Covid19
January 31, 2021
Five years ago today, our little girl dachshund was born. Which was precisely the day after our little boy dachshund died. She's currently sitting on my lap while I type this. I have lots of practice at that since the little boy dachshund was always, always, on my lap, or beside me wherever I was. I even learnt how to hold the knitting needles so I could knit while he sat on my lap. That's how clingy he was.
She's more independent than he was, but from time to time she likes to sit on my lap or snuggle next to me on the couch or in bed. Now seems to be one of those times, I guess. Well since it's her birthday we've been indulging her a little more than usual - spoiling her I guess - which I hope she doesn't mistake for the new normal. Since we can't take her to see her doggy pals next door because of the stupid lockdown this will have to pass as a "celebration" of sorts.
One of those doggy pals, used to come over every day and call on our male dachshund to go outside and play with him. Literally. He'd come to the back door and if it was just the screen door open, he'd paw the bottom aluminum part until someone heard him and let our dog out. If the inner door was closed, he'd stand there and bark and whine until we heard him and let our dog out. But usually our dog heard him before we did and start doing a crazy happy dance because he wanted to go out with his friend. Since our little guy died, that dog doesn't do that anymore - but he's way older than our little girl is - he must be about 13 now, so playing isn't a big thing on his mind anymore I guess, and he didn't like her when we first brought her home.
Now he's accustomed to her and doesn't mind her being around while the other dog in that household plays with her. But she's not allowed to come and call on our dog, because she's a big dog that likes to take off on a trot and lunge at people (she's friendly but she runs full tilt right at the person and jumps on them - she's almost knocked me flat on the ground a few times already). So our little girl only gets to play with her friend when we take our dog over there.
As my husband mistakenly pulled some figs out of the freezer a couple of days ago and they thawed up without me even knowing they were out of the freezer, I decided we're having this yummy meal I made a few times before (and was the reason I bought the figs in the first place):
Chicken and Roasted Figs Only I make it my way as I use a whole chicken to make it with. I roast the chicken as per normal and about 25 minutes or so before it's ready, I mix all the ingredients except salt & pepper together and just pour it over and around the chicken and then let it finish cooking the last 25 minutes before serving. Some how all the special meals I plan for Valentine's Day gets wrecked somehow. I planned to have another meal on Valentine's Day last week and that got blown and had to have it that night. Now this one too.
By the time Valentine's Day gets here all we'll have left is Kraft Dinner and Hot Dogs, if this keeps up. And to me that is one of the least special meals besides tomato soup, on the planet. Since that's what we were fed everynight as kids while growing up. Everyday for lunch it was salami sandwiches. I kid you not. Yeah, my stepfather wasn't much of a cook and he was the one that fed us because mom wouldn't get home from work until later - past the youngest one's bedtime, that's for sure.
Now perhaps you have an idea of why I'm always trying different recipes. Besides what else do we have to do these days anyhow? The only places we're allowed to go to are the grocery stores, liquor stores, pot shops, pharmacies and flower shops. So some of us use the excuse we need something at one of those locations as a reason for an outing. So fine we get to that location and buy some food, or liquor, or drugs and then go home and ingest them. Maybe not all of it all at once but still. Though sometimes that last thought has crossed my mind especially when it comes to the liquor and drug (whichever kind you want) stores. So I figure maybe my safest course of action is to try to make something yummy with the food and put the drugs and liquor in their respective cabinets for later normal use.
Anyhow enough rambling for now..... And on with the terrible headlines that's making me want to use all the liquor & drugs all at once since we seem to be in a global race and a race against time to get a vaccine......
😉 I'd like to thank all my alien visitors as of late. I don't know what's happening nor why, but suddenly it seems I have more aliens visiting my blog than earthlings, as the google maps can't seem to pinpoint your location and just calls you others. (😕 Or are you all connecting with cellphones and tablets maybe?) In any case, welcome and enjoy. Same to all my visitors no matter which planet you're from. 😉
Aw, I need to have a little giggle once in awhile and this is my way of doing it.... Letting some think I'm a clueless eccentric crazy old woman that actually thinks there's aliens visiting her blog. 😜
Now on with the distasteful task at hand.... Enough procrastinating for the day...
Close isn't close enough. We need them NOW.
Hooray for them! At least someone has a smooth supply.
Gawd, you guys have it easy there. If you want worry and stress and anxiety try living in QC with it's ever changing laws - one minute this is law, the next minute it's repealed and an even harsher one is in it's place and so on.... It's been like that since March.
British Medical Journal and Sudbury health unit suggest universal income actually improves health That stands to reason. When people have more money they can buy the medicine or apparels needed to maintain their health, including eyesight, hearing and oral health, buy healthier food, warmer clothes, safer vehicles that aren't falling apart, live in safer neighbourhoods in buildings with proper heating and insulation etc... I mean why couldn't any of you geniuses figure this out before now?
Okay well aren't you doing the exact opposite of what should be done? I mean hello, if there were several people affected by the virus in this facility before, you're going to add more beds to crowd them in even more so that even MORE people can get it? Is that the gimmick here? Seems to me to be the case. Because I'd think if you wanted to cut down on number of infections you'd cut down on number of beds and space them out more - maybe put them in private rooms or something along those lines, instead of adding yet more beds. I mean um duh....
Vaccine shortages caught B.C. by surprise And you think you were the only ones to be caught by surprise do you? What do you think happened here in QC when the gov't vaccinated a bunch of elderly thinking they'd have access to their 2nd doses in a timely manner, but found out after the 1st doses were given that they wouldn't be seeing hide nor hair of those vaccines until gawd only knows when.
Oh Yippeed Kay Yay! If there were anything that I actually wanted or needed at a store, I might actually care about this and be happy, but as there isn't and the only stores I need anything from are already the ones that are allowed to remain open, I'm good with the store BS. Try opening other things up like maybe a restaurant, or a hair salon, or some place to have fun and to go to get out of the house for awhile without getting insane gouge your eyes out fines, for doing so.
That's the headlines now read the sub headlines: By March 20, New Zealand closed its border to basically anyone except
residents, directly in opposition to the recommendations of the WHO ----- THAT IN A NUTSHELL IS WHY THEY'RE BACK TO NORMAL and NOT BECAUSE THEY GOUGED THE EYES OUT OF THEIR CITIZENS HEADS IN QUARANTINE HOTELS. If bozo brains boy in Ottawa and his genocidal witch doctor and health minister had've had the brains to close our borders immediately to ALL INCOMING FROM ELSEWHERE INCLUDING THE USA & ALL INTERNATIONAL FLIGHTS & CRUISES back in March 2020 WE WOULD NOT BE IN THIS MESS NOW EITHER!!!!!!!!!!!!!! It has SFA to do with gouge your eyes out hotel quarantines, so much as it does STOPPING ALL INCOMING TRAFFIC. But islands can do that easier, as there's not too many points of entry - usually only airports and seaports. In Canada we have those along with hundreds of thousands of miles of unguarded coastline and a 4000 odd mile long common border with the US. But even still we could've cut down on a HUGE PROPORTION OF THE CASES IF WE STOPPED ALL INCOMING TRAFFIC FROM EVERYWHERE AT THE SAME TIME NEW ZEALAND DID. We would've had the exact same results they have. But noooooooooooooooooo we're saddled with imbeciles and morons at the helm here in Canada, who can't chew gum and tie shoes at the same time, so managing anything as simple as that is still way too complex for them.
As Canada awaits vaccine doses, relying on other countries is the wrong approach: U.K. expert He's 100% correct. In fact, it's my understanding that under Harper's gov't when H1N1 was running rampant, he signed deals with various facilities to produce vaccines en masse for the Cdn population and 2 of those facilities ARE STILL UNDER CONTRACT TO THE GOV'T & COULD'VE BEEN GEARED UP & USED FOR PRODUCING CORONAVIRUS VACCINES. In fact Canada still maintains a contract with 2 of those facilities which are due to run out this March. So if bozo brains had a half a brain cell in his totally f'n empty bonehead, he'd have extended those contracts and got them to gear up to mass produce this vaccine for us now. But noooooo..... Like everything else this gov't is famous for is dithering and dancing and acting like a bunch of clueless idiots instead of taking control of the situation and doing something to benefit Canadians and Canada.
Ramp up Canadian vaccine manufacturing, says COVID-19 task force health adviser Ya think????? Why couldn't you health task force have come up with this earlier????? I mean it is a freaking no brainer after all, so for you to take this long to suggest it, tells me you're no smarter than the clown you're suggesting it to!!!!!! Falling down on the job like all the other clueless idiots out there I see.
All care homes vaccinated So you're saying that those people in the homes and their caregivers have had BOTH SHOTS ALREADY???? And you're the ones whining about being taken by surprise with the shortage of vaccines???? I'd say you were well taken care of, compared to the many seniors and medical staff left in limbo here in QC on account of the shortages. So stop your f'n whining.
In reversal, WHO says pregnant women can get COVID-19 vaccine The WHO is the ones that literally got us into this mess to start with no matter what was going on in Wuhan at the time. All they had to do was declare a pandemic and advise everyone to shut their borders down, but instead they did the exact opposite and then discouraged faces masks and well they did everything in their power to ensure it spread as far and wide as possible. Now they're telling pregnant women to get the vaccine????? Ummm if I were a pregnant woman I'd do the exact opposite of whatever the WHO is recommending.
Don’t post photos of your COVID vaccine card on social media, BBB says. Here’s why They say it's due to privacy concerns - but your privacy is your concern so if you don't mind posting the photo of your card online that's up to you. But what they're really concerned about here, isn't so much your privacy as the photo of their card getting out and counterfeiters being able to use the photo to make their own cards. That's probably the real concern behind this headline, they just want to make it personal to use that to scare you into compliance (as with the rest of it).
Maybe numbnuts ought to try to do the same for Canada and Canadians.
I sincerely hope not because a lot of us others outside of the UK have none to waste, in fact we have none to start with.
I don't blame them. Canada's politicians have gotten drunk with authoritarian powers.
WHO team visits food market in Wuhan, China to search for coronavirus clues Oh com'on now.... What're you expecting to find in a food market a whole year later? I'll tell you something, even though I have nothing to hide like China does in this case, you're not apt to find very many if any clues to any meals we had last week, because all the dishes were washed, all the leftovers taken care of and all the refuse from it put in the garbage and taken out and put in the big garbage bin for pickup (so depending on day of week, that could've already been picked up and on it's way to the municipal dump). And we don't have anything to hide about what was in/on/around/near our food last week. Nevermind last year. So imagine how much less you'll discover from a place where the evidence is over a year old and probably already normally taken care (as in cleaned up and disposed of as a matter of course), not to mention having been recently directed by the authorities to basically clean that place to the point of sterilization because they knew in advance the WHO team was coming for inspections. So other than trying to make yourselves look like irrelevant idiots what else are you trying to prove by going there to look for evidence?
Draconian thugs are us.... Who think we all have access to the taxpayer's trough and can just pick out of it anytime we need an extra few thousand dollars or so. The sooner these ash holes are thrown out of parliament and into jail the better off we'll be.
Well you can certainly see my devolution online here. From trying to be a sane rational ex nurse discussing the details of the headlines with equanimity and judiciousness, to just downright cynical skeptic who doesn't trust or believe a word any of the jack ashes at the helm have to say. I guess maybe that's from reading all those stories and seeing all their lies, backtracks, coverups and BS, so I have no patience for any of it anymore. Hence the reason I promise I'm quitting the blog on March 16th (it'll be 1 full year since I started it and I'm not doing this forever and the way it looks is if Mr. Goosey Loosey Luneytunes has anything to do with it, it'll last even longer than that). So I'm giving it a full year and then I'm quitting, no matter how bad things get or don't get. I won't care.
Quoting the story:
A top infectious disease expert said Sunday the US needs to rush giving out the first doses of the COVID-19 vaccine before an anticipated "Category 5" hurricane-like surge in cases.
Michael Osterholm, who was an advisor to President Joe Biden’s transition team,
said that even one dose could lessen the blow of a likely outbreak of
infections driven by new, contagious strains of the virus.
"We still want to get two doses in everyone, but I think right now, in
advance of this surge, we need to get as many one-doses in as many
people over 65 as we possibly can, to reduce serious illness and death
that is going to occur over the weeks ahead," Osterholm told NBC anchor Chuck Todd on "Meet the Press."
'Promising Young Woman,' Covid and the women giving up alcohol to fight the patriarchy Another angle on it, I suppose. But when you get to be my age, there's no danger of that happening so you can get as sloshed as you want. It's best to do that at home though - as it is for women of any age I guess. Except maybe kids and spouses might have a problem with that. In my case, my ulcers would ensure I looked like a victim of Dracula's if I were to over indulge in alcohol or drink strong drinks. I was already down to roughly 1/3rd of my hemoglobin once and needed a transfusion, I don't think the doctors and hospital would like to see me wind up there in that same condition again. So your health is another factor that should be taken into account too. It's not just liver problems but ulcer related problems that could wind up being the life and death of you, too.
No bad dogs? Pet owner's personality can affect canine training success, study finds
Did I not say this just a few days ago in here? Where they were talking about covid pets being taken back to shelters because they were untrainable? Like I said we never had a problem with any dogs except one but she eventually smartened up. So that's why I can never understand all of these people who say they have problems with their dogs and their dogs are bad, etc.... We've had dogs all our married life and had only that 1 dog with problems but when we got her she obviously had problems as she was obviously thrown out to live or die on the streets by herself, when we found her, starving and near death. She wasn't a mean dog, just a destructive one, probably because she had severe separation anxiety issues. Given that she was found in the Italian area of Montreal, she probably wrecked some pretty expensive Italian imported furniture while her owners were out of the house and thrown out on to the streets.
'Captain Tom,' 100-year-old vet who raised millions for U.K. health service, has Covid-19 That's too bad! I hope you pull through and are back on your feet again in no time Captain Tom!
Video shows thousands flouting Covid-19 rules in Jerusalem for rabbi's funeral
Thousands? Looks more like a crowd to rival the crowd that came to Montreal to support Quebec staying in Canada before the 1995 referendum. I think then they estimated the crowd to be about 100,000 strong. So that's what this looks like here, at least.
Amid Covid deaths, schools aren't prepared to support students through grief and trauma They don't have grief councillors or social workers or even psychologists on staff at any of these schools?
Covid vaccines: Rollout in disarray in U.S. and abroad
'We crushed it': How did West Virginia become a national leader in Covid vaccination? Don't let any of the bozos here in Canada read this or we might wind up getting way further along than numbnuts intends for us to.
Pentagon pauses plan to offer Covid vaccine to Guantánamo Bay prisoners
Oh geez, I wonder why!?! Here in Canada the clueless clowns would've proceeded with their plans full steam ahead, no matter what anyone else thought of it, because after all they have to protect their precious terrorists and criminals at all costs.
Lebanon's coronavirus lockdown stokes hunger, fear among desperate families Like I keep saying we citizens of the world, need to plan a massive world-wide revolt against such governments. Even here in Canada we have a government approaching that kind severeity except he's not stupid enough to mandate the super markets closed, because he knows he'd only be in possession of his head for a few hours more before someone removed it from his shoulders for him.
As WHO mission into Covid origin begins in China, bereaved son seeks answers
Finally we've reached the end of the headlines to date... Well the important ones anyhow....
Until next time take care & stay well...
