#Caremongering

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Please do your part to help out those less fortunate folks around you:

A new term has been trending in Canada in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic and it’s starting to spread around the world — caremongering.

At this time of fear and uncertainty, rather than scaremongering, Canadians are disbursing kindness — and caremongering is now virally advancing not unlike the coronavirus. It’s a global pandemic of neighbourliness.

26 Replies to “#Caremongering”

  1. Having lived through the Manitoba flood of ’97, no surprise. These situations bring out the best in the majority who are good people in our society. Specific example: Our local pharmacy is now doing delivery, no charge, so the elderly don’t have to take the risk of going out.

  2. They need to identify as Conservative first, as far as I’m concerned Open Border Liberals have brought this on Canadians, so they can suck it up.

    1. Maybe we should go down to Roxham Road and volunteer. The RCMValets must be getting tired. Give the “Syrians” your car, so they can run their new luggage to the free 4 star hotels..

  3. Unions hate this as all care should come from unionized workers and not from unpaid good people doing their civic duty. This puts neighbours together again and not at the mercy of govt.

      1. Good one ☝️

        Either way they do get paid

        Silence or leftist propaganda

        Not hard to chose

    2. I wonder if we’ll see this anywhere else? It’ll be interesting to see if this gains any traction. Maybe I’ll spend more time in my sauna.

    3. Its up there with unicorns and fairies.
      Sheesh, can’t you use some of that critical thinking?

    4. There’s a little problem with this, namely that this virus is very happy in our lungs which are about body temperature but it does explain why it is very important to NOT interfere with the fever our bodies produce on purpose to fight the virus. No fever reducer if you get a fever. Let your body and all those generations of honing our immune system do what they have be doing successful for millennia.

    5. DJ – World renowned epidemiologist Michael Osterholm totally refuted this idea on Joe Rogan podcast #1439. I believe Dr. Osterholm.

  6. My daughter’s first instinct was to offer help for some of her senior neighbours. She thought someone should help them buy groceries and other supplies as they were more vulnerable. She is 22. I agree with the story. Things like this tend to bring out the best in us. When I went to costco (only third time in my life) the week before last, I was impressed on how nice everyone was to each other. The media should be focusing on stories like this rather than the incessant fear mongering. Now back to my three gallon pot of big beefed chilli. And do I have enough jars? Enjoy the social distancing while it lasts.

  8. *sigh* … I have had to turn off my NextDoor App … because all my neighborhood virtue-signalers are going FULL tilt! with offers of shopping and pillow fluffing for all our “vulnerable” neighbors … read: “old people” … like anyone who’s ever received an AARP flyer.

    Sorry … but gawwwd … the empty, saccharin offers are so cloyingly sweet … my A1-c is spiking! I think I’ll just ask each one of them to GIVE me $1k …

    1. Sorry Kenji. I hope you are being funny. I am guessing I am a lot older than you. We do not make empty offers. I am not sure what virtue signalling is, but I have an idea. Did it occur to you that trying to be funny can be tiresome too? Anyway, I hope you and your family are faring well. No I am not signalling. It is a sincere wish to everyone.

      1. Thanks for your sincere (?) wishes. Let’s see … how are we doing? Hmmm …

        Sitting on my comfy couch with my iPad … into my office for a little work … fire off some emails … receive new pics/videos of my wonderful new grandchild … FaceTime google-ga-ga with said grandson … drive to pick up some fresh vegetables from Diablo Foods (can’t survive on cases of pasta alone) … wife is furloughed (with pay) from teaching diseased little 1st graders, 4-of whom are the most emotionally disturbed children she’s ever taught in her entire 30 year teaching career … with the threat/promise of cancelling the remainder of the school year extending her 3-month summer vacation to about 6-months … not a hint of illness … scratch our rescue cat (my ONLY virtue signal) behind the ears …

        Uh … I guess we’re alright. It’s not like bombs are falling on the streets of my sunny suburb. It’s not like we’re rationing gasoline … Christ! they’re giving it away (well, everywhere EXCEPT N.CA). Can I bank some of this compassion for the ACTUAL, PHYSICAL, Chinese invasion? (Sorry Western Vancouverites … I know, I know …)

        Yes, it’s EXHAUSTING being a smart ass. Yet it seems to come so easily for you?

  9. History will record of the Wuhan plague year that when the elites hid in their palaces, and took refuge in self-isolation and scapegoating, the people stepped up for their friends, families and neighbours—and saved more lives, and kept more people healthy and comfortable, than the elites’ plans to imprison their entire nations in their own homes, as absurd as they were monstrous, could ever have done.

    1. What we have here is … failure … to communicate.

      I find it insincere for my well-to-do, upper-upper-middle class neighbors offering help to each other via an impersonal app where they spend most of their time praising each other’s virtues. “Oh Rae … that was such a wonderful offer. You are such a good person” … reads: response after response. It literally makes me ill. Few people are truly needy in my community. The “neediest” in my community are Facebook Employees who just received 6 mos. salary as a BONUS! to help them “weather the crisis”.

      I failed to make clear THAT is something ENTIRELY different from what is being expressed here. People actually HELPING those in need is beyond admirable … it is human. And I believe the VAST MAJORITY of we humans would (and do) give sacrificially to help each other. I can FEEL the coming (and present) disaster for MOST of our nation’s most vulnerable paycheck-to-paycheck citizens as this crisis extends beyond a short period of inconvenience. I refuse to ever publicly express what I will do personally because I believe strongly in Christ’s admonition to not let your right hand know what your left hand is doing when giving. I keep my giving to myself. But I have … and will … react sacrificially.

      1. There are two types of people. 1. Those that do. 2. those that don’t & 3.those that do(or don’t) and then Instagram it.

        I think I also find #caremongering saccharine, not because it’s wrong but it is symptomatic of the vanity and need to prominence.

        I’ll give you a tiny example. I live on a block with a number of seniors, today it snowed, my teenagers are at stuck home, I simply said;. “time to shovel”. The walks, sidewalks, (and even the walk of the house full of stranded university students across the street…I think my son likes one) were cleared.

        Same as last year, same as next month. About an inch of dry snow, but tomorrow no Chinook ice. Didn’t do that for a pat (or post) on the back?

        1, 2, or 3– its a personal choice. 3 isn’t on my list.

        It is saccharine, and in 2 months it wont be nearly as sweet, the novelty will be gone but we will carry on.

  10. Weird days indeed,first we fearmonger ourselves to a standstill,then we caremonger for those who are trapped?
    If it needs doing,just do it.
    All the self flattery on instant media is self abuse.

  11. It was Justins caremongering to the Chicoms and Mullahs more than his own citizens that got us into this shit show in the first place. His hands will be covered in blood.

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