11/09/2026
For the most part, I stay out of politics on this page. It is not that I don't have interest or opinions, I simply believe that there are enough folks out there adding fuel to the fire, I don't have to be one of them. However I feel the need to speak on a subject that has had me thinking a lot lately.
Before I left for Arizona I had a couple of people ask what I was going to do if the CFIA brought in the 21 day quarantine again, like they had last winter. My reply was that I had already counted on it. Now, I am not a rich retiree. I ride community pasture and train horses for a living, so I'm not rolling in dough, but I socked a little extra money away, on top of my Arizona fund, and made tentative plans to spend three extra weeks in another state close to the Canadian border. Just in case the powers that be, found something to hang their hat on.
I told a friend who asked about it, that I figured they had found something to panic over last year, and they will find something again this year. The one thing folks seem to find in common that draws them together these days, is a love of fear. Feeling scared? Shut s**t down. Don't understand something? Shut s**t down.
Along came The New World Screw Worm. Not the same screw worm I heard about when I was a kid, the one that's been around for a thousand years. The one cattlemen (and animal owners of all kinds) in Texas and various states and Mexico have been dealing with, warding off and aware of. Actually proactive against/and controlling. No, this is The New World Screw Worm. When you think about, don't forget to capitalize the letters. That's important. Do you know why?
Because it raises fear in people, that's why.
And people can be controlled if they are scared of something.
And if you all do not think the folks with the power don't know that, then you have not been paying attention. Every time the media, social or otherwise, is ramping up our negative emotions (fear, anger, hatred, worry) over some subject or another, somebody is trying to control what we think and what we do. Somebody is benefitting. And it ain't us.
I know people who have changed their winter plans, out of necessity in lots of cases, because of this quarantine, and I don't blame them. They tell us we can't bring our horses home, that we have to hold them someplace in a safe environment, it costs more money, board, vet appointments, paperwork. It costs time and inconvenience. We aren't all rich snow birds, most of us are just people trying to enjoy the one life we get to live. Pretty soon, we are coming without our horses, or any of our four footed companions, just to make it easier. More affordable. And some of us simply stay home.
This is not for anyone's safety, believe me. The screw worm fly would die before it got to the Canadian border, and any eggs it laid would go the same route. This is more red tape, rules and hoops to jump through, so we the people can go enjoy our lives. This is absolutely about control.
And now I'm just thinking here, my friends, but hear me out; what are we going to say when they start telling us that WE CAN'T COME HOME WITHOUT A 21 DAY QUARANTINE?
I know what I'm going to say.
And if you don't think that can happen, I guess you haven't been paying attention.
Have a good day folks. 😊
Picture below; sitting at the federal vets in Sweetgrass, Montana
