MEASLES MAKES A COMEBACK

Measles.

An old world disease, vanquished in this part of the globe since 1996, yet coming back like gangbusters.

And all of it thanks to our recalcitrant couldn’t-give-a-hoot about anybody other than themselves anti-vaxxers.

You know the type.  The type where nobody tells them what to do.  The type that doubles down on their ignorance rather than accept the facts of medicine and medical science.

The type that would rather bring harm to the rest of us than to grow up and maybe crawl out of their self-imposed ignorance.  The type who would willingly place their own children in harm’s way to make a really bad and uninformed choice.

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THE CONE OF SILENCE

What is it about the Town of Renfrew that makes its representatives so rude?

I mean, I don’t know if all of them are, but I can definitely say that any I’ve tried to contact officially are.  So, to be fair, that would be the Clerk, the former CAO-Acting, the mayor, and every single councillor.

It appears I’m not the only one to feel this way or experience this phenomenon.  I just wonder how long it goes, or how many people are rubbed the wrong way, before the pitchforks come out and the mob storms Town Hall.

Actually, that’ll probably happen on its own once people get their property tax bills.  Or lose the front undercarriage of their vehicle in a municipal tank trap that advertises itself as a street, and that’s after it’s been “reconstructed” by Renfrew’s default road construction specialists.

But back to the rudeness.

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READING THE ROOM

It’s been suggested that I learn to read the room better.

Which is a little like saying that I should get in step with whatever happens to be the flavour of the day.  I should go where the crowd goes.  Be part of the gang, and not some loser.

How appealing that sounds, to finally not be a loser.  To run with the posse, to fit in, to be part of the collective of agreement.  To, for what may even seem to be the very first time, actually belong.

Pretty heady stuff.

But it sort of brings up a bit of a question for me.  

What if I have read the room, only I don’t like what the room is saying, or where it’s going, or how it’s going about whatever it’s saying?  Like, what do I do then?

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