Exasperated candour from a political leader heading into the fifth wave of a pandemic.
Like politicians around the world, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau spent almost two years talking about the COVID pandemic – and his government’s reaction to it – in various ways. Sometimes eloquently. And sometimes “moistly”.
Then, in the face of a tsunami of omicron cases in mid-December 2021, Trudeau said what almost everyone else was thinking, “This sucks”.
The two-word expression, a Trudeau trait when you consider his dad’s “fuddle duddle”, summed up a generalized fatigue with a surging virus.
The next day, Matt Galloway of CBC Radio picked up on Trudeau’s bluntness by leading off a special program dedicated to COVID over the holidays with those same two words.
The verdict? No one knows when the pandemic will end. But it sucks while it lasts.
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