For most people, playing the guitar, baking, or painting is a defining aspect of their personality. For others it is wearing a mask and continuing to pray at the altar of lockdowns, and they make sure everybody knows it.
Canada is largely returning to normal, and some are struggling to adapt, and react with revulsion and derision to the end of mask-mandates and other signs the pre-COVID world is re-emerging.
In Victoria, for example, this has manifested itself with shrieks of horror at the return of tourists. Many of the city’s longest tenured businesses have closed shop in the last two years, with at-least one closure resulting from the absence of Alaska-bound tourists stopping in the city. Consequently, it was a big deal when a half-full cruise ship full of Americans docked this week, and offloaded its human cargo for the day.
Many of Victoria’s prominent citizens, such as radio hosts and local politicians celebrated the return of foreign sightseers to the city. A paranoid, but loud, few, however, reacted as if a dreadful host of Lord Sauron’s Orcs had swum into the city to storm the Empress Hotel and pillage the high tea room.
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