Patria Post honors the Queen

 For the first time ever in Patria's postal history (dating to the introduction of postage stamps around the middle of the 19th century) a foreign macro-national monarch is portrayed as Patria Post issues a stamp in memory of Queen Elizabeth II. Note the denomination of 70 Patrienish Rupees to honor her 70 year reign. Most of Patria's stamps are non-denominated "forever" stamps in which the numeral 1 is not a value of one rupee, but designates the stamp being valid for the current First Class letter rate.

Patria Post also issued a Navratri commemorative stamp. The use of #hashtags rather than text in English or Patrienish is becoming increasingly common on Patria's stamp issues.

Election Day in Canada, election season in Patria as Congress returns from summer recess

On the day that Canada holds its 44^th federal election since 1867, Patria’s Fifty First Congress returns from summer recess to begin the Fourth Session (4·LI 2021-22). Patria will not endorse any party in Canada’s election even if the Social Democrat House Leader and honorary Patrienish citizen Bernie Sanders has thrown his support to the NDP’s Jagmeet Singh.

Although some campaigning has already taken place, the opening of the Fourth Session marks the de facto start of the 2022 election cycle and the race for the Fifty Second Congress. Although perhaps not the front-runner with election day some seven months away on April 16, 2022 (with many Patirenish citizens voting via advance polls and mail-in ballots beginning in March or even February 2022, that date is actually the conclusion of  "election season"), the SRM is particularly out in front with election campaign posters, billboards and broadcast media ads, going hard on the slogans TAKE BACK THE ECONOMY, PATRIA FIRST and MAKE CHINA PAY (i.e. for the cost of the pandemic). The Chakra Party has also launched its campaign with the slogan “the Inner Voice of Patria”.

SRM are front-runners at least for campaign posters.

Chakra Party also out early with its 2022 slogan.

Near the top of the Fourth Session order paper is a renewed vow not to impose vaccine passports or mask mandates. Masks will be optional in Patria, though recommended to be worn in certain circumstances such as by those who are actually infected with COVID-19 when not in isolation. Vaccines are freely available and highly recommended, but getting a COVID jab and presenting paper or electronic proof of it in order to enter a gym, eat at a restaurant, attend a sports event, or gain entry to other public places will never be mandatory anywhere. Patria remains committed to achieving herd immunity, protecting those at high risk and learning to live with COVID like the seasonal flu.

With Navratri just around the corner, Patria Post issued a stamp depicting Devi Saraswati.

Don't let it dominate you - recovery rate of COVID19 is 99 percent

Patria prefers US President Donald Trump's approach to COVID-19: "don't let it dominate you". The recovery rate of COVID-19 is around 99 percent. Possibly closer to 99.5 or 99.6%. With that in mind, even the House Leader of the Chakra Party, a party who often had been in favor of restrictions and lockdowns earlier this year and even voted against Patria's ratification of the Great Barrington Declaration (which Google doesn't want you to read), spoke in Congress and noted the following:

"Madam Speaker, as we know, the recovery rate of Covid19 is 99%.

What is the recovery rate of your business?

What is the recovery rate of the woman who got beat within an inch of her life last night due to domestic abuse? 

What is the recovery rate of the person whose stress levels went sky high and they just crossed the line into full addiction and is on their way to an overdose? 

What is the recovery rate of the late diagnosis of cancer? Of heart disease or type 2 diabetes that could have been prevented had the gyms and fitness facilities not been forced to close? 

What is the recovery rate of the employees who lost their job and now struggle with their ability to feed their family and pay their rent or mortgage? 

What is the recovery rate of your mental health and that of the people you love, the person standing two meters away from you in the lineup with her face covered, the older gentlemen who sits alone on the park bench or the 22 year old kid who feels lost in his/her own thoughts? 

What is the recovery rate of our ability to trust our government and our public health officials? 

It’s not 99%, you can bet your last rupee on that."

Navratri in Patria this year will be the same as it was last year, a catch-all of friends and family, home and temple pujas, food and football (All Patria Football Federation soccer, not the NFL). For Navratri, for Diwali next month, and even for Christmas in December, Patrienish citizens will hug, laugh, eat, and enjoy each other. What the pandemic should have taught us is life is too short. Wasting precious moments scared and apart is no way to handle the gift we’ve been given.

Patria Post has issued a Navratri 2020 stamp. Note Durga's fierce tiger transformed into a little kitten.