Posted on 12/05/2021 8:31:53 AM PST by conservative98
Megan Scheffers waited until July to celebrate Christmas with her kids after the COVID-19 pandemic kept them apart last winter, but she says decorating candy log cabins just wasn’t the same in the dead of summer.
She was hoping to make up for missed traditions this year as two of her three children booked mid-December tickets to fly to Nova Scotia from the Netherlands, where they live with their father.
But as the Omicron variant of the novel coronavirus threatens to upend the holiday season, Scheffers said she’s worried her 12-year-old and nine-year-old may not make it to Halifax to open their presents.
“All of the decorations, they’re still packed away, because I wanted to pull them out when they arrive so we can do it together,” Scheffers said.
“Last year, I didn’t even put a tree up. Is this going to be year number two without a tree … and without my children?”
Scheffers is among many Canadians whose holiday plans hang in the balance as mounting anxiety about the Omicron variant dampens excitement for a vaccine-protected comeback of Christmas merriment.
Nazeem Muhajarine, a professor of community health and epidemiology at University of Saskatchewan, said winter festivities may have to be scaled back as Omicron stokes concerns about the safety of holiday travel and gatherings.
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It doesn’t have to be. Don’t be driven by media-generated fear. Turn the TV off and enjoy the holiday with your family. 🤷🏻♀️
Perhaps horse dewormer will help with the sniffles
I put mine on a half apple and shoot it down with some sugar cubes.
It is a fake, untested booster vaccine Christmas. It will be a Christmas tradition for the Nimrods.
I mixed mine with some yogurt.
Nazeem Muhajarine, a professor of community health and epidemiology at University of Saskatchewan, said winter festivities may have to be scaled back as Omicron stokes concerns about the safety of holiday travel and gatherings.
Christmas = Winter festivities. OK, I get it, “Nazeem”.
Yes, it’s all about controlling the sheeples. Get rid of Christmas is their answer. They already got rid of ‘Christ’ in Christmas, now they’ll get rid of the rest.
Maranatha
...Omicron stokes concerns about the safety of holiday travel and gatherings
How about it, fellow FReepers. Is Omicron dampening your excitement for Christmas? Is it stoking your concerns about your safety?
Are you cowering in your little hidey-hole until next summer? Or maybe you plan to pop your head up on February 2 and see if there are six more weeks of COVID in the forecast?
And for some reason, I always want to thank Wilbur afterwards.
Out of control government in Canada is out of control in Canada.
What concerns me is there are so many countries with success stories yet countries like Canada and states like Oregon that intentionally go in the opposite direction of success.
Idiot Canucks. They’re on their own.
Actually being in Canada, I get the feeling that more and more people are tuning all this out, as the narrative always seems to be the same and the people they find to support it on the news are invariably third world types who probably have a hidden agenda of hoping our country will collapse so they can take over. That’s not going to happen. But it’s uncanny how almost everyone they get to comment on COVID-19 is somebody who seems to have just arrived here.
The BC Chiropractors passed a resolution calling for an end to coercion and mandates. That did not sit well with the powers that be, but it’s probably an indication that among health care professionals, there is considerable doubt about the so-called vaccines and the protocols in place. They seem to think they are pointless anyway.
Peter, they have weaponized the legendary Canadian civility and niceness against all of you. I’m glad to hear people are starting to push back. I was astounded when my Canadian relatives bought the Covid and Vaccine narrative hook, line and sinker. We fought back from the start in my state, with the elected sheriffs refusing to enforce unconstitutional mandates right from the start.
I’m surprised the article use the word “Christmas” several times…will they be cancelled?
People, I understand the conservative opposition to mandates. But I don’t understand why there is a conservative rejection of a fundamental truth — that it doesn’t matter what government prohibits or insists on — because people will mandate themselves.
The government never told people they can’t get on airplanes for domestic travel. People didn’t need govt mandate for that. They stayed off of them and avoided the opportunity to breathe virus for a few hours in an enclosure.
Generally, most of these rejection concepts by conservatism comes from the young. They know they are at little risk. Older folks . . . stayed off of airplanes in 2020, and are no less conservative.
Here is a stat rarely quoted: The over 65 age group of the US last year had 25% more deaths than in a typical year. These are called Excess Deaths, and amid all the talk of staying away from the doctor and not getting heart treatments, the death curves week to week tracked precisely the week to week Covid death curves. It wasn’t failure to seek cancer or heart treatment that did that. There were some deaths from that, but the curve MATCHED. This is not escapable. The curves matched. It was the virus generating the Excess Deaths week to week.
This is why conservatism cannot gather around a perspective about Covid. The age of the conservative must necessarily influence attitude.
Just ignore them, spend time with your families and celebrate!
Well this civility and niceness thing is of course a bit of a political divide too, we have our share of rednecks who are anything but civil and nice at the best of times, so this has been an opportunity for that divide to grow.
Also odd as it may sound there may be more of a libertarian culture in Canada than many would suspect, while on the surface it seems like a socialist European sort of place, you do find a lot of libertarian tendencies, probably because outside of a few cities, people live a long distance apart and must rely on their own resources for survival.
Even some leftists of my acquaintance have some libertarian views and a willingness to live and let live. The Justin Trudeau sort of approach only works well in three or four large urban areas, otherwise people like him are not very popular in large parts of the country (but we have no elected Senate that is based less on rep by pop, so we’re stuck with a heavy urban influence on our politics as a result).
There’s a forum called Small Dead Animals which is culturally very similar to Free Republic although it is a hosted forum where only invited people can post threads — other than that the discussions there mirror discussions here on many issues. We’re also stuck with an official center-right wing party that is a sell-out to the progressives.
With a state-run media basically, we have an official line that is often quite at odds with how many people think, but there are lots of places to express dissent too. It’s not quite like China yet.
Poor sheep...
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