for 18 months our lives have been upended by a powerful virus. just as we thought we might be getting back to our pre-pandemic lives, we’re hit by a fourth wave of infections.
nature follows no rules but its own.
i’m not mad at our institutions. since day 1, politicians did what they thought was right. they took scientific advice from public health and infectious disease specialists while trying to keep some of the economy going. for myself, i would have hoped for a complete lockdown as soon as the virus hit our shores.
where we would be today had we done so?
i’m mad at people who, for egoistical reasons, refuse to be vaccinated, a minority in quebec. a doctor on radio explained that very few people have valid medical reasons to skip vaccination.
there are three categories of refuseniks. the first is made up of sad souls who, among other nonsense, believe that bill gates is inserting microchips in people to control the human race. you can’t talk to those people. they are prisoners of their beliefs.
the second lot is made up of people who refuse the vaccine in the name of some convoluted view of personal freedom. they have never heard of poet john donne’s 400-year-old saying, which still resonates today: “no man is an island entire of itself.”