trudeau is talking about the "greatest generation" in his talk today.

if you are 90-100 years old today, you were born between 1920-1930. ish. that means, you were between 15-25 years old at the end of the second world war, and, unless you were a child soldier at the tail end of the german occupation, you did not actually fight in the second world war. essentially any existing veterans would be over the age of 95, at this point.

if you are 80-90 years old today, you were born between 1930-1940 and likely have few memories of the great depression, even if you remember the war.

if you are 70-80 years old today, you were born between 1940-1950 and likely do not remember the war at all. you've probably even spent your whole life identifying as a boomer.

and if you are 60-70 years old today, you were born after 1950 and are clearly a boomer.

so, the virus is mostly killing boomers. actually. the wwII veterans are already all dead and buried.

the trudeau government has a history of these kinds of messy anachronisms, especially in relation to his father. 2013-1985 = 28. they seemed to underestimate how much time that really was, or how old you'd have to be to actively remember politics in the 70s. that distance has only increased...

i would support opening up the benefit to people that make less than $1000/month. but, i actually make $1169/month. so, i still don't think i qualify for anything, but i haven't actually lost any income, either...

i've said this before - as a disability recipient, i probably have the most reliable, stable income in the country. it's designed that way, because we're the most vulnerable; this is maybe the one social system that is just intended to keep running, more or less no matter what. it's not very much money, but it's reliable. at least. i still have to deal with markets, and that's often frustrating, but the social contract with the disabled is that we get these monthly checks, more or less no matter what.

the trade-off is that you accept poverty in exchange for certainty, and i'm happy to do that due to how i've ordered my life around my art. others may, of course, have less of a choice. i should probably be on some kind of artist subsidy rather than strict disability, but that doesn't currently exist.

the point i'm getting at is that i'm not really complaining - my income is intended to be stable, if low, and i've prioritized freedom over wealth, in that sense. so, this is the consequence of that decision, even if it's kind of frustrating, as i watch all this money float around.

i'm eating well. i'm ok.

and i think i'm awake now, even. it's been two days, it's time to get up...