The world nearly stopped turning last week.
One of the big stories in the news for a day or two was all of those poor Rogers customers who had to go without cell service for (wait for it…) hours - like more than two.
Is it not an unbelievable phenomenon in our society we spend so much energy and time obsessing over a lack of cellular phone service for all of a couple hours?
The funny part of the story was when the news announcer said some people even had to resort to Twitter and Facebook to communicate.
Wow, CBC, you may be sinking to new lows with this little tidbit of sensationalism.
It was only the day before I was communicating via email with the woman in Bolivia I worked with in 2012 who helps women in that country navigate their way through a very broken justice system.
She was telling me about a woman she helped get released who had been in prison for 18 months for selling a cow and bull illegally. She was 62 years old and had never been in trouble before, and while she did break the law, she was being detained without trial and proper representation in a Bolivian prison.
I’ve seen Bolivian prisons. Eighteen months is a long time.
So meanwhile in Canada, we’re going out of our minds because we don’t have cell service for a few hours.
Wow, good work CBC. I’m sure there is nothing else out there to report on. Last week there was a commissioning of a massive new mine (Mount Milligan), a summit of First Nations leaders looking at LNG development in the province (with so many proposed it is mind-boggling), the family of a missing young aboriginal woman trying to draw attention to her case, the beginning of the trial of accused serial killer Cody Legebokoff and Northern Gateway was moving forward on work under temporary use permits along the Northern Gateway Pipeline.
Seems like a couple hours without cell phones is a pretty big deal.
Thank goodness living in a small town, the level of self-reliance is such I don’t think it would phase many Fort St. Jamesians.
Of course, perhaps this is due to the regularity of power outages, we become used to working around such problems.
Either way, it makes one realize how differently some people look at the world.
It also makes me grateful for living in a place a little more grounded in reality.