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Covid 19 as 2020 Challenge

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When we started this New Year, no one really knew what this year had to offer. We heard via the news about the epidemic of this novel virus in China , and that they were making massive efforts to control the spread. They shut down a good chunk of the country. A few of us watched the Chinese people using fogging equipment to spray down the streets, thinking ...oh propaganda.  Until it spread past China despite the lockdown, they tried. People went around it. It spread to the Middle East, the US, Europe. We knew coping with winter in Canada, it was coming. When it came, back in the spring, I watched our government do a complete about-face in policy . They literally shut down the country. Ironically enough, earlier with the tensions between Indigenous peoples and land rights and the overreaching reaction of the RCMP in Northern BC, the people were in the streets. They stormed the BC Legislature in a show of force and protest . No more were the people going to tolerate the excu