I think it’s time to start hitting our pots again. There is a feeling that we are wasting our grip and that we do not fully perceive the message.
People are dying. Right now, our behaviors, every single thing we touch and each and every move we make, are essential for the prevention and control of a pandemic. Why is anyone thinking of flying or flying anywhere right now?- is baffled. We have the means with new routines to be functional and solid as together we paint to overcome tomorrow. However, it turns out that there is still underlying resistance to the measures we all want to follow, consistently. On New Year’s Eve, I will feel a great deal of sympathy for patients, with gratitude to our leaders and physical care staff, and I hope we remain the goal in 2021.
Peter J. Smith Mayne Island
After spending the holidays without a meeting with any of the members of our extended circle of family members and being in strict compliance with all COVID-19 orders and regulations, I temporarily locate myself losing respect for our elected officials while continuing to allow others to do so. socio-health regions, between provinces and abroad.
The government will have to delineate precisely what “essential travel” is and what is not, and then find a practical approach to prevent those who decide to break the rules. It is not enough to ask other people to drive safely.
That’s why we’ve posted speed limits and fines for drivers who don’t comply with the law.
It doesn’t seem helpful to ask others to stay home and avoid unnecessary things when at the same time we’re encouraging other Canadians living in provinces where the COVID-19 infection rate is too high for them to come on vacation to British Columbia.
Almost a day goes by without some kind of alert for airline passengers who were diagnosed with COVID-19 after landing in Victoria.
While our government is interested in preventing the spread of this pandemic, its existing practices leave much to be desired.
Bruce Cline Victoria
There’s a lot of communication about spending or borrowing those days.
Experts probably don’t even know if it’s smart or something wrong. The vast majority of people can’t perceive what a billion dollars are.
However, the concept of what a million dollars is in most people’s minds. This can be just a $1 million space or a $1 million lottery prize.
This is the kind of thing other people dream about.
I believe that when a government talks or an article is published on this subject, the figure is lowered to millions of dollars, so when we report about $5 billion, it’s $5 billion.
It’s the same amount of cash, but at least we can sense how much cash it is, or the government is looking to embarrass us!
Bill Ritchie Oak Bay
If I’m stuck driving, an activity that can put me in danger, cause physical harm to others and even death, I may be expecting a healthy fine.
If I leave my network in a non-essential place and bring a COVID-19 virus or a variant thereof, an activity that can endanger me, cause physical harm to others and even death to many others, why am I not?responsible for a healthy fine for my selfishness?
There will need to be a refund for the general public paying attention to the regulations established through dr. Bonnie Henry who opposes those who disobey regulations at our greatest risk.
David M. Caul Central Saanich
If Victoria’s purpose is to find the cheapest way to deal with the Canadian Federation of the Blind’s human rights complaint about motorcycle lanes, installing flashing lights before preventing floating buses on Pandora Avenue is likely to succeed.
However, if the purpose is to ensure the protection of blind and visually impaired citizens on public transport, the city will have to continue to seek a better solution. I think intermittent lighting devices can make a bad scenario even more damaging by blind giving in. other people a false sense of security.
I am friends with Oriano Belusic, the blind man who initiated the human rights complaint opposed to the city. In August, in the court proceedings, Oriano asked me to film him while testing the lighting fixtures installed for the floating bus stops at the pier. Street.
The design crossing requires other blind people to position the pole with a sound button at the pedestrian crossing to the floating bus stop. They press the button, which activates the flashing yellow lights, warns cyclists to come in the instructions that they must cross the motorcycle path to get to the bus stop.
The first apparent challenge was that the maximum riders on the motorcycle track did not know the luminaires or their function, once, if Oriano had left for a while after pressing the button, he would have hit him; however, if Oriano showed a snook to do so. Cruz, the cyclists continued on the pedestrian crossing regardless of the flashing lights or their white cane.
We filmed about 20 minutes, but we stopped because I was terrified oriano would get hurt. In the 20 years I know him, he has been a very competent pedestrian, however, this new bus lane configuration is dangerous. greater solution.
I have heard from members of blind netpaintings that it is also a challenge in other countries. Do professional planners, somewhere in the world, actually have to paint with blind pedestrians to expand a forged understanding?
Thelma Fayle Victoria
Re: “New Year’s Resolutions and how we’re going to recover correctly,” he says on December 27.
Seeking an immediate Lawrie McFarlane-style recovery is the right way to deal with “the worst herbal crisis of our time,” Trevor Hancock said.
However, even if you are with the retired teacher, you are unable to identify the steps to take to decide on “the right recovery plan. “
The opposite combat of symptoms (wealth inequality, poverty, racism and social isolation) does not involve the reasons (the political and corporate propaganda of neoliberalism designed to create disunity, fragmentation and inconsistency) that help keep the public in the dark; where we remain convinced that the existing corrupt authoritarian formula we call representative democracy is greater than the totalitarianism of the past.
So what do we focus our efforts on? Rebuilding economies and communities, political and economic systems that make global pandemics a certainty fits Einstein’s definition of madness.
However, even if we start putting a price on undervalued staff and reconnect with our community, once this pandemic has subsided, we will have done nothing to prevent an even greater catastrophe.
Will COVID-19 replace the one we think?
Will this force us to plot the systems guilty of our indoctrination and the global dystopian in which we live?
Given the billions of dollars in government donations to businesses and appeasing the electorate on the way back to normal, we can be sure that the biggest herb crisis of our time is yet to come.
Ken Dwernychuk Esquimalt
Re: “Students will be informed about the consequences of great lies in history,” a December 20 commentary.
Ironically, it is the Great Lies (or “fictions” in the words of Yuval Noah Harari) that make us human. Only man, in his ability to believe things that are not rooted in reality, is able to create and in the Great Lies.
This allowed us to expand culture and organize into giant teams on shared mythology and religion. This happened about 70, 000 years ago, with the appearance of Sapiens’ brain.
Geoff Johnson emphasizes Big Lies’ affinity with politics and religion. Both lend themselves to solid beliefs, based on fiction, great lies and “turning. “
How to fight big lies? We’ll have to keep an open mind to revisions contrary to ours. Given the large amount of online data, staying informed will be easy.
However, there is a tendency to favor sites than our own prejudices, while rejecting reviews of choice as “fake news”.
Recently, a more alarming situation is widespread censorship of “fake news. “
When a resolution has already been made about what we can and see, not even an open brain helps.
K. r. Lynch Victoria
With the pandemic above us, I was forced to replace my daily exercise habits. The pool next door is hard to access, so I have to walk the streets to stay in shape.
I was walking down Eskimot Road the other day, there was a lot of traffic but there were no pedestrians, until a woman gave the impression in the corner across the street next to me.
As a gentleman, I knew immediately that it was my duty to get off the sidewalk and let him pass me safely away from my “epidemic zone. “Just before we began to pass, she laughed – and so did I – and greeted herself as we fulfilled our pandemic duty. Brighten my day.
A new one maybe? The ‘two-step pandemic’ Pandemics can be fun!
John C. Smith Victoria
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