Tuesday, February 16, 2021

Lots of Headlines to Get to About....

 Covid19

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February 15, 2021

As you might've surmised by the picture above, some serious border controls have been introduced in various parts of the world, recently. The most stringent being in the UK, which came into effect today apparently. Since there's a rather steep fine and or jail time associated with breeching the laws surrounding that border control mandate, I thought everyone visiting the blog ought to be made aware of it, in case they have travel plans to the UK.
 
There's new rules in effect for people coming into Canada today as well. I do believe it's for those crossing the land border between our country and the US.  There shall be more about this in the news stories posted below. So keep your eyes peeled if you need that particular information.
 
Anyhow, I hope everyone had a nice Valentine's Day with their significant other. I know I did. We had planned to have something specific for supper, but wound up having something else entirely - which was an awesome surprise to me as it's my all time favourite meal, which up until yesterday I had to rely on my own recipes I concocted for it, because I didn't know the real recipe (I was close but no cigar). All I had wrong though was I was using Sherry instead of vinegar in the recipe. Anyhow I found the recipe, online,  from one of the family members of the restaurant that invented and served this recipe.  When I made it as per their recipe, it was awesome! Now I don't have to go back to NS just to get a decent serving of it, I can make it in my own kitchen now. That is so awesome! 
 
But what's even more awesome is my husband agreed to have some with me, for dinner, because he is not a big lover of fish or seafood, so a hot lobster sandwich isn't his thing. He's more of a smoked meat sandwich guy. 
 
Hmmmm, I just noticed something..... Both of our favourite sandwiches are regional to the areas where we grew up. I'm from SW NS, which is where that lobster sandwich was invented and he's from the Montreal area, where Smoked Meat originates. 
 
If anyone wants the recipe to that lobster sandwich there's a link to it on my Valentine's page - just click on the Valentine's label in the right hand side bar to get there. 
 
Then afterwards we watched a movie together with a glass of wine in hand. That was our pandemic lockdown Valentine's celebration. Normally we'd go out to a restaurant where we could enjoy a good meal and a drink in a nice ambience. 
 
Now on with the neverending news about this dreaded disease and all the fallout from it.... 
 
Challenges to Covid-19 Lockdowns Have Been Mostly Losing in Court  This is bad, bad news. If they're losing in the US, they'll never fly in Canada, because in the US the courts actually knows what their constitution says and means, whereas in Canada the whole entire judicial system from the courts on down to lawyers have no f'n clue what it says or means or how to interpret it or defend it, apparently because everytime there's a case that someone wants to bring to court because of the constitutionality involved in the case, it's a big deal just to find a lawyer who can do that. Then the judges have to deliberate on it forever before making a decision of any kind so it could be decades before we'd know if our laws breached our civil rights as defined in our constitution. Meanwhile they've rotted in the jail cell forever, if they refuse to grant them bail. 

Even despite the much hyped vaccination campaign? Hmmmm..... Wondering why.... 

 

 
COVID-19: More than a quarter of adults struggling financially as pandemic bites - poll That's sad. Considering it's ALL the gov't's fault 1) because they didn't act soon enough to close their borders to all incomers when the plandemic first started and 2) because it was by their mandates that people were forced to shut down their businesses causing all of this hardship. So it should be the gov't that pays these people to support them during this time!!!! Not charities and other organizations but the ones directly responsible for all this BS, namely the governments!!!!! Not just in the UK either, but all the gov'ts who can be tarred with the same brush. Like this book  Snakes and Ladders: The great British social mobility myth  depicts, to the ruling elite it's all just a game, they let you climb so high on the socio-economic ladder and then whoops that's it, you're back down on the ground again. I think they play that game all over the western world, because they're very adept at playing it in North America too as the next story demonstrates....

Again very sad! And I applaud Biden for giving them some relief in the form of a $1,400 cheque, but in the case of these people I think it's going to take much more than that to get them at least in some form of secure shelter with enough food to eat. And same as I just said above, it should be the gov'ts responsibility to take care of them since it's the gov't's negligence and then resulting policies  that caused them to be in this position in the first place! So the gov't is the guilty party here (no matter who the president was at the time) and they need to fix it, but in the meantime they also need to help the people that were worst affected by their negligence and lousy decisions. 
 
 
Manitoba buys COVID-19 vaccine candidate, first province to bypass Ottawa Quebec should do the same thing, only buying the one made in Quebec by Medicago. 

 
Parents of children returning to UK alone face ‘stressful’ quarantine dilemma What's going to happen to the kids if they forget to mention some place they've been? Or don't understand what's being asked and so answer erroneously? Are they going to be fined 10,000 pounds and locked up for 10 years too?
 
 
The science behind why hobbies can improve our mental health Without even reading this article I can tell you why they help me. First they give me something to focus my attention and mind on while I'm working on them. I mean you have to watch what you're doing when you're using dremels,  utility knives, hot wax, woodburning tools, sewing needles or machines,  or knitting patterns - counting stitches and rows and paying attention to all the various stitch instructions. (And yes I actually use all those things, along with a lot of other tools, materials and machines in my crafts) You can't afford to let your mind wander - you have to stay focused. So if you're staying focused and concentrating on what you're doing, you aren't thinking about other things. Plus once you complete your project, it gives you a sense of satisfaction and if others compliment you on it, a sense of pride as well. That's why I enjoy making things (not just crafts but food items as well, from a jar of chutney or jam, to jerky, or bread to a sumptuous feast for guests.) It gives me not only something to do but something else to focus my mind on so I can forget about what's going on out there in the world for a little while. 

I hope they get the answers they're looking for and if they do they share them with the rest of the world, so we all know.
 
China refused to give COVID data: WHO investigator Right there it looks like they have something to hide and are trying to cover it. So why wouldn't we think they had something to do with it, when they refuse to be transparent about it?

 
7 Small Things You Can Do to Help Protect Yourself From COVID-19 Variants All good advice, amazingly. Since we don't see that in the media very often. 

 
Pharmacies ready to help administer COVID-19 vaccines across Canada, association says Good. Then if it goes the same way they administered the flu shot in November, we don't have to do anything except answer a phone, make an appointment note on the calendar and show up at the appropriate time wearing the appropriate clothing (short sleeved shirt). 

 
Families could get stimulus checks every month, starting this summer  Not sure if they have family allowance in the US or not, already. If not this may be their excuse to implement one, in order to come more in line with what Canada has. I mean after all if we're going to make one happy hemisphere under the OAS  (Organization of American States) then eventually we'll all have to align our policies one way or another, if it's going to be anything like the EU in the end.
 
 
 
 
 
 
How Emergencies Like Coronavirus Expose Nonsense Business Practices Not to mention how it exposes the ash holes in power and all their agendas, intelligence or lack thereof etc.... 

 
Desperately Seeking Septuagenarian: Vaccine Buddy System Sets Off Old Rush Yup, the day this was announced Trevor Noah had a little joke about this too. 

 
CDC: Strong evidence in-person schooling can be done safely  Then other things like going to church or movies where people remain seated and can be seated so many feet apart from each other like in school, should be allowed. I don't see the difference there. 

To bad they don't say why, because from what I read here, there's no reason for a stay or acquittal either for that matter.
 

 
White tiger cubs in Pakistan likely died of COVID Awwww so sad, such beautiful creatures too.

 

 

How much are Schwab & Gates paying you to be their front man for them? I hope it's worth it in the end.
 

Except "some" countries in the G7 have NO VACCINE with which to do that! Or did you conveniently forget that the EU blocked shipments of the vaccine even to Canada and the US won't share any of it's vaccines with us..... So um yeah so much for partnerships and allies. With friends and allies like the likes of you hypocritical clowns, who needs f'n enemies anyhow?????
 

Talk about overkill. Nfld & Lab are HUGE areas, separated by ocean, requiring ferries to traverse from one area to the other or back to Canada's mainland. So if  a variant was found in St. John's for instance, why are you shutting down the entire province? Why not just shut down the highways that leads from St. John's to anywhere else, that way Corner Brook and Portes aux Basques aren't affected by this stupidity too, especially if there's no need for them to be affected by it.  Not to mention Anthony's and Gander and the rest of the province, or Labrador City for that matter. I just find it incredibly draconian when gov'ts do this, especially for no explicable reason.
 
 
 
 
Taking Valentine's Day safety to heart Yup, you're supposed to SOCIALLY distance yourselves, so remember that. Can't be developing any kind of social bonds, doncha know that? That's what socially distancing is all about and lockdown and quarantine - being cut off from emotional support groups and those that care about us and those we care about. Has nothing to do with staying 6 feet away from each other because if it did, people wouldn't be acting the way they do in stores. 

You want to talk about power tripping and abuse of power???? Here's a prime example. The cops weren't happy enough with handing out the tickets to the couple in the car, they had to follow them to their destination and then try to get inside but couldn't without a warrant which they got and then went in the house to ticket everyone inside too. Wow, just wow.... That's not exactly what I call fair and unbiased here. Like the clowns driving with their lights off after curfew and the cops searching their car for all the weapons and everything else they found. They might've had a leg to stand on in court about that if they weren't caught driving with their lights off, but since they were the cops could use that as a reasonable excuse for search and seizure and arrest too. But following a couple that's already been ticketed for something in order to give them another ticket???? That's like following someone who was caught speeding in order to give them another ticket the moment they're one kilometer over the speed limit. I think that's called harassment.  Anyhow.... Just f'n WOW.  
 
 
 
 
Ontario unveils more reopening details as 3rd wave fears grow I don't live in Ontario, but if I did, I'd be demanding that these reopenings are pemanent, no matter how many dozens more waves we have to face. Because I get the feeling that a lot of these "new strains" are merely more means of scaring us into compliance and letting them shut things down and cage us up in our houses for even longer. If we don't stand up to them and refuse to be put back in our cages every few weeks, we'll have wave after wave after wave and this will go on forever, like the waves in the ocean. They'll just never end. So at some point people are going to have to stand their ground and refuse to be put under lockdown anymore . And the only reason anyone should allow themselves to be put under quarantine is if they have the disease themselves or know of someone who does and they were in contact with them. Otherwise F that noise too and defy the hell out of it. Because it's getting ridiculous now, here in QC where cops ticket someone and then follow them so they can not only ticket them again but everyone else in the house where they went. That's called police state and police abuse and harassment and that's what all other places will wind up being if they let the authorities (aka gov't) have that much leeway. So before you get there, stop it and stop it in it's tracks. You're lucky in Ontario that Ford isn't as much of a power tripping dictator as Legault is here in QC, that's all I've got to say about that.

We just had some sczechuan food at home, with some sake and that was our muted celebration this year. Normally we'd have gone to the restaurant for such an event, but alas it wasn't open so we couldn't go and could only order. It was better than nothing and gave us a little something to celebrate to change the mood from monotony, boredom and apathy towards the plandemic and anger towards the govts, to something a little happier and nicer. 

While my son's wife is a nurse and she's not in danger of losing her job anytime soon on account of the plandemic, his work life has been a bit precarious, given that he's an interior architect/designer and also a professor teaching 3d design via AutoCad. Because for a while all construction was shut down that meant there was no demand for interior designers or architects and because all schools were shut down or went online in the spring, for a while he wasn't teaching at all and then he was but online. But that took almost his entire waking life because what he teaches is complicated and so he had to allow a certain period of time after class per student for them to get help if they needed it. I forget how much time he had to allot to each student but he said he wound up basically spending 16 hour days with the class online and then he still had to grade their work afterwards (which he did  on weekends). So he was basically only getting paid for 1/4 of the amount of time he worked. Which he wasn't too happy about and I don't blame him. Since his motorcycle accident he hasn't been able to walk without crutches and a boot cast, and so hasn't really gone anywhere. Fortunately for him I guess, he has a partner that works with him and so does all the running around and our son does all the design work and other "paper work" (mostly done on computers with no paper involved, but you get the idea).  So while he didn't lose his job per se, he did lose a lot of business and a large portion of his work was unpaid because of the plandemic. But it caused a great deal of anxiety and uncertainty for him and his wife because of their finances, as CNA nurses (which is what she is - it's equivalent to an LPN in the US I guess) they don't make a ton of money. You'd think they made more than they do, but basically it's the same rule of thumb as it was when I was a nurse - 2x whatever the minimum wage is. That's the basic salary. When you look at the training involved, the responsibilities (I mean legal liabilities they face if things go wrong, or a doctor wishes to lay the blame at the nurse's feet), all the sheite (literally and figuratively speaking) they deal with and abuse they take from anxious angry relatives to belligerent patients or male patients with grabby paws that you just want to smack but can't. I mean to me it just wasn't worth the paltry sum I was getting paid to put up with that, but she is and all I can say is she deserves way more than she's getting. So do all nurses. But there were times when he had no work because the construction was stopped that they were worried about things because they had to rely on what she was making which wasn't much more than double the minimum wage. 
 
 
Saskatchewan pressured to prioritize all health care workers for vaccines That should've been a no-brainer.... But like everything else with this plandemic most people in charge of dealing with any aspect of it, seem to have no brains... 

Seriously???? You clowns make it sound like we never administered vaccinations en masse before!!!! I guess most journalists were only born after 2009 when H1N1 went through eh???? So now we have 12 & 13 year olds in charge of our vaccination campaigns and news media do we???? No wonder they don't know how to do it. Look you bunch of inbred idiots (gawd, it's incredible how f'n stupid everyone's gotten all of a sudden) if we could vaccinate all 35 or 37 million Cdns in 3-4 months max for H1N1, I'm pretty sure we could do it again for the Coronavirus, if we really wanted to. Trouble is, it seems like everyone's pretending they have mass amnesia and dithering and dancing about it as a means of procrastinating the rollout, for some reason. And I'm sure it's not a good reason either.
 
Some foreign nationals are getting coronavirus vaccines in the United States  Geez you're only finding this out now? Canadians could've told you think about a month ago or so when some Cdns in Florida were getting vaccinated along with the residents of Florida.

 Hmmmm wondering why.... Does he know about something to do with it, that no one else does? 

Ummmm.... Either because they don't exist or they're not so much deals as they are raw deals? Could either of those be the reason? I'd go with the first reason as in they don't exist.
 
Canada is 'playing chicken' with COVID-19 by reopening while variants are spreading widely Apparently there's 4,000 variants that scientists are aware of. So if we were to keep our economies shut while each of those took a turn at sauntering through our population, the economy would sink and collapse and never revive or relaunch again. So at some point we're just going to have to suck it up and open up and hope for the best. But if we're removing the restrictions on businesses we should be removing ALL restrictions on everyone for everything. Because it's not fair forcing someone to risk their lives just to go to work, without having any opportunity to enjoy their lives outside of work. After all it is their life and if they want to do something they should be allowed, even if it means putting their life at danger - after all it's their life to live and die as they please.

 

I hope these passport thingies are just temporary until the vast majority are vaccinated and there's a herd immunity thing going on. Because the passport I proposed a year ago was for this very reason, to allow people with immunity to move around unimpinged while the vast majority of people still didn't have immunity and were subject to acquiring the virus and getting sick from it. Just as a temporary measure so that those who were immune wouldn't have to wait months more for everyone else's immunity to be equally protected from the virus, in order to start to live a little and visit others (who were immune or not). That's what I proposed the passport for but it wasn't meant to be digital and definitely not after there was full herd immunity. That after that, the passports would become redundant and just not used anymore or thrown out altogether.
 
Owners of CHSLD Herron to seek delay, publication ban in public inquiry on deaths in long-term care homes I think part of their punishment should be FULL PUBLIC HUMILIATION and so they shouldn't be allowed a publication ban. 

I bet you anything, that IF we did check for strain differences when doing the negative/positive tests we'd have noticed that we have several different strains all uniquely Canadian and have had since the beginning. They say there's 4,000 variants in the world, that they know about. I bet there's a couple dozen or more Canadian strains too, only no one knows about those because no one ever checked for those. In fact Canada never checked for strains at all until the UK said "oh btw, we have a particularly contagious strain floating around here in the UK and have had since September". Then health Canada and the other health depts across the country pulled their pants up and sat up and took notice of what was going on and decided that maybe they should at least check for that strain here in Canada, but only since the recent announcement out of the UK. They didn't go back among the positive samples taken since October to see if there might be any of that strain in those samples. In fact they never looked for various strains before recently. So these growing threats of variants are probably already here and maybe there's more than a couple that are Cdn in origin but we'd never know because of the whole shoddy way this whole plandemic BS has been handled from the get go.
 

Of course, just as I thought. I'm sure that back in November there were people running around Wuhan with the virus. 
 
Lockdown opponents call for arrest, assault and murder of Niagara’s medical officer of health I'm not so sure I'd call for assault and murder of the guy, but arrest yes, having him removed from office yes, defy all his directives yes definitely. 


 
My Phony Valentine: Covid Fuels Romance Scams  Why not? There's been puppy scams, vaccine scams, cat scams and now this all related to COVID.... Might as well. I'm sure it's not going to be the lst one before this plandemic is over with either.

Did you think they'd abstain from swindling during the plandemic? 
 
Coronavirus: Canada to receive 400,000 Pfizer vaccine doses next week As I said before, I'll believe it when I see it. 

 

 

 

I guess Canada's one of the poorer ones then even though we're in the G7.
 
Some Europeans get choosy about which vaccines they want It's your body, so you should have a say as to what goes in it. If you want one particular vaccine for whatever reason and they have the doses available then you should be allowed to have it.

But again as I stated above, these should only be used until there's mass herd immunity and then after that thrown out. 
 
Ozzy Osbourne receives first dose of vaccine after sharing COVID-19 fears: 'As soon as I got it, I felt relieved' I have a lot of comments I want to make about this one.... But I'll refrain from it. Trying to act my age and not my shoe size here. But ummmm there's some humdingers I could make.... 


More than 15 million in UK given first dose of coronavirus vaccine

Schools need more resources to reopen safely amid pandemic, CDC says 

Dr. Anthony Fauci sees 'sobering' data on South Africa variant; US daily cases below 100K, but danger lurks: Latest COVID-19 updates 

Quebec health minister calls for caution as hospitalizations continue to decline Better listen to Dr. Pencilneck Dubious... After all he got his medical license out of cracker jack box, so he ought to know all about what he's talking about when it comes to medicine.

4 N.B. RCMP employees self-isolating after COVID-19 exposure on duty

France reports 21,231 new coronavirus cases over 24 hours Wow....

City reports COVID-19 variant of concern at Toronto homeless shelter 

'She looked after a lot of people': Beloved 'Namgis elder, Lilly Whonnock, dies of COVID-19 

La détresse psychologique en hausse chez les adolescents 

Motoneige en temps de pandémie: sortir de sa zone 

Retirement home operator launches probe after handles removed from residents' doors Can anyone of those idiots imagine what would've happened if there had've been a fire and the people couldn't get out or be rescued because of lack of door handles???? It's just totally unbelievable the lack of brains out there and how many empty clueless brainless bobbleheads are walking around and what's even more shocking is they're getting employed in jobs where their total lack of brains could do the most harm.

Quebec reports 910 COVID-19 cases, 15 deaths as hospitalizations continue decline

China fires back at Washington after it raises concerns about WHO COVID report 

EU to speed approval of variant-modified coronavirus vaccines: paper That would be good, especially if you stop hoarding the stuff for yourselves and honour contract commitments like Canada's for instance!

Catalonia election: Separatist movement put to test as region votes despite pandemic

Ontario health-care workers sounding alarm over burnout as economy prepares to reopen 

Australia's locked down Victoria state reports 2 new local COVID-19 cases

Police investigating after Niagara's top doctor allegedly threatened over COVID-19 restrictions 

Nearing vaccine target, Britain offers COVID shots to more people

Prince of Wales ‘saddened’ by ‘variable’ uptake of Covid-19 vaccines 

UK watchdogs say people with learning disabilities have been given inappropriate 'do not resuscitate' orders for COVID-19

If this is true it's totally reprehensible! Not only should they be blamed for their actions but held to account for them too! I wonder if this is part of the triage group in QC, that's supposed to be left to die if the hospitals can't handle the amount of patients any more? I'm pretty sure there's age groups in the triage, along with certain health problems other than covid, involved as well, but I wonder if there's other criteria like learning or other disability or perhaps ethnicity? I'm talking about the type of people doctors will be asked to triage to the back of the line if the hospitals become over crowded here in QC. I mean until I saw this article it never even occurred to me that they'd use such classifications for such purposes. 

Homebuying Intentions Soar As Canadians Redesign Their Lives For An Era Of Remote Work Yup I know. We've had a couple of real estate agents call us about selling our house and then we had a neighbour come over and ask if we thought about selling our house and if we do to let them know as they'd be interested in buying it. Yeah, sure I'll do that immediately considering I know they won't be able to afford it.... I mean I don't know what's the sudden interest in our house all about..... Anyhow when we do decide to sell it'll be on our terms for our price and if the buyers don't like that, oh well that's their problem not ours. One way or another we have to live somewhere and we might as well continue living here as anywhere else, especially considering we love it here and the only reason we'd sell is so we could get a nicer place, that's all. If we can't afford something nicer after selling this place, then what's the point of it? Might as well stay where we are.

New app created by U of M researchers gives Indigenous people voice during COVID-19 pandemic

Contagious variant of COVID-19 now identified in all 10 provinces as P.E.I. logs case 

Kelowna 'mega rally' draws about 250 protesters against public health orders to combat COVID-19 250 protesters isn't much of a "mega rally" but at least it's a start and we have to start somewhere, standing up for our rights against the tyrannical draconian gov'ts, if we're going to protect the ones they haven't trampled on yet and gain the others back.

Can I gather with friends and family after getting the COVID-19 vaccine? Can I travel? Here is what health experts say

Personally, I don't give a sheite what the experts say. If I am fully vaccinated against COVID19, then I'm going to do what I bloody well please and I want to see the power tripping ash hole on his high horse try to stop me. We'll be in court so fast his head will spin. I can promise that, for sure.

Japan formally approves its first COVID-19 vaccine 

Fewer sexual assault survivors visit Ottawa Hospital emergency department during pandemic  

New rules at border affect more than just snowbirds 

Dealing with stress in this leg of the pandemic 

Business is good; COVID didn’t cause rose shortage this Valentine’s Day, shop owners say (3 photos) 

Coronavirus in North Texas: Cases falling, though deadlier variants are spreading 

Covid: New Zealand Auckland lockdown ordered 

Covid-19: Celebrating Valentine's Day during a pandemic 

Covid-19: Five ways to avoid lockdown eye strain I think I'm falling victim to eye strain from spending so much time on the computer doing this blog that sometimes I need time just to do other things so my eyes can refocus and readjust and get rid of the headaches and eye strain.

The greatest security threat of the post-truth age

You know gov'ts should've thought about this before they agreed to go along with the WEF/Gates plandemic plan and let Gates sully up all the vaccines on the markets by investing in them all. If you wanted people to take the vaccines it would've been better if Gates had nothing to do with the whole damned plandemic and there was no RNA based vaccines either. With those 2 things together you're lucky anyone wants to get the vaccine. 

COVID-19 'didn't scare me away': Nursing schools see enrollment bump amid pandemic 

Galentine's Day: What is it and how do I celebrate it during the COVID-19 pandemic?

We do – but we can't. COVID-19 has changed everything about weddings 

Bill Gates' daughter Jennifer jokes about conspiracy theory after getting Covid-19 vaccine hahaha.... So funny I forgot to laugh. She sounds about as retarded as her father is.

How to rekindle the flame that the pandemic extinguished

It's better later than never....

They love each other but Covid has torn them apart 

How Brazil gambled on unproven drugs to fight Covid-19

Nearly all US kids live in red zones under new CDC school guidance 

In pictures: Lunar New Year 2021 Just something a little different.

Virus may never go away but could change into mild annoyance

COVID-19: 40% of new serious cases are under 60 - here’s why 

For Better Health During the Pandemic, Is Two Hours Outdoors the New 10,000 Steps?   2hrs a day out in these temps? What for? There's no sun to be seen since it's overcast and/or snowing all the time!

'Our grandchildren's grandchildren will get Covid'

I hope not. I hope we are able to develop a vaccine that's good enough to cope with all potential variants, sooner or later.

How Effective Is AstraZeneca’s COVID-19 Vaccine? Here’s What Experts Know so Far 

Royal Caribbean Group, Norwegian probably will require crew to get COVID-19 vaccines before boarding cruise ships

They should, considering that those things are nothing but floating petri dishes. So the fewer people aboard carrying fewer germs is probably better for everyone overall.

India to ship COVID-19 vaccines to Canada as diplomatic tension eases Of course because the leadership of India is way more mature and wise than the little imbecile we have at our helm. It's very nice of India to do that for us. I would like to thank India myself, for that.

Bill Gates says innovation sparked by COVID-19 pandemic could help eradicate global diseases

Oh yeah right. I'm sure it's going to eradicate everything from cancer & cardiac problems to arthritis and ulcers. This guy is such a freaking blowhard, he's unreal.

Quoting the blowhard, now: He said the pandemic had led to great strides in global health  ------> Yeah 2 million people dying who probably wouldn't have died otherwise was great strides in global health alright. Strides backwards he means.

N.B. has received only 59% of COVID-19 vaccine doses expected 

Israel plans to reopen restaurants in March, restart tourism with Cyprus 

'On its knees' travel sector demands UK government plan for summer holidays 

What you need to know about the coronavirus right now 

Lebanon administers 1st vaccines to health workers, elderly 

The Latest: Mardi Gras muted in New Orleans by coronavirus I do believe that's supposed to today's celebration. Too bad it's going to be muted somewhat. But I do hope that those who celebrate the day find a way to enjoy it.

Une St-Valentin sans cas de Covid-19 sur la Côte-Nord

How love survived the pandemic air, N.W.T. edition 

How To Deal With Being Around Your Romantic Partner 24/7

Face au scepticisme des employeurs, les télétravailleurs se rendent plus disponibles pour signaler leur engagement 

COVID isolation kits created for vulnerable seniors, disabled

That's very nice of them, to help the seniors and disabled out with kits like that. I'm sure they'll be very much appreciated.

OGOW means 'to know': Canadian man helping Somalis understand COVID-19 

Most at risk, first in line: Public health experts say racialized Canadians should be prioritized for vaccines

So basically that leaves the below 65 whites at the end of the line. I mean if you're prioritizing the elderly, the essential service workers, the health care workers, the natives, the criminals, and now the visible minorities, that only leaves the whites below the age of 65, who will find themselves at the back of the line. Talk about reverse racism and prejudices.... Just for your information only 16% of the world population, is of European descent. While the Asian races makes up almost 50% of the population. So who's more at risk of going extinct here? White Canadians or other race Canadians besides blacks who make up 13.x% of the population and the natives who make up a very minor amount? So how about this if you want to go by race, then fine put the Natives first, Blacks second, Whites 3rd and then all the rest behind the Whites!?! That way it would be fair to the population demographics of the planet.

Instead of a universal basic income, governments should enrich existing social programs

I agree and that should also include the seniors pensions as they perhaps have the highest upkeep costs - just to maintain their health on all levels. Not to mention that groceries, gas, rent, and just about everything else that it costs the single young adult making minimum wage, it also costs the senior citizen living on very minimum pensions (usually less than $1,000 a month for single individuals). So if it costs a young person $2.50 for a loaf of bread, it also costs the senior citizen that as well. There aren't any senior citizen discounts on things like food, gas, shelter and the like. So if you can give a young person $2,000 a month to live on you should bloody well be giving single seniors the same damned amount unless their income tax returns show that they earned over a certain amount the prior year. 

Considering this is what they had in mind to do: On the other hand, according to a report released by the Office of the Parliamentary Budget Officer in 2020, the estimated cost of a watered-down version of UBI — called a guaranteed basic income — covering only low-income, working-age Canadians (estimated at 9.6 million Canadians between the ages of 18 to 64) would be in range of $47.5 billion to $98.1 billion for a six-month period. 

Leaving the senior citizens high and dry without any help yet again. Gawd I hope and pray that when those little self entitled idiots in parliament get to be retirement age that they get next to no money to live on too. That none of them manage 8 years in office and so don't qualify for a cushy gov't pension and instead have to live off the scraps they throw the way of the average Cdn senior citizen. And whoever is in power when they get to be that age, is as callous and stingy with them as they are with the current senior citizens of today. Or maybe with any luck they'll have a reincarnation of  Paul Martin as a finance minister and he'll use their pensions to pay off the deficit with. Then they'll find out what it's all about... Hope they like the deschets haute cuisine because they'll have to live on it.

Pfizer Canada head says company 'extremely committed' to meeting vaccine delivery targets Like I said, I'll believe it when I see it. 

COVID-19 'long-hauler' calls for greater availability of antibody tests in B.C. to determine spread of virus

Those tests should be available Canada wide including here in QC too as I'd like to know my status in regards to that as well.

Too early to say if COVID-19 booster shots will be needed, Pfizer Canada head says  While others are saying we will need them and still others are saying this damned virus will be around for generations to come.

French hospitals to move into crisis mode from Thursday, report says

LeBlanc: Ottawa not blocking provinces from buying vaccines, despite Manitoba premier’s accusations 

Well good then. QC should do the same then.

Canada's Wonderland to be COVID-19 vaccination site as mass immunization plans ramp up

Such grandiose plans for such piddly amounts of vaccine that will actually be available at any one time. It doesn't matter if you designate half of Ontario as a mass immunization site, you're not going to have that much more than you're already slated to get. So you really don't need that big of a space really. Unless you plan to use all your doses up in 1 or 2 days. I mean the way you're ramping up you'd think you were getting a gazillion doses a day or something. Gawd all of Canada is only getting 400,xxx doses per week. That's like 40,000 doses per province and even fewer when we take the territories and Nunavut into the equation.  I mean gawd use your common sense, why don't you? That works out to about 8,000 jabs a day given per province. So unless your whole entire population is near that theme park, that's just pure unbridled silliness. I mean what about places like Barry? Sudbury? Ottawa? Thunder Bay? Windsor? Kitchener/Waterloo? London? Wawa? They're not all going to want to drive from wherever they live to that theme park. That's for sure.

Oil hits pandemic high as winter storm pushes demand and poses production risk 

Study finds 7 new 'worrying' coronavirus variants in the U.S. 

From medieval times to our current crisis, plagues often accelerate extremist movements 

The superspreaders behind top COVID-19 conspiracy theories 

Remote students are more stressed than their peers in the classroom, study shows 

Ancient Rome Has an Urgent Warning for Us 

Honolulu mayor extends coronavirus restrictions 

Israel to ease more COVID curbs, launch leisure 'Green Pass' on Feb. 21 That could've been us, if numbnuts hadn't dropped the ball and let us get sucker punched by Pfizer, Moderna and the EU the way we did. After all we had the vaccine right after the UK (they were the first in the world and we were right behind them by a few days). Israel only started later near the end of December. 

Remote Workers Flee to $70,000-a-Month Resorts While Awaiting Vaccines 

Geez most remote workers or workers of any kind don't even make that in an entire year.... 

Pakistan lab expects Sputnik V doses for commercial sale in a week 

WHO authorizes AstraZeneca's COVID vaccine for emergency use

COVID-19 : l'espoir pour appuyer la santé mentale 

Mounties say church ignored COVID-19 rules again following charges against pastor Good and I hope they keep right on ignoring them and I hope all other establishments, churches, bars, restaurants, etc all ignore them too. Until the f'n gov't and courts get the idea that we're not putting up with this sheite anymore and that we've had enough.

COVID-19: 'No decision' made on how long to keep 'one metre plus' rule for restaurants, bars and pubs

Author Murakami hosts live jam for relaxation amid pandemic 

Japanese suspicious of Covid vaccine despite pressing Olympics timeline

Racialized adults on revised federal COVID-19 vaccination priority list Like I said above: 

So basically that leaves the below 65 whites at the end of the line. I mean if you're prioritizing the elderly, the essential service workers, the health care workers, the natives, the criminals, and now the visible minorities, that only leaves the whites below the age of 65, who will find themselves at the back of the line. Talk about reverse racism and prejudices.... Just for your information only 16% of the world population, is of European descent. While the Asian races makes up almost 50% of the population. So who's more at risk of going extinct here? White Canadians or other race Canadians besides blacks who make up 13.x% of the population and the natives who make up a very minor amount? So how about this if you want to go by race, then fine put the Natives first, Blacks second, Whites 3rd and then all the rest behind the Whites!?! That way it would be fair to the population demographics of the planet.

All residents of Mississauga condo building to be tested for COVID-19 variant 

The Latest: Fauci wins $1 million for "defending science"

Colombia to start COVID-19 vaccinations on Wednesday: president 

Four people in Oregon contract Covid-19 after receiving both doses of vaccine

So what was in those shots? Water? Diluted maybe?

Variants make school reopenings a 'challenge' despite new CDC guidelines; IRS won't push back tax deadline: Latest COVID-19 updates 

Premier warns of COVID-19 bullying as cases escalate in Newfoundland and Labrador

S.Korea cuts Q1 COVID-19 vaccination plan, restricts use of AstraZeneca shot 

Ontario plans to expand vaccination as COVID cases stabilize in several provinces

Tam takes aim at COVID-19 'infodemic,' urges vigilance over misleading online content You want to talk about misleading information and outright lies do you?????? WELL YOU & NUMBNUTS ARE THE 2 BIGGEST BALD FACED LIARS & MISINFORMATION BS SPECIALISTS IN THIS F'N COUNTRY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Considering you started by denying the need to close the border after the announcement from China about the Wuhan epidemic AND THEN you lied and said we didn't need masks and to wash our hands and SOCIALLY distance and we'll be fine and then suddenly when the rest of the world was making you look like a total clueless dunce, which undoubtedly you are, you decided to follow them with oh you must wear a face mask and socially distance and we'll be fine. Then suddenly we had to all go under lockdown (even though as a doctor you should KNOW that's not how infection control is handled) and we'd all be fine etc... YOU HAVE BEEN THE ONE MAJOR LYING MISINFORMING MASTERMIND IN ALL OF CANADA!!!!! So you want to call the kettle black do you???? Well look at your own lying face in the mirror first and tell me who's the worst misinformation specialist in Canada.  If you're honest you'll admit it and label bozo brains in Ottawa as the runner up.

Adults 80 and over among next priority groups for vaccination, Ontario task force says

Israeli study finds 94% drop in symptomatic COVID-19 cases with Pfizer vaccine 

Canadian military short thousands of troops as COVID-19 impedes recruitment, training

Nothing like advertising to our adversaries that our once colossal 10 man military is now down to 2 and dwindling fast on account of COVID.

Nisga'a couple died of COVID-19 nine days apart 

CDC chief warns it's too soon in U.S. to lift COVID-19 mask mandates 

Biden to discuss pandemic, economy and China in Friday G7 meeting What's Trudeau going to do at that online meeting? Show off his falling down stairs skills? Or maybe his Mr. Dressup trunk? Or perhaps just sit around and whine and moan about everything instead?

Negative COVID-19 test no longer required to enter Alaska

It must be nice to be so confident. I think Nfld was pretty confident too, not too long ago. Now look at them, on full lockdown and worrying about their upcoming election.

Cancer patient travelling to U.S. for treatment wants exemption from quarantine rules 

Negative COVID-19 test required at border crossings

What we know about COVID-19 variants so far 

U.K. enacts hotel quarantine rules

Feds expect Pfizer to start ramping up vaccine deliveries to Canada this week 

A closer look at where $82 billion in CERB payments went at the beginning of the pandemic

Coronavirus: What's happening in Canada and around the world on Monday 

Snowbirds seek exemption from new COVID-19 inbound travel regulations 

N.L. marks first hospitalization in new COVID-19 wave; 7 new cases confirmed 

Lawyer for CHSLD Herron requests delay as coroner's inquiry into COVID-19 deaths begins

Oh lookit this.... People who couldn't wait to frigging hightail it out of there in a living hurry when Covid was inside ravaging their patrons, now want a delay.... How come you lousy no good for nothing negligent homicidal maniacs couldn't delay your departure from there and stick around and take care of the people that were paying you do to that for them????????? I wouldn't grant a delay in fact I'd hurry the proceedings up just to show you what it's like when people are in a hurry to treat you the way you don't want to be treated.

For 10 months, this West Islander has been feeding the Lakeshore General's front-line workers Kudos to her.

Toronto will likely enter grey zone of province's reopening framework next week, Tory says

Coronavirus: Web portal, service desk in development for Ontario COVID-19 vaccine appointments 

Covid-19 cases have declined sharply. Experts say these factors will determine how the pandemic unfolds

Quebec reports lowest COVID-19 increase in months with 728 new infections 

Federal government looking at testing essential workers crossing land border: Blair

Now that we have and can use (even though everyone else was using them back in May) those rapid tests, I don't see why they shouldn't be tested. It's only fair. Everyone else has to be, even returning Cdns. 

'I'm literally breaking inside': As COVID-19 leaves millions jobless and struggling, the mental health toll rises 

Boris Johnson says 'very low' Covid case rate key to easing lockdown

He's probably just riding high on his power tripping draconian dictatorship he's got going now and doesn't want to loosen the grip on it any because he can bear giving up some authority and power like that.

Dominic Cummings denies pushing for lucrative Covid contract to be awarded to ‘friends’ Ahhhh I see patronage scandals aren't exclusive to Canada.... 

Palestinians accuse Israel of preventing COVID-19 vaccine transfer to Gaza

The Feds Did a Good Job: Bankruptcies in Canada in 2020 Hit a 20-Year Low 

Boris Johnson says move to ease lockdown will be ‘irreversible’

It SHOULD BE irreversible considering the amount of time it's gone on now. I mean aren't you afraid that if you don't ease up on the lockdown some irate citizens somewhere will find a way to have your head on a platter (figuratively or literally)? I mean there's only so much people will take, before they've had enough.

Cuomo defends handling of nursing homes Covid tragedy: ‘New York was ground zero’ I thought Wuhan China was ground zero.

Anyhow, that's it for now. Take care & stay well and for all of those who celebrate Mardi Gras, have a great celebration no matter how muted it is.

 


 


 


 


 

 

 

 

 


 


 

 

 


 

 



 






 
 




 
 


 
 




 
 








 
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