I read what I consider to be an excellent post from a Swedish forum, written by what I assume to be a swede living in Canada. I've tried to translate it as best I can:
"It's difficult to explain how we fare here in Canada.
It's been very difficult to talk with my swedish friends and family; they just don't get it.
If you were to translate the situation to a normal swedish family that lives in a house in Stockholm, it'd look something like this:
- You're not allowed to bring people home anymore. You are, however, allowed to socialize with them on the plot/lawn.
- Oh, no, now you're not allowed to even socialize with friends and family on the plot/lawn. You're only allowed to meet people in parks and public space (personal note: they really preferred for people to socialize in public space as a means of containing the virus?)
- Oh, now you're now not even allowed to meet anyone, not even in public space. Stay at home, indoors. Await new orders.
If you break any of these public health orders, you're fined hundreds of thousands of swedish kronor (tens of thousands of Canadian dollars).
You're subjected to travel bans. You're not even allowed to travel to Södertälje or Uppsala anymore (these are large cities in Sweden, as well as the names for what can roughly be described as counties/provinces in Sweden). Roadblocks are installed between the cities.
The metalworking company you run? It's deemed non-essential by Folkhälsomyndigheten (the public health bureau).
You're forced to close your business immediately, and you've no idea of when you're allowed to re-open. At the same time, rent and other costs are accumulating.
Your wife works as a sales manager for some shit company. Non-essential. She gets to stay at home without pay as well. The pandemic is rather perilous now, you see.
Your rights are gone. The pandemic is dangerous. Stefan Löfven (the as-of-recently former prime minister of Sweden), with the support of about 17% of the swedish people, declares that we're in a crisis, and takes the command of and subverts the entire democratic system.
You've now lost both of your incomes. You're not allowed to work and make money, no matter how desperate you are. You're not allowed to go to work.
Loans must be payed. Food and bills must be taken care of. The clock is ticking.
The children ruminates at home. Football and hockey practice are shut down for a year.
The schools are closing down completely. The kids sits at home with their Ipads and solves various puzzles the teachers distributes through the Internet... for several months. They're mostly playing Call of Duty with their pals, though. Zero physical activity. The situation is naturally the worst for those who lives with their families in cramped space.
You're maxing out your credit cards, you sell a car. You do everything you can to keep your head above surface.
Then, the vaccines and the vaccine mandates arrive. Take the jab and you can start working again. No pressure though! You're naturally not being coerced to take the vaccine. It's your choice (if you want to eat or starve, that is).
Your kids want back to hockey practice? Take the vaccine. Your teenage kid wants to go to the movies with the girlfriend, or eat at McDonalds with his friends? Just take the vaccine. There's no coercion. I mean, it's not a human right to go to McDonalds or play hockey, right? (personal note: I'd love to argue to some leftie on how it's not a human right to partake in the societal logistics provided by the truckers).
Slowly and steadily, people are starting to rebuild their lives and get back on track. Almost 90% of the population takes the vaccine and vaccinates their kids.
At this point, you've had to sell your house and rent a smaller one.
Boom! Superinflation. The housing market takes to the moon. Gas is up by 100%. Natural gas (which you heat the house with) is up by 200%. Rent rises rapidly... and new lockdowns are implemented. Omicron is here. You have to close your business again. The wife is declared non-essential once more. Credit cards are maxed out. You're riddled with debt up over your ears. There's no way out.
Then, the government puts out new demands, threats and mandates. The same government you've done everything to appease during the last two years. This is the last drop.
Punch to the gut, after punch to the gut, after punch to the gut.
This is where people have had enough and the convoy starts.
It's precisely all of this frustration that is being conveyed through the convoy. To boil it down to solely being about "anti-vaxxers" or some "puppeteered protest" is so disingenuous and vile that it's downright ridiculous.
Trudeaus handlers takes the whole thing very seriously, as is evident by the fact that they've dusted off and activated the emergency act. It's a sledgehammer, and a last resort.
The provinces have already relented and removed the vaccine mandates.
Trudeaus federal minority government stands completely alone with the peoples wrath. The only thing they've left is the emergencies act. A week to try and starve the protest, and perhaps resort to violence.
This has been a long post, but people have got to understand why the situation is the way it is, not to diminish two years of hell to be about some fucking vaccine mandate."
In short, it's always been about the sheer incompetency and overreach of the Canadian socialists and cultural marxists. It's infuriating to read what the mainstream media is writing about this (or what they're not writing about this, considering what I'd deem to be an abysmal amount of coverage by the usual suspects), especially after the way they covered the murderous shenanigans of BLM during the 2020 summer of love. It's all so very much on the nose. They really have dropped all pretenses at this point.