The Noose Tightens

Well, I see someone is reading my posts (but not leaving any comments). Hello, whoever you are! Glad to see your footprints on my blog!

So, I was going to talk about setting some more, but there's something else that needs to be surgically detached from my chest. This COVID-19 thing is getting annoying as hell now. I know, everyone's in the same kind of mood, but it's getting ridiculous.

See, we're getting more and more restrictions on what we're allowed to do, limiting our options even further. For example, all sports have been canceled for the foreseeable future. Not just what's on TV, but kids in their own leagues, too. No baseball this summer; it just isn't going to happen. Our middle son is disappointed, but we were going to take some time to go down to the ball park and at least throw for a while.

Oh, wait...they just posted signs saying nobody is allowed to use the sport fields, either. Well, that sucks. Hey, I know! We have a fire pit in the backyard. We'll just toast some marshmallows and relax around the fire, and...

Oh, they just issued a province-wide ban on backyard fires because the fire department is afraid of getting COVID-19.

What?

So...we can't even have a perfectly safe, legal small bonfire in our backyard, because the fire department doesn't want to have to deal with calls from annoying neighbors about people having fires in their backyard fire pits?

Forget the right to assemble peaceably, we can't even assemble in our own yards anymore without more rules getting handed down from our governmental overlords. How much more of this crap are we expected to take?

Here's what's going to happen: People are going to get fed up with the ever-growing list of restrictions and limitations, and they're just going to say 'screw it.' This is looking like more of a social experiment to see how far people will tolerate being put into smaller and smaller cages. How long, people? How long before we've had enough? Oh, but they've got that covered, too. Because police departments are opening up hotlines for people to call in to report their neighbors for doing ANYTHING that might break the monotony.

Who wants to live in a society where people are trained to spy on and report their neighbors for minor infractions against the latest whims of an overbearing government? Show of hands, please?

If you're raising your hand, I hope you don't live anywhere near me.

I've already seen people gathering in groups, playing darts in their garage with friends, playing on the sports fields that have been forbidden...and I don't care. Let them! It's their lives, let them live them the way they want to! They aren't hurting anyone, so let them be!

There's going to be a boiling point soon; everyone has one, and the longer this enforced confinement goes on, the faster that point will be reached for a lot of people. And when it does, the results are not going to be pretty.

If you're stuck inside, and you're looking for something to do, read a book. I have a few to recommend:

Final Exam
The Missing Magnate
The Chronicles of Meterra: Arrival