The end of a Annus Horribilis

Annus horribilis

Annus horribilis is a Latin phrase, meaning "horrible year". It is complementary to annus mirabilis, which means "wonderful year".

As usual, this cartoon nails it. My year has been like this. Stuck in March of 2020 under lockdown due to hygiene socialism. The year 2020 was when all levels of government, politicians, media, academics, companies and social media went insane.

Future historians will shake their heads at the madness that came from the fall of Journalism. It has been replaced with the dumpster fire of the "Woke revolution" sensitivity and the Cancel Culture of the Internet Mob.  The loss of credibility of all levels of government and mainstream media and the outright suppression of opposing viewpoints have been the hallmarks of this past Annus Horribilis.

On the plus side - I finally got the first flu shot on May 4 - and now I’m scheduled for the second on August 4 - yeah.  I probably get a bunch of anti-vaxxers calling me an idiot - but I don't care.  What I do care about is why the media and the Alberta government is keeping insisting there is a crisis - when their own information they put out shows that the pandemic is passing.

A question of Numbers

Case in point - On the Alberta.ca Covid website they boast that as of May 19th - there are 4,450,645 Covid tests been done in Alberta,  Interesting - as of January 2021 - the province's population was listed as 4,428,112 a difference of 22,533.

So how come there are more tests done than the whole population of the province?  As well, according to the website vaccine has been delivered to 2,312,821 or 52% of the population. Is AHS exaggerating the numbers to keep an environment of panic or to justify their draconian actions?