Not a Trucker Anymore
Vaccine mandates were life altering for one of the younger truckers at the protest.
A few days ago, I posted a short video of a child thanking a trucker for fighting for his freedom of choice. Here’s a photo of the trucker in that video. His friend might have mistaken me for a member of the malevolent mainstream media while I was taking it :-)
This trucker was one of the youngest chaps participating in the Ottawa protest. His name is Tyler and the truck was his own - a baby blue Kenworth. His Facebook page tells us he was formerly with the infantry in the Canadian Armed Forces.
Last July - several months after the protest - Tyler announced on Facebook that he was selling his truck:
the convoy and life after the convoy has really changed my way of thinking and what I want out of life. I no longer enjoy living in a truck and living out of truck stops for days on end away from family and friends.
After losing my job due to the vaccine bullshit and having some time off to sit around and think…I realized that I actually want a home life and a family of my own…
…I also realized that I enjoy fixing trucks more than I enjoy driving them. So I have decided to sell the truck…and chase after another dream. Tomorrow I start a new job where I will be fixing heavy equipment and trucks as an apprentice!
I’ll be home every night with weekends off which is something I’ve never had as an owner operator! I’m very excited to start this new life.
People make decisions about their lives for all kinds of reasons. It’s entirely possible Tyler would have changed jobs on a similar schedule had the pandemic never occurred and had he never been punished for declining a medical intervention with no long term safety data.
But government policies do have consequences. Trucking organizations warned the feds ahead of time that imposing a vaccine mandate on cross-border truckers would cause people to leave an industry that was already short of drivers.
Tyler is a young man with decades in the workforce ahead of him. But he’s not a trucker anymore.
If you missed the 17-second video of Tyler and the child, click here.
Lovely to hear of someone finding their way through the mandate mess. So many people think “it is all over” but they didn’t lose jobs and have to start all over. I did a pro bono treatment with a young woman who had a good job in a hospital until she could no longer work.. she has 2 young children. I am happy to report she too found work eventually in a completely different field but she had a very rough go. I imagine their are thousands if not millions of similar stories around the world and not everyone found their way. The higher death rates are not exclusively vax related; suicide is also up.
"But government policies do have consequences. " I'd say, 'evil government policies'.
Is it not true for a multitude of people, that the past few years have removed the myopic impairing "government is good" from human minds? Millions of people now clearly see the hazards of relinquishing self-control of their lives and expecting to live in peaceful when a bureaucracy takes over.
When those to whom we have granted control consider us a sheep to be herded, some of us now realize that slaughter is the next step. While the resentment is clear, the antidote is still out of focus. We are not clear on how to recover control. But it took nearly 100 years to squander a belief in freedom and it will take a good deal of time to rekindle the flame of liberty.
There are many voices warning of the danger of tolerating totalitarian control. There are people that see the danger that when a government that serves the people ends, the group that remains will be dictatorial, centralized world control being the most disastrous.
The over-zealous control grab of the past few years may well be considered a blessing rather than a curse in a better future.