Pandemic Emperors' clothes increasingly threadbare

Looks like the end of the line for the Great Wuhan Flu. More and more countries are completely eliminating pandemic restrictions.

Not in Canada. In fact, now that the virus has pretty much run its course, our Pandemic Emperors in Ottawa and the media figure it's time to restrict unvaxxed truckers crossing the border. They'e been golden since the pandemic started. No vax - no problem, and that's back when the deadly virus was way more deadly than the latest mutation.

Suddenly, PM Fluffy sees the need to crack down on unvaccinated truck drivers. The federal Pandemic Emperors have spoken! And this bold stroke comes when our emaciated supply lines are already front page news.

Hey morons; if you got it, a truck brought it. Think it through!

But I digress. There are an awful lot of these emperors all across Canada. Because health care is a provincial responsibility, every province needs their own Pandemic Emperor, and of course, a robust support staff of experts, all of them drawing plump six-number pay packets and few of them ever seeing a patient.

All of them are replicating the same studies and modelling already done by the Pandemic Emperors in Ottawa, who are replicating the same studies and modelling already done in England or Sweden or Israel. It is an article of faith among these experts that the same virus behaves differently once it crosses borders.

Omicron was discovered in South Africa. From the get-go we were told it's mild but it spreads like wild-fire. Pandemic Emperors around the world have had to research those claims and find out for sure, often shutting down their societies and inflicting serious, often grave injuries on everything from your livelihood to your child's education.

And guess what? They universally proved the original assessment was right! It's nothing more than a bad cold, but it spreads like a motherf@cker. In fact, multiple teams of experts in many different labs generally agree the Omicron has an R value in the 4 - 5 range. 

That means if you get the virus, on average you'll pass it to four or five others, each of whom pass it along to four or five, and so on. 

Do the math. Since the Omicron was discovered, every breathing soul on planet earth has been infected at least twice. 

This isn't a development the Pandemic Emperors welcome. After all, it's a fun job...

Isn't it time to sack the lot of them, so we can go back to our own jobs, and our kids can go to school, and the CBC can talk about something other than how delighted parents are to find a safe injection site for their five year old?

It's time to move on.