We in Canada know full well how the death of a Royal can particularly effect our government workers, vulnerable as they are to the fall of Kings and Queens. GOT was hugely popular here, you know.
That's why they get a paid day off for mourning, and you don't. All productive activities stop. Damn the important rules that keep society running like a well-oiled machine. It's time to get up in the mourning and preen for the Queen at her funeral – the TV version.
It also gives them a little time to be thankful for being grossly overpaid, pension benefits that align them with lesser Russian Oligarchs and the opportunity to enforce a myriad of labyrinth-like laws that normal people call hurdles to a productive life.
Hopefully they also think, hey that JT guy gave me a day off. Cool.
I weep with them.
