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I hit a real mental health wall this week. There's a third wave of COVID ripping through our

province and our crony capitalist government just persists in its half-assed closure measures,

paying lip service to life and death data, trolling every doctor in the province except for

their puppet advisor, leaving schools open, refusing paid sick leave for essential workers.

The premier is a business guy and the business lobby has him in their back pocket.

They're all addicted to the constant stream of income, growth, and spending.

They feel comes from God and can't imagine any circumstance, even this one which in that old

insurance term actually is an act of God disrupting them.

I knew I was in depression trouble when the temperatures rose enough that it became clear that

skating was over for the year. That last day the rink was rippled and buckling.

The boys and I all went ass over teakheadle several times when our blades caught in the slush at

the edge and at one point I found myself lying flat out on the ice gazing at the blue sky

knowing that the ice was going and it wouldn't come back.

And all I could think of was about how that was happening at the ice caps as well.

Not because it was March and in the order of things but because there are just too many of us

and we've superheated the world with our hopes and desires. This was not a good spiral.

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