SAINTS PRESERVE US

Delta Farce

Covid-19’s global fatality score has topped four million souls. That number certainly warrants a free spin on the cosmic life and death slot machine. Delta Bonus! I’m reminded too of a Gaia Theory hypothesis which supposes Earth as a super-organism, everything’s connected. From time to time Mother Earth freshens up, spritzes herself with a pathogenic Raid to keep her human nits at bay. The plagues in our history have dictated the course of our history by disrupting the era in which they manifest themselves.

Here in Alberta however, the news is all good. By mid-August the pandemic will be just another respiratory disease in the eyes of the government. There will be no more curbs unless they involve sidewalks; public safety below all. The direness of increasing infection rates coupled with declining vaccination rates is merely akin to letting one’s medical journal subscription lapse. Those darned renewal forms. Elected Health Minister Tyler Shandro maintains unelected Chief Medical Officer of Health Dr. Deena Hinshaw’s Jesus Christ Superstar’s affirmation of “everything’s all right, everything’s fine,” regarding public health will permit us all to sleep well at night.

Deena, Tyler would like to introduce you to the plausible deniability bus he’s prepared to throw you under. It’s a premium passenger Prevost en route from Provost and it’ll hit you like a Mack truck.

However, the good doctor is neither the Virgin Mary nor Mary Magdalene. Dr. Hinshaw’s remarks from last Wednesday weren’t terribly apocalyptic. But she has been criticized by other health experts for daring to address the elephant in the ICU: covid-19 may not be a pathogen that will be eradicated so much as just one more to be managed. We need to have this conversation. Implications and unintended consequences loom like a future variety of variant and no human being aspires to be a lab rat.

Dr. Hinshaw noted that dismissing covid would allow Alberta Health Services to concentrate on the ravages of other provincial scourges. She specifically mentioned the national opioid crisis and syphilis. Syphilis was known as the French disease in England. Syphilis was known as the English disease in France. Syphilis was also New World reciprocity for smallpox. Interested Albertans are curious as to how a sexually transmitted disease has thrived through 18 months of lockdowns and social distancing requirements.

Syphilis bladed eyebrows long before that look of perpetual surprise became a fashion statement. Untreated sufferers eventually embrace insanity as they would another sexual partner. Since the pandemic has magically vanished within Alberta’s borders, gone the way of Saskatchewan rats, it’s a fair question to ask whether or not syphilis is raging through the highest ranks of the provincial government. It’s enough to make one reach for the Oxycontin.                   

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