Introduction and 2022 Greetings
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My name is Tracey Ariel and I am an apologetically Canadian.
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Hey Tracey Ariel here, happy 2022!
COVID-19 Impact on Canada
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There we are going into a new year, the second year that Canada is suffering from COVID restrictions. We had hoped that our vaccination levels, which are higher than 35%, would make a difference, and they have, in that we aren't.
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getting as many people who are sick but unfortunately our hospital beds are still filling and there's still our ERs are still our two capacity 100% as of last week and we're still getting a lot of people who are getting COVID despite having double vaxxed and many people triple vaxxed now.
Family Experiences with COVID
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In our family we had two of the four of us got COVID, not me, my two adult children got COVID over the holidays
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My husband and I did not.
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I have my third vax but my husband didn't but they isolated in the room so I guess they kept us safe. The number of people that I know who've had this particular bout of COVID is enormous. Luckily most of the people that I know have not been heard although I haven't heard from my intern yet who also got COVID so I'm not sure. I'm hoping he's okay.
Impact on Canadian Creators
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All the museums are shut down again. All the theatres are shut down again. Bars and restaurants are shut down. You just have to order from them again. Really, some of the most interesting creators in Canada are suffering the most because of this, and so in honour of them, I'd like to share with you a Canadian music playlist that I've been using myself, but that I think
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would be really fun for you.
Living Sustainably in Harsh Climates
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And my word of the week is courage, not just for myself but for all of us. We have to figure out all of us a way to be more sustainable and to be
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to help each other get through this and to somehow choose sustainable living over convenience as often as we can. And we have to find a new way to stay warm. We're in Canada, it's minus 17 out today.
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Somehow we have to find a way to stay warm, be able to thrive, and use less energy so that we can combat greenhouse gases and still live healthy, creative lives that pull everybody up. There's a lot of people still in the world who are living very miserable lives. They need to be fed, they need to be clothed, they need to be housed.
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And we're not going to do that unless we are very, very creative. And we're not going to do that in a way that keeps our water and air and earth functioning so that humanity can stay alive unless we do some things very, very differently.
Exploring Donut Economics
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With that, I'm exploring things like donut economics, which is the idea that there is a
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there's a level of energy use that we can't go over, there is also a level of human suffering that we can't go under, and so all of those outside forces are beyond the human economy, and that human economy should be solely functioning in between those two boundaries.
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And it's a really, really exciting idea. I think it takes what has traditionally been economics and makes it much more exciting for all of us. And so I definitely encourage you to explore that as well. And other than that, I've got some great interviews lined up for you for 2022, and I hope you enjoy them. See you soon.
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Thank you for listening to Unapologetically Canadian.
