When the News Tells You How to Have Sex...You Know You've Been Had

Trauma interferes with memory and perception of time, and it’s been a long two years to “flatten the curve” now. It’s good to keep a diary to notice when all the little changes happened, so you don’t forget one day that we didn’t use to separate ourselves from cashiers behind plexiglass. It’s good to re-examine old memories once you’ve recovered a bit and some time has passed; it may help you see things you missed at the time, almost like getting a second opinion.

For example, were Dr. Bonnie Henry (B.C.’s chief medical officer) and the Centre for Disease Control gaslighting us early on? Were they saying ridiculous things in tough times and almost mockingly see what we’ll accept. I was just wondering how her old-fogy supporters would react if reminded that the news recommended as “just a tip not a firm rule” for the public to use “glory holes” during the pandemic: “a hole cut into a wall that’s only large enough for a penis to slip through”. That’s what her die-hard collaborators and supporters read in the news with their morning coffee in May 2020.

Some people in the province took the suggestion literally and seriously while others decide to run with the joke. Everything else about wearing masks during sex and limiting face-to-face contact is all irrelevant fluff so they could sexually harass the public while they read the morning news. Fuckin 'eh!