The Plague - and Easter Sunday 2020.

   While the wiser world  is holding its breath and hoping the 'plague' is starting to subside as a result of the recommended measures, I have from a very reliable source, that in downtown London, Ontario, (the second biggest London in the world) life continues as usual.  Although restaurants are closed, Tim Horton's Drive-thru is blooming and doing more business than ever.  Conscientious citizens are consumed by guilt and living like hermits, while the irresponsible spoiled- brat component of the population are exposing the rest of the  population to coronavirus, disease and death, apparently without concern.  There was no 'two-meter' safety space around individuals and vehicle congested areas sported motor-cycles and convertibles apparently oblivious to the risks that they subjected themselves and others to.  I'm not aware that the 'experts' have yet informed the virus that it cannot journey more than two meters and I note that some experts are suggesting that it has learned to traverse more than that. I also note that many of those who dismissed face masks as being useless are now wearing them.
   I live on  Richmond St., a main thoroughfare and observe the the traffic's irresponsible disregard for the law abiding public.  I've seen, (and certainly heard) the disregard that these folks have for the traffic laws as they congregate and rev up their engines and wonder why I don't see the police force taking appropriate action.  While the legal Cannabis stores are closed as are other non essential service stores, there is a thriving side-walk market, which is almost, but not quite, as efficient as the illegal market.
   It is easy to understand why our government doesn't do the right thing.  They are fearful that enforcement would be politically unpopular and might lose them votes.
  The 'experts' meanwhile have almost as varied opinions as the general public.  The masks that they superciliously derided are becoming universal as increasing numbers of the public have come to the perhaps commonsense view that some possible if dubious protection is better than none.  An article in today's NP headlined "A nation of snitches?" deriding the folks who follow the rules and resent those who cavalierly disregard them (perhaps including the PM and Leader of the opposition) and thereby put not only themselves at risk but  the rest of  the population too.  When those folks report flagrant breaches of appropriate protocol  to the authorities they are doing no wrong.  They are not snitching.  They are behaving in the appropriately recommended way for the good of the general  population.  They are reporting unacceptable behaviour.  
   Too bad if they think they are being snitched on.
Maybe they do require 'Big Brother' keeping an eye on them, as the writer suggests is already happening!