To inform, assist, entertain, and provide obscure information on COVID19 primarily in Canada and the Southwestern Quebec Region, for Canadian Seniors.
Wednesday, May 5, 2021
Grrrrrrrrrrrrr Grrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr & MORE Grrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr About....
As
for me in the intervening time since my last post in here, I've been
keeping plenty busy that's for sure. For one thing, I took an online
Harvard Course and passed that by 100%, did a ton of paper work that
needed to be done as I'm the world's worst procrastinator when it comes
to taking care of paper - as in filing it and winnowing it out etc... I
had a couple years worth of that to do, which I finally got around to
doing, as I hate doing that and put it off for as long as possible if I
can. Now that it's done I can maybe get away with not doing it again for
another year or two. I did our income taxes and got that over with. We
gave each other our quarantine hair cuts for the warm months (we may
have to touch them up later on as they grow out).
Tuesday, March 2, 2021
Hibernating From the Winter Weather While Reading Headlines About....
Covid19
Even more worrisome is that Canada is good at starting companies but not at nurturing them to global stature. Global leadership in key industries has disappeared. Canada claims just one of the Financial Times’ 100 leading global firms: Shopify. Smaller countries like Denmark, Sweden, Spain, and South Korea all have at least two companies on this list.
Nor have we been able to build on our strengths in banking, energy, or technology. Attempts to capitalize on our reputation by creating an institute for banking stability in Toronto came to nothing. Canada’s major contribution to global finance today is to serve “as an ATM and safe deposit box for money laundering” from China, according to Jonathan Manthorpe’s The Claws of the Panda. Our assumed technological prowess in everything from artificial intelligence to aerospace has not produced a successor on a global scale to Nortel or Blackberry. Canada’s superpower status in energy is undermined, as Tristan Hopper noted, by an inability to build pipelines or new hydro dams.
Sooooooo..... It seems I'm not the only one that thinks he's a clueless idiot. This guy does too, but doesn't say it flat out like I do. He just uses examples of the moron's idiocies to point this out in a very well worded article. Even he thinks that we're inoculating our population at a shamefully slow pace, considering what the H1N1 pandemic inoculation campaign demonstrated that we're capable of doing when we put our minds to it.
COVID-19 cases are down across Canada, but hospitals aren’t celebrating yet. Here’s why
Quebec reports 737 new COVID-19 cases in past 24 hours, nine more deaths That was yesterday's report.
Rare, post-COVID-19 syndrome in children becoming more frequent in Montreal
Quebec to tweak priority level for teachers, cashiers and other workers as new vaccines arrive
Measuring Africa’s Data Gap: The cost of not counting the dead
Covid-19 variants pose 'real threat' to vaccine progress, CDC warns
Covid: France approves AstraZeneca vaccine for over-65s
But Health Canada doesn't approve it for 65+s apparently....
Heathrow Airport seven-hour queues 'inhumane', say passengers I don't understand how there can be such a long lineup if the borders are closed, as they said they were.
Round-the-World Cruises Are Selling Out More Than a Year in Advance
Fearing Covid-19 Surge, Florida Officials Crack Down on Spring Breakers
Sheriffs bust hundreds at underground parties across NYC
Another victim of COVID-19: Sex between married couples Really? Or is that just the excuse some couples are using?
Scientists get serious about mixing and matching COVID-19 vaccines
Finland declares state of emergency as COVID-19 cases rise We've not heard much about the pandemic in this country since the pandemic started.
Anthony Fauci worried that US virus cases will stick at 70,000 a day
US reports record number of variant coronavirus cases
EU to propose vaccine certificates in time for summer holidays I'd love to know what the F is wrong with good old paper certificates that can be carried in a wallet like other ID?????
Portugal Sees EU Consensus on ‘Digital Green Pass’ for Travel
UK hunts for missing person infected with Covid variant first detected in Brazil
Vitamin B6 may prevent lethal cytokine storms, blood clots in COVID-19 patients
That just goes to prove that a healthy diet that includes the B complex of vitamins, C, D and probably others is good for you and not just in the case of fighting off Covid infections but other illnesses too.
Why is COVID-19 so much more infectious than previous coronaviruses?
A leaky gut may be the link between poor gut health and COVID-19 severity
Here's a newsflash for a lot of people out there.... The symptoms listed here ALSO appeared with other flues that've come along in the past!
Urban Americans more likely to follow COVID guidelines than rural residents
Quoting the article:
COLLEGE STATION, Texas — Travel from the city to the countryside nowadays and you just might notice fewer people wearing masks. A new national survey finds urban Americans are more likely than their rural counterparts to follow pandemic public health guidelines. This includes wearing a mask in public, sanitizing homes and work areas, working from home, avoiding restaurants or bars, and practicing social distancing.
There may be a few reasons for that.... One most people in rural communities are already physically distanced from their neighbours by quite a bit compared to those living in cities and so figure there's no need to wear a mask when outside as they aren't apt to get too close to anyone else anyhow. As for sanitizing homes..... It's been proven in the past that those who live on farms amid normal farm conditions, with mud, plants (and pollen and the plant pests), animals and all the various contaminants (body dirt, feces, germs, dander, other allergens), usually are much healthier with stronger immune systems and less likely to be allergic to everything under the sun. So no, they're not apt to be sanitizing any more than usual now, realizing that being too clean is actually detrimental to their health. I'm not inferring that they live in squalor and never do any cleaning. I'm simply saying they're usually not total clean freaks like a lot of city dwellers are. For the most part they're socially distanced naturally because of the distance between homes, so I guess they figure spending a little time with others won't hurt them, any more than people who go to school or work together. Same attitude with restaurants and bars if they can find one that's open because we can't around here.
As lousy as our medicare system is, we can be thankful for that much, that none of us no matter our age, would be looking at any bills at all after leaving the hospital no matter what it was for or how long we were there.
If infected, speaking is all it takes to spread COVID-19 So then the "silent spreaders" weren't actually very silent.
'Jeopardy!' executive producer becomes overnight sensation after COVID forces him to host
Covid never ceases to find odd ways to affect lives and society, either for the better or the worse.
New York virus variant harbors another worrisome mutation; vaccinating elderly adds most years of life Okay well I don't know how they can proclaim that by vaccinating the elderly it'll add the most years of life, since it hasn't even been a month since some of them were inoculated, nevermind a year let alone yearS with an S. Wait until at least one year has gone by and then estimate how many of those elderly would've/could've/should've died in that time frame and how many are still alive to see if any of those should've could've would'ves actually outlived their predicted time of death, and then you can say that it added a year at least and then wait the appropriate amount of time to pass, to proclaim that for each additional year, instead of making outrageous claims like this after a few weeks have gone by.
Canada vaccine committee advises against use of AstraZeneca COVID-19 shots for 65 years and above
Even though everywhere else has approved it for everyone of all ages.
Johnson & Johnson's COVID-19 vaccine wins FDA approval Good for them. At least now the US will have several vaccines at their disposal, while Canada will have a beggardly few. And Health Canada is too obtuse to even think about approving others - but I guess it's pointless if we can't import them anyhow because the countries where they're made won't allow it.
The latest news on COVID-19 developments in Canada for Monday, March 1, 2021
Novavax COVID-19 shot could be cleared for U.S. use by May: CEO Wow! That would make something like 5 different vaccines being cleared for use in the US by then and the way we're going we'll be lucky if the idiots at Health Canada can clear 4 by the end of the freaking year.
Travellers in quarantine in Canada report chaos in hotels
Oh what else is new? The handling of this plandemic in Canada, has just been a sheite show from the get go! So this doesn't surprise me in the least!
Pfizer and Moderna Pledge More US Vaccines
Modi takes home-grown vaccine as India widens immunisation drive
The Latest: Brazil health officials urge lockdowns, curfews
B.C. Residents Will Get 1st COVID-19 Vaccine Dose By July, As 2nd Doses Delayed
Amid a chaotic COVID-19 vaccine rollout, states find ways to connect shots with arms
You think it's chaotic in the US? You should see Canada's roll out!
In Pictures | Protests in Argentina as Public Fumes Over Officials Jumping the Line for Vaccines I don't know why they're so surprised there, because Argentinians have an innate distrust of the government there, so they should've suspected something like that was going to happen.
Many exemptions to Manitoba quarantine order
Living Skies Come Alive in doubt for second year due to pandemic restrictions
I don't understand why things like this that happen in the summer are being cancelled now, especially now that the vaccinations have started to be given.
From lockdowns to spring break, provinces split on next steps in COVID-19 fight
COVID-19 Benefits Gave Households Up To $3,000 In Extra Cash: StatsCan
That's PURE UNADULTERATED BS IF I EVER HEARD IT! Us Seniors got 1/10th of that amount IF we were lucky and that was the added couple of hundred dollars on the GST payments that we got and THAT'S IT!!!!! Most of us seniors were lucky if we got $500, which I take it was rare that most infact got something like $250 or so extra instead. SO THAT'S BS!!!! $3.0000 Extra Cash! Rigghhtttt.... It would be nice if we got that much extra, then maybe we'd be able to get some things we really need but can't afford at the moment!
What Trudeau said about vaccines, Saudi Arabia and Keystone XL on NBC's Meet the Press More false promises and blather from the univeral idiot at our helm.
Chile to ramp up purchase of Sinovac vaccine, seeking deal with Johnson & Johnson
Donald And Melania Trump Quietly Received COVID-19 Vaccine In January: Reports
Auckland coronavirus lockdown tests New Zealanders' patience
No wonder it's testing their patience! Just ONE PERSON who has it and the entire city is in lockdown AGAIN after having already gone through 4 lockdowns????? It's a wonder the stupid beitche they have for a PM hasn't be overthrown yet. She's asking for it. I'm telling you it's amazing what NZers let her get away with over the years. There must be some seriously weird kool aid in the water supply there.
Is Canada’s vaccine rollout working? Doctor answers our COVID-19 questions I don't have to listen because I know what the quack is going to say.... Since he's paid by the gov't as a doctor he's going to go along with the gov't on anything they say or do. So of course he's going to paint a picture of it being one of the best rollouts in the universe and that we'll be the 1st country finished vaccinating all it's citizens (even though Israel is the first) and all the rest of the BS the gov't wants him to feed us.
Slovakia to tighten anti-COVID measures, hard lockdown looms
'They cannot wait': Quebec cancer doctors say their patients need vaccines, now
Long lines among the snafus on first day of Quebec's mass vaccination program
What's the point of making appointments if you're still going to have to wait a couple of hours or more to get your jab?
People in Montreal age 70 and over can now make appointments for COVID-19 vaccinesWhat about the seniors in other areas that were hit just about the same as Laval? Like the Monteregie for example? When can they expect to get vaccinated, I'd like to know!
Quebec reports lowest increase in months with 613 new COVID-19 cases as mass vaccinations begin
And with that last bit of better news, that's it for the latest headlines.... Until next time take care & stay well.