The Truckers Are Coming! The Truckers Are Coming!

Canadian truckers protesting Covid restrictions are being joined by some sympathetic US truckers, under the disapproving eyes of the Ottawa police. While the Ottawa police view this with annoyance, there is as yet no violence involved.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2022/02/02/freedom-convoy-alberta-blockade-vaccine-mandate-protests/

TORONTO — Ottawa police said Wednesday that a “significant element” from the United States has been involved in the participation, funding and organization of a self-described “Freedom Convoy” that has for several days jammed streets in the capital to protest public health measures and Prime Minister Justin Trudeau.

“They have converged in our city, and there are plans for more to come,” said Ottawa Police Chief Peter Sloly. He said that the participants, who also include locals and other Canadians, are “putting our city and our residents, our partners and our officers at great risk.” – article

However, the Canadian truckers are not alone in their efforts to thumb their noses at vaxx mandates (and other such stuff): US truckers here are attempting to meet earlier than their proposed March Meetup in WDC,

https://thehill.com/opinion/white-house/592647-us-trucker-convoy-coming-joe-biden-will-ignore-protests-at-his-peril

From the article: As hard as it is to imagine, President Biden’s political fortunes are about to get worse. The massive trucker convoy that crossed Canada to protest against that country’s new vaccine mandates will almost certainly be replicated in the U.S. and will bring with it huge headaches for the Biden White House.

Biden pretends to be the champion of the “little guy”; he claims to support blue-collar workers. Truckers are exactly the kind of folks Biden is meant to embrace, but he will not do that.

The drivers protesting the vaccine mandates have already been portrayed by the liberal media as right-wing zealots and science deniers, which is only one notch above climate deniers. A Facebook group organizing the U.S. convoy that had amassed 130,000 members has been tossed off the social media platform amid allegations that the movement was being promoted by right-wing extremists, which the organizers deny.

Biden will not dare stand up for the truckers. And yet, if he dismisses them as a “small fringe minority,” as Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau recently did with the “Freedom Convoy” drivers up north, they could get mad.

They could, if pushed, call for a sick-out of America’s vital truckers. Whatever supply chain problems we have had would pale before the catastrophe that could unfold if tens of thousands of drivers simply walked off the job for a day or two. Imagine what would happen to transportation costs, and inflation. – article

Well, there you have it, People. The Truckers of both Canada and the US are pissed off enough to do another whole convoy protest and I really do want to find out what happens when those 18-wheelers are rolled into WDC.

Now, understand that these OTR guys and gals – yes, there are women driving the Big Rigs now: it pays well – are the precise individuals who bring “stuff” to the stores where we all shop for that very “stuff”. There may be delays at the shipping yards, where container ships are still circling the wagons, as it were, but that does not mean that OTR haulers are not delivering whatever they can load up and carry. Nor do I disagree with their view that the vaxx mandates are not only ridiculous, but frankly – well, this ain’t the Middle Ages when real Plagues swept Europe or the Roman period and Greek period when the same things happened. Rats carrying fleas with plague and other diseases ran down the ropes in harbors, jumped ashore and carried those bugs all over the southern end of Europe and spread those diseases.

I’m only making the observation that I do understand their frustrations at being threatened in any way by superstitious idiots.  The Plague’s The Thing, wherein we’ll catch the consciences of the Idiots In Charge.

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