Convoying For "Freedom"

    Since I don’t watch the news, I didn’t know why I heard a honking ruckus three blocks down. When I eventually ventured out with friends that Saturday I could finally see what said ruckus was. Trucks and cars honking as they drove through the city and all the way to the Parliament building. I didn’t know that’s where they were going until we made our way towards the touristy part of town. That whole block along with the entire front of the Parliament building was full of people and trucks and posters and flags. The honking was everywhere and the dogs and infants these folks thought would be smart to bring into that chaos looked around in confusion. It was brought to my attention by my three friends, that don’t live in as much of a bubble as I do, the hullabaloo we were witnessing was known as the “Freedom Convoy”. 
    Now that it’s been over a month since this stupid idiot parade began, I reckon we all know why to some extent. I heard multiple times that ninety percent of truckers were vaccinated thus leaving me to believe this was the remaining ten plus every other ignoramus that wants to live by their own rules. People were insulted that vaccines were required for those driving long distances and over borders with all the bullshit we keep ordering online. People were tired of wearing a piece of cloth over their face to protect themselves and those around them from various forms of this cursed virus. People wanted all the mandates to be taken down so they could freely infect and possibly kill all the immunocompromised, the old, the young, and the sick. It was a weekly rebellion to show the world every Saturday who the most selfish people are. 
    Seeing these foolish mortals strut around with their Canadian flags and “freedom” banners was hilarious and infuriating. These people had the audacity to claim we had a tyrannical government that was oppressing us and all our rights were taken away. They said this as they casually flooded the yard of a government building and filled the downtown area with their incessant honking, none of which brought consequences. We’re apparently living in a 1984-Big-Brother-is-watching/Hunger-Games/Nazi-era-part-two situation and yet these people could protest without getting arrested or shot or gassed or tasered. These self identifying  oppressed people brought concert worthy speakers to the front of that Parliament building three weeks in and were having a dance party to classic 2000’s songs whilst police patiently and politely stood on the other side of the street and watched should someone get riled up. The fact this parade of absolute dickishness has been allowed to continue every Saturday, now with officers following along to keep the peace, shows how much of a free country this is. 
    Referring to my previous post, it’s like these nincompoops want to be oppressed, want to have an evil government that forces the peasants to take arms and rise up to protect what they love and believe in at all costs. These assholes are so privileged that they think our current state of living is the same as Nazi Germany. They think having to wear a mask indoors and getting vaxxed to work so that the pandemic can pipe the fuck down is oppression. And now, what with the horrors in Ukraine going on, this whole thing is even more asinine and insensitive. To be so butt-hurt that the government is more strict now for the purpose of saving lives and helping relieve the pressure on essential workers speaks volumes about how little some care about anyone but themselves. 

​There’s a reason everyone is short staffed right now. It’s because serving ungrateful, selfish bastards like those making up that wretched convoy broke the employees. Now healthcare is shit because it’s near impossible to find a clinic or a doctor to help with anything. Retail is shit because there are limited cashiers and merchandisers to help so lines are long and dealing with stock is slow. And those remaining are treated like shit. Because the same pieces of garbage that sucked the life out of the first wave of workers get mad and impatient that they can’t have everything they want delivered in the span of a second. 
    It’s a privileged mindset to think that having a very difficult, worldwide problem to solve won’t require sacrifices and hardships of the everyday person. It's even more privileged a mindset to think that the inconvenience of wearing a mask is worthy of massive protests. Sure vaccines are their own can of worms, but you have people preaching about their love for this country as they call for mild anarchy that are willing to do anything for their “lost freedom”. Yet they aren’t willing to do anything to help save humanity and end the suffering that has ruined so many of us? There is no proper logic or research that can fuel a valid argument for these people so this show of Canadian Pride featuring: to Hell With Canada has no proper foundation and is all for naught. 
In the end it’s just a herd of stereotypically southern American farmers but they’re actually Canadian in Canada whining about the pandemic being bad and blaming all the wrong people for that. As a result the Canadian flag is just as annoying to look at as the American one since it’s a challenge to separate the flag from the fools. So congratulations convoy crew, you’ve made me, an American/Canadian half breed, unable to be proud of either country I’m a citizen of. Thanks a lot.