When I worked at Pacific Western Airlines, Don was my boss. Don and his family moved to Calgary with the rest of the executives in the late 70's. I made many trips to visit Don and Margaret. They have a daughter Jennifer who was Cheryl's age. Business trip, take Cheryl, Margaret will babysit and the girls can entertain each other. Don sadly passed away from cancer a few years ago but Margaret and I are still friends. She still lives in Calgary but one of her sons is a lawyer in London. She was born in Scotland and may be moving to the UK or maybe 50/50 Canada & UK. I haven't spoken to her about this but we will do a catch up. She posted this on Facebook yesterday.
Well got my UK passport pictures done at AMA yesterday. One step closer. Sat in an area with a young man 25+, when the lady asked me what I was waiting for. Knowing what was coming down later felt pressured to run my errands. He commented on “how he felt terrible for christians not being able to worship? I asked where in his bible did it say you had to sit in a brick building with hundreds of others to worship? Can the christians follow other groups and just figure it out? He then went to tell me about how his constitutional rights were being violated. Well I lost my shit!!! I asked him has your niece died of covid, should you be at a friends sons funeral today, had you paid for a trip of a lifetime and had it cancelled, do you have a child you haven’t seen for 18 months, do you own a business that is down 85%, have you had more acquaintances die from covid than you have visited, do you spend more time alone than in the company of friends, are you on the side of end of life knowing this is your reward time and you sit and watch it go by, do you volunteer and things for others to fill your time?? To all of which he said NO. I used my good words and said this might shock you, BUT NO ONE GIVES A SHIT ABOUT YOUR RIGHTS! YOU HAVE HARDLY LIVED, THIS IS A BUMP IN THE ROAD OF LIFE. The lady offered me a different seating area! I stayed put. Son life is never going to be all about you!
Yesterday, BC with a population of 5,071 million had 572 new cases. Alberta with a population of 4,371 million had 2,271 new cases. I thank our Provincial Health Officer Dr. Bonnie Henry for getting her message across to the people of BC. We have our anti maskers and while I've never encountered any, they anger me on the news. Alberta has a huge amount of anti maskers and people who don't follow the public health guidelines.
Just in case you wonder where I got my information on Alberta:
Margaret was a psychiatric nurse and she really got her point across with this anti masker!
