Why did it take George Floyd's death for Canadians to rediscover their humanity?

For almost three months Canadians had quarantined their humanity out of fear of the novel coronavirus.  When funerals were cancelled hardly a peep was heard, little concern expressed for those grieving the loss of loved ones.  "We have to stop the spread", was the reply, so we have to make sacrifices.  Same when schools were shuttered, with many children also seeing their parents lose their jobs.  Hardly anyone raised a hand to object that this was a recipe for abuse, especially with liquor stores being essential.  

Yes, liquor was essential, but our humanity was locked down.

Back on February 26th I decided to give up on social media posting during the Lenten season.  I ended up breaking that fast on March 18th, unable to hold my digital tongue any longer when I saw the insane response governments were making to combat Covid-19.  

I posted a message to both an investor  forum I was participating in, and then copied and pasted it to my FaceBook page.  I spoke to a family member who, while agreeing with what I said, advised that it was "too soon", and that people were too afraid.  I took it off of Facebook, but it stayed up on the investor forum where I participate with the name growacet.  

Here is what I wrote almost three months ago now:

THIS IS NUTS!!!  

Kids are calling coronavirus the "boomer remover", and while inventing that term won't win anyone a Nobel prize, its pretty bang on the money.  I just read about a study done on deaths in Italy and overwhelmingly the poeple falling victim to Covid are the elderly, especially those who also have medical conditions like diabetes, cvd, pah and the like.  

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2020-03-18/99-of-those-who-died-from-virus-had-other-illness-italy-says

Our society has such a fear of dying,  I've heard people, when asked their age, say something like: "I'm eighty three years....young".  We can't even say the world old.  And now instead of funerals we have celebrations of life, ugh, we're in total denial as a culture.  Everyone on this planet is suffering from a terminal illness called life, and the mortality rate is 100%.  

So now we're turning society upside down so that some 75 year old whose battery is down to its last 10% can have another few years in a wheelchair.  No wonder so many old people are ignoring all the social distancing advice.  If I was 75 and suffering from Diabetes....I would too, cripes I might only have 5 or so years left, and each passing year is worse than the one before.  

"What's that sonny, you want me to skip going to the Fleetwood Mac reunion show"?  "Shut the front door, I ain't gonna live forever"!

https://www.rollingstone.com/culture/culture-features/baby-boomers-coronavirus-covid-19-966935/?fbclid=IwAR15xfKcAViccIeCFshLb03A_uhah3gzTMJFunxPra5FlJBqlQBDY1BR8PE

In Canada Prime Minister Selfie is talking about $80 billion in borrowed money being thrown at this, in the US with President Multiple Bankruptcies they're talking about a trillion.  Not to save lives though, but rather to flatten the curve so the death toll is more manageable.  Why not take $5 billion and convert some hotels into temporary hospitals/pallalitive care centres....maybe get Fleetwood Mac to tour them.  

And meanwhile leave the young and otherwise healthy to enjoy their lives, and if they get Covid....oh well, some of them will get the flu too.

I know it sounds callous, but jimeney crickets this is getting out of hand....they're talking about the possibility of martial law in Canada, brining in the Extreme Measures Act...a reworked version of the old War Measures Act.  Civil liberties?  Not if you sneeze.  

Peace, God bless and be well, none of us is going to live forever.  

Well for almost three months it lasted, until George Floyd's brutal murder, and then Canadians finally "grew a set".  It should never have taken that long.  

We can care about racial equality, and about people being separated from loved ones who are dying, for kids locked out of school and locked down with parents who have been tossed out of work with full access to booze, a recipe for abuse if ever there was one.  We can protest for racial justice and police accountability, and speak out for the people dying because their cardiac surgery was delayed, as well as for those who will die because their cancer wasn't detected early.