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Saturday, October 17, 2020

Cleaning Up Messes, Fixing Shelves or At Least Trying To &

 Covid19


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October 17, 2020
 
We spent the day cleaning up some of the appliances that were covered in cooking oil and trying to get the oil off the floors. It turns out that we may need to wash it more than once with Hertel, because it sure wasn't enough the first time we did it. Maybe the dishwashing soap Dawn might work, since they have that commercial about cleaning oil off of ducklings. Something's got to work, as I'm getting tired of sliding around in some spots and sticking to others when I walk. 
 
As for fixing the shelves we went out  to buy different standards and brackets to hold the boards in place, but when we got there there weren't any in the sizes we needed. So came back home discouraged. So today my husband decided maybe he could fix the ones we already have and make them more secure. So he's he did that. But I think he's did a better job at injuring himself than fix those as he's needed to have bandaids applied when he started working on them.
 
Meantime I took whatever I could (the covers, or parts to) of the appliances (some are manual with no electric parts) and put whatever I could fit into the dishwasher so they could get a thorough cleaning. There's still more covers and parts to do, but at least some are  getting done now. 
 
We cleaned the shelves off and reinstalled them. After cleaning the appliances, I put them back on the shelves. For some unknown reason we seem to have a lot more room on them now. Hmmmm 
 
I found and swept all the additional glass that my husband didn't see or vacuum the other day. 
 
I made room for and brought in the nice house plants our neighbour gave us earlier in the week that were still outside because we were  too busy with the shelf fiasco. I hope they survive here, because up until now there haven't been many plants I've been able to keep since we moved into this house, because of how the windows are. The only plants I've been able to keep for any length of time is my big aloe plant and one of it's babies that I transplanted earlier this summer. The other babies died almost instantly and the big plant didn't die but the leaves are drooping rather than standing up on end like they used to, before the babies tried pushing it out of the pot they were all in together. The reason there was a transplant in the first place.
 
Our daughter-in-law - ever the nurse heard about the shelf fiasco from our son, so called tonight to make sure we didn't get hurt in the initial accident nor since, from sliding on the floor or things like that. I told her not to worry it was just more of our adventures we were having, that's all.  But I'll be so glad when it's finished with so we can get back to normal here and do the things we had planned but had to put on hold because of that.
 
Now..... Crossing all my fingers and toes, I hope I can start to work on the rest of the food here before it goes bad, like the leftover turkey that I didn't have a chance to get to, did. 
 
Needless to say with all of that going on, I didn't really feel like, nor have the time to deal with the aggravating and neverending Coronavirus garbage, so I just didn't bother with it last night. Instead I'll be posting some headlines tonight and I wish I could say I'd make up for the ones not posted last night but I'm afraid I wouldn't be able to keep awake long enough for that. So whatever I can manage is what I'll post. So more coronavirus headlines coming your way:
 
 
 
‘Shoot on sight’: Boston Dynamics robot dog spotted out on city street triggers fear — and defensiveness   Who's the brainchild that put that thing on city streets during a pandemic anyhow?

 
The Forgotten Front Porch Is Making a Comeback  That seems to be the only way you can see your neighbours and neighbourhood now. 

 

 
Pandemic Will 'Take Our Women 10 Years Back' in the Workplace From my perspective it looks more like it'll take them back 40-50 years - if you're talking about staying home and raising kids and not having any daycare to take care of them. 

 

 

We were recently given an air purifier, I wonder if that would help.
 
P.E.I. restaurants suffered the worst downturn in the country in July  Well hmmmm.... I wonder if that might have to do with your inhospitable attitudes towards people from other provinces??? 

 
 
Demand for sports equipment and home gyms booms as Canadians prepare for pandemic winter I'd love a rowing machine if we had the space for it. But I am of the belief that walking, biking, jogging etc should be done outside, rowing too for that matter, but not all of us live near water or have rowboat. 

 
 
Justin Trudeau: 'The World Is In Crisis, And Things Are About To Get Much Worse' If he has anything to do with anything, for sure it'll get worse.  
 
 
 
Could coronavirus be hurting your sex life? Doctors weigh in Well if they insist on you wearing masks and staying 6 feet apart all the time, then yeah....

 

 

 
 
 
 
 
 

Yikes! Maybe I ought to consider getting an exercise machine of some type then.
 

It's their stuff, so if they want to take the risk of using it, then it's up to them I guess.
 
COVID-19 outbreak in Laval CHSLD; positive test at West Island's Herron Residence Like the famous line in Poltergeist - They're Baccccck..... only it should be It's Baccccck.... It's just about the same - a frigging horror story, that just keeps coming back again and again.
 
COVID-19 Fitness: Some Gym Exercises To Do At Home These exercises are exercises you can do at  home without a machine of any kind. But I still prefer the rowing machine to any of these exercises.

 
 
As few as 247 travellers brought coronavirus to Quebec: study When all you really need is 1 sauntering through the airport lobbies, coffee & gift shops and then getting on public transit to go downtown, then out shopping and dining out and back onto public transit to go back home or to the hotel. 247 would be a lot! And despite what it says there about the 1st being at the end of January, there's a pharmacist's association report that puts it at the end of December. 

Because they have no bearings on economic realities. Those play the stock markets live in their own little fantasy lands. 
 
14-year-old 's Thanksgiving feast goes viral on Twitter with more than 787,000 likes Wow! I wonder how many people are going to be eating that meal! Because it definitely looks like more than would be allowed to enjoy it here in QC! 

 
Alyssa Milano reveals her coronavirus symptoms have lasted for six months I'm wondering at which point these symptoms that everyone is enduring for months will be declared a chronic life long condition that they may have to endure?

Yup, so see? If 7 people potentially exposed 1,700 people to the disease then how many people were exposed to it by the initial 247 people in Quebec? Especially back then when there was no masks, social distancing or even hand washing mandated to avoid the spread of it?
 

I don't know about Ontario, but since we went back into "lockdown" except for being the good little cog in the economic engine, but yet our infection numbers keeps rising here in QC, I'd say it's highly likely that social gatherings of any kind are no more to blame than any kind of gatherings - whether for work or for school, is.  

 
Party organizers fined for breaking COVID-19 rules If this keeps up, I can easily see certain well to do families factoring in these fines in the cost of their parties and weddings etc... So that they can continue living life to the fullest, as before. It's just the poor people who will be living the drudgery of being permanently grounded by the nanny state. And not being allowed to do anything other than go to work or school and come right back home afterwards, like a delinquent 14 old brat. Until they get brave enough to revolt en masse, that is.

 

 

 

That is definitely good news, if it continues to be the case.
 
Coronavirus: Half a million sharks 'could be killed for vaccine', experts warn So then don't waste the rest of the shark's carcas and sell the fins for soup and whatever else you can salvage out of it for use.

 
Canada's COVID-19 cases: Quebec, Ontario record largest spikes since May; 2,300 people potentially exposed at two Toronto bars Then I wonder how many of those went  to work the next day and exposed all their colleagues to it too? Not to mention all their family members - and whoever those other family members goes to school with or works with. Oh yeah, I forgot, people don't get the disease at work unless they work on a farm or as a meat packer and kids definitely don't infect other kids because after all they're immune. NOT.

Good! So when are we going to get to see for ourselves just how wonderful these vaccines are and not just constantly hearing about how wonderful they are! If they're so freaking wonderful, you'd think the gov'ts would start approving one or some of them for use, instead of sitting on them forever like they're doing. 
 
Nearly 1M Who Died Of COVID-19 Also Illuminated Treatment At least all those deaths weren't in vain. I would hope that the doctors and scientists treating this disease would learn something from all their mistakes (the lives they couldn't save). 

 

 

 

Thought there weren't supposed to be any parties now.....
 
Visits suspended after outbreak on floor of CHSLD in Laval Here we go again. Are they sure it's not the staff that's bringing the virus in, like last time?

 

The residents are in isolation after a STAFF MEMBER tests positive. Did you get that? I hope so. Because I think it should be the other way around if you ask me. In any case what can you expect when it's a pencil necked pencil pushing accountant that's the health minister here in QC? I don't know what Arruda is then if he's not the health minister. Since he's the one with the medical license you'd think he should be the health minister but apparently not. Instead we have a number cruncher posing as a health minister.
 
Ipsos poll shows 75% of Canadians support shutting down businesses in face of 2nd COVID-19 wave Well if that's where the disease is spreading from, then yeah. And here in QC considering our lockdown where we're not allowed to socialize at all and can only go to work and come home but yet the number of infections is increasing, it's definitely not from social gathering as it's been more than 14 days that we've been on "grounded after work & school" mode.

Good for them. Let's hope for their sake that it's near the end of it and they can resume normal daily life once and for all, like I hope we get the chance to do around here soon too.
 

Do they always have to squabble over everything? Can't they just put differences behind them and work together to get rid of this stupid virus once and for all?
 

 

 

 

 

Seems like he was just asking for it, as far as I can tell.
 

 

 

 

 
Covid-19: Up to £10,000 fine for failure to self-isolate in England Wow! But I bet you anything that when it was really crucial to self isolate - in the beginning - all they had to do was voluntary self-isolation. There was no oversight nor fines involved. They're doing everything bassackwards here and it's not just the UK, it's everywhere. Stringent measures like these should've been taken in the very beginning and it would've cut down on spread drastically and we probably wouldn't be going through this now.

Anyhow, that's about it for now. More later on maybe tomorrow.... In the meantime take care and stay well.




 
 
 
 






 
 
 






 
 
 
 


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Wednesday, August 19, 2020

Banana & Blueberry Ice Creams, Pumpkin Cheesecake and of course...

COVID19 Coverage

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August 19, 2020

In order to do something to try to fix my sleep wake cycle and take care of some of the food we had here, before having to throw it out, I made a Pumpkin Cheesecake  using the recipe found there, but had to modify it, because I didn't want to make a shell from scratch as I already had a graham pie shell that I wanted to use instead. So because the recipe there uses a spring form pan which is twice the capacity of one of those graham pie shells, I realized I didn't need the 3 packages of cream cheese nor 3 eggs either and only used 2 of each instead, despite that,  I only used half of the mixture in the cheesecake (the other half is in the fridge awaiting ideas for it, or for me to get another graham pie shell to use with it). So because the quantity is less, it takes less time to bake. So instead of the full hour baking time I reduced it to 35-40 minutes, checking intermittently to make sure it didn't burn or wasn't under cooked. So whenever I can get another graham pie shell (which will hopefully be soon), I'll have 2 pumpkin cheesecakes for the price of one really. Not bad. Or if my foot prevents me from going anywhere anytime soon, I may look for recipes like cheesecake bars for the base, and make cheesecake bars instead, though I'd prefer to have an actual cheesecake, so I can freeze it and thaw it up for Thanksgiving.

I also made Banana Ice Cream using the recipe found there but added a tablespoon of Coconut Rum to the mixture - not really for flavour (but that too if anyone should taste it), but to keep the ice cream from freezing solid in the freezer. It's a little tip I read somewhere that in order to keep homemade ice cream from freezing solid to add a tablespoon of vodka or rum or some alcohol before churning it. As I just made and churned it tonight and put it in the freezer tonight, I don't know how well that trick works or not, but it would be nice if it did work.

The Blueberry Ice Cream using the  recipe found there. Though that hasn't been churned yet and will only be churned tomorrow probably. I don't remember if I put any alcohol in that one or not. I don't think so, so it'll probably freeze rock solid like all the other ice creams I've ever made. 

That's pretty much what's kept me busy and out of trouble. 

My foot is still sore though, not sure what's wrong with it, but our doctor can't be reached unless you call her at the crack of dawn otherwise her secretary isn't taking calls later than that.  Our emergency walk-in clinic that we had around here since we moved to this area, closed months ago - sometime in late 2019 and was supposed to be replaced with another one, but I've yet to see or hear about it.  It seems to me they're using COVID19 as an excuse to cut back on medical care overall - unless of course you have the coronvirus and then they over do it and have to shove whatever they can find down your airways whether it does you more harm than good or not, is irrelevant. Meantime though people are dying of heart attacks, cancer, and all sorts of other terminal ailments from kidney disease to ruptured appendixes. And forget trying to see a doctor over what they would deem to be a minor ailment altogether because OMG you might be one of those silent COVID19 spreaders and they don't want to be inadvertently exposed to that just for a minor problem, like a foot problem (like mine, for instance). 

So with that off my chest..... I guess it's time to start posting headlines links for those who are still interested in them.... So settle back and relax and get into your zen mode so you don't get too worried and anxious over the whole thing. 


Coronavirus reality: What day is it? Remove the mundane with days to celebrate white wine, cookies, beer and more   I started doing that years ago, but it's hard, because the others in your milieu think you're nutty and don't want to participate with you. So you're left trying to "celebrate" or remain upbeat on your own basically.  But hey if you can find someone willing to celebrate the mundane and everyday things with you on a regular basis it might be fun.  




Can the world's oldest restaurant escape the pandemic's grasp? They were talking about how the Montreal restaurants are struggling during the pandemic on the news tonight. I think they said that nationally restaurants across Canada have lost $12 billion so far on account of the pandemic. That's a staggering amount of money to lose in 6 months. I know it's not just one restaurant, but even collectively, it's a huge loss for them. 

Many parents may have to stop working entirely if schools don't reopen, Goldman Sachs says  This is probably where the governments are getting their advice on schools from and not their respective health officers. 

Southwest Airlines cuts back on Covid-19 cleanings to speed up flight turnarounds  If you travel via Southwest Airlines, you should be aware of this...

Nurse who spent 117 days in the hospital with Covid-19 says 'it feels great to be alive'  I can imagine how she feels after spending almost 4 months in the hospital.


When a man heard that farmers were destroying unsold produce, he arranged for trucks to deliver 3 million pounds of it to food banks  That's awesome! More people should be doing that and not just during the pandemic but during normal times too, especially when farmers are over their quotas - instead of dumping it, give it to food banks. That won't be cutting into your profits if you do that, because those going to food banks weren't going to buy your products anyhow as they can't afford to.


Do I need to wear a mask? Back to school rules by province  Yup, kids in QC will be starting back to school, this coming week. Wondering what kind of fiasco that's going to be..... Guess we'll just have to wait and see.

'Info ambassadors' comb Montreal neighbourhood to address COVID-19 misinformation  Here's the thing.... Most of the information they're saying is incorrect or a conspiracy theory, isn't. It came from mainstream media and not conspiracy theorist sites, or even tabloids like Huffington Post likes to rely on for their "factual" articles. ahem...😏


COVID-19 measures could disrupt rare polio-like disease  Well there's at least one benefit this scourge is having, so it's not all bad.


'Alarming' rate of cyberattacks aimed at major corporations, governments and critical infrastructure amid COVID-19: Report   I guess that's bound to happen when you have thousands of irate out of work programmers, who've lost their jobs, and along with that their lucrative incomes and are now being forced to "subsist" on a meager income doled out by the government, adding bitterness to their anger over losing their jobs. 






Coronavirus misinformation is spreading — what is Canada doing about it?   Not much apparently as Huffington Post is allegedly one of the preferred "mainstream media" but Huffington Post itself, relies on gossip and BS printed in Tabloids to base their mainstream articles on. That's one "mainstream media" organization I've caught doing underhanded stuff like that. So that when others like me for instance or a legitimate news agency reposts their bogus tabloid based articles as fact, it is accepted at face value by the public because before now, they were thought to be an honest truthful media organization with journalists who did their own bonafide research and based their articles on their own actual interviews, and research and didn't just flip through a trashy tabloid and reprint the garbage in that and try to pass it off as actual fact. CBC has been known to rewrite the facts to suit themselves too. So if those are our "mainstream media" and the media that we ought to trust is telling us the truth, but aren't, then who are we to believe anyhow? 

Coronavirus conspiracies spreading at alarming rates across Canada, experts say   Then thank the mainstream media for that as they're the ones doing most of the spreading.  Which I've pretty much proven with this blog, because just about everything they're claiming is a conspiracy theory came from mainstream media and the links to those articles are here in my blog to prove it. 

Fewer in Sask. willing to get potential COVID-19 vaccine compared to rest of Canada: poll  Smart people! As far as I'm concerned any vaccine that the Chinese or Bill Gates had a hand in - either financing, or researching and making, will not be injected into my body. And it seems to me that Canada is partnered with China to produce a vaccine here in Canada and well Bill Gates is financing just about anyone and everyone that he thinks might be able to produce a vaccine. So that basically means just about all vaccines are going to be highly suspect and as a result I won't be getting one.



Shopping malls are in crisis due to COVID-19 — but they’re not dead yet, experts say   The mall in our area certainly looked like it was on critical life support when I went into it last week. There were lights on, but very dimly lit, so that you don't walk into things basically. It almost reminded me of night lights we install around the house to see after we turn the room lights out. I wasn't in there long because the store I wanted to go to had it's inside mall door blocked off and we were directed by a sign in that door to use the outside one.  But it was very dim and no one inside walking around, so it pretty much looked like death warmed over to me. But I hope it doesn't die, because the stores in that mall are our mainstay for shopping. I mean if the mall closes where will they relocate to? Some place even further away than they are now? Probably....


Yes, your pets can get COVID: Signs to watch for I wish they'd make up their minds. First they can get it, then they can't then they could, and then they couldn't and now they can again.... Geez which is it folks?

Canada signs deals with Pfizer, Moderna to get doses of COVID-19 vaccines  Bill Gates has invested in these companies and given them money to work on vaccines.... 

No masks required as 250,000 expected at 10-day Sturgis Motorcycle Rally. Here's what to know.  What'd you want to bet that if they were told no face coverings allowed, they'd have all shown up wearing bandanas across their faces like outlaw cowboys!?! But because everyone wants them to wear masks or mouth/nose coverings, they won't. Rebels R' US...



Extreme poverty rises and a generation sees future slip away This "plandemic" seems to have been planned to cause as much economic problems as possible while eradicating as many people as possible. 



Coronavirus Cancellations: Every Film, TV Show, and Event Affected by the Outbreak  This just goes to show you just a fraction of the things that this virus has affected.


COVIC-19 Death Toll Rivals Fatality Rate During 1981 Flu Epidemic  Not to quibble with the author on this, but the 1918 flu was not merely an "epidemic", it was a global pandemic just like what we're going through now.


Canada Is Sick of Americans Crossing Over During the Pandemic  First of all our borders are supposed to be closed to Americans so how are they managing that? Second of all, no one wants more coronavirus carriers running around everywhere, we already have enough of our own, thanks.


Hurricane-force storm in Iowa flattens 10 million acres of crops  Wow, this combined with all the other food loss and waste due to the pandemic is really going to start to add up and make life rough for some people.

The pandemic will make movies and TV shows look like nothing we've seen before  Good because I'm already getting bored with the movies & tv shows we've seen before.


Infectious coronavirus particles found in hospital air add to mounting evidence of airborne transmission It's amazing it's taken them this long to figure out a respiratory virus is spread in the air. What the hell is wrong with everyone when it comes to this virus anyhow? Especially considering all other coronaviruses, and other respiratory diseases are all spread via the air and thus are "airborne". 







Delaying college in the pandemic could cost you: Study says students could lose $90,000 over their lifetime  The operative word there is "could". It doesn't mean it will cost you over your lifetime. On the other hand, not delaying college, could cost you your life. Thereby shortening your lifetime considerably.

Russian Covid-19 Vaccine Not Among 9 Considered for Advanced Test Stages, Says WHO  Considering Bill Gates probably couldn't get control of or make money on this vaccine in any way it's not surprising that it won't be one of the 9 being tested.



FDA issues warning for hand sanitizers carrying a dangerous toxin  Yet more warnings for you to check out....


China Says Frozen Chicken Wings from Brazil Test Positive for Virus  Like New Zealand reported about imported frozen foods.



Pandemic has driven Americans to depression and drinking, CDC says Could the same be said of everyone everywhere maybe?

Coronavirus Lockdowns Could Ramp Up Obesity Epidemic, Study Warns  Well when you have nothing better to do with your time except sleep or make pumpkin cheese cake, banana ice cream and blueberry ice cream, what can you expect?

Virus Vaccine Rush Leaves Little Recourse for Anyone It Harms  This should be plenty cause for not taking the vaccine, simply because we don't know the repercussions of taking it, short term even, nevermind long term. So we may be setting ourselves up for a life time of misery if we take the vaccines, and there won't be anything we'll be able to do about it legally.











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