In closing, Drugs were not necessarily the answer in a year marked with the ups and downs of its various manifestations. The legal (a.k.a. expensive patent) drugs designed to get us through life’s little aches and pains are actually killing us. Their non-patentable (and some say more effective) competitors (e.g. Marijuana) remain illegal. Meanwhile, across the pond, the top secret poisoned drugs designed to kill pesky political threats of the Ukrainian kind, don’t and the ones that could be given to millions of Africans to save their lives, won’t be.
So there you have it. In the Chinese Year of the Monkey, an overly stressed west chose to vote using a technique that is best described as the “monkey pick.” If you don’t believe me, look who Time Magazine voted for their Person of the Year (of the Monkey). And why do you think he really visited Canada? He stopped in only two provinces, Ontario and Nova Scotia. Both offer free flu shots. Coincidence… I think not.