2021

 2021


By Joe Ingino
Editor/Publisher

“I live a dream in a nightmare world”
   
  Another year has passed... and what a year it has been.  Normally for the welcoming of a new year we must first ponder on the year gone by.  the good and the bad.    Sadly, 2020 has been one bad year and very little good can be acknowledged.
It is hard to look at the future with optimism.   As per definition   op·ti·mist: is  a person who tends to be hopeful and confident about the future or the success of something. "only an eternal optimist could expect success".
From the COVID to the recent elections in the United States.  The world is undergoing changes like never before.    It is hard to look to the future with optimism.   A vaccine!  World peace!  Social order!  All long and far fetched solutions to a never growing problem.
If not to look at the future with optimism then the only other choice left would be to enter 2021 with a pessimistic outlook.
By definition a pes·si·mist. Is a person who tends to see the worst aspect of things or believe that the worst will happen.   "the pessimists point to ways in which life has deteriorated".
Can we be a optimistic/pessimist?    After all there are so many thing on the balance. Here in Canada it appears we govern by following global trends....    It is easier to close everything down in the hope that the VIRUS will magically disappear instead of coming up with some plan of attack to assure public places are constantly disinfected to protect against this viral attack from China.
It appears it is easier to restrict civil rights and freedoms then to actually come up with an aggressive plan to fight the virus street by street.
Why does the government not come up with trucks full of disinfectant patrolling streets.  No instead they patrol the streets with pockets full of   violation tags in order to fill their coffers.  
Our government is of opinion of that of Thomas Jefferson.... Let us not be uneasy then about the different roads we may pursue, as believing them the shortest, to that our last abode, but following the guidance of a good conscience, let us be happy in the hope that by these different paths we shall all meet in the end. Thomas Jefferson
Well wishful thinking, I supposed.   The reality of it is we will still have to deal with COVID.  The reality is that due to forced closures in Ontario, many people will loose their businesses and homes.
In the word of Jesse Jackson...  "Hold your head high, stick your chest out. You can make it. It gets dark sometimes, but morning comes. Keep hope alive." Jesse Jackson.
It appears that Jesse Jackson had it right....  As governments of the world surely have their chest out and awaiting for a morning to come to get us out of this pandemic.
The question is how many people need to die.   After all just because you had been infected it does not mean you can’t be infected again.   Not to mention what affects you will have if you become infected by the new mutated virus.
In the words of Barack Obama...The best way to not feel hopeless is to get up and do something. Don’t wait for good things to happen to you. If you go out and make some good things happen, you will fill the world with hope, you will fill yourself with hope." Barack Obama
Well Obama surely got it right.   We as a people need to stop feeling hopeless.  We need to take control of our future and demand on our governments to come up with a real solid plan.
The vaccine is not a government plan... It is a possible solution brought about by science.  A science that has in the past proven to have many failures.
This new vaccines promises a possible solution without telling us all the risks and all the future side affects.
At the moment we are being forced to trust or die mentality.   This is wrong.  Our governments are taking away our rights and freedoms in the name of public health.   I say malarkey.   Ask us don’t tell us.   Enforce those who are in violation of social norm.   Why are we closing the small businesses and Walmarts and alike are allowed to stay open.   This is not a democracy when our elected official pick and choose on our behalf with a hidden agenda.    How dare close big Walmarts...place where large number of people use.  
Happy 2021.   Will we make 2022?  How many of us must die?  How long will we wait?
We must be optimistic/pessimists in this ironic world we live.