I just received word that the Winnipeg Robert Burns Club is going to resume regular meetings, after a lengthy hiatus brought about by “covid”.  While I applaud the club for its devotion to a shared culture and the dissemination of knowledge of the works of a truly great and universally loved writer, I cannot celebrate the resumption of its activities under what amounts to a totalitarian dictatorship in which the governed no longer have a real function.  

Colin Harris, the Club’s president, issued an invitation with this condition:

“If you intend to join us (and don't forget to RSVP by the Tuesday prior) please be mindful of the following:

“Only those who have received both doses of the Covid-19 vaccine will be permitted to join us.

You must have proof of vaccination (card or QR code on your phone)  Hotel staff will be checking, and will also require ID

You must also wear a face mask unless eating or drinking.

Note: These are Provincially mandated requirements, not the hotel's and not the club's. 

Hope to see you all on the 16th.”

This message is ironically followed by a quote from “A Man’s a Man for a’That”:

“Then let us pray that come what may

(And come it will for a' that)

That Sense and Worth o'er all the earth

Shall bear the gree an' a' that!

For a' that and a' that,

It's comin' yet for a' that,

That man to man the world o'er

Will brithers be for a' that.”

Come to think of it, this is precisely why we still need Robert Burns.  Would Burns really have intended or wanted to have had his magnificent and soaring poetry read through a filthy paper mask?  Is this the “brotherhood of man”, where we’re all in it, in chains, together?  Since when has it ever seemed remotely appropriate to put any such condition on enjoying together the works of Burns?  "proof of vaccination"?  "QR code on your phone"?  "I.D."?  "Hotel staff will be checking"?  Will this be one of those absurd events with people pulling up masks to sneak in a spoon of mashed tatties and roastit beef and then lower it while they masticate?  How will the immortal Scots words sound through a few layers of graphene-laden paper from China?  I hope no one will be there for this.  I would hate to see this preposterous display on the occasion of resumption of the Winnipeg Burns Club's regular schedule, and I don't believe I'd be far off in thinking that neither would Robert Burns.   

Appurtenant to the notice from Mr. Harris, I also received from my cousin a link to an article on LifeSite https://www.lifesitenews.com/news/nearly-50k-medicare-patients-died-soon-after-getting-covid-shot-whistleblower/, informing readers that about 48.5 thousand Medicare victims have died within the two-week span following injection with these “vaccines”.  These deaths will most unlikely be linked to the “vaccine” officially because, due to word games played by the CDC and other “authorities”, they were not called “vaccinated” yet.  That’s right.  If you are seized with convulsions you’ve never had before, if you suffer a stroke or onset of heart failure or heart attack or blood clots, gangrene or other damage you have never experienced before within a couple of weeks of being vaccinated, it is passed off as something else - maybe even “covid” - because you are not “vaccinated”.  Like the rest of the so-called “news” reportage, these stories are riddled with Newspeak and lies.  

To these lies which are spread like fertilizer across the plain, we should answer back, “Don’t pour hot coffee on me and tell me it’s raining.”  Robert Burns would have been the first to call this out.  He cut through hypocrisy and lies like a hot knife through butter.  He would have said something like this:

“Ye Hypocrites, are these your pranks
To murder men and gie God thanks
Desist for shame, proceed no further
God won't accept your thanks for murder.”

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