Showing posts with label Quarantine Cooking. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Quarantine Cooking. Show all posts

Thursday, July 23, 2020

Raspberry Ice Cream, Dirty Dishes & Of Course...

Coronavirus

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July 23, 2020

Still dealing with the fallout of the freezer thaw up today. Thankfully, I'm getting near the end of it, I think or at least hope. Today's chore, was dealing with the colossal amount of pots, pans & casserole dishes used during all that cooking. Each night I put as much as I could in the dishwasher with the rest of the day's dishes to wash, but because some pots and pans are huge (take up almost 1/4 the room in the bottom rack) and don't always come clean the first time around in the dishwasher and so need to go in again sometimes, it got to the point where I had a lot of accumulated large pots, pans & casseroles to either wash or rewash. So I did that today as I had no more cooking to do, but I did have a ton of raspberries to try to salvage. So I decided to make an ice cream mix, loosely based on this recipe:  Raspberry Ice Cream , so that when the churn bowl is sufficiently frozen I can churn it into ice cream later on. Now that we have room in the freezer for it.

I am a lot less tired and frazzled today too. Having less to do, and more time to relax, so I've been busy browsing the net and gathering info on COVID19 and the fallout from it. All I can say at this moment in time is I've finally discovered what this whole thing is about all along. That will be revealed probably in the post about Bill Gates and his machinations behind this whole thing. It will be an eye opener for those who are unaware. Believe me. And none of it will be drawn from "conspiracy theorists" websites - it will all be from actual bonafide websites, like his own foundation's, news stories, patent office files, WEF and IMF's websites as well. Then we'll finally know the truth behind all of this and what's really going on. So here's hoping I have the time to draw it altogether into a post for this blog, in the near future.

That being said, I'm going to try to plow through the headlines links here today without too many outbursts and rants on them, if I can resist it.... So try to keep pace... 😉

Internet Was Not Under “Attack” During Global Outage, Says Cloudflare DNS; Sites & Services Starting To Stabilize – Update   Was this COVID related? As in, too many people on the net all at the same time? 

Already perfected your sourdough? Try these 6 creative twists on quarantine cooking trends  For something different. They even show how to make ice cream in a Mason jar.

Dexamethasone's Covid-19 Benefits Confirmed, Reduced Death Risk by 36% among Patients on Ventilator Support At least something is helping. Too bad the percentage wasn't a lot higher though.

Coronavirus: The slow death of the American all-you-can-eat buffet  Maybe that's a good thing. It'll help shrink waistlines and improve on their health.



'I thought I would be safe,' says personal trainer who spent weeks in coma due to COVID-19  I dunno.... but his name gives me the creeps. The last time I saw that name he was being released from a psych ward, and we were told his name was changed to protect him. Protect him, after him ate that kid on the Greyhound Bus! Like someone like that should be protected to begin with! Anyhow I hope this guy and that guy aren't one & the same because if they are, someone should've pulled the plug on his ventilator and let him die. Sorry, about that. I couldn't resist the rant.


Canadians are reluctantly wearing masks as support for mandatory masking climbs  The health authorities in Canada are bassackwards and stupider than a bucket of shrimp. These measures should've been taken in the beginning before it started spreading like crazy!  

Melbourne Man Travels 32 Kms for the Perfect Butter Chicken, Fined for Violating Lockdown  I guess when you have a hankering for something and it's strong enough, even a $1,600 fine won't deter you. I hope he enjoyed the meal because it seems it wound up being a  really expensive one.

U.S. reports more than 70,000 new coronavirus infections for second day in a row   Wow! Just  wow! That's a lot of infections in one day. At this rate the whole entire population of the US will have had it in less than a year's time!  Then they won't need the much delayed and long sought after vaccines!


Mistrust of a Coronavirus Vaccine Could Imperil Widespread Immunity  Maybe there wouldn't be any mistrust of it, if certain individuals and organizations stayed out of it altogether. Didn't fund it, didn't have anything at all to do with it. But with the Gates Foundation, who is intricately linked with the WEF (World Economic Forum) and the IMF (International Monetary Fund) - in fact he might even be part of the BIS (the Bank of International Settlements - the ones that control all the banks in the world and is privately owned by 21 of the richest people in the world - and it wouldn't surprise me to know Gates is one of those 21 people).  There's a book that I wanted to recommend to everyone to read  called   The Octopus of Global Control to understand the complexity of the issue to do with philanthropist organizations so you could have it pretty much all figured out about what's going on and how things work.  How they have their tentacle into everything and how that all works. Maybe you can find it on the net. 

Underground parties continue to dismiss social distancing rules  Which is partially to blame for the resurgence going on everywhere.

FOX 35 INVESTIGATES: Questions raised after fatal motorcycle crash listed as COVID-19 death  I don't know if this is a new one, or the one that happened back in February or March, that the hospital listed as COVID related so they could get more funding for the hospital. But anyhow if it's another one, it's not the only one.





Hong Kong leader says coronavirus now spreading 'out of control'  So I guess it's not just the US & Brazil where this is happening. It's happening in a country that it's citizens are habituated to wearing masks because of the smog problems there, but it's still getting out of hand. 

South Africa is struggling with Covid-19 because its leaders want to emulate the “First World”  They're emulating the wrong people, they should be emulating the 3rd world countries on their continent, because they're the ones who have it under control, because they closed their border to all travellers when they first heard about the virus being out there, and didn't let anyone in. They did it the "old school way", which  turns out that it was the right way! The way I've been saying it should've been handled all along and the way it is laid out in our constitution for the handling of such situations.  The fact that those guidelines were flouted and caused all this sickness and death and collapse of the economy is enough to charge all the idiots at helm with treason, crimes against humanity and to hang them, because the health authorities knew it was being handled wrong but continued on with the charade anyhow. I know numbnuts Trudeau has a hard time reading grade 2 literature so we can't expect him to understand what it says in the constitution about quarantines and such, but there must be someone in the Liberal party that knows how to read and understand that, that is capable of translating it to the infantile mind he possesses.

Coronavirus: Florida sheriff releases footage of people flouting social distancing rules at large street party  It's called quarantine fatigue and being fed up to the eyeballs with authorities trying to control every aspect of our lives.  I'm not a young adult anymore but even I feel like that too.



Reports: White House blocked CDC Director Redfield and other officials from testifying on school reopenings   Who cares whether he testifies or not? He's the one that was hiding the fact that COVID was in the US since January, by  writing everything up as the flu as per a previous testimony given to Congress - I have a link to that and some of the transcript on my blog, if you're interested.  Then when it was impossible to hide it any longer he demanded that all deaths be written up as COVID deaths or COVID related to cut down on time spent writing death certificates and incentivized hospitals to basically connect everything (including motorcycle deaths too apparently) as COVID deaths in order for them to get an extra $20,000 per claim for the hospital (allegedly to cover things like PPEs & ventilators etc - whether they were needed for the patient or not). I have a link to that 7 page document in a post on my blog somewhere, that you can download and read for yourself. So whatever he says is probably going to be one big stretch of the truth or an outright lie altogether. So who cares? Maybe that's why he was blocked because they already know that.

Leaky border: Tourists and quarantine cheats threaten Canada amid U.S. COVID-19 surge  No kidding. Given that we rarely ever see any foreign license plates around anymore, when we do see one it sticks out like a sore thumb. So NY license plates in parking lots are pretty easy to spot, as are VT license plates. We've seen a couple in local shopping center parking lots. I assume if they were parked in the parking lot they were inside one/some of the stores that parking lot belongs to, so that being the case the local clients of those stores are going to be exposed to whatever germs they're carrying. Given the explosion of cases in the US, I don't think it's right that Customs Canada allows these people into Canada, at least not yet.

Montreal Improv closes its doors for good due to COVID-19 financial hit I guess aspiring theatre arts students aren't going to have any venues to go to audition at to use their improv acting skills, anymore.  For the amount of actual actors being turned out in Montreal, I'm not sure that matters much, in the grand scheme of acting.

Quebec's new mask rule met with co-operation, and a few noisy protests Because of the difficulty in finding masks and the costs of them when we do, that's made us plan our outings carefully, trying to pack in as many chores and things we had to do in one day, so that we use only 1 mask each to get as much done as possible with that 1 mask. Otherwise we'll be forced eventually to wear those big bulky P100 rubber breather masks we have, that I have a feeling is way more uncomfortable than the surgical masks are and probably a lot hotter as well. Though they not only provide others protection from us, but provide us protection from others as well.

COVID-19 Symptoms: These Three Skin Rashes Can Be a Sign of Coronavirus  Yet more potential symptoms associated with COVID19. Pretty soon I think we'll be able to associate everything with it, health and real world wise.

Coronavirus: Lesser-known symptoms that could be linked to Covid-19  The delirium symptom I think is more related to a high fever. Lots of people (COVID related or not) who have high fevers experience episodes of delirium. So when you see or hear someone who is delirious and has a fever, you'd better attend to them quickly and try to bring their fever down via whatever means possible from fever reducing medicine, to tepid baths (if you're able to get them into a bathtub filled with slightly warm water) to ice packs on their chest and foreheads. But generally speaking someone who's experiencing delirium from a fever is now in dangerous territory and needs their fever reduced as soon and quickly as possible without causing cardiac arrest (suddenly being too cold as in an ice bath can cause a shock that causes cardiac arrest). So try not to go there all at once, you can maybe get there, by gradually lowering their temperature and getting them used to the coldness gradually. But delirium is not a symptom of COVID19, but rather of the high fevers associated with it.

COVID-19 New Symptoms: Mouth Rashes, Clinically Known As Enanthem, Listed As Possible Symptom for Coronavirus, Reveals Study   Even more possible symptoms.... I'm just wondering if they're really related to COVID19, or if they're related to other diseases that they're trying to pass off as COVID19 in order to get more funding (as explained above).

CDC: Hospitalized COVID-19 patients most likely to show these 3 symptoms  Meaning these are the 3 most common symptoms in those who wind up in the hospital.  So these are the ones you ought to be most concerned about.


Bangladesh Approves Late-stage Trial of China's Sinovac Covid-19 Vaccine  I wish countries and pharmaceutical companies would stop using 3rd world people as their guinea pigs and try this stuff out on themselves and their own populations first before injecting it into 3rd world patients.


Decks, fences and other pandemic projects lead to local lumber shortage   Yet another shortage caused by the pandemic. Who'd have thought? Just like who'd have thought there'd be a freezer (appliance) shortage at stores in the Montreal area due to the pandemic? But there is. There wasn't one freezer to be found anywhere despite all our best efforts and those of a few others who called hither and yon on our behalf. The soonest we could've had one, apparently was in mid August or early September (and that was best estimates, no guarantees). So it's good we got our freezer going again. So given all the time everyone has on their hands to get their long planned projects done, it doesn't surprise me that there's a lumber shortage. It might also have to do with mill workers too and them being off as well. Almost every aspect of our lives seems to be affected by this virus one way or another.



Global frustration: Online sentiments about COVID-19 have turned from fear to anger Because we realize now, that we're being duped, but most people have no idea why yet. I do and will divulge in the Gates post coming up as soon as I can find time to work on it. Hopefully that'll be soon. 

One less worry: Mosquitoes can’t transmit COVID-19 to humans My son asked me this recently and I said I didn't think so, because it's a respiratory illness and not a blood borne illness. Glad to know I was right.



‘You Can’t Fix It By Pieces’: Hialeah Mayor Carlos Hernandez Wants ‘One Plan In Place’ To Fight Coronavirus  That all depends on how badly things are shattered. If it's shattered you have to fix it by pieces otherwise you won't be fixing it at all. And from what I can see here north of your borders, things are pretty badly shattered. The country and all their various politicians are so dysfunctional it's a wonder it's one cohesive country and not a bunch of tiny city states and state state countries. No one can agree on anything there, it seems. So when you manage to get all 50 governors, all the mayors of the various big cities in those states and all the federal government reps to agree on a single course of action is when you'll be able to fix it. But right now you're in 50 if not more pieces that needs to come together, kiss and make up and start to agree on things together as a cohesive group.

Coronavirus: Is it an act of God?  Oh oh.... I bet there's a lot of Americans out there hoping and praying their health insurance companies don't start claiming it's an act of God and so stop covering all medical expenses related to it.  So for their sake, I hope it's not considered to be an act of God.

Pandemic throws lives - and waistlines - into flux Quitting smoking and then learning how to cook properly from a properly trained chef (former girlfriend of my son's), is what threw my waistline into flux and it never recovered from it. It's still in flux 11 years later. 😋

The Virus Will Make Everything You Hate About Flying Worse  Really? Because I seriously can not imagine how it could possibly get any worse!

Celebrities in Masks Are a Bummer for the Paparazzi Trade  So it affects them too huh? Oh well, c'est la vie, as they say in the region....





Isolating the Elderly Is Bad for Their Health  Which Einstein finally figured this out? And how much of a grant was he given before he could? This should be a freaking no brainer to anyone with more than 2 brain cells to rub together.  So why did they force the elderly to go through such things for the last few months anyhow? 


Contact Tracing Might Become Cops’ Newest Surveillance Too Oh goody! Yay! Just what we want! An unbridled police state that can check on anyone, anytime, anywhere, for any reason... 


Yoga for Stress Relief Is an epub ebook, downloadable at the longfiles link, as I know we all have stress we need relieving.  So just as an aside from all the gloom and doom, here's a book that might help you deal with it better. 






'If It's Here, It's Here': America's Retirees Confront the Virus in Florida   I guess there's not much they can do about it, except look out for themselves.





Hundreds camp out in Oklahoma unemployment lines  This is a very sad and scary state of affairs. 

Brazil set to test Chinese coronavirus vaccine  I hope it works and there's no problems with it, because as I said I hate when companies and countries use others as their guinea pigs. 




Until next time stay well and safe.
























Saturday, June 6, 2020

Is Coronavirus

Coming or Going?

June 5, 2020

I'm getting more  confused than ever over this pandemic now. There's so many mixed signals from everywhere, it's hard to know if the virus is coming or going? Is it gaining strength and causing more infections like it seems to be doing in some cases, or is it weakening and going away as some scientists suggest? The signals in the news coming from all sides: doctors, scientists, politicians, schools, hospitals etc seems to be in one big massive conflict. 

Personally, I believe like I have all along.... that most of us have already had it back in late December and early January when we thought we had the flu or a weird cold or something and thus most of us are already immune to it. That's what I believe. I believe the authorities know that as well.  

I believe the lockdown was imposed for some other reason (probably for the massive tranfer of wealth that occurred during the lockdown - as per an article I'll be posting in this message). I also believe they wanted to do away with as many people as they can - due to over population reasons, so the sick and elderly (who else? - they're always the targets) along with some ethnic groups (as per another article I shall post here) were targetted to be done away with via this virus. 

I know for a fact that the way they handled the whole lockdown thing was patently wrong. I'm sure most of the medical officers world wide knew that too, but they were told to shut up  and sit down and let the politicians handle the whole thing.  Because there was a total global concerted effort to close the borders down all at the same time and the same measures were taken amongst most countries at the same time too. You couldn't get any more collusion than that if you tried. 

So whatever this is, it's political more than it has to do with health, as you will also see some of the doctors and scientists intimating in some of the following stories too. 

As I'm sick and tired of the gloom and doom and outright lies and BS surrounding this pandemic, I am going to inject some fun and interest in this post as well, by providing links to fun music videos, interesting books with information in it you can use to protect yourself or to save money or maybe for the upcoming relockdown we're all about experience in a few weeks time. But I promise you it will all be COVID19 or lockdown related. No going off on tangents to visit Disneyland virtually this time.  We're going to stay right here and figure out what's going on and how to cope with it. If that's at all possible.

So to start off....


The Essential Guide To - Issue 21 - Storecupboard cooking - May 2020  Or you can download that PDF book or magazine about cooking with items found in your pantry - perfect for quarantine cooking.

Blue Ribbon Canning: Award-Winning Recipes Another book to help you preserve your food without taking up freezer space.

Taste of Home Jams, Jellies, Pickles & More an epub book to help you conserve your food.

15 Easy Canned Chicken Recipes To Make When You Need To Cut Down On Prep Time  If the only protein in your house is in the form of chicken in a can in your pantry and other than make chicken salad sandwiches with it, you have no clue what else to do with it, this link might help.

Flourless Dessert Recipes That Will Satisfy Your Sweet Tooth If you ran out of flour during lockdown but still want dessert anyhow, maybe the suggestions found here will help.

30 Smart Ways to Turn a Can of Chickpeas into Dinner Thankfully, I'm  no where near that desperate yet, as I can't stand chickpeas, but perhaps others reading this post likes them but are tired of the same old recipes they have for them and would like new ones. Perhaps this post will take care of that problem for you.

20 Recipes Worth Making During Quarantine More recipes for you to try out if you haven't already. 

Recipes you can make with stale bread  As the old depression era saying goes "waste not want not", so here's a few ways to make use of that old stale bread, so you don't have to throw it out. My husband takes our stale bread and grinds it up with a meat grinder to make bread crumbs with.  I have never bought bread crumbs as a result of that.

The Sound of Sirens (Sound of Silence Lockdown Parody) This is a well done parody of one of my all time favourite Simon & Garfunkel songs. I hope you like it as much as I do.

Hello (from the Inside) An Adele Parody by Chris Mann Another lockdown parody that's well done too. 

Okay we'll have more fun later, right now we've got to get back to "serious business" as far as this plandemic goes.




The authors of a massive study on the use of the antimalarial medication hydroxychloroquine in coronavirus patients published in the medical journal The Lancet retracted it on Thursday.
Initially published in May, the study had found that the treatments didn't appear to help patients hospitalized with the novel coronavirus and instead were associated with heart complications and an increased risk of death.
But in the weeks since the study was published, scientists have been raising questions about the paper's statistical analysis and integrity of the data, which are held by a US company called Surgisphere.
Initially, editors at The Lancet issued an "Expression of Concern," saying that serious scientific questions had been raised.
Some of the study's authors launched an independent third party peer review of the data used in the study, but said that Surgisphere wouldn't transfer over the full dataset.
"Based on this development, we can no longer vouch for the veracity of the primary data sources," the authors wrote on Thursday.

So all I'd like to know is what the Surgisphere company is so afraid of? And why they won't had the data back over for further study? Do they have their own agenda for not wanting that medication to work, or what?  That's what I'd like to know.

Reopening schools completely will not cause second coronavirus wave, new research says I don't know there's a recent article to do with a school here in QC, that seems to be doing just that....

India's urban COVID-19 outbreak is morphing into a rural health crisis

Update: How COVID-19 fatalities in the US compare to the country's worst flu seasons As you can see by this story the alarm about this virus might've been a bit overboard. As I've been saying.

USDA confirms that Winston the pug, believed to be first dog with coronavirus, was never infected  Phew that's a relief! Now we don't have to worry about our pets so much anymore. I know my son will be happy to hear this.

UK loses faith in government over virus: poll It's a wonder most people everywhere haven't lost faith in their governments over the handling of this virus.

Blood pressure drugs linked to lower COVID-19 mortality: study So continue taking your medication, despite earlier reports that seemed to blame blood pressure drugs for the severeity in some COVID patients.

'Every day looks absolutely wild': the chaos of teaching during a pandemic   I'm sure my son, who also teaches courses online to adults would agree with this article. He's told me that it makes it a lot more time consuming and complicated to teach online than in class.

The WHO is reopening its study of hydroxychloroquine for coronavirus treatment — but whether the drug works is still in question

The CDC Waited 'Its Entire Existence for This Moment.' What Went Wrong? They failed not only the US but the entire North American continent.

The UK just reported more COVID-19 deaths in one day than the whole of the EU combined Like I said, coming or going?

After coronavirus, another hidden respiratory disease lurks in the buildings we left behind  That's why it's a good idea to have maintenance and cleaning crews go in and fix, tune up and clean up before starting up again.

Coronavirus could 'wipe out' thousands of people from indigenous tribes in the Amazon I'm pretty sure we can say the same about indigenous tribes everywhere and not just in the Amazon.

COVID-19 anti-vaxxers would 'let the disease continue to kill people', Bill Gates warns  Bill Gates would let his vaccines continue to kill people instead. That's what he'd prefer, because that way he gets paid for each dose of lethal, misscarriage causing vaccine he sells to some poor country. I wouldn't buy anything that Bill Gates was near, if it went in my body somehow. I mean I wouldn't even buy a bubble gum if he owned a bubble gum machine dispensing company. (Meaning he didn't make the gum but he handled it, so there's no telling what he did or didn't do to it, so I just wouldn't trust it).

COVID-19 in Canada: Ford wants more funds from Trudeau, PM offers $14B to help Canadian provinces

Almost an entire class of students caught coronavirus at a Trois-Rivières school

Coronavirus and poverty: Is there a link?  Well considering they live in closer cramped quarters than others, work at jobs that mostly didn't shut down at all, and so were in contact with the general public from the beginning, I'm going to hazard a guess and say yes.

Coronavirus: Rumours, fear and rising Covid deaths in Pakistan 

Coronavirus: WHO advises to wear masks in public areas  Ummmm duh..... I've been saying this since we first heard about it in January but I was told I was crazy and to shut up. I mean just washing your hands and nothing else didn't make sense to me, considering it is a respiratory disease. We don't breathe, cough or sneeze with our hands, but we do with our noses and mouths. So now that I've given up on even listening to any of these half baked bozos, and only now, they're saying wear a mask. I was wearing one before - maybe when it counted the most - as there were more cases going around, but again I believe I already had it and am immune. Anyhow I've given up wearing them now because the surgical masks and homemade masks are totally useless to anyone, so I don't see the point of wearing them and I only have a couple N95 masks left and we each have a P100 mask with changeable filters, but those are big heavy rubber monsters of masks that I would hate to wear in the summertime.  So unless it's mandated by law saying we have to wear a mask, I won't.

Coronavirus: AstraZeneca to begin making potential vaccine 
Since Bill Gates has his hand in this, I shant be getting this vaccine. I think I'll wait for the one in Canada to be made if I get one at all.

The rise of the pandemic-era 'gap year'  The pandemic seems to be messing with everyone's lives and all facets of them too.

'Senseless' and 'wrong': North Carolina mayor condemns police destruction of medics' tent From what I've seen of the cops actions in the US lately this doesn't surprise me. They all seem to be senseless lying murdering thugs, or what some might call hypocrites or chickens and others might call anti-racist. Given the clashes between the public and the cops I'm not sure what I'd call them, because there's as much of a chance they are anti-racists as they're chicken and so kow-tow to the crowd and kneel. Or maybe it's somewhere inbetween, where they can't stomach going draconian, authoritarian on their own people.

A coronavirus vaccine could require you to get two shots. Here's why.

Experts warn large protests may 'become breeding grounds' for the coronavirus  Of course, that's precisely what will happen.

Time to stock your medicine cabinet for the pandemic Stock up on non perishables as well. Get whatever you need done, done. Like say car or appliance repairs, hair cuts, dental work and buy those things you realize you should've had during the last lockdown but didn't. If you want a pet, get one now. In general use this month to prepare for the next lockdown because it's coming whether you like it or not.

Ex-MI6 boss says coronavirus likely engineered in Wuhan lab We've known this all along but every now and then someone denies it and then someone else reaffirms it.

People across income levels report struggles to pay bills during pandemic  This doesn't surprise me either because it seems that no one today no matter their income level knows how to live within their means and almost all have extended their credit right up to it's maximum.

Nearly one in five say coronavirus has caused financial hardship 

Ready to work, trade school students face adversity during COVID pandemic This pandemic just loves throwing monkey wrenches into everyone's plans.

Quebec must explain which COVID-19 patients get priority before second wave: disability advocates Medical ethicists have always put priority on the younger and stronger than the older or otherwise infirm.

As COVID-19 stress builds, study warns of potential spike in suicides 
Those needing helping can find help lines at the following link:  Canadian Crisis Centres

'This is a public record': These are the pandemic moments Canadians are documenting   Taken from pictures people are posting or providing to the media.

'One of the most dangerous jobs in the world': COVID-19 kills more than 600 nurses  It's about time it was recognized as such.

Jim Cramer: The pandemic led to 'one of the greatest wealth transfers in history'  This was one of the main purposes of the global lockdowns.

Hart Island burials soar during coronavirus pandemic

Jolene Lockdown Parody   Another great parody with a darker side - spousal cheating, and threatening abuse or worse.

Singapore plans wearable virus-tracing device for all  What comes next? An implantable chip so you can not only keep track of where they go and who they see, but also what they say and do too?

Gang disguised as Covid-19 doctors in white coats 'rob pensioners in supermarket'  Of course they're going after the seniors who already have the least amount of gov't help possible compared to what everyone else gets.

U.S. Nursing Home Population Shrank Roughly 10% This Year I think this probably has a lot more to do with the coronavirus deaths than shrinking admissions to those homes.

Coronavirus appears to be declining in potency and people are contracting it less easily, US doctors reveal  Another coming or going story....

‘Respect them’: Even in wealthy areas, food bank demand high Maybe if they sold some of their more expensive toys they'd be able to afford to feed themselves. I'm sorry but when I see wealthy people bumming for food that just reminds me of a millionaire I knew who took his 3 kids to McDonalds and bought 1 coke and put 3 straws in it and made them share it. Some of them are so cheap they squeak and if they can find a free meal they will. Like that millionaire told me..... He didn't get to be a millionaire by spending his money - he got to be one by saving it any which way he could. So it wouldn't be beneath his dignity to go to a food bank, nor for a lot of his friends either.

A Nobel Prize-winning economist is warning that Friday's seemingly encouraging job report is actually alarming. This is why.

The original Sars virus disappeared – here's why coronavirus won’t do the same I know I didn't get SARS and so I have no antibodies to that either, but still it ran it's course and it's gone.

24-year-old migrant worker in critical condition with COVID-19 Hiring Canadian students to do these jobs could've prevented that.

South Africa's COVID-19 cases rise and president worries about Cape Town region

We are the World (2020) | Together At Home Edition by Channel Aid, KHS & YouTube Artists

Coronavirus: Matt Hancock urges Britons not to attend George Floyd protests over COVID-19 fears

Dental hygienists worry about COVID-19 safety guidelines as clinics get set to reopen  I know I'm going to have to see one soon.

Despite global reopening push, some jobs are gone for good It's just sad, that those in the most dire poverty are getting hit the hardest and they're losing their jobs.

National unemployment rate hits new record even as economy adds jobs

Know Your Rights: How To Film Police Safely And Legally In Canada  This might have more to do with if you're in a rally or riot and want to film cops actions, but again given the exorbitant cost of those physically distancing tickets they love to hand out to anyone and everyone, it might also apply here as well. But in any case, it's good for everyone to know, because I know that cops actually deleted some photos I had on a digital camera years ago, because I witnessed something and took incriminating pictures that they didn't like. I didn't know until just now that they weren't allowed to do that.

Ontario considering Stage 2 of reopening despite steady stream of new COVID-19 cases More mixed messages & confusion

Unmasking the stealth virus behind COVID-19

Sask. man says province shouldn't be clawing back disability payments for people on CERB Like I said above, it's always the poorest that gets hurt the worst. I swear after having gotten a measly $65 a month disability cheque for years, I'd just like for the gov't official that thought that was sufficient be forced to live on that just for one month to find out how "sufficient" it really is. Now if I were still getting that and got CERB but they clawed back my disability, I'd be totally flabbergasted that they could be that petty and mean. They were already petty & mean enough with me as it was, forcing me to drive 15 kms to see them and back every 2 days when gas was in the $1.50 a litre price range, because they were dicking me around pretending they would pay for glasses for me, when all they wanted to do was harass the daylights out of me. Finally, one afternoon my "agent" called and asked me why I didn't go in to see him that day and I asked him point blank that if I had've would he have signed off on my glasses I need and he said "no" and I said well gas isn't free, if you want to see m that badly start paying for my gas to go there and back all the time. He said no, so I said no well I'm not going in then and you can sit on the big $65 you give me and spin if you want to. I don't give a F, because right now you're costing me that much to go see you every 2nd day for nothing. So yeah they can be mean, nasty, nitpicking and just plain cruel when they want to be and I think any one of them treating someone who's already disabled (like as if they think we did it to ourselves, so we could sit home and collect that big whoopdie do amount of $65 a month, or that it's somehow fun to be disabled and in pain a lot of the time) the way they do, should have to endure the same treatment & amount they're doling out for at least a year, to see if they can take it themselves. I'd be surprise if the jerk that was my agent would even be able to last a half a day on what he gave me.

What might K-12 schools look like in the fall? Depends where you are, educators say

Swimming at Ottawa beaches to resume in July

N.S. and Ottawa roll out program to help farmers cope with COVID-19

Covid-19 strands merchant mariners for months

Yarmouth ferry won't run if it puts Nova Scotians at risk, minister says  Since I grew up on the route that went from Yarmouth to Halifax and knowing how vital to the economy those cars and trucks coming off those ferries were to the communities along the way (they'd stop for gas, food, ice cream, a roadside veggies stands, stay in motels, etc... especially those coming off the 3pm ferry), I have to wonder what kind of risk he's talking about? The risk of making a living and earning money or the risk of catching the non-existant virus?

Shelburne harbour wants to again welcome foreign ships into Canada This however the minister can worry about if he wishes, with no problem.

Rapid testing will be 'crucial' for Canada's return to normalcy  This should've been obvious from the start when they were telling people they couldn't get tested unless they had symptoms.

Is Covid-19 changing our relationships?

How Covid-19 is changing the world’s children

Confirmed coronavirus cases are rising faster than ever More mixed messages being sent.... Coronavirus cases are rising faster than ever but it's okay to reopen, go back to school and do other things out of lockdown.

Peruvians cry out for oxygen as coronavirus takes its toll

Since Covid-19 shut his business, he's made more than 500 shopping trips for senior citizens

Mexico records more coronavirus deaths in a day than in United States

New data again suggests Russia's coronavirus deaths are higher than its official count

Montreal Is Getting A Giant New Drive-In Theatre This Summer That'll be something different to see in that location. Wondering if the noise from the Decarie Expressway will detract from the movie soundtracks.

Pierrefonds-Roxboro Public Pools Closed for Summer 2020 That just doesn't seem to be very wise or fair to the population.

Drive-in movies coming to Dorval this weekend Even Dorval is getting their own drive-in theatre. I certainly hope it's far enough away from the landing & take off runways and out of the incoming and outgoing corridors or they're not apt to hear much.

The May jobs report had 'misclassification error' that made the unemployment rate look lower than it is. Here's what happened

Scientists find link between COVID-19 severity and genetics  so does that mean it was bio engineered?

Black Americans dying of Covid-19 at three times the rate of white people Again I'm wondering if it was purposely bio engineered like that, as it's already been proven it was engineered in the Wuhan Lab.

Black and Asian People Are 2 to 3 Times More Likely to Die of COVID-19, U.K. Study Finds So it's not just a certain blood type or Blacks, but also Asians as well.

Search eTurboNews Coronavirus risk for Asians, Africans, Caucasians revealed This article also has some very telling graphs and charts showing the differences in cases between ethnic groups.

"Stayin' Inside" - Coronavirus Bee Gees Parody

CA 0:00 / 3:36 Ray Stevens - "Quarantined" (Live on Larry's Country Diner, 2020) If you remember Ray Stevens of the Guitarzan song and Bridget the Midget along with a lot of his other funny songs, and liked them, you'll like this one as well. Enjoy.





 














Tuesday, April 28, 2020

A Hodge Podge of Stuff


From Cooking, To Thoughts of Mine

To Visiting Fun Sites and Random Information

April 27, 2020

Everyday I wake up hoping that we're getting closer to be let out of confinement, only to discover that the powers-that-be keep finding more and more excuses (most of them lame and without any validation whatsoever) to continue this lockdown charade. They don't even want to let those with antibodies out because they might get reinfected themselves or still be shedding virus and infect others. Gimme a break.... I'm getting about ready to go hang myself listening to all this unbridled idiotic nonsense and the public gobbling it up as though it's the truth. When it's not and what's more we have huge shiny example of that with Wuhan. If anyone was going to get reinfected and have mass outbreaks, don't you think that that would be occurring right now in Wuhan China? Wuhan China if anything is proving beyond a shadow of a doubt that antibodies are conferring immunity to those who have had the disease, and they are not shedding the virus causing others to get it. But hey that won't fit the scenario that those crooked clowns have in mind I don't think so that's why they're turning a blind eye to that and trying to scare the masses into staying home for the rest of their lives, or so it would seem. 

I mean how stupid can all the medical professionals get all at the same time? It's like they all drank from the same stupid kool-aid mix, not one of them is using any previously acquired medical knowledge to base their opinions and work upon. All I want to know is why, what kind of bonuses are the governments giving them on their salaries to keep their mouths shut and go along with this charade is all I want to know? It would also be nice if they could remember their oath they took of "DO NO HARM", by not speaking out and stopping this neverending charade they are DOING PLENTY OF HARM

Harm to those who are having mental health issues because of this pandemic, harm to those patients whose medical treatments have been put on hold or put off altogether because of this disease, harm to society as a whole especially when authorities are using it to get people to snitch on their friends and neighbours so the communities can make money from fines, harm to the economy & financial sectors, harm to people's livelihoods and hence ability to manage to keep their homes and feed themselves. There is so much harm being done by this and we're not even 1/6th of the way through it yet if we have to wait 18 months for a vaccine. 

Just recently I've been reading reports of farmers burying their crops because the "supply chain is broken" - I guess that means there's no truckers willing to transport their produce to their destinations, because truckers themselves are having a hard time to find places to even go to the toilet while on the road. Then today I read stories where pigs and chickens were being euthanized by the 100s of thousands for the same reason. Which in the long run is going to turn into a very costly famine where people won't have food or those who do will have to pay a fortune for it. 

So those doctors who think by doing nothing and keeping their mouths shut about all this idiocy is doing no harm, ARE BLATANTLY WRONG!!!! IN FACT IT'S ONLY YOU DOCTORS WHO CAN RECTIFY THIS SITUATION BY COMING OUT AND SPEAKING OUT AGAINST ALL THIS NONSENSE & HOW BLATANTLY AND PATENTLY WRONG ALL THIS BS IS! AND IF NEED BE, POINT OUT TO THE IDIOTS IN POWER THAT WUHAN IS NOT RELIVING THEIR PANDEMIC NIGHTMARE BECAUSE THEY LET EVERYONE OUT OF QUARANTINE!!!! And those who don't speak out to try to rectify this situation, I hope when you see what happens down the line and see people starving or kicked out of their homes because they couldn't afford their rent or mortgage on them anymore, you remember what I said and I hope it burns a hole in your conscience forever, because you'll be as guilty as the rest of them putting on this charade if you don't try to stop it before it's too late. 

I've been trying to at a few forums over the months but I'm only a former nurse, not a doctor. So while people eventually clue in months later and do what I advocated months earlier (but I'm sure it's not because of me), something has to be done now to stop all this insanity of house arrest because as medical professionals we all know that quarantining everyone in the population is not how quarantines work and if we're to continue to have an economy and a reasonable society should not work even now under these circumstances. So please some doctors somewhere brave enough to face the frauds Tedros and Tam come out of hiding and speak up we need you now more than ever not just to save our lives but to save our way of life and livelihoods. If you're afraid of repercussions like having your licenses yanked, band together as a collective. What are they going to do? Remove all of your licenses especially now when we need all the doctors we can get? I think if several of you signed a petition and made it public with your real professional opinions on the handling of this fiasco and how it should really be done, the public would soon see that there's several more doctors advocating normal standard quarantine measures and reasonable sane medical practices on one side with only Tedros, Tam and a handful of other doctors on the other side. That would put Tam and the art teacher in their place along with the idiot PM as well.

Because as we are seeing now, one thing leads to another. Restaurants and truckstops are closed, so truckers have no where to use the toilet, so they've stopped trucking, so because of that the farmers are plowing their crops under and euthanizing their livestock, which down the road will lead to excessively priced food causing a lot of people to go without and thus suffer from malnourishment if not die from starvation. There's massive domino effects going on here with one little break down in the chain and the rest further on down the line that depended on that component goes kaflewy. The only way to fix that is to get the economy up and running again but no one will because they're all terrified that antibodies won't confer immunity because of a few bozo brains doctors who want to win a nobel peace prize by being heros that saves humanity so are spreading  BS rumours that they don't and what's more the people with them might be shedding virus that could infect others (which as I pointed out, is not happening in Wuhan China - so it's obviously a BS scare tactic) that's all it is. But we need professional qualified doctors to speak up about that. 

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Then I realize that it's near the end of April and I still haven't even dealt with the dead growth from last year's garden so I won't be able to plant anything until I do, whereas most years the cold weather crops would've been planted by now. Then I also see the end of the month creeping up real fast on me and I still haven't done our income taxes yet either and I only have 2 days to deal with those now because on the 30ieth we have appointments and won't be here. I see things in the fridge that needs to be dealt with before they have to be thrown on the compost heap and just turn around and close the fridge door. I don't know what's wrong with me, yeah I always procrastinated when it came to doing income taxes, but not on all the other stuff, but lately I just don't seem to care or have the energy or anything to deal with it. Depression maybe? Don't know, never felt like this before, but likely considering the neverending confinement. I mean we never really went anywhere anyhow, but it was nice to know that if we needed something at the store it wasn't a big deal to go and get it. Now because my husband is over 70, I can't get anything without a decent mask (not just those stupid make your own masks but N95 or better - we do have P100 masks but.... those are big rubber masks with 2 filters one on each side of the face and not all that comfortable to wear - nor are the N95 masks for that matter but still) and gloves because we couldn't find hand sanitizer so I wear gloves and wash or sanitize them each time I go in somewhere and remove them before getting in the car and then wash my hands when I get home. I mean it's a huge production now just to run to the store for a litre of milk because we ran out or I forgot to pick some up when I did the groceries.  Now it's getting so I can't find gloves either. If this keeps up for 18 months, I'll just go insane, is all.  I don't know if anyone else feels this way or if it's just me.... 

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Cooking

Changing gears now, or trying at least not to be so maudlin and outraged and a little chirpier to try to lift spirits - mine at least if not anyone else's. So I thought since we all need to eat but for some of us cooking is a more or less new experience and aren't quite sure how to make the most of the food we panic bought when the outbreak happened (you remember all those cans of soup and tomatoes etc), that I'd start with cooking (maybe it'll inspire me to get into my own fridge and start cooking to take care of some of the produce there before it goes bad).  And the first link here fits in perfectly with what I was talking about: 



Speaking of Canned Tuna Recipes my mother used to make salmon loaf for dinner every now and then and that uses those large 14 or 16 oz cans of Salmon (in Canada they come in weird slightly conical shaped cans - you know narrower at the bottom than at the top). It feeds a family of 4 quite economically and I like it, so maybe you will too. So while I think of it, here's the recipe: 

Salmon Loaf or Salmon fishcakes/patties

1 large can salmon & liquid
1/2 small onion chopped
1 stick of celery finely chopped
1/2 cup fine bread crumbs
1 egg
1 Tblsp butter or margarine
milk - enough to make the mixture just moist but not wet
pepper to taste

Mix all ingredients except pepper together well in a mixing bowl using a fork or spoon, when well mixed put into a loaf pan and pat down. Sprinkle with pepper to taste. Bake for 45 mins at 350. 

You can also add more bread crumbs or mashed potatoes (as a way of using up leftover mashed potatoes) and make them into salmon patties or cakes (whatever you wish to call them) that you fry on top the stove. In fact you can basically do that with almost any kind of fish including tuna.

Online Cooking Classes



The Best Free Virtual Cooking Classes To Take During Self-Isolation   This is a list put together by Huffingtonpost. I haven't checked any of the sites out so don't even know if they're operational or not, let alone how good they are. But you're free to explore them at your leisure.

6 Virtual Cooking Classes to Inspire You In the Kitchen Right Now  This list is put together by My Recipes site. Some are pay sites.

Canadian Museums & Galleries

Now for some virtual tours of Canadian art galleries and museums. I will start off with a site that seems to link to most if not all of the virtual museums of Canada:


The Art Gallery of Ontario

Royal Ontario Museum A walking street tour of the museum.

History Museum of Canada

Canadian Museum For Human Rights

On Demand Stratford Festival I'm not totally sure, but I think you can watch some of their previous productions online at this site.
 

Other Places of Interest

 Explore Google Arts & Culture

Museum of the World  is hosted by the British Museum and is a virtually interactive timeline of history.

Space Center Houston Exhibits & Experiences

Amazing Bryce Canyon Virtual Hike - 4K Footage for Fitness Equipment/Training Simulators - 1.5 HRS 
This is just an awesome site. We found it by accident because it wasn't on any maps we had when we were in the area and it didn't seem to be all that well known and the only thing there was a Best Western Inn, no park gates (to pay admission to) or anything. It was rather weird seeing the Inn sitting almost on the side of the canyon there like that. But it is a beautiful place.

Grand Canyon National Park Virtual Rim to River Run Down South Kaibab Trail 4k  This virtual hike lasts 2 hours, I hope you're up for it.

Hoover Dam Rail Trail Virtual Hike in 360 VR This hike of the Hoover Dam Rail Trail is only half as long as the previous hike.

Redwood National Park 4K Virtual Hike !  This hike lasts about as long as the last one, but you get to see some gorgeous huge trees while hiking.

CA 1 0:00 / 10:18 Top 5 BIGGEST Trees on Earth  A video exploration of the top 5 biggest trees on earth. The tree you see on the opening screen I stood in front of while my husband took a picture of me in front of. In order to get the whole tree from the base to the crown of it, in the photograph he had to back up to the other end of the parking lot in order to do that. So in the picture, I look like a miniscule little thing in front of the tree. You can barely see me in the picture, that's how far away he had to get in order to fit the whole thing into the viewfinder.

Highway 9 through Zion National Park Utah, the best scenic road in the USA A virtual drive through this park, which at the time we went through it was unmarked. The only way we knew it was special was by the scenery we were seeing, but we had no way of knowing the name of it, or if it had a name because it wasn't indicated on our map and there were no signs or park entrances indicating it as such either. 

Canadian Rockies National Parks in 4K Some beautiful Canadian Parks. The Rockies really are awesome, if you ever get the chance to go out west to see them, you can't pass it up.

Pyramids of Giza Walking Tour (4K/60fps) This is an almost 2 hour walking tour around the Pyramids of Giza. Doing it this way is perhaps less dangerous and less strenuous than actually taking the walking tour in real life.

Tour the Sydney Opera House in 360° | Featuring soprano Nicole Car and the Sydney Symphony Orchestra  Wow! This is definitely different. Not only is it a video on YouTube, but it's an interactive video in that you get to choose the direction you wish to view. Very interesting.

4K Virtual Hike Near River through the Forest - Baker River Trail & Chain Lake Trail 
This is a pretty long virtual hike through the woods - almost 3 hours long, so only take it when you have the time.

Havasupai Falls Full Hike 4K  Another walking hike this time through what looks like the southwestern area of the US in amongst badlands and lots of rocks.

VR Hike - Nicole Bloom Memorial Trail Hike  This hike through the snow is a lot like the tour of the Sydney Opera House, in that you can control the direction you want to look.

VR 360 Video of Top 5 Roller Coaster Rides 4K Virtual Reality  Another controllable virtual reality experience. This time it's wicked roller coaster rides for the big kids in us or our grandkids.

360 3D VR video T-Rex Dinosaurs Jurassic World 360° Virtual Reality  Another virtual reality video of dinosaurs that your grandchildren say 7+ might enjoy playing with.

3D 360 VR skydiving experience with the Vuze camera (4K)  If one of the things on your bucket list is to go sky diving but you haven't had the opportunity or when it comes right down to it, you don't know if you have the guts to or not, and prefer not to find out, here's one way to get at least an idea of what it might be like when everything goes according to plan.

Red Bull F1 VR / 360° Video Experience  Virtually drive an F1 racing car around the track in this video.

The Jungle Book: King Louie's Lair in 360 Degrees  The younger grandchildren might enjoy this virtual reality video.

3D 180 VR video of hiking in Zion National Park  A very pretty short walk through Zion National Park.

Smithsonian Institute  They have so much to explore you're apt to get lost in here for hours if not longer.

Silk Interactive  Very nice abstract drawing app online, to put you in a zen mode - relaxing and calming. Just to show you what I'm talking about this is one I made:


A National Film Board of Canada site where you can learn about the Ocean.

Cryptaris  This is a military training simulation.




Radio & TV & Movies Online

These are sites where you can listen to radio stations from around the world, watch Canadian TV channels online and find and watch other TV shows and movies online as well. 

Radio Garden  You should be able to listen to live radio broadcast from anywhere around the world. I tried the Montreal area and all I could see were a few of the stations but not all of them. So I don't know, but you may still like it anyhow.

CTV What To Watch Stream shows from the CTV channel. I do believe these are older TV shows that are no longer aired, but there may be some current shows in there as well. Not sure. If you click on Full Episodes I guess that's where the current shows are.

CBC Gem - Watch TV Shows Allows you to watch CBC shows online. 



The next three links are to various PutLocker sites - because they have a tendency to be up, down and sideways. So if one doesn't work try another. But these are sites where you can look for specific shows, or movies that you'd like to see, and watch them online. If one of the PutLocker sites doesn't have what you're looking for try another maybe they have it, or maybe their copy is of better quality.





Until I get the chance to finish adding some of the other interesting links aside from the COVID19 stories, I hope this helps pass some of the time you have to spend under house arrest, aka quarantine. Enjoy.