COVID Mandates Crumbling; I've Found Justin Trudeau!

"This is the Ottawa I'm seeing." -Dr. Julie Ponesse

Denmark, England, Sweden, and Norway have dropped their COVID restrictions or soon will.

OSHA dropped its vaccine mandate on employees of companies with 100 or more employees after coming in second at the Supreme Court, and Indiana with 15 other states is suing the federal government over the remaining vaccine mandate for Medicaid/Medicare workers.

Iowa is ditching their mandates on February 15. As their governor puts it,

“We cannot continue to suspend duly enacted laws and treat COVID-19 as a public health emergency indefinitely. After two years, it’s no longer feasible or necessary. The flu and other infectious illnesses are part of our everyday lives, and coronavirus can be managed similarly,” stated Gov. Reynolds. “State agencies will now manage COVID-19 as part of normal daily business, and reallocate resources that have been solely dedicated to the response effort to serve other important needs for Iowans.”

Most people understand that life has to go on, but the Covidian devout are apoplectic. COVID still exists! Lockdowns have never really been tried! We might have to go back to the office! And above all, the unvaccinated will go unpunished! I'm paraphrasing the last two, and I'll add another that's surely on their minds: masks will soon look ridiculous. Double masks will look doubly ridiculous and hiding in your basement will just mean you're weird.

Truckers and other protestors are getting various Canadian provinces off the dime. Legacy media, when they cover the protests, claim hate and violence, but the coverage I've seen from people I was already familiar with have described a clean, peaceful, joyful atmosphere in Ottawa. Viva Frei, a lawyer, has done some live streams on site and Dr. Julie Ponesse, a philosophy professor who was fired for refusing vaccination, has been there.

I say provinces are getting off the dime because the prime minister is still in hiding. But I had a feeling I knew where he was, and I was right: he's hiding under the desk with Canadian professor Gad Saad.

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