From the Foreign Desk: John A. MacDonald

The Last Days of Disco

Canada, Citizen of Canucksan - Any province in Canada that has a Conservative (or even a leaning Conservative) government is dropping mask restrictions and vaccine passport requirements. It’s a similar story in the US. Most states seem to be dropping them. The Covid party is over, it’s just the hard core believers in the “science” haven’t realized that yet.

Meanwhile, the Government of Canada (read, the Liberals and NDP) are frantically casting about for a justification, any justification for the 72 hour long Emergency Act. The Governor General has claimed, without evidence, that many of the truckers wanted to “overthrow the government”. Protesters demanding the Prime Minister resign are not overthrowing the government, just removing the person occupying the Prime Minister’s office. The Public Safety Minister claimed the truckers were “rapists”. With no evidence whatsoever and with several MPs calling him on his lack of justification. Perhaps, like the Supreme Court hearings in the US, several Ottawa citizens will suddenly “remember” being raped by the protesters.

There has been talk of runs on the big 5 Canadian banks causing Trudeau to back down on the Emergency Act. It’s clear that it has happened and continues to happen in certain parts of the country. I think it’s also more likely that Trudeau realized he did not have the votes in the Senate to pass the Emergency Act, so rather than face a humiliating climb down (Trudeau can’t separate his ego from his duties) he decided to claim that the “emergency” was over.

What does this have to do with disco? For those of us old enough to remember, disco often defined the 70s. It was something that was seen as here to stay. Yet, one day, the bottom fell out of the record sales and people said that they never liked it in the first place. It quickly died, and no one has mourned it.

I think the same thing is happening here. The truckers, like the January 6 protesters, will be vilified and dragged through the courts, sentenced to the longest prison terms courts can reasonably justify and many more supporters will have their lives destroyed. It’s still happening. Yet the support for Covid restrictions has vanished, if it ever really existed. Two months ago, vaccine passports and mask mandates were seen as here to stay. Today, they’re being dropped as fast as possible. My own prediction is that in a few months, maybe a year, we will be seeing news reports about the last country/province/state/county/city to drop their Covid restrictions, with comments about how the “world has moved on without them”.

I also think that the legal challenges to the short lived Emergency Act will be causing some serious problems for Trudeau down the line. I hope that the media here will look into it and be more skeptical, but I doubt it. This will be a story that appears on Rebel News and Conservative blogs.

But it is clear to me that the restrictions are dropping because people are fed up. Yes, Theresa Tam  (Canada’s Fauci) is warning that restrictions may come back in the fall, but I don’t think they’ll get the same cooperation even if they do appear. Tam is part of the hard core believers and will have to be shown that people don’t want to put up with this Covid nonsense any longer.

The bottom has dropped out of the Covid support. It’s time for leaders to realize that it’s just not a concern for regular people anymore. The disco party is over. It’s past time to head for the exits.