Posted on 02/06/2022 8:20:40 PM PST by TigerClaws
Some Ottawa seniors are afraid to leave their homes alone, so residents are accompanying them for neighbourhood walks. Other individuals need help with grocery deliveries. And at least one health care worker asked for rides to the hospital because he no longer feels safe travelling alone.
People in the city are dealing with the emotional and mental toll of a protest that has occupied downtown Ottawa over the past week as trucks blare their horns at all hours, streets are blocked by large vehicles, and some report physical and verbal abuse from protesters. Experts worry that the stress could have long-lasting effects on the health of residents who have also been navigating life during a pandemic.
“I don’t think, as a resident, that one can look at one’s environment in the same way again. That when there are other protests, this will be a trigger,” said Ivy Bourgeault, professor in the school of sociological and anthropological studies at the University of Ottawa, said on Sunday.
The city’s mayor declared a state of emergency on Sunday, more than a week after the protests began. All through this time, however, many residents have been living with a sense of distress. For those who suffer from anxiety, have been victims of violence, or arrived as refugees from war-torn countries, it would cause additional mental-health issues, Prof. Bourgeault said.
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Ah, the Experts.
Globe and Mail = PRAVDA North
“And at least one health care worker asked for rides to the hospital because he no longer feels safe traveling alone.”
The horror….
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EVERYTHING.
Yes, yes. The experts have experted.
Fear of convoys or fear of CCP cooties?
Yeah. Freedom is oppressive. Right.
MSM has a bunch of code b.s. words:
“feels safe”
“some have suggested”
“getting slammed on Twitter”
I’ve seen Breitbart ‘discredited’ based on their COMMENTS section. Not what they published - but what people showed up and said in the comments - likely leftist shills paid to derail threads and post offensive things.
Showing up with Nazi or Confederate flags, offensive signs in the sight of media or buddies who upload to Twitter. At least they learned to hide their faces - esp. after the ‘tiki torch’ gate incident in VA.
Prof. Shill summarizes the fake whiny complaints of the leftists on r/Ottawa, right down to the faux-”PTSD triggered by the air raid horn” BS.
On a more serious note, the defenders of Deep State appear prepared, buoyed by their success at getting private enterprise (Go****Me) to scramble $10M in a flurry of lies, chargebacks, refunds and other mischief, to escalate to theft of food and fuel. They seem also ready to lay seige to the same whiny citizens and blame the patriots for same.
Any mention about what the clot shots do to ya, say, five years from now?
I am sure a trucker would take him if he asked.
and again, more fear mongering. The writer made his rent this month. Not that his column was factual, by any means, but sensational, and that pays the bills.
Make the bad men stop!!!
Or how they are treating children?
“I’ll take American Media for $1000, Alex.
The answer is: Propaganda, Deceit, Deceptions, Dishonesty, Disinformation, Distortions, Fabrications, Exaggerations, Falsehoods, Inaccuracies, Exploitation, Bias, and outright Lies.
What are: “Words that describe the Evening News”?
The MSM are the puppet masters of societal perception. What was called “reporting” has now become little more than omissions of details, intentional disinformation, bias, and manufactured lies to mislead the public in order to exploit events to advance their twisted narratives.
“The People will believe what the media tell them to believe.” -George Orwell
“The news and truth are not the same thing.”~~Walter Lippmann, American journalist, 1889-1974
“We tell the people what they need to know, not what they want to know.” ~~Frank Sesno, CNN News
“Our job is to give people not what they want, but what we decide they ought to have.”~Richard Salent, former President of CBS News.
“I feel sorry for the man who, after reading the daily newspaper, goes to bed believing he knows something of what’s going on in the world.”
-— Henry Louis Mencken (1880-1956)
“We are going to impose our agenda on the coverage by dealing with issues and subjects that we choose to deal with.” — Richard M. Cohen, former Senior Producer of CBS political news
‘Our Job Is to Control Exactly What People Think’: “Well, I think that the dangerous, you know, edges here are that he [Trump] is trying to undermine the media and trying to make up his own facts. And it could be that while unemployment and the economy worsens [just the opposite happened-PR], he could have undermined the messaging so much that he can actually control exactly what people think. And that, that is our job.”- MSNBC’s Mika Brzezinsk
“There is no such thing, at this date of the world’s history, in America, as an independent press........The business of the journalists is to destroy the truth, to lie outright, to pervert, to vilify, to fawn at the feet of mammon, and to sell his country and his race for his daily bread. You know it and I know it, and what folly is this toasting an independent press? We are the tools and vassals of rich men behind the scenes. We are the jumping jacks, they pull the strings and we dance. Our talents, our possibilities and our lives are all the property of other men. We are intellectual prostitutes.”-John Swinton, a noted journalist, economist, and orator, the chief editorial writer at The New York Times, and an editorial writer for The New York Sun
“Nothing can now be believed which is seen in a newspaper. Truth itself becomes suspicious by being put into that polluted vehicle.” -Thomas Jefferson
Total lies. I have seen videos of those seniors and others giving food and encouragement to the Truckers. I believe my lying eyes.
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