Essential Reading   

So in their fit of zeal to make this round of Covid at least as serious as the last one and make sure their citizens understand just how scary it is, the Canadian government has come up with rules, restrictions, and limitations that they hadn’t yet thought of in 2020.

(Side he’arah from someone living in a lockdown state where shuls and schools are officially closed and there is a nightly curfew: Asking people why they don’t move is socially off. People have lives, businesses, friends, children in school, shuls, and rabbanim they feel deeply connected to. And when this is over, im yirtzeh Hashem, we will still be able to get our children into school without having to pledge to donate a major organ or any future Powerball winnings.)

Among the government’s brilliant new legal innovations is the removal of the “essential” label. Until now, an essential worker could cross the border into the United States for work and return home without having to quarantine, but no more.

Under the previous regulations, media was considered an essential service (insert your funny joke here, and then think about what happened last time the delivery guy messed up and you didn’t get Mishpacha and you know it’s true) and I benefitted from this designation for the last two years. So as I go back to being unessential, permit me a few final thoughts, a last hurrah for a person watching his essentialness evaporate.