So it's March 1st, being hailed in with a snowstorm. It's fine. It's Canada. I should be used to snow in March. Especially after getting snow in July for the last 3yrs. But it doesn't mean I'm happy about it.
At least it's not dark at 3PM anymore? Hasn't stopped me from sleeping around the clock though.
Not that I miss summer that much - 35 with humidity is possibly worse than snow and -20. At least I can put clothes on, I can't strip skin off. I still long for the ocean and its breeze if I so much as think about this past summer's heat. Who knows, maybe I'll be making a glorious return (or haphazard retreat) to St. John's sooner than expected. There's something about that outcrop on the ocean that has permanently grafted itself onto my psyche. It's always taunting me to come back to it.
There are enough people voicing their opinions about Ukraine. I'll keep mine to myself and this post. I get there are a lot a lot of geopolitical factors at play, but goddamn do people hate living the good life or something? We're just poking our heads out of the pandemic and Russia wants to put the threat of nuclear war over our heads? I can't imagine the average Russian person really wants war. Show me someone who prefers to live on rations, live with daily threat to lives and livelihoods, over someone who wants to live a stable peaceful life with food and a solid place to live. C'mon. The world cannot revert back to WWII era. A country's populace can no longer be controlled solely by controlling media. The information age is truly that. Information is everywhere. You cannot lock it out. So stop trying? No amount of propaganda will convince the world at large that it's right for Russia to invade Ukraine. Give it up. Suck it up. Join in on the capitalism fun and let your people have a piece of the American pie - that is, a slice of stable housing, good food, soccer games for your kids whatever.
That's all. I say nothing on social media because I limit my media sphere to just my friends and colleagues, who of course share my similar opinions. I don't see the point of projecting it out to an echo chamber, fun as that might be sometimes. I will say any and all of these wanna be leftover freedom convoy slugs should all be delivered personally to Ukraine. Land them on the Polish border, give them a rifle and shove them over. If they want to fight for freedom so badly then feel free to go to Ukraine and fight for actual freedom. They can use every body they can get, at least go volunteer as something useful. If people are so keen to maintain democracy (or their idea of self-serving democracy) then please go to the very frontlines where people are fighting for their very freedom to survive; are in the fight of their lives. Go, shoo, be gone, you won't be missed.
On a very unrelated topic, I had a stupid encounter with a patient. A pregnant patient with whom I spent over an hour explaining such things as what a cervix is, and what a speculum is. I feel like it's things that one should know prior to planning a pregnancy, particularly with an HCP for a partner but whatever. Just now I have to find room in a clinic booked 6weeks out to see them back for the actual pregnancy visit.
