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Thursday, December 31, 2020

Good Riddance 2020! And Happy, Prosperous & .....

 Healthy New Year in 2021!

Free of Covid19!


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December 31, 2020

I am very happy that I and everyone I know personally at least, made it unscathed through this year and I hope we all do next year as well, and I wish the same for everyone else out there as well. 

This has been one miserable year on all accounts as far as I can tell and I certainly hope 2021 is much better than this one has been, in all aspects, for everyone!

I also hope I don't spend as much time sleeping as I have lately, because it's getting ridiculous when I spend 6 hours a day awake and the rest of the time sleeping. I'm not physically tired (how can I be, I don't get a chance to do anything), but sleepy. It's like some kind of chemical or hormone in my body gets released into my bloodstream and I'm passed out in seconds. I have to do things (like keep moving) and not merely my fingers on a keyboard, to keep from falling asleep. So I sure hope that changes in the new year. Perhaps with the new year and the vaccines there'll be a lifting of restrictions that keeps us housebound and bored (which may be a huge part of my problem) and that may help.

Other than that, I've been busy preparing things for tomorrow - New Year's Day when the kids are coming for dinner. I thought maybe we'd have something that involved long noodles for long life and round things for good luck. So I settled on an Asian Ginger Beef Soup for the 1st course, coupled with Korean Beef (and a pork alternative - pork is for good luck too), soba noodles, a spinach side dish along with a pickled carrot and cuke salad both sliced very thinly with a mandolin and some seaweed thrown in for good measure. The salad is made, the soup is made and the pork and beef are cut into thin pieces of meat ready for stir frying quickly. Basically all the long tedious work is done, the rest will be done in minutes once started to cook. 

Anyhow, now I plan on trying to take a short look back over the year with some articles doing just that and also catch up with the COVID19 headlines so I start the year fresh. So get your glass of bubbly and get comfortable and get ready to relive the year in retrospect along with get informed about the newest COVID19 headlines....

This isn't a news story, just some recipes that might add some elegance and interest in your first meal of 2021, to kick it off in style - at least gastronomically speaking.
 
Google's top trending search queries for 2020 highlight one of the strangest years of all time If you want to know what others were most interested in finding out over the past year.

If you are interested in what fellow Canadians searched for the most this is the story.
 
Science News - 19 December 2020 - 2 January 2021 Science news in retrospect. PDF format download at the longfiles link.
 
In a year dominated by pandemic, many other dramas unfolded  Other stories that dominated the headlines at least briefly, during 2020.

 

If this gets posted in time for your time zone you may yet have time to avail yourselves of some of the ideas here.
 
9 Traditional New Year’s Day Foods to Make for Good Luck This is where I got the ideas about the long noodles and round foods from - in an effort to try to make things better for us and to ensure we all live long lives.

More ideas to help you ring in the new year with health, wealth & happiness as the title implies.
 

As I suggested this on another internet based site, back in January when I was trying to find out if it was possible that I had the virus myself, and suggesting that those who did, could also donate plasma in order for it to be used as a means of extracting antibodies to be used to help covid patients recover and that those who had the virus could be given a passport to allow them to function normally in society etc.... Because back then they didn't know who had it or how many and there was no treatment available to help anyone severely sick with it, so I suggested that. They were also discussing Wuhan type quarantine and lockdown measures if the virus came here (which it had but they were unaware of). So I suggested a type of card people could carry indicating that they had the virus and were probably immune to it from here on in....
 
 

 

 
Ontario plans to vaccinate 8.5 million people with COVID-19 vaccine by July 2021 Good for them, because the pencil necked accountant moron that thinks he's qualified to be a health minister anywhere, has said that he hopes to vaccinate all of the people in QC (roughly the same amount as shown here for Ontario) by the end of 2021. So what I want to know is why can Ontario get it done in 7 months but it's going to take bozo brains here in QC to get it done in 12 months? Something's wrong somewhere me thinks....

 
Sorry, a COVID-19 vaccine doesn't mean you can have a big summer wedding in 2021 Of course not. We can't let people have too much fun all at once, that just wouldn't sit right with all the saddistic powermongering ash holes that create this asinine laws.

 
Mosaic Stadium's football field in Regina flooded for free, pandemic friendly skating While I'm positive that there's some city, or town in QC that's outlawed skating due to the plandemic - like Pointe Claire closed down their toboggan hill on account of it. 

Pas seulement chez les femmes, mais aussi chez les aines.
 
Mexico might allow private firms to buy, distribute vaccines I'm sure the cartels love that idea, that way it makes it easier for them to steal the stuff and resell it for a king's ransom. Yeah.... Good idea Mexico, go for it!

 
Seek help for lockdown stresses, county politicians urge rural women There are phone numbers in the article for women needing help in the Middlesex region of Ontario. 

 
Concerns grow over new coronavirus variant in Canada As I said before, it's probably been here since at least mid October, considering it was around in the UK since about mid September and international flights between here and there didn't stop until recently. So it's probably here and running rampant which probably is why we're seeing so many cases despite all the measures taken to curtail and contain it. 

This is sad. I can't even get my head around why families continue to keep their elderly in these death camps after the 1st wave killed a large amount of them off. 
 
Quebecers defy lockdown despite crackdown on rule breakers Because we QC'ers are just fed up to the eyeballs with all the restrictions and lockdowns and never-ending BS. Besides the gov't changes it's mind every half hour so how are we supposed to keep on top of what the most current rule is anyhow? I have because of my blog, but most people I know are totally clueless about what they're allowed to do and not do at any given moment and so they've lost interest in even trying to keep up with it and just don't care anymore and I can't say as I blame them.

Of course, because they don't want the truth getting out.
 

That's the 1st one they found since they started looking for it. But I bet if they went back amongst all the previous tests and looked for the variant in them, they'd find a lot more than just 1 case of it. That's for sure.
 

 

 

 

I guess it's not only restaurants and bars being shut down when it comes to entertainment....
 

Not just nursing home patients but seniors living alone probably are too.
 

 

 

Of course they do. I didn't need a study to know that.   

 

 
88-year-old dies hours after COVID vaccination in second such incident This one could just as easily be an age related death or an underlying health issue as it could be related to the vaccine, in cases like these.

 

 

 

Obviously not for seniors because dimwits R us in Ottawa seem to think we get enough money already, considering we got 1 cheque all pandemic long and we individually get less than what 1/2 of a monthly minimum wage would be. Then you wonder why seniors can't make it and have to decide between rent, medicine, food, and heating each month.... I'd like to see any one of those clowns in Ottawa try to live on what a senior gets for one month and see how far they get. So if they're going to institute this universal basic income they'd better MAKE SURE IT IS UNIVERSAL & EVERYONE INCLUDING SENIORS GETS IT!!!!!! Otherwise there's nothing universal about it, if only a select portion of the needy gets it, while others look on in desperation. Seniors who were supposed to be the target group that needed protecting during this plandemic is the group that basically got forgotten (by being pushed outsight - hence out of mind) and little to no help at all. Especially independant living seniors who don't have any organizations helping them with anything at all. So if it's a UNIVERSAL BASIC INCOME - it has better dammed well be UNIVERSAL and not just for some but not for others kind of "universal". 
 
 
 
 
Fact check: Bill Gates, Pfizer CEO both plan to take COVID-19 vaccine But they conveniently forgot to mention which vaccine they'll be taking, but all of these people (except maybe Gates' spawn) are beyond the age for procreation and so even if they wind up sterilized as a result of taking this vaccine it's not going to hurt them. And after googling Albert Bourla  the CEO of Pfizer, I'm wondering how good or efficient any human vaccine that's made by a vet is going to be.... 
 
Coronavirus latest news: Boris Johnson to move 'heaven and earth' to roll out vaccine and ease tough new restrictions Unlike any of the Cdn politicians who are content to sit on their ashes and dictate all their miserable cancellations and restrictions to us, while they live it up by going to tropical resorts and partying hearty with family & friends etc.... Yeah do as I say, don't do as I do..... Maybe these ash holes should have to face the same repercussions we would have to face if we got caught PLUS LOSE THEIR JOBS ON TOP OF IT. I'm wondering how that clown with 15 people gathered around his Christmas table would like a $22,500 fine for that gathering? Like anyone else would've gotten if they did the same thing. And the others shouldn't have been allowed back in the country at all until the pandemic's completely over with while they lost their jobs and hence source of income. Let them see what it's like living in those areas with no money and cancelled passports etc.... Teach them a frigging lesson. That's how I'd treat the ash hole Cdn politicians who want to party hearty and take extended tropical breaks while the rest of us suffer, when they could be here, trying to find a way to get us out of this pandemic and ways to speed the vaccinations up. Because right now they're being rolled out slower than a freaking snail's pace. At this rate it'll be 3021 December 31st by the time all Canadians have been vaccinated. Gawd even 3rd world countries like Bahrain and India etc are doing better than we are. We're so far behind everyone in everything to with this pandemic that it's pathetic. Well bozo brains and the genocidal beitches Tam & Haggydodo are to blame primarily, but the provincial bozos have something to do with it as well now.
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
With gigs dried up, Cape Breton's Ashley MacIsaac wants to play in your living room Well this is definitely a different & unique way of entertaining us. I especially like the email approach.
 
Quebec faces challenges in vaccine rollout but should still hit targets: expert Why is this proving so freaking difficult for you braindead bozos anyhow? How the hell did we manage to basically inoculate almost the entire population against H1N1 in a few months but you can't get this done in less than a year?????? What about taking the vaccines into schools and administering shots to faculty and students there and then using pharmacies, CLSCs and walk-in clinics to do the rest of the population besides those in long term care and hospitals? I mean gawd wake up and fly right for a change you bunch of pathetic idiots.
 
Ottawa tenant's eviction a symptom of a larger problem, advocate says Like I said before this is just cruel and unusual punishment for being poor in Ontario, considering there was a moratorium on evictions earlier in the plandemic but now because autumn and winter was upon us, they lifted it. Gawd the politicians that run this country needs to be lined up against a wall in front of a firing squad. 
 
Anyhow, here's wishing everyone a MUCH BETTER, HEALTHIER, HAPPIER & WEALTHIER 2021! Happy New Year! 
 
 




 
 


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Monday, July 20, 2020

COVID Coverage Comingled

With Cooking

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June 19, 2020

I can't believe how much food a 14 cubic foot freezer can hold! About a quarter of the contents remained frozen so we put them back in without doing anything to them except wiping the packages off. We gave a good quarter to third of it away to our son and I still had the rest to deal with here to try to salvage by cooking up ready for use on short notice (basically throw in microwave to defrost and heat et voila - good to go). Of course I've been dealing with the most expensive contents to the least expensive in that order so that it's not as much lost as if I just did it willy nilly. Now I've finished the meat and almost the all fish contents and am working on the veggie & fruit contents. Fruit is easy it can be used in all kinds of things from muffins (depending on what it is) and compotes to pies etc. The veggies though I've been working diligently trying to figure out what to do with them to cook them into some kind of tasty meal to be frozen and thawed and used like the meat contents. I guess I'm not vegetarian or vegan enough to figure things like that out, so I might have to look for specialized recipes for those things. But right now I have a variety of soups in the works, like chicken veggie soup, cream of asparagus and corn chowder. After those are made and put away I'll work on the more elaborate veggie dishes if I can find any.

As that's taking a lot of my time I don't have as much time to devote to the blog and the headlines, but I am  trying my best to get a few of them in everyday until caught up again (which isn't likely to happen in the very near future considering the nature of the coronavirus beast and the news stories associated with it).  But from now on, no matter how complete or incomplete the post is, it'll be posted before midnight my time and a new one started the next day.

Anyhow, as they say in showbiz..... On with the show....




FDA expands list of hand sanitizers to avoid due to methanol risk with more being recommended for recall Another list to check to see if the ones we have is on it or not. Seems like they are coming out with new ones every week or so.



Is the summer road trip spreading the coronavirus?  Probably. I know if we let them be and cross our borders it'll be making things worse here, for us. 


Woman refused entry to hospital emergency because she can't wear a mask  The hospitals have a lot of stringent and I believe in some circumstances detrimental rules for entering a hospital. I know a little girl that could die, because while the virus is raging she's not allowed in a hospital at all, so she and her parents have been quarantined at home since the lockdown came into effect here in Quebec.

From Flour to Canned Soup, Coronavirus Surge Pressures Food Supplies  This is one of the reasons I'm going to so much trouble and effort to try to salvage the food that was in the freezer that thawed up, rather than throwing it out. First we can't afford to restock the freezer the way it was stocked originally, second that would be a colossal waste of food to throw that out and third I see how and tenuous the food supply has gotten out there, that just that alone makes it immoral to throw out salvagable food like that, because a lot of others may not be getting the food they need due to the ravaged food supply.

Florida reports largest, single-day increase in COVID cases  This is the first of such daily increases they'll be reporting.


Seniors reflect on how they're enduring COVID-19 seclusion The seniors in this house at least are tired of it already. 

India's growing Covid-19 waste challenges workers  That's one big massive pile of coronavirus right there. That alone should be a public health problem.

Anonymous letters providing solace in the pandemic  Maybe I'm paranoid or more than just a little leery but after watching the movie "Greta" last night, I wouldn't want to get too chummy with totally unknown strangers. 

'No one is safe until everyone is safe': Vaccine nationalism threatens global coronavirus effort Of course the vaccine makers love pushing that idea, because of course that means that every single individual on the planet will be a client of theirs. So if there's 7 billion of us, that's 7 billion times x amount of dollars per dose at the minimum. If it's made by one manufacturer in the world that company will basically be the richest company ever in the entire history of the world and then some. Basically a wet dream for the person who owns that company or has the most shares in it. 



Florida woman took dishwashing job so she could visit husband with Alzheimer's during pandemic That's what you call devotion. For sure. I'm wondering how many other spouses would do something like that if they could.



AOC suggests NYC crime surge due to unemployment, residents who need to 'shoplift some bread'  Maybe or maybe it's just Americans being Americans. This is normally how they behave when there's no lockdown. 

French bus driver dies after brutal attack by passengers who refused to wear face masks  This is just plain savagery killing people over something like wearing a mask or not. So if the virus doesn't get you, the fallout from the laws and rules will, it looks like.




Fuelled by U.S. and Brazil, world sets new record in daily COVID-19 cases  I'm sure that'll be a new daily norm at least for a while. 



Nearly 90 per cent of Ontario's new COVID-19 cases reported in people under 60 I guess it's already killed off all the seniors it could find, now it's going to work on the younger generations.

Bars not required to report COVID-19 infections or to close for cleaning: Quebec health authorities  Doesn't that make you feel all snuggly cozy safe and secure? 

US warned coronavirus will last 2 more years and force 'American way of life to change'  I suppose that means that that goes for the Canadian way of life as well, given that the 2 ways of life are indistinguishable from each other.

Aishwarya Rai Bachchan, Bollywood star known as 'world's most beautiful woman,' tests positive for COVID-19   I  guess this virus won't spare anyone, not the beautiful, not the rich and not the famous either. Everyone is and equal opportunity victim of this virus.



Honk for Bingo: Bingo lovers get their fix from their cars in Windsor Church services, bingo games, rock concerts and movies by car. 

Heat wave shows plan needed 'right now' to keep care homes cool  This should've been done decades ago. There's no excuse because air conditioning hasn't been an expensive luxury for decades now.

Quebecers must now register online with NB and PEI to travel to Iles-de-la-Madeleine  Wondering if they have to also register online with Quebec if they want to travel through Quebec's territory?









Coronavirus crisis may get "worse and worse and worse", warns WHO I sure hope not. Things are already pretty bad as they are already.

Woman infects 71 people with coronavirus after 60-second elevator trip  How the heck do you fit that many people in an elevator anyhow? The most I've ever seen be able to enter at once was perhaps 20-30 people. 


Coronavirus masks, gloves polluting Europe's rivers  And everyone was having hissy fits over the single use plastic shopping bags before, talking about how bad they were for the waterways. Now you have everyone having to have these masks and gloves - single use by law, everyday, everywhere they go, so what can you expect?

Families of Italy’s virus dead seek answers, solace, justice  I guess we can pretty much say the same for all families who are grieving, they all want answers, solace and I imagine justice too.


Coronavirus lockdown leads to less air pollution, more clean energy  Well at least that's a positive side to this pandemic.

Weather forecast wrong again? Researchers say COVID-19’s impact on air travel is to blame Even when planes were flying and able to help them out, they still weren't getting it right. So what was their excuse then?




Mystery as Argentine sailors infected with virus after 35 days at sea   Obviously 14 day quarantines aren't working when 40 day quarantines are the proper way. Then you'd find all the people who had it but didn't fully recover from it, or the ones who developed the disease more than 14 days after exposure. 


Police levy thousands of fines as Indians chafe at mask rules  I'm sure the cops here in Quebec will be doing the same in short order. They were issuing physical distancing tickets like there was no tomorrow, before. So I'm sure they'll do the same in regards to masks.







Former Fiat engineer aims to put the brakes on COVID A weird impractical device that sounds about as useless as it does stupid. 


Swiftly waning COVID-19 immunity poses vaccination challenge But are the antibodies really waning or would they fire up again if they were exposed to COVID19? I mean if you think about it a bit, all of our antibodies we've developed over the course of our lifetimes can't all be raging in our blood at the same time and all the time. I mean I had measles when I was a kid, I'm in my 60s now and I haven't had the measles again in my life, but I bet unless I'm somehow in contact with measles again my measles antibodies are there but taking a back seat to other more relevant antibodies I need at the moment. When or if I come into contact with measles again they'll come raging back into play to protect me. I somehow don't think all our antibodies are at full force all the time, and that's probably true of the antibodies for this virus as well.


University wants students to sign liability waiver to return to class during pandemic  That doesn't surprise me. Nearly everyone and everything in Nova Scotia tries to weasel out of responsibility of any kind. 




Record Numbers of Americans Try to Buy Guns Apparently it's because of Coronavirus. What can I say? I'm not American and don't understand the mindset involved in needing guns.







 

 







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Thursday, June 11, 2020

In Memory of....

Darcy Our Daughter's Dog

June 10, 2020

No he didn't die from the coronavirus and in fact he had nothing to do with the coronavirus. I just wanted to make this posting in memory of him, since we had to put him down today due to his feeble condition. He was between 18 & 20 years old (people years), we're not entirely sure which because when our daughter came home to die in September 2012, she brought him with her and asked us to look after him after she was gone. I tried to find out his exact age from her (for health reasons - as vets usually ask how old the animal they're treating is, so it's usually best that you know for sure), but she said she wasn't sure (she couldn't remember when she got him) but somewhere between 10 & 12 years old then. So pretty near 8 years on, he should've been between 18 & 20 years old. 

He was a good old guy though, he was very protective of our baby dachshund we brought home a few years ago, he treated her like as if she was his own puppy, after the death of our other dachshund (who he was more or less civilized with - they were both non-neutered males) and very good when left alone or with the other dogs in the house. Though he was very deaf (you practically had to stand on top of him and scream for him to hear you), and very weak and feeble, who recently took a few tumbles down the stairs - so that couldn't have helped his fragile condition much. 

Anyhow we figured it was time for him to go give our daughter in heaven our love and to join her for companionship, because if he stuck around much longer he would fall off of something and seriously injure himself and (as per our life experiences, that usually happens when everything that would be of assistance is closed - like in the middle of the night or on holidays) he'd be spending several hours suffering in severe pain needlessly. So before that happened - as it was bound to, we decided the best thing to do would be to put him down before he wound up having to suffer something like that. It's only been 3 hours since he was put down, but I miss him already.....


Now on with the purpose of this blog.... COVID19 ....

God and the Pandemic  is an epub downloadable from the longfiles link.... Combining the themes of COVID and heaven to start....

There Is No Outside another epub downloadable from the longfiles link, related to COVID19 with dispatches from around the world detailing experiences and events and other information related to it.

New Scientist - May 30, 2020 a PDF Science magazine, with lots of COVID & lockdown content that might be of interest, downloadable at the longfiles link as well.

Coronavirus hospitalizations rise sharply in several states following Memorial Day So imagine what's ahead following the rallies and riots the world has experienced in the past couple of weeks, then.




More Food Shortages Loom With Outbreaks at 60 U.S Plants  There was a news story on TV tonight about potato farmers having a hard time and having to give a lot of their crops to food banks because they can't sell it, because restaurants used to buy the bulk of their crops and they're closed. I was sitting there thinking well why the F don't you lower the prices on the potatoes in the grocery stores? Because you'd think if they are having a hard time selling them that getting less money on them is better than getting no money on them (like they're doing if they plow them under or give them away). Because I know the potatoes in the stores around here are the same price they were before the pandemic started. In other words the prices didn't increase nor did they decrease. So usually if you want people to buy more of something you decrease the price and they might.  I know I'd buy more potatoes than I do, if they were cheaper, because we are big consumers of them. I make all kinds of different potato dishes for supper everything from plain old boiled to hasselbacks or poutine or even scalloped potatoes. So sometimes price has a lot to do with it too. Speaking of which for those who are having a hard time affording food and not wanting to waste any of it, I found this book that might interest you:  The No-Waste Vegetable Cookbook: Recipes and Techniques for Whole Plant Cooking it's a PDF downloadable at the longfiles link that provides recipes for using every bit of the vegetable so there's no waste and which means it provides for a larger quantity of food than you'd otherwise get if you used only the conventional bits of the plant, stretching the available food to make it go further.

Lawsuit Accuses Nation’s Top Meatpackers Of Conspiring To Boost The Price Of Beef  More causes of concern regarding food poverty. It's not enough that people have lost their jobs and can barely afford the regular food prices as they already are, they have to conspire to boost them even more? Nothing like greedy guts CEOs who have cushy salaries and can afford even the choicest most  expensive cut of meat anyday and everyday, conspiring to cause the unemployed to go without because they can't even afford the offal and soup bones that normally goes for next to nothing.  Things like this going on in the US might've contributed to that outpouring of rage en masse that we witnessed recently and just the whole scene from being couped up to job losses and all those related stresses to things like this where the rich are conspiring against the newly unemployed and soon to be poor to gouge them to death for basic things like food. It's a wonder there's any buildings left standing and they haven't all been razed to the ground. People can take only so much, before they start pushing back and I think we've pretty well witnessed just how much that is, but if companies continue like this and the gov't continues to let them operate like this, we might see more of that pent up rage released. 

While Coronavirus Case Rate Slows in Some Areas, Others Accelerate  Even in India the rate of transmission is uneven like here in North America.


Texas reports two consecutive days of record coronavirus hospitalizations weeks after reopening Probably has a lot to do with recent holidays and events going on there.


Masks to be compulsory in Spain until virus 'permanently' defeated: Health Minister And what happens if it's never permanently defeated? Because most masks are useless as per various studies. The only ones proven to be of any use are N95 and P100 masks. All the other masks are like placebos, they only make you think they're protecting you and others.

Orange County Health Officer Nichole Quick Resigns After Facing Threats For Issuing Face Mask Order  Here's one area of the world anyhow that doesn't like the order to wear face masks. Maybe other areas will pop up here and there and make it near impossible to mandate mandatory face masks. Or let's hope so anyhow, as it's just pure nonsense making someone wear something just to pretend they're protecting something or someone. It's not only super stupid to continue with that charade, but after awhile it'll get to be super expensive too considering the amount of masks that will have to be purchased over time. For those who are already struggling to make ends meet that just makes life that much more expensive and difficult for them.


Coronavirus daily death toll may fall to zero by July, say scientists That's in the UK. I wouldn't get my hopes up, thinking it's here in Canada too or world wide, because I doubt it is.


Canada-U.S. border closure to be extended beyond June 21, sources say Good! The Canadian border shouldn't only be closed to the US beyond June 21 though, the Canadian border should be closed to all international travellers beyond June 21.



Canadian Paediatric Society calls on education ministries to allow graduations  Hopefully, they'll be better thought out and planned and much nicer than the stupid sidewalk graduation they had on the south shore of Montreal the other day. When I saw that, I almost wanted to cry, thinking to myself what a stupid sham to try to foist off on the kids that worked so hard and looked forward to this for the longest time and to try to even pretend that was a ceremony was the height of idiocy and stupidity if I ever saw it. Poor kids, I'm sure they all expected at least a little bit more than that.  I mean gawd what's wrong with those lazy imbeciles that pass for teachers and principals now-a-days anyhow? 

All schools have large fields that they use for their athletics and sports teams and it is summer time. So why oh why couldn't the lazy idiots that masquerades as "caring" teachers have carried some of those auditorium grey folding chairs out onto the field and spaced them 6 feet apart from each other and put a podium with a mic out in front of the chairs with a cloth spread on the ground in front of it, where the diplomas & awards are laid out in alphabetical fashion, that the grad receiving them could walk in front of and bend down and pick theirs up off the cloth without touching anyone else's? And still had a proper ceremony except for that? I mean gawd almighty has this disease eaten everyone's brain cells too? Okay the prom might be a bit much to pull off, but the convocation ceremonies shouldn't be that freaking hard for anyone with a brain cell in their heads and a will to do something half way decent rather than the stupid sidewalk presentation.... It put me a mind of street walkers getting their walking papers from their pimps or something....  I mean.... what else can I say?


‘Days of Our Lives’ Star Judi Evans Hospitalized With COVID-19 I have no idea who she is, but I'm sure several people do, as that seems to be a long long long running TV show (I recognize the title from my youth when my mother & her friend used to be watching it when I came in from school). So for her fans, here's her COVID story.


Alberta leads Western Canada in using Ottawa's financial help, federal minister says  Considering the oil fields got a massive hit from all sides even prior to this pandemic and then the lockdown that caused everyone to stop driving which made the oil prices plummet and the tourist industry being shut down because of border closures and then the meat packing business being hit hard with COVID... They're batting 3 out of 3 since those are the 3 main industries they rely on for an economy, oil, tourist and meat/agriculture.  So it's little wonder they need the financial help. 

Quebec premier apologizes as province surpasses 5,000 COVID-19 deaths That's something I've yet to hear Tam or Haggydo do, is apologize for the mass genocide they caused.  At least Legault apologized for his part in it, but even still he & Doug Ford were the first & only people in any form of power in ALL of Canada to act to curtail this virus. If it were left up to Tam, Haggydo, Trudeau and all the other premiers in Canada our borders would probably still be wide open & we'd still only be told to wash our hands and we'll be fine, because they did absolutely nothing to prevent this disease from entering our country or to curtail it at all until Ford and Legault took action. If it weren't for those 2 we'd be in worse shape than we're in, that's for sure. So of all the politicians and people in power in this country Ford and Legault are the 2 that have the least to apologize for, while the ones who allowed this mass genocide to happen has yet to utter a word of contrition or ask for forgiveness or anything else of the sort.

Coronavirus outbreak: Does Trudeau plan to release a fiscal update before Labour Day? I can guarantee you that if he can possibly get away without doing it, he will. He doesn't ever plan on taking responsibility for anything that he or his government did or said during his reign.


What is herd immunity and could it work with COVID-19? This is precisely why antibody testing should be done on the entire population to see who has had it and what the percentage of the overall population is in the had it, has it and hasn't had it yet categories. Then we'd know what we're looking at and if we should stay in lockdown forever or if we've all basically already had it and have acquired immunity to it, as I think is probably the case.  Especially considering that now the timeline of this virus starting in China keeps getting pushed back earlier and earlier. The most recent article (which will be posted further down) implies that it's been around in China since August last year. Well if that's the case, we've all pretty much had it already. Probably mostly mild symptoms or asymptomatic, or with symptoms and needing hospitalization, but at the time the hospitals didn't know about the existance of this virus and just thought it was the flu they were dealing with and so weren't registering them as COVID19. That's what I think. I think the severe cases we're seeing now are from one of the mutated strains that's probably more virulent than the earlier strains were. So those of us who had it early on, didn't have it quite so rough as those getting it now. That's my thought on that but the only way to prove that to be actual fact, would be for those tests I talked about.

Widespread mask-wearing could prevent COVID-19 second waves: study  Yup, "could", "would", "should" are all operative words in news stories to get you to follow their agenda, but like I explained before "could", "would" and "should", doesn't mean they will, they're just words expressing possibilities. But as we've already seen in the articles about the studies on masks that I've posted here, they "probably won't" prevent anything, given that they're basically useless.


Family reeling as senior dies of malnutrition, not COVID-19, inside long-term care home The person/people responsible for letting this happen should be tried for gross negligence causing manslaughter. Stop letting these incidents slide.

For 12th straight day, no new cases of COVID-19 reported in N.L.  Good for them! I hope they keep it up from now on and eradicate it altogether!

Details on federal food buy-back program coming soon, Bibeau says How soon? When the pandemic has run it's course and it's over with? That soon? Or maybe sooner as in while the people need the help?

COVID-19 - Breakdown of the $100,000 donation - Priority to Food Security and Needy Families Well at least the mayor of Ville St. Laurent is doing something to help, while Bibeau from the feds diddles and dances around it.




Evictions expected to spike as states end moratoriums that offered relief during COVID-19 I'm pretty sure Canadians will be experiencing the same thing.


Are you immune?’ The new class system that could shape the Covid-19 world   Well as my dad would've said "that's the 64 thousand dollar question, isn't it?".


COVID CLIMBING Arizona, Arkansas, Utah, and the other 18 states where coronavirus is on the rise again 21 states that's half the country where it's rising again..... So much for flattening the curve and reopening society again.



The Looming Bank Collapse If the US banks collapse what will happen to Canadian banks? Will they collapse too? I mean everything is so intertwined these days it's hard to fathom things like this.



‘Absolutely Suffocating’: Hot Temperatures Complicate Coronavirus Face Mask Safety  That's another thing all those advocating wearing those useless masks can't seriously think that people are going to want to wear them on scorching hot days. 

The Waiting List for $1,000 Haircuts Is Ballooning in Manhattan I guess not everyone is hurting financially speaking despite the pandemic lockdowns. I guess it's true what my mother used to say about some people having more money than brains.


Coronavirus: UK economy could be among worst hit of leading nations, says OECD That's only slightly worse than their prediction for Canada. They predicted Canada's would slump by 10%.


Coronavirus came to UK 'on at least 1,300 separate occasions' Just wondering how many separate occasions it came to Canada? Must've been at least a few times considering the differences in how severe the cases were from the beginning until now. In the beginning they didn't quite so virulent and severe as they seem to have been a month or so ago and now they seem less severe than they were then. 

Fed warns US faces 'long road' to recovery  I guess the same can be said about all the insane countries that chose to crash their economies by imposing nationwide lockdowns instead of quarantining people the proper way. 



Here's where meat prices are headed As an earlier story mentioned there might be a conspiracy between meat producers to raise the cost of meat.


The illegal industry booming under lockdown in South Africa Well here in QC Legault declared the liquor stores, and weed outlets to be "essential services" that needed to stay open and most grocery stores sells cigarettes and grocery stores were deemed essential services too. So all the vices except gambling taken care of.



People are gargling bleach, misusing disinfectants. Are you using these products safely?  Gargling bleach??? I'm sorry.... Did I read that right? What bozo would gargle bleach? And doesn't it burn their mouth? That's just insane.

Dining out has changed: 6 mistakes to avoid at a reopened restaurant My son & I were talking about this today and the fact that most restaurants even ones you wouldn't think you'd need a reservation for will probably be booked for the next 3 months whenever we're allowed back into one again, because of so few customers being served at one time.

Coronavirus testing at home: What you need to know  Here's in Canada what you need to know is you probably won't be able to get one for love nor money until it's irrelevant because it seems like the government doesn't want us to have any. 

Coronavirus disrupts global fight to save endangered species Yet, another regrettable aspect to this pandemic. 



Starbucks takes $3 billion hit to revenue during pandemic I guess under lockdown it was pretty hard to go out for coffee, or to convince someone that that was an essential service.


Ethical dilemma: Who should get a COVID-19 vaccine first?  What's the dilemma? Isn't it the same as usual? Meaning those who are at the highest risk and have the highest exposure? Aka the elderly and medical personnel?  And then on down the line of highest risk - aka immune compromised, diabetics, ethnic minorities and then finally the general population at large? What's so problematic about that?

Bogus 'contact tracing' apps deployed to steal data: researchers  I would never sign up to agree to contact tracing to begin with because the potential for government over reach and invasion of privacy, nevermind the fact that these apps can be hijacked and hacked too. 



Satellite images of Wuhan may suggest coronavirus was spreading as early as August  So if that's the case, is it not feasible then that it made it's way around the world a few times before March? Especially since no one was the wiser and on the look out trying to stop it at their borders? Making it all the more possible that we had it here even back earlier than even the QC Pharmacists Association puts it, in their Christmas holidays 2019 date? That maybe even in late November or early December, it was here? And people who had it then either had mild forms of it, were asymptomatic, or were diagnosed as having the flu, because no one was aware of it?


Starbucks to close as many as 200 stores in Canada even after COVID-19  Last week on a particularly hot day I was at an outside mall doing shopping and other errands while my husband waited for me in the car. There is a Starbucks shop there, but he didn't go in, he just sat in the car waiting with the windows up and air conditioning running listening to the radio and this man came along and knocked on the window and when my husband put the window down, he offered him a cup of ice cold water in a starbucks plastic cup. I thought that was rather nice of them to offer people waiting in their cars on a hot day like that, cold water like that.  That's the first time I've seen any thing like that from any establishment in Canada. It might've been a one off promo put on by that particular store, then again, maybe they started doing things like that since the pandemic on super hot days like that day was, as good will gestures.  So I hope that Starbucks isn't one of the stores slated for closure.




Coronavirus: Ontario’s post-secondary schools set to reopen in July  I sure do pity those students having to resume classes at literally the hottest time of the year. I sure do hope those colleges and universities have air conditioned classrooms.


COVID-19 cases are on the rise among young adults, but health experts aren’t sure why Could it be due to their own stupidity and frivolity, by sitting, standing and lying on top of each other at parks, beaches and in rallies and riots? Maybe that has something to do with it? 



Coronavirus updates, June 10: Quebec reports 52 more deaths; soldiers will stay at CHSLDs

Migrant worker says COVID-19 outbreak mishandled at Norfolk farm

Pierrefonds-Roxboro keeping public pools closed this summer due to COVID-19  I think that's just dumb. Especially during the hot summer months, people need places to cool off. And excuse me for pointing this out, but if it's a "public pool" that means that the "public are paying for it and it's upkeep" regardless if it's used or not. So if the public are paying for it, then the public should either be allowed to use it, or have that portion of their property taxes that covers those pools refunded no?
Seems only fair to me.

Pierrefonds-Roxboro day camps cancelled I'm glad I'm not a resident of theirs or I'd be picking a few bones of contention with them over their COVID policies especially since the gov't allowed the pools to open and also the day camps and in fact pediatricians are saying that kids should be allowed to get together with their peers and socialize and play together, since they run very little risk of contracting or spreading the virus anyhow.

Google Maps Will Alert You About Coronavirus Restrictions Before You Leave Home. I hope it's more accurate and up to date than their marked detours due to construction are, that's for sure. Otherwise it's basically useless.

Missing your presence Darcy! Wish you were still here with us! You were a good ole guy right up to the very end. Thank you for watching over my girls for me. You did a great job of that and they both loved you too.












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