No taxation without representation!

So I made the “mistake” of watching some news on YouTube. I was met with the prime minister of Canada talking about enforcing quarantine and another article stating that they would put a bill forward so that the finance minister could tax and spend to his hearts content. All because they can't have a Skype conference in this day and age.

When the virus was announced I wasn't that worried. I've been sick before. I treat sickness like a natural phenomenon (rain, snow, wind etc) and just take reasonable precautions. If it happens, it happens. I don't blame other people or start demanding “things” be done about it, I just deal with it.

People are far more scary. While I found the great toilet paper rush comical, the joke seems to have stopped for me when our fearless prime minister starts hinting at using force to insure compliance. Free world governments should not even be humoring propositions like this.

The worse case scenario that I've seen on the virus give a ballpark figure by about 2% of the worlds population. While I don't want to see people needlessly die, this still needs to be looked at objectively. Although 2% would be really bad, it's not going to collapse civilization. The Spanish flu didn't do that, and this won't either.

I have a lot more I could say but I think it's best to end it with this. 1984 is not a guide on how to, it's a warning on what not to do. Safety is worthless if you don't have freedom.

EDIT: I should probably put a citation: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=khIEt51zTo4

Off work for two weeks.

So unless you have been living under a rock in Nunavut you have probably heard about Spanish flu Mk 2. Anyway I'm not going to bore my/yourself with details as the news is whoring over this like their business depended on it.... Suffice to say I'm off work for the foreseeable 2 weeks.

Before Covid 19 became a thing, I got really sick with a respiratory bug.... Makes me wonder if the virus was here several months before it was reported on. Anyway, I usually don't get sick or very sick but this thing put me on my ass for a few months. I still managed to get my basic stuff done but anything extra like game development was put off in favor of getting rest.

Fast forwarding to just before the Covid 19 party, I wanted to get back into development but the thought of going back to project Mega Max felt like climbing up a mountain and I sort of fell out of practice while tending my health issues.

So yes,... I started another project to get myself back up to speed. Game mechanic wise, this game is just going to largely use the scripting from a tutorial I recently did. I'll try to avoid feature creep so I don't spend a lot of time on this project.

The game I'm working on is going to be a stealth sneaking type of game. I already have characters, visual theme and a narrative in my head. All that is left is going into blender and creating the art assets I'll need.

At some point I should also go into FL studio and try to whip up some “noise” to put in this game.

Other than my web hosting on the brink of expiration, that's pretty much it.