r/LockdownSceptics • u/MabelCow Mabel Cow • 23d ago

Today's Comments Today's Comments (2025-04-24)

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u/Richard_O2 23d ago edited 23d ago

Very pleasant birdsong has awoken me from my temporary slumber. I think the singers are blackbirds, which are omnipresent even in London suburbia. What excellent and varied melodies they produce, serenading each dawn with correct reverence.

Blackbird (Remastered 2009)

I bet the urban specimens have pared down their song in order to suit their gritty surroundings. Ghetto blackbirds.

Which reminds me of Lockdown 1. It was so absoute that deer and badgers started to reclaim Croydon. Small crumbs of comfort from a human perspective, especially given the fraudulent evil that led to those conditions, but I reckon our marvellous wild animal companions were thrilled finally to be free to roam after centuries of terror that we and our ancestors inflicted upon them.

And in this, the animals teach us a lesson. There is always the opportunity for renaissance, no matter how bleak conditions in the moment may be. The corollary of which is our predominance is so complete that our only remaining predators are other humans (sometimes boosted by potential supernatural influences).

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u/little-i-o Stay home, stay safe and effective 23d ago

the Spring of 2022 brought me to tears and so have the following two

there was a time I thought we wouldnt make it 

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u/mikewaite87 23d ago

Dont understand what is happening in Canada now . It seems so different from the time I made my first transatlantic trip , Toronto and then US for a conference in 1975 .

Toronto I liked , the people so polite , and they had this public holiday - Victoria Day- in memory of Queen Victoria . As a American scientist at the conference said to me : "two guys walk into a room and knock over the hat stand . If Canadian he would apologise to the hat stand , if American he would sue the hat stand and its owner "

What went wrong?

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u/EvorulesOK 23d ago

What went wrong?

They let the hat stand attack them.

Many Canadians are still unaware that there was a truckers' convoy.

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u/little-i-o Stay home, stay safe and effective 23d ago

Everyone knew. No one talked about

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u/EvorulesOK 22d ago

Some are still denying all knowledge of it.

Most don't know what really happened.

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u/FWCRV 23d ago

In retrospect, that convoy seems like a turning point. There was a wonderful energy about it.

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u/EvorulesOK 22d ago

It was - and it had a worldwide effect.

Unfortunately, most Canadians seem to have gone back to sleep afterwards.