It all started in the last third of this January – Canadians, led by protesting truckers, united, “marched” and convoyed towards the Canadian capital Ottawa. Mirrored by demonstrations in many Canadian cities, the movement demands an end to the vaccine requirement for truckers that cross the Canadian/US border – as well as an end to all Covid restrictions. To this day the Prime Minister nor anyone in his government has met with the demonstrators nor engaged with them in any meaningful discussion; nor is the government willing to revisit the matter. The story would have not turned that viral as it did, but when the Prime Minister was accused of hiding – excusing himself having Covid (not realizing that this very statement of having Covid after being apparently tripled vaxxed, contradicts all reasoning and measures his government is now forcefully fighting for) public attention and tolerance turned against him. The protest movement …
“Glue Protests”
It seems to be the latest rage of demonstrating – glue yourself to a famous piece of art or an important transportation artery to receive worldwide media attention. “Oddly” enough, these kinds of appearances are isolated to mainly countries of western societies. Is it that in other countries they would not receive the desired attention or are the protesters rather afraid of just being ignored and run over by the angry mob or possibly detained by police for a long time. Certainly one thing can be said – in many countries these kinds of protests would not receive the desired attention nor a public nod of consensus. But in the “West” there seems to be a relationship between the major media outlets and protesters and their portrayed doom and gloom message. Watching all that unfolding in different places in Europe and …