Why I’ve never attended a protest against the corona measures

Yesterday, I wrote how my family planned on attending a rally, in nearby Waterloo, Ontario, against the lockdowns. Well, that protest was cancelled. The organizers decided to join forces with a larger protest at Dundas Square in Toronto, today at 12pm.

As I’ve decided in the past, I’m better putting those eight (or more) hours of travel and rallying towards completing the Much Ado About Corona novel. I think this book will help do more to stop the COVID caper than my curly head in a massive crowd.

Since April, according to my log, I’ll have devoted 230 hours to writing this “dystopian love story.” Over 90,000 words and five revisions. My guess: there is still a hundred hours and forty more revisions before I can even release part one (the first 30,000+ words).

My goal was to have it out by Christmas, but this is unlikely. Instead, I might aim for January 30th, 2021 — the one-year anniversary of when the WHO Director-General declared the novel coronavirus outbreak a “Public Health Emergency of International Concern” (according to the WHO’s timeline).

Regardless of the release date, this book needs to be my focus, as I shared in the The ONE Thing You Can Do to Stop the Nutty New Normal. There are few people who can endure (no less enjoy) the level of solitude, focus and patience required to complete a full-length novel of revolutionary potential.

And as Richard Evans, author of the New York Times bestseller The Christmas Box, said in an interview: ““…politicians, governments fear books.”

All that said, I applaud anyone who can make it to these freedom rallies. I would also encourage you to print and distribute the flyer I created specifically to motivate those brave enough to oppose the darkness of the COVID-19(84) agenda.

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John C. A. Manley About the Author: John C. A. Manley is the author of the full-length novel, Much Ado About Corona: Dystopian Love Story. He is currently working on the sequel, Brave New Normal, while living in Stratford Ontario, with his wife Nicole and son Jonah. You can subscribe to his email newsletter, read his amusing bio or check out his novel.


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