Knowledge Worker Curriculum

February 13, 2022 It's Super Bowl Sunday. And we're in the midst of the Winter Olympics. And the Leafs have put one of their best teams ever on the ice. But I don't care. In fact, I'm so pissed off that I can't really focus on anything. Our country has been occupied by a bunch of jackasses demanding freedom from public health measures. They've blocked the border and occupied central Ottawa with their big trucks and RVs. Our political leadership has looked absolutely pathetic and our police appear to actively support a rude minority of entitled assholes. I can't help but think of those old Rage Against the Machine lyrics: "some of those that work forces are the same that burn crosses." It certainly seems that way. In the words of Coach from Letterkenny , this whole thing is "fucking embarrassing." I'm full of rage. I've become a bit like Uncle Toby from Tristram Shandy , researching siege techniques in order to fulfill my fantasy

We had been doing well. Ontario handled the first wave of COVID-19 rather gracefully. Our neighbors to the south struggled, first in cities like New York during the spring of 2020, then in the sunbelt states in the summer, and then again during the so-called third-wave with the triple-threat of Thanksgiving, Christmas, and New Year's. For most of this time, we retreated behind our smug Canadian confidence in good government. Times have changed. To put it mildly, the Rona is kicking our asses. Our American cousins are reveling in a bout of well-earned vaccine gluttony. We are clearly not. Ontario fielded well during most of the game, but now that we're in the seventh inning we are really finding it difficult to close this thing out. Quite simply, we took our eye off the ball and it's costing us the win. Unfortunately, the game is really the lives of our friends, family, and fellow citizens. We should have shut down sooner. We didn't. We should have listened to our medica