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This is one of your best roundups. What you say about fear is bang on; your Mad Max reference had me howling. And you sure turned over the rock linking Afghanistan to the current situation with our military.

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I don't notice people consumed with fear. Nobody is staying away from their job, for instance; that's pretty serious evidence for downgrading "fear" to "worry that keeps me out of luxury activities like restaurants, theatres, and bars".

People ARE afraid to get on an airplane, for sure - because not everybody is vaxed.

The whole "papers please society" thing is overwrought. Once again, they concern restaurants, theatres, and bars. We're just barely up to requiring vaccination for (SOME) jobs, and I've heard zero pushback from employees of the firms concerned.

Vaccination has been required for schools, for ages; not including covid in the long list is evidence of just how the "fear" contingent is not in any driver's seat.

You can't claim that "movement is restricted" when anybody can walk, bike, or drive anywhere within range. Yes, they just restricted plane travel. Keeping in mind the age and income profile of most air passengers, they just lost less than 15% of their customers, until most of them get around to doing something they have no objection to. Ask the cruise lines how much pushback they got.

As for Canadians not standing for a society where you have to show your papers to do certain things, we've been putting up with driver's licenses for a long, long time.

It's not that non-vaccination is concentrated in political groups, it's that anti-vax paranoia that gets people out onto the streets, IS. Anti-vaxxers on the streets, proclaiming their hatred for something about 85% popular, is great free messaging against conservatism.

Where is vaccination concentrated? In the OLD, who are 95% vaccinated in most provinces, whatever their (often conservative) politics. Most unvaccinated are young (least-vaxed group: 12-17) and just not that worried about covid. And 20-30s are (even they, 65% vaxed) are your least-active voters.

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