Tek wrote:

Not gonna try and argue the toss over events happening in your adopted land CA.

But sounds like your view is slightly lopsided, given other stuff i have read.
 

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/feb/08/canada-ottawa-trucker-protest-extremist-qanon-neo-nazi

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/feb/17/ottawa-protests-anti-terror-agency-warned-violent-extremists

Now admittedly these aren't the "F*ck Trudeau" facebook chat group pages, but they still contain one or two interesting snippets.

SlatefordArab wrote:

1800 in hospital now in Scotland, almost back to January 2021 levels.  

 
Yes. I actually think Sturgeon has a rather hard call to make. On one hand the vaccines have done their job of reducing the number of seriously ill people and making the virus more akin to a common cold, however, the AB.2 variant is much more transmissible than any of the previous variants, so, could present a real problem for healthcare settings. The other thing is, that, we have shifted to relying on LFT tests rather than PCR, which means we a relying on people to be honest. My guess is that we are much nearer 1 in 14 people positive, rather than 1in 18

I really don’t know what is the right call here. My fear is that care homes will go into a near permanent lockdown.

With cases in Scotland 1/11 now running far higher than England 1/16 it would appear obvious that masks are a complete waste of time.
However the policy of keeping masks has achieved the SNPs objectives in making sure Scotland has a different policy than England