Covid19
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October 24, 2020
The last few days I was crazy busy, trying to replace some of the broken small appliances I had - to make my cooking easier, plus I had some stuff left in the garden that I absolutely had to harvest before the snow comes - which is supposedly coming as early as tomorrow night into Monday morning. Coupled with very little sleep for those days I was just totally exhausted last night and needed every second of sleep that I managed to get.
It started with the shopping foray at Costco as my friend who's a member there, was going on and on about all the wonderful things and prices they have, and so I thought okay maybe I can get some things there at a lower price than say at Canadian Tire. So I took the Cdn Tire flyer which I had and wrote down the prices of the things that I needed to replace to bring with me to compare the prices with at Costco. So we went to Costco and basically spent the whole afternoon there because she loves the place and wanted to show me around. Anyhow I found 2 items I wanted and I guess when compared with the prices at Cdn Tire, between the two I saved $65 (and a membership is $60, so I decided maybe I'd get a membership too because who knows maybe later on there'll be other things we want or need and we'll save at least that much again, in any case my savings paid for the membership). But unlike her I wasn't all that enamoured of the place. I found it to be a too big to bother with place and a lot of empty shelves - I would never go explore the whole store as I hate shopping with a passion, to see a few sparsely stocked shelves here and there while overcrowding other shelves elsewhere. And the cost of the food, looked like a nightmare scenario come true. Holy crap! Anyone who believes those prices are good has never been in a real grocery store in their lives and has only ever shopped there. My hair almost stood on end when I saw the prices of the meat and other foods. So after seeing all of that, I'm not even sure why we'd use our membership in the future. Maybe if there's something we want that seems expensive elsewhere we can go look there first before buying anything in case they have it cheaper. Who knows? All I know is I wasn't impressed.
So we went to Canadian Tire yesterday to get the other items that broke, seeing as how Costco didn't have any of them. We forgot one, so I guess we'll have to get it later on. Anyhow after coming home with them we had to unpack them and then take them apart to wash them and put them back together again for storage. That along with the usual household chores and trying to keep on top of the covid news, with only 6 hours sleep in the last 36 hours had me worn out and I couldn't have posted anything in here even if I had've wanted to as it wouldn't have made any sense probably.
Now for the petition:
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So now let's see how far I can get with the headlines today before I fall asleep again or something else happens to stop me....
Accused of COVID price gouging, Calgary company pleads guilty and admits to 'grossly excessive' prices At least they were able to put a stop to it while the pandemic was still ongoing unlike the gouging during the '98 ice storm, which they only addressed so close to the end of it, it was pointless.
Terry Fox Run sees 20 per cent fundraising boost despite pandemic: organizers I guess when there's more people with nothing to do, there's more chance they choose to do things like this.
North Korea on virus threat: 'Under safe and stable control' Or so they say, anyhow...
Ontario is pouring more than $500M into long-term care, but enhanced inspections aren't part of the plan Enhanced inspections aren't part of the plan eh? And they expect improvements without any inspections? Talk about dreaming in technocolour....
I like road trips more than resort trips so this would be right up my alley.
Coronavirus: Israel passes law to ban mass protests during lockdown Wondering how well that will work.
The pandemic could push an alarming number of women out of the workforce It has already hasn't it?
Women are drinking nearly double during the coronavirus pandemic, study says Hey! Why not? We might as well enjoy ourselves or drink to forget what this virus has done to us, our families, our way of life, our livelihoods etc.... But I think we all pretty much have a reason to imbibe these days. If not for a way to forget at least maybe as a way of lightening the mood a bit. Maybe celebrating some of the small things in life, since we're officially forbidden to celebrate the larger things like weddings, birthdays, holidays and the like....
Health Canada approves rapid COVID testing device as Canada braces for caseload spikes It's about frigging time considering they've been available since at least May.
Yup be the good little cogs in the economic engine's wheels and just live solely to make that engine function, forget your own lives and happinesses, so long as we can make that economic engine keep on chugging. Social gatherings aren't the only means it's spreading. Wherever people get together - whether that's at work, school, church, the movie theatres, bars, stores or restaurants the germ can pass from one person to another just by being in contact with them NO MATTER WHERE YOU ARE OR THE SETTING (whether that's informal like at work or school or shopping, or informal like on a date at a movie or restaurant or bar, or close as in family functions). The sooner the bozo brains in power in this country can figure that out, the sooner we'll be able to get back to normal. Because then they'll realize the futility of forbidding or limiting social gatherings while trying to make everyone continue to go to school and work. So then if they want the economy to work and not fail they'll have to come to the realization they can't stop the disease by limiting social gatherings and so just let everyone resume their lives as per normal (but maybe with mask wearing & hand washing measures still in force), or they'll force an entire hard lockdown (maybe even more than before) to try to limit the spread of it, but it won't eliminate it altogether. But just limiting social gatherings isn't going to do much to cut down on the spread while everyone's still going to work and school.
‘Epidemic’ of Unintended Pregnancies in Philippines Amid Lockdown Measures That's where birth control comes in handy.
Moderna's coronavirus vaccine will NOT be ready by Election Day: CEO dashes Trump's hopes for a shot as says the firm won't seek FDA approval until November 25 How's that for spitting in Trump's eye eh?
Covid-Sniffing Robots Offer Testing Alternative I like the robot sniffers better than the dog sniffers, because at least the robots won't catch it and get sick too, like some dogs can.
Well if they're just going to keep releasing contradictory guidelines from one day to the next, maybe it's good they slow it down and maybe review previous guidelines issuances before releasing new ones.
New York Hotspots Hit 6.5% Positivity, Alarming Officials and Fueling New Tensions on Schools Well with a population of almost 20 million in the state, a 6.5% figure of that population would alarm me too, considering in that state alone that would put it at over 1 million people who are testing positive with the virus.
borat's back Sacha Baron Cohen turns Covid mask into mankini in outrageous Borat 2 poster – with film dropping this month I suppose that's another use for those masks.
Of course they'll say that because the mandate is to get as many people vaccinated as possible.
Scottish MP With Coronavirus Got Train To London And Back Another case of do as I say and not as I do.
Ministers Ignored Plea To Lock Down London Because It's A Labour City, Hints Sadiq Khan This is one more proof that this "disease" is merely a political tool to be used to achieve certain goals that they wouldn't have been able to achieve without it in "normal times".
Trump Is 'The Largest Driver' Of COVID-19 Conspiracy Theories, Study Finds Really? Like what? Bleach injections cures it? Or what? Because most of what I've heard come out of his mouth sounded more like idiocies than conspiracy theories.
I don't think that should come as a surprise.
Your Intense Pandemic Dreams Might Be Helping You – Here's Why Boy, I sure hope they're helping me because some of them are pretty scary or freaky at times too.
Doug Liman shooting pandemic thriller 'Lockdown' in Harrods with Anne Hathaway and Chiwetel Ejiofor Aren't we all already living through enough of a lockdown thriller? I don't get why all the TV shows and movie makers are rushing to make movies about lockdowns and pandemics now. I mean I for one when I watch something, it's to think about something else different for awhile rather than being constantly reminded of what I'm already living through.
Of course not because the authorities won't be finished achieving their goals of rejigging society, the economy, the currencies and amount of population on this planet.
Coronavirus updates: Cornell study calls Donald Trump biggest source of misinformation; Moderna vaccine won't come before spring 2021 Now that I believe. I guess the other journalist can't tell the difference between misinformation and conspiracy theories.
No one wanted to travel with me, so I went on vacation with a total stranger I guess some people like to live dangerously. That's all I can say about that one.
Paris bars face possible closure as virus patients fill ICUs Like I said above it's not only the bars and social gatherings where the virus is spreading, it's wherever there are gatherings of any type, whether that family, bar, restaurant, work, play or school.
Like I said, cogs in the economic machinery. That's all we are. They don't care about our health, or mental wellbeing at all. All they care about is we work and keep that economic engine chugging along.
That's really awesome of them! I hope those lucky kids appreciate those desks!
The President Contracting COVID-19 Is A Major National Security Crisis As far as Americans are concerned EVERYTHING IS ALWAYS A MAJOR national security crisis! So why would this be any different?
Chinese state media mocks Trump's positive virus test: 'Paid the price for his gamble to play down' pandemic China should pay the price for unleashing the pandemic on the world to start with.
Trump COVID infection thrusts world in uncharted territory OMG Talk about the media making mountains out of molehills.....
Michael Moore: It’s Possible Trump ‘Lying About Having COVID-19’ to ‘Gain Sympathy’ That scenario also passed my ever cynical mind.
How? By forbidding people to breathe? Because I don't see how things can be stricter than lockdowns when it comes to this virus. The only thing left to do would be to forbid people to breathe at all. That way there's no danger of transmission from person to person, as there are no more persons to transmit it.
'Magical Disney experience' going away? What Disney's layoffs mean for theme park guests See what you've got to do in order to keep your parks open is make it look like visiting the park is nothing but drab and dreary drudgery and hard work. Then the gov't will be glad to let you keep it open as they only insist on closing fun things. If it's not fun, then it can stay open.
Sounds like what a lot of single people and widowed elders went through and are going through due to lockdowns.
Anyhow going to leave it here for now. Lots more where that came from, coming up again soon. In the meantime take care and stay well.
