Covid 19
Courtesy Pixabay.com
Translation:
The Earth, the People, and the Enemy
Planet, humanity, coronavirus
Pandemic, isolation, missing
Fresh air, health, breathing, blue sky
Confinement, solitude, fear
Run, travel, live
Trust, Hope, Live/Life
January 26, 2021
I thought the French message above would be appropriate for today, given the mixed nature of the news and stuff. Lots of it is super depressing, especially if like me you're Canadian and figure you might see a vaccination against this virus in your lifetime, but heard the news coming out of Europe today (which is where our supply comes from). Then there's the hope that eased restrictions in different jurisdictions, will allow for more normal living. So it's a mix of everything today. Some good, some bad, and some downright awful, but at least here and there, there's a glimmer of hope on the horizon.
As for my day. 😋😊 What a difference a day makes (as the song goes), wow. By the time I got up this morning my husband had taken care of all the clogs and toilet problems and made a delicious cup of coffee for me as well. Then this afternoon we spent the afternoon peeling, chopping and slicing a cantalope, cherries (to remove the pits), persimmons, mangoes, bananas and oranges and pulling grapes off the stems, to make a huge fruit salad with some of the fruit in the house that would've gone bad before we had a chance to eat it. So now we will as it'll be dessert for the next several nights I think.
Except tonight as we're both too stuffed from dinner. Which consisted of poutine (yeah that Quebecois favourite of french fries slathered with poutine sauce and melted cheese), t-bone steak, salad and fried mushrooms & onions. By the time I pushed my chair back from the table I was too stuffed to move almost and I didn't eat all of my salad either. I put the rest in the fridge for a snack whenever I need one. So we didn't try our fruit salad that we worked on for most of the afternoon together. Tomorrow night maybe.
Anyhow as there seems to be a lot of headlines today, I'd better get on with it, if I hope to finish it tonight. So run and get your specs and beverages and hurry back to start reading....
Anger on Czech border as Germany demands virus tests Well at least the Germans are still letting the Czechs onto their territory, if they have a virus test, unlike here in Canada where various provinces are completely segregating themselves from the other provinces, tests or no tests.
Virus-plagued Italy in political turmoil after PM quits I wish the imbecile at our helm would quit too, but that's highly unlikely because he wants to continue to suss as much as of the taxpayers dollars as he can before he leaves office.
Citing pandemic, Greece bans protests for a week Starting to go a little draconian there now too? Thought Greece was the cradle of democracy, so what's it doing starting these tactics now?
They Lost Sons To Drug Overdoses: How The Pandemic May Be Fueling Deaths Of Despair While I try my utmost to not let these headlines get to me, and maybe it's good I don't live out there in the real world, but in my own little cocoon with my husband, surrounded by beauty & tranquility and nice neighbours and not seeing how bleak, rough and miserable it really is out there for a lot of people these days except through these stories that I post headlines to. But even I too, sometimes feel the depths of despair some of these people must be feeling after I read their stories and find it hard to snap out of it sometimes. That's when my husband drags me out of here to go watch something with him, or gives me a hug or does something to try to cheer me up a bit. If it weren't for him, I don't think I'd be able to do this blog, because I'd probably be one of these deaths of despair this article talks about, after a while of doing this. So I can't imagine how bad I'd be feeling if I were as adversely affected by the plandemic as some of these people are - as in loss of job, income and home, loss of a loved one to the plandemic, or as a nurse dealing with it day in and day out.
I couldn't stand being a nurse anyhow (I was because when it was time for me to continue my education and choose a career, I was given the option of being a nurse, a teacher or a secretary - as I learnt typing in highschool I saw no point in secretarial courses and have lousy patience when it comes to dealing with bratty kids, so chose the only other option open to me, even though I'd have preferred to either be a geologist or archeologist - the geology thing was more appealing to me though - but on both accounts I was told "girls don't dig in dirt all day long"). Soooo nursing it was. But after dealing with cranky and irritable patients and their families and half baked doctors and even the odd cranky head nurse, and the rest of it, I quit. Like I said I have no patience for brats, and cranky, irascible people. I know, I know, a lot of patients don't feel good and so that's why they're like that, you're going to tell me. I understand that, but it doesn't mean because you feel awful that that gives you the right to take your misery out on someone else, especially the someone elses who are trying to help you, or family members taking care of you while you're sick. Like the old cartoon saying from Yogi Bear went "Grin and Bear It". Or at least try.
Even though I couldn't stand the practical side of nursing, I loved the theoretical side and I think even years later even though I haven't ever had a need to use any of that knowledge in my private life, I've still retained a great deal of that knowledge, even now.
Germany mulls cutting international air traffic 'to almost zero' Everyone should do that and only allow cargo planes in from international destinations to allow for international trade & goods to be brought into the countries.
So so sad.
US states ease virus restrictions even as variants take hold One of the glimmer of hope stories.
Mexico's pandemic policy: No police. No curfews. No fines. No regrets.Well some people just want to live their lives until they die. Not die before they're dead. As in boxed into a small apartment or home alone under lockdown or quarantine and not allowed to go anywhere, do anything or see anyone. A lot of people would think they might as well be dead as to go through that. Sometimes I'm of the same opinion.
Hey Mr. Bozo Brains, there's more than just the US Canada border, borders. I mean hello.... What about all the international travellers arriving by air and sea? And what's your BS excuses now about not doing it? Oh yeah I forgot the Emergency Measures Act and incoming cargo in the belly of passenger jets.... Un F'n DUHHHHHHHHHHHH sheite head.... How'd you manage back in the spring? You didn't diddle and dance about an emergency measures act, if you had to implement it, you did. So why the F NOT NOW???????????????? On top of that, what the F do you think cargo jets are for huh??????? So instead of having sheite delivered via passenger jets opt for cargo jets. I mean what's your f'n inbred imbecilic problem anyhow there moron face????????????????
Hong Kong fourth wave: sudden coronavirus lockdown ends within 12 hours; Carrie Lam seeking Beijing’s help in securing Sinopharm vaccine Wow! They're lucky! Ending in 12 hours? Quebec's been under total or partial lockdown continuously since March 17, 2020 with no let up at all. It would be nice to have the lockdowns totally lifted even if it was only for a few minutes. Gawd, it might give us a chance to breath and jump for joy instead of this never ending drudgery of you can do this, but only if, and you can't do that at all, and you have to be in bed by 8pm and no more than 2 people per household - your kids have to sleep under the veranda in case they're seen inside the house with their parents putting it over the limit of people allowed per household at any one time, and police who can't tell the homeless from non-homeless populations and so ticket both, even though they're supposed to use judgement. But they don't have any - never have and never will have any and they can't buy any either because judgement isn't for sale anywhere. I mean gawd almighty just trying to stay on top of the never ending rule changes and stuff is a freaking full time job in itself, here in Quebec. I wish it or this f'n gestapo government would end SOON!!!!!!
He should considering at least one of them is made in the UK. So there's that much. Which is way more than some of us can say.
The list of fireable offences has grown thanks to COVID-19 I'm just waiting for the day that breathing becomes either a fireable or fineable offence. Oh it's coming the way this society is going. I swear society's going to hell in a handbasket on an express elevator.
Yup so in 2025 we can expect for it to be approved and the first doses of it coming off the production line. Assuming there's any Cdns left alive then able to start the production line up and get it going and we haven't all succumbed to one strain or the other of the virus by then. Because it doesn't look like m/any of us will be inoculated against it anytime soon.
They were probably made by Fauci or that lying weasel that was/is the head of the CDC - Redsomething.
Bruised by India's vaccine diplomacy, China adopts smear tactics against New Delhi fearing loss of influence in South Asia Doesn't surprise me. Tigers don't change their stripes and I think most countries out there recognize China's stripes by now and know what kind of lying, deceptive, bullying beast they're dealing with, when it comes to China.
Split doses, delay second shot, inject into skin; in crises, vaccines can be 'stretched': Experts Gawd, the medical community is getting desperate to provide effective inoculations with what they have on hand, despite the 2 doses recommendations.
Okay well I'm not sure that emergency approvals consist of all mandatory checks. Because if that were true there wouldn't be any further need to check it further than it's already been checked.
More Than Three Dozen Capitol Police Have Reportedly Tested Positive for COVID-19 Since the U.S. Capitol Riot Is it entirely due to the riot or might some of those officers come into contact with others outside of the riot, who had it? Because it seems to me to be the American way to find one scapegoat to blame everything on, that they can possibly get away with blaming on it. In this case the riot.
Really???? Or is he just saying that in order to assuage our anger at him????
Canada seeking reassurance as Europe mulls export controls on COVID-19 vaccines We would need those assurances in writing with official stamps and seals from the EU, Pfizer and Astra-Zeneca and whoever else is involved in that decision, before I'd believe a freaking word of this. We've been dicked around and lied to so many times about this in the past 6 weeks it's unreal. Now I don't believe any of this BS about we'll get 4 million doses by any f'n date even if the date was 2,999 December 31. The only way we'll get that many doses of anything by then is if we make it ourselves and even then, I don't know - especially if Mr. Wussy Boy Dressup has anything to do with those arrangements. Yes I despise him with a passion. Can you tell?
Oh goody. Just what I wanted to know.
What's new? Isn't this their usual mode of operations? I mean everytime they get money for anything they immediately scoff it for their own pet projects or maybe Swiss bank accounts of whatever but it rarely ever goes to the program the Feds gave them the money for in the first place.
I guess this is one group of people who're making lemonade out of life's lemons. Good for them.
London, Ont. father confirms teen son's death from COVID-19 Very sad. Losing a kid is difficult at any age. My daughter was 31 when she died of cancer, but even still it was hard to lose her. I'm sure it's even worse for a young son who was still living at home with his parents, unlike my daughter who'd been out of the house for at least a good 10 years before she died.
And that's only because we actually got a few vaccines to inject before the tap got turned off.
Ottawa teen fined for breaking Quebec curfew while trying to return to Ontario Just shows you the "good judgement" the gestapo bootie bozo cops in QC have. They have no judgement. None. They're just power tripping thugs with badges and guns and ticket books.
Mass vaccinations in Quebec's private seniors' homes to begin in February amid slowed deliveries from Pfizer When I see it, I'll believe it.
Whoo Hoo! Finally a tiny bit of justice meted out against Mr. Gestapo Boots, "cops will used their judgement" (when they have none and it can't be bought for love nor money either, soooooo, so much for their judgement).
That's good news for a lot of regions in the province, I think. Except I know our region which is one of the biggest and stretches the furtherest being the Monteregie, will still be under strict measures because of some of the cities in the "region" which is well over 50 miles away from where we live. Where we live in a local paper showing the 1,000 km square region there was a total of less than 500 cases, but yet we'll be penalized for all the cases on the south shore which is also part of the Monteregie area. The way they've divided it up really isn't fair at all, when most of the cases in the Monteregie is over 50 miles away from us. We're actually closer to Laval and the Laurentians than we are to the other southern areas of our designated region.
Oh man whoever said that about their taxpaying citizens ought to be ousted from their position.
When your 'pandemic puppy' doesn't work out Awww just awwww..... I hate to break it to all those people who thinks their puppy didn't work out, but usually it's them themselves who didn't work out. Ever since we've been married, in 1975 we've had dogs. We've had German Shepherds (one rescued off the streets starving), a Great Dane (from the Humane Society in Regina), a Chow Chow German Shepherd mix - given to us by the owner, a Rottweiler Golden Lab mix bought from a farmer who was going to drown unsold and unwanted puppies, a I don't know - but supposedly Australian Cattle Dog - daughter's dog, who we took in when she died. He was 12 years old at the time and we just put him down in the summer at the age of 20 and 2 Dachshunds - the 1st one was going to be put down that night if we didn't take him because for some reason the owner hated him (though I never understood why as he was a love puppy from the moment they put him in my arms) and our current little girl dachshund. The only dog we had a problem with was the German Shepherd rescued off the street. She had major separation anxiety issues and used to trash the place (I mean tear up the furniture or the car upholstery, tear up and spread the garbage around the house etc...). She was super protective of me though and I guess that was her redeeming quality as far as my husband was concerned and so wanted to keep her even though I didn't. Anyhow eventually she smartened and flew right. All our other dogs though we've never had a problem with them at all. Usually when we say Enough, they know it means it's enough and stop immediately. Everyone of them have been awesome furry four legged friends and really beautiful souls (and yes I believe they have a soul too - after all we're all animals, so if we have a soul then the rest of the animals must too).
Why camels are worrying coronavirus hunters As if we don't have enough to worry about already.
I can't stand them. I have a hard time to breathe with them on and when I take them off it takes me a few minutes to catch my breath again.
Coronavirus updates: CDC researchers say schools can reopen safely; Dr. Anthony Fauci offers hope on variants; 100M global infections We've passed the 100 million mark in cases. When we get to 5 billion we'll consider we have herd immunity and not have to worry about vaccinations anymore.
If they start mandating 2 masks, I'll just start wearing the P100 mask we bought and use that instead.
I've already addressed some of these in previous posts, so won't belabour the point now.
America's billionaires have grown $1.1 trillion richer during the pandemic That's just totally obscene.
I broached this idea a year ago in a comment on the net. Only it was in relation to those who've had the virus and thus had antibodies towards it.
Ha! That'll be a job & a half considering all the trouble they went to, to demolish and destroy the trust they had with the public. Starting with their lying about the cases they had in the US back in January 2020 that they tried to hide and bury as being pneumonia and the flu, but not the coronavirus.
Well that's it for the day's headlines..... So take care and stay well until next installment.... See you then!
