Out of touch with reality

I listened to quite a bit of the newscast today and I think what amazed me was how out of touch these protesters are with reality. They invade our city; go into our mall without masks and then say that only 1% of the protesters were trouble makers. Pardon me there were hundreds of them in the mall without masks. We have a city bylaw that you must wear a mask in the mall. They should all be fined and the Fund they built up could certainly pay the city easily a million dollars for the extra policing that was required and whatever the fines are for not wearing a mask in the mall. Our mall had to close and all those people lost work time.  

Then there was the complaint that people had to urinate in the corners because there weren't enough porta-potties. All those trucks that came here could have brought some with them. Why should we go out and find them; we didn't particularly want them to block up our streets in the winter they way they have. They were spoiling our Winterlude weekend to look at the sculptures. I can hardly believe the stupidity which came from them with regard to the desecration of our flag, our monuments and our tomb of the unknown soldier. They were not exercising freedom; they were robbing us of our freedom. And they are still at it apparently as some say they will stay on and on.  The Charter of Rights and Freedoms is an interesting historical document. But it doesn't give anyone the right to take a freedom that infringes on another's freedom. Democracy is about protecting everyone's rights and freedoms. The only real personal freedom that is total is inside the four walls of your house. Outside of that your freedom only exists where it is not infringing another person's freedom. 

Tonight I see that one of the organizers says they are not leaving "until all of you and all of your kids are free." They will likely spoil our opening tomorrow as well because it can't happen with them wandering around without masks and trying to go into stores/restaurants etc without a mask. Have they tested themselves every day to see if they have the virus? And just a word to the organizers - we are free. For a city of one million we have mostly kept the numbers of cases low here and we do not need them to bring any viruses here with them and run around without masks and infect us with their viruses.