Get Nimby

It seems a moment and an eternity ago our country was contending with blockades orchestrated by a group of environmental zealots who had appropriated a cause for their own purposes and who intended to shut Canada down.  Now, we are on the literal brink of having our country shut down - not to save the environment, or bring justice to indigenous communities, but rather to halt a virus that is now on our shores and threatening our health system and our loved ones.  With breath taking speed, all that was normal has become abnormal. Our country is in shock, but it must refrain from despair.  Now is when we must clearly think, where being hyper rational can avoid catastrophe - there will be costs, but we can manage if we don't over react or under react.  There are things we must do now, to get through the next bit and to triage what is coming - we must move aggressively to provide social distance, while refraining from killing all commerce.  We must think about whe...

There's a lot of reason to look around and despair.  We are at a moment in time where it seems everything that appeared to make our country great has been shattered.  There are shards of what was everywhere - the country seems on the brink of grinding to a halt.  The stock market is tumbling.  People are fearful that the environment will be ruined.  We are on the brink of a pandemic.  People are shouting at each other, not listening - and those who are trying to rise above the fray and look at what is, are having difficulty separating out the fact from fiction.  This is what happens when what is becomes so divorced from what is shown to be - it all comes crashing down at the very moment it needs to come together. There are layers upon layers of dysfunction, and at its root is a mix of entitlement, envy and greed with many out to get their own, by appropriating the causes of others for one's own benefit.  They silence those who most need to be he...