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This was hard to believe: On March 15, according to Ontario Proud, "The CN tower was lit with teal colours on Sunday night in honour of International Long COVID Awareness Day."

It's because of embarrassing moments like these that make me glad I left Canada.

I mean, are there not more interesting (and, dare I say, verifiable) fantasies out there that Ontario could honour?

Maybe... International Long-Tailed Dragon Awareness Day? Or, if you prefer a sci-fi twist, Intergalactic Little Green Men Awareness Day.

Even better, they could just be honest and call it "International Vaccine Injury Day."

Instead, five years after the COVID operation was thrust upon the world, this is still the narrative that the government and media are spinning: That there was a big bad bat virus that was stopped by a state-of-the-art vaccine (except, of course, for those who still got "long COVID" despite their boosters).

This is why I wrote Much Ado About Corona. We needed a fact-based story to counter their fantasy story.

Fictional stories are emotion-driven metaphors that have great power to shape the world we live in — for better or for worse.

Which is more or less what James Corbett, of The Corbett Report, said in the clip I released last Friday:

You can watch it on YouTube, Tiktok, Instagram and X.

I can't afford to light up the CN Tower for "International Long Fiction Awareness Day", so please help by emailing this post to your friends and sharing the video on social media.

John C.A. Manley

John C. A. Manley is the author of Much Ado About Corona, All The Humans Are Sleeping and other works of philosophical fiction that are "so completely engaging that you find yourself alternately laughing, gasping, hanging on for dear life." Get free samples of his stories by becoming a Blazing Pine Cone email subscriber.