As Le Figaro put it, it is ter repetita on confinement
in France. Back to closing school, and imposing early curfew
and this for the third time. There are presently 5000 people in
intensive care(4000 Covid-linked) , a nightmare for the hospitals
as this is 90% + capacity.
Things are in crack-down mode here in Quebec as well : regions such as
Gatineau and Quebec City are going back to being red zones
(while we in Montreal were never anything else). Pandemics are
NOT fun.
Did read a piece on restrictive sadomachochism: some people get
off on being given restricitve commands - like only eat bread for a
week - and get off on it. This from an old piece by Michel Foucault. which
is offered to explain any faint excitement Macron's annoucements might
be making. Make no mistake; this is no fun.
I've been coming to another view on confienemnt measures. Consider, for a
moment, what life could be like if the government had not mandated wearing masks.
Only the pandemic woke would be wearing them, and impressing on their
fellow citizens that they were right about it, in any way possible. A speech from
Macron - or Francois Legault - might well be a salutary alternative in this regard.
Not really celebrating Easter, then. I might well be alone on the actual day.
No point in baking anything; I am baked out from a year of YouTube 'you will
not believe how creamy' cakes. Might buy a candy bar and crumble bits of it in
fruit salad.
We have here the true heart of the case against food challenges on You Tube.
You buy a $15 steak and it is a nice meal; you buy and consume at a go $15's
worth of Ben and Jerry's and it is a drug experience, because the pleasure is
really from the brain being pumped by feel-good hormones. I, personally, think
it is good fun, to watch in any event. Wouldn't it be nice...Although I do appreciate
why some people find it upsetting that individuals food drug this openly.
So you, Ms Amberlynn Reid, are sticking to chicken sandwich Mukbangs.
While the rest of us hunker down, yet again.
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