In my latest National Post column I say we need to weigh the real dangers from the pandemic against the real and rapidly growing dangers from the lockdown.

“Misfortune is a point of view. Your headache may feel good to an aspirin salesman.”

Tony Robbins Unlimited Power

“He consistently achieves the standards he sets for himself.”

Another double-meaning letter-of-recommendation line floating around on the Internet - I don't know the origin.

In my latest Epoch Times column I ask why after all its horrors. misdeeds and lies, most recently the Chinese government deliberately hiding the COVID-19 outbreak from the world while it spread, people including in our government still take a rosy view of communism.

“Vilfredo Pareto… developed a logarithmic pattern that demonstrated that, typically, only 20 per cent of people controlled 80 per cent of a country’s wealth. Later, American economist Max Lorenz observed that Pareto’s principle, often called the 80/20 rule, could be applied broadly to other areas, such as productivity (20 per cent of employees do 80 per cent of the work) and machinery management (20 per cent of machines are responsible for 80 per cent of breakdowns).”

Marnie Ko in Western Standard September 27, 2004

In my latest National Post column I express gratitude for all the things that make me happy normally and are now helping me through the quarantine including (my life is so interesting words may fail you here) a brilliantly designed new power bar protecting my vital computer lifeline to the world.