Covid19
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February 22, 2021
Having celebrated our son's birthday this weekend, with a cake very similar to the one shown above, filet mignon steaks, potato salad, ceasar salad and copious amounts of wine, all made by me (except the steak was taken raw to his place and cooked there by my husband, and the wine of course). As we couldn't go out to a restaurant and he wanted "a nice steak dinner" for his birthday, I decided to make whatever I could make here to take there as he couldn't come here with all the ice and snow and his cast that he still has on his ankle. So that's what we did and it was nice to see him and his wife again. She played some songs on the piano, including Happy Birthday for him. So it was quite a nice time, worth the risk of getting caught by the ticket happy gestapo out there. Anyhow we made it home with 15 minutes to spare before curfew kicked in, so it's alright. We just went there earlier in the day than normal, so we could have some time with them and it wouldn't be a rushed dine and dash kind of deal.
As a mother who's already lost one of her kids to cancer and has only this one left, I was quite happy to hear he was having second thoughts about getting back on his motorcycle again when he's able to walk properly (mainly because of all the problems he's having with his ankle and rehabilitation to get full strength and range of motion of his foot back again). So to me, when he voiced those doubts, it was good news, because up until now, he's been adamant that he's going to be riding again, going so far as to replace his helmet, buy new "armoured" riding gear (with a skeleton made out of some sort of material meant to protect riders in the event of a crash). He did have a jacket like that before but hasn't worn it for a while as he bought it when he was in his early 20s and now being in his mid 30s it doesn't fit anymore. So he bought a new one recently, which I guess he might wind up selling along with the bike and helmet and everything else he bought to go with it. Given his daredevil Evil Knevil tendencies I think that's an awesome idea that he gives it up. Maybe with any luck one of my kids will outlive me.
We also got what appeared to be a glimmer of hope as it was mentionned very briefly at the dinner table when we were talking about the virus and I called the nursing homes, seniors death camps. They both laughed and said that if they had anything to do with anything none of their parents will wind up in one of those. They'll do whatever they have to to make sure their parents no matter how feeble or senile they are don't wind up there and are well taken care of. Even helping them to stay in their own homes as long as is possible. So that's a relief knowing we won't be shuffled off to some seniors death camp to die alone, when we become old crotchety, feeble & senile.
Now as for the confusion.... That relates to what's going on out there in the Coronavirus scene.... Where it looks like the numbers are going up, down and sideways and people here are proclaiming good news and the end of the virus, while people there are warning about a worse wave to come along and others are saying hold on there we need more data to know what's what....
So that being the case, I'll just post the headlines no matter how conflicting and confusing they are, and let you decide whether to be optimistic, pessimistic or just blase about the whole thing. So get your reading glasses, cup of coffee and blanket and get comfortable as there's a lot to get through again today. Hopefully, I will, but I can't promise anything....
What Will Our Kids’ Post-Pandemic Immune Systems Be Like? Nevermind our kids.... What about ours? After being told to wipe down everything with sanitizers, sanitize our hands, wear face masks, etc... We'll be lucky if we don't contract what would've been a harmless bacterial infection or virus before, suddenly is quite deadly to us now, because we've been devoid of contact with these viruses and bacteria for such a long time our immune systems won't be able to cope with them or the combined overload of them again once we re-expose ourselves to them. Isn't that a possibility here too?
Should the rich pay for the pandemic? Argentina thinks so. Other countries are taking a look. Considering that it's mostly the business class and those with money who can afford to travel the globe and thus are mostly responsible for the spread of this virus through their international gallavanting, yes those with money should be held responsible for it. Since they're the main source of the spread to begin with.
Hurt by Lockdowns, California’s Small Businesses Push to Recall Governor I wish we could do that with provincial premiers.
A Year After Covid Crash, Pandemic Losers Are the New Winners That's good that someone is winning something, I guess.
Yup some of these mega bills (here in Canada too) have some really nasty stuff packed inside them especially the ones with the biggest carrots dangling in them as well, in order to entice the MPs to pass them.
Director of care home with worst COVID-19 death toll in B.C. resigns Are they resigning before they get sued or prosecuted for derelict of duties or negligence or what? If that's the case, I don't think their resignation should let them off the hook that easily.
Starting in April???? What about now???? Who gets the shots that are available now???? Since you've basically put the entire province under age 75 in the 2nd phase. So who the heck is in the first phase if everyone is in the 2nd one????
Quebec's Opposition questions whether health orders are based on science or politics I think it's one big power and money grab myself. The orders appear to be based on how much money they can grab from the people for disobeying their power tripping orders. That's what it looks like to me and why I am happy to flout them every chance I get!!!!!
Race is on to ‘get vaccines into arms as quickly as possible’ I have no clue which province they are talking about here, but it's safe to say that Dr. Sutcliffe is not our public health person. Ours isn't even a doctor, it's a pencil necked ash hole that's an accountant by trade. He probably doesn't even know how to apply a bandaid properly but yet he thinks he's qualified to be our public health minister here in Quebec....
So says dubious Dube, our pencil necked medical moron posing as a health minister.
Quebec logs 769 new COVID-19 cases, highest number of vaccinations in a single day You have to really dig down deep in the article to find the "highest number" in a single day. Quoting the article so you can see the massive effort (tongue in cheek & rolling eyeballs) they made in that single day here - or since mid December 2020 for that matter:
Health authorities said 15,386 doses of vaccine were administered on
Friday — the highest single-day total since the province began its
immunization campaign — for a total of 329,324.
At this rate we'll be vaccinated in year 3021, probably. I mean gawd, 15,000 vaccinations PROVINCE WIDE in one day. What kind of pathetic joke of a campaign is that anyhow???? Considering how many towns, cities, villages and thus vaccine sites they either probably have or should have up and running. So what they gave out 1,000 in Montreal? 1,000 in Laval, 1,000 in QC City, 1,000 in Sherbrooke, 1,000 in Drummondville, 1,000 in Gatineau, 1,000 in Granby, 1,000 in Gaspe, 1,000 in Trois Rivieres, 1,000 in St. Eustache, 1,000 in Mont Tremblant and like that province wide? Like 1,000 doses per region, is that it? Or was it 15,000 doses all in one region? I mean I find it incredulous that you're incapable of inoculating more people than that in a day given all the various regions of QC that have large populations that needs vaccinating. Or do you do one city at a time? Is that it? If that's the case it'll be the day after the end of the world that you finally finish inoculating all 8.5 million of us.
I mean are you purposely dragging your ashes like that or are you really that inept? If it's on purpose, WHY?????
OMG that's the EXACT OPPOSITE OF HERE IN QC where the gov't GRABS ALL OUR FREE MONEY IF WE DARE GO OUT & GET INVOLVED IN RECREATIONAL ACTIVITIES, only it's usually a lot more than $20 of our free money that they grab from us. Usually it's $1,500 and upwards that they grab from us for enjoying recreational activities!!!!! Cornwall's not that far away from us, if there's no roadblocks to get into Ontario from this side of the border, maybe we should go and participate in some recreational activities ourselves.
COVID-19 outbreak declared over at Canim Lake That's one little bit of good news for people in that area.
Alberta well-poised for post-COVID-19 economic recovery Good! So maybe that help cut down on all the whining and complaining we hear from them all the time - especially since the price of oil took a nose dive.
Union pressing Olymel on employee pay during outbreak as Prairie hog farmers worry I thought the Federal government had a program that did that, paid workers for staying home when they were sick or laid off even temporarily due to COVID 19. So if that's the case, why does the company need to pay them too?
Ontario begins testing asymptomatic students for COVID-19 Obviously this journalist has no clue about what they're talking about, because someone who's asymptomatic means they have the illness but don't show symptoms. Everyone else who has no symptoms are merely everyone else, the public, or symptomless people (meaning they could be asymptomatic, or just people who don't have the virus and thus no symptoms).
Pandemic makes prostitution taboo in Nevada’s legal brothels Oh no!!! 😱 How come????.... Seriously, I don't think we needed a news story to tell us that. I think most people would've surmised it using their common sense.
Sounds like they might've all been Air Canada passengers...
UK urges UN resolution for pause in conflicts for virus jabs A "pause".... What's a "pause" going to do? Allow you to vaccinate the people, so the military can kill them afterwards???? How does that make any sense to anyone???? Instead of a "pause" how about a total and unconditional cease-fire???? That makes more and better sense. Doncha think????
And yet more strains to worry about.... Wondering if the vaccines that are available now will be of any use to anyone by the time they get their injection as it seems the variants will have taken over and the vaccines weren't made to fight those variations off, so will they even be of use to us once we get the jabs?
Is Canada headed for a 3rd COVID wave? Are we? The numbers are going down across the country for the most part.
In the US.
Good for them! Too bad Canadians are such sheeple.
Privacy faces risks in tech-infused post-Covid workplace That's why workers have to stand up for themselves and don't allow the massive invasion of privacy that's awaiting them upon return to the office.
I think if the offices remained empty world-wide that would pretty much resolve the homeless crisis world wide. It certainly should be used as a method to provide more affordable housing to the masses in the various cities where there's large vacant office buildings that could be renovated to accommodate residential tenants.
Trudeau promises extension of pandemic benefits I guess that's good news for those who need it.
Finally!!!!! They got up on their feet and started calling the genocidal witch doctor out on her BS. It's about freaking time!!!!!
Canada logs over 3K new COVID-19 cases as feds warn of ‘strong’ variant-fueled resurgence The article just above puts paid to this one. Showing what kind of asinine idiots we have at the helm - the 3 genocidal maniacs are featured in this particular story, Tam, Mr. Dressup and HaggyDodo. NONE of them are qualified to diagnose a paper cut let alone a viral illness or gawd forbid an actual pandemic. Let alone how to treat it. They're just negligent genocidal maniacs is all they are.
We need more than a mere localized rally. We need a MASSIVE COUNTRY-WIDE PROTEST EN MASSE!!!!! Where everyone who can should go out and protest in their area on one particular day. If anyone in Canada wants to organize such a thing, let me know the dates you want to do that and I'll post in my blog for the Cdn visitors to inform themselves of the dates and places where the protests will be held. I have absolutely no problem with that.
Popcorn and other snacks will be allowed in Quebec's orange zone theatres: Health Ministry Euuuu that's almost enough to make me want to pack up and move to an orange zone! 😏
Nevermind the where.... When should be the priority question here, because at 15,000 shots a day, it could take an eternity for you to get one.
That's good I think, except that since then the numbers have started rising again. So was that just a blip on the screen or what? Wondering...
That we have a bunch of inept idiots at the helm? Because that's what it tells me.
Healthy as a horse? Ban on riding lessons has coaches feeling ill at ease Okay well we live near an equestrian ranch/farm and while they house people's horses for them all year long and some people who own horses might take them out around a yard to walk them for exercise, I don't think there's many people riding their horses in the snow and I know that there's definitely no horse back riding lessons given in the wintertimes plandemics or not. So what's this about anyhow?
Very sad, but I'm sure she's not the only one who died on account of the asinine hospital policies. Like I said many times before, what difference does it make if someone dies of covid or heart problems or whatever problems? A death is a death and all patients no matter the causes of their problems should have equal chances at treatment and survival! Same with her and everyone else like her!
Suggestions for city dwellers to stay active during Montreal's COVID-era spring break Crampons and snowshoes available at libraries eh? What the F would you need snowshoes for except maybe to try to negotiate the snowbanks along the sidewalks and the crampons.... Yup they would be useful especially for all the icy sidewalks and streets, but snowshoes???? hehehee.... Yeah I know there's the mountain but for the life of me the flake that runs Montreal seems to want to have the road to the mountain closed to traffic, so unless you're into hiking up a steep mountain road to get to the park to snowshoe.... I don't know where you'd use those.
Now for something completely different!
Very sad and very sobering.
Israel’s Speedy Vaccination Campaign Now Faces Key Test in Returning to Normal I'm wondering if things don't work out as well as they hoped, if we'll know about it, or if they'll bury it out of deference to Pfizer?
As millions of kids skip kindergarten, the learning gap widens – and schools may lose funding Is this part of the program to dumb kids down even further? If not, it seems like it's being used for that purpose anyhow.
He's been drinking too much of that genocidal witch's kool-aid, I think.
Things not trending locally in the right direction: Hajdu Haggydodo the art teacher is alarmed by what she sees in her riding of 200 odd cases and it rising and talking about the small healthcare system in Thunder Bay.... One problem there Haggydodo (as you SHOULD KNOW since you were declared to be our health minister, despite total lack of qualifications for such a posting - Thunder Bay is a part of Ontario and Ontario has a MASSIVE HEALTH CARE SYSTEM so petition them to help out in that respect as Thunder Bay is part of their jurisdiction or else being the FEDERAL HEALTH CARE MINISTER requisition some help from the Feds for that region) but stop acting like a total ash hole even though you are and you can't help it!!!!!!
I'm just waiting for the day that paper cuts, worse cuts, broken bones, bruises, sprains and strains and concussions are also included in the COVID list, because it seems like everything else is already.
Or shows how impotent, totally powerless and clueless some leaders are, like the idiot at the head of Canada's helm.
Hong Kong leader, other officials receive COVID-19 vaccine Of course all the leaders of the world ensure they're taken care of first before any of their taxpaying constituents are.
Lockdown blues: Zoo animals can't stop yawning Something different to put you to sleep.
That's scary, considering most diseases don't affect several different species like this one does.
Experts urge Government to publish vaccine data All gov'ts and not just the UK gov't should do the same thing.
I don't get how he thinks that'll help anything. I mean really, the employers forced to pay that increase will increase the cost of their goods and services, which will in turn force the minimum wage workers pay more for those goods and services, which they wanted the increase to help offset for them. So it's a no win situation.
Florida women disguise themselves as elderly citizens to jump vaccine queue I guess Thelma and Louise had nothing better to do that day except dress up as old ladies to try to score a couple of vaccine shots for themselves.
Very somber and scary number there.
I wish officials around here would've given us a break on things like property taxes. But nooooo..... They wanted even more than we paid last year or the year before.
LeBlanc 'very confident' provinces can handle ramped-up vaccine delivery I don't see why they wouldn't be able to unless they have ash holes and idiots like Tam, Haggydodo and Mr. Dressup giving them their guidelines and marching orders.
Political power.....
Canadian banks set for earnings decline but investors optimistic about recovery Glad to see someone's optimistic about something.
It seems that whenever anything happens, no matter what it is, it's always the women and youth that are hit the hardest by it.
Sounds like echoes of the EU and Pfizer and Moderna all over again.
Vaccinations start without rush in Australia, parts of Asia Considering they have the virus pretty much under control they don't really need to rush like Canada should.
That's really nice of that doctor. I'm sure the patients appreciate it.
I know we didn't get any help from the Feds nor the gestapo bootied gov't in QC and so our taxes went up.
COVID-19: More than 100,000 cancer patients in the UK struggling to pay for basic essentials, says charity That's horrible. I'm not sure the Cdn gov't is of much more help to such patients either and I know they'd be struggling with the same sort of things.
Basically what I said above, in one of my first comments on this post.
It looks really nice.
Ummm hello.... If your visa was expiring it means you stayed too long as it was. So you should've come home sooner and then if you did you wouldn't be having this problem. So it's not the Cdn gov'ts fault but your own that you stayed too long to start with.
I don't know how people come up with such cockamamie theories.... Must've been dropped on his head as a child, either that or he's a natural born alarmist.
More COVID-19 cases in Wuhan outbreak than initially understood, says WHO scientist I don't know why it was misunderstood. I heard one doctor at one clinic crying and citing the fact that she alone treated over 100 patients that day with the same problem and that there were 10 doctors there and they had all pretty much did the same thing that did and had been doing that for weeks. So just at that clinic alone if you did the math they were treating 7,000 patients a week (assuming they were open 7 days a week) and if you multiply that by the 3-4 weeks she said it was going on JUST in her clinic alone that would indicate that there were between 21,000 and 28,000 treated in that time period. So multiply that by all the other clinics in the area and you're WELL ABOVE the reported 5,000 cases that China claimed. I mean all you had to do is do the math and stop being so gullible as to believe everything the lying communist gov't in China was saying. That was back in December 2019 too. Before China even broke the news about it going on in Wuhan. Just staying informed of what was going on in the world is all it takes - you don't need some big UN commission going there looking into things to find out they were lying and it was way under reported.
Just another dystopian jaunt down the side path of history....
Anyone not made with RNA is the best in my opinion.
The disease-resistant patients exposing Covid-19's weak spots As I doubt I'll ever be able to prove whether I had Covid or not because we're not allowed antibody tests apparently, I'll never know to be sure. But I do believe I had it and recovered from it on my own. I do know though that ever since we (my whole family) got H1N1 none of us have had any flus or colds since then. So if I did have Covid and recovered from it on my own, is that maybe why? Because of the immunity that H1N1 provided us against such types of illnesses? So that when I did get it, it was only a moderate case and not as rough as it could've been had I not been exposed to H1N1 and as a result developed a super immunity against things? I call it a super immunity although the medical establishment may not. To me, being immune to just about every cold and flu going around out there is a super immunity.
Just in case you need this information in the foreseeable future - if you're Canadian though, that's doubtful that you will, but in case...
This restaurant owner spent $2,000 from his advertising money to promote his competitors Wow! I've never seen someone spend money out of their own pockets to promote their competitors businesses! That's just totally selfless and awesome!
They make it sound like some kind of miracle that she lived through the 1918 pandemic. That's no big deal. All of my ancestors did. My dad, my aunts & uncles, my grandparents and great aunts and uncles all did considering they were all born in the early 1900s and late 1800s. That's not the big deal here. The big deal here is her age, so why don't they tout that instead?
See even the nuns flout the laws when it suits them!
Like summer camp for grown-ups: The pandemic is changing the digital nomad scene Well hey if it's a nice place and you can afford to be there and work from there, then why not? Where I live is not tropical but it's beautiful with awesome neighbours and I love it and wouldn't want to live anywhere else even if it is in the gestapo power tripping ticket happy province.
Okay, well I'm not sure I understand the booing, considering most other countries are clamoring just to get a few vaccines and have nothing really to "rollout" yet.
Then by the time they've been made trialed and approved and put into production, new variants will come along and so on and so on, ad infinitum. So maybe it's best everyone's given the basic shots now as they are and then boosters with the new strains added later on when they're made. So that in the meantime people are at least protected from the basic virus, while medical authorities try to keep a cap on the variants and their spread until the revamped booster shots are available.
The way to circumvent that and for those who live outside the immediate vicinity of the 4 airports that are allowing international travellers into Canada, like say Halifax for instance, or Winnipeg maybe, just take a flight to the nearest US airport and then find a way to drive across the border and that way you'll only be subject to the rules for crossing the land border and not the insane rules for international flights.
I am so sick and tired of seeing the govts use this plandemic as an excuse to cage us, fine us and jail us, when the whole damned thing was their fault to begin with. It's them that needs to be caged, fined and jailed (forever for crimes against humanity and mass genocide) and not the general public. We should be the ones fighting aback against those abusive power tripping basturds and stop kowtowing to their threats and BS. So if there's a way to circumvent that, or fight back or flout them altogether, I'm all for it now.
Don't get me wrong, I sincerely believe that we need to be vigilant against the disease and stop it from spreading. So wearing masks, physical distancing, and self isolating for 14 days upon arrival back in the country I have no problem with. It's the gouging BS the gov't is doing. There's nothing wrong with expecting people to quarantine for 14 days at home or in the hotel room they reserved for themselves for their visit here and having special officers check up on them to make sure they're staying in quarantine. I'm all for that, but this ridiculous BS of making them stay in quarantine hotels at their expense that's BS and if they do stay in one it should be at the gov'ts expense since it's their fault this disease got into the country in the first place! I mean NS could do that to the visitors to that province so why can't the rest of Canada (provincial gov'ts) or the Feds do that? Send officers to check up on recent arrivals to make sure they're obeying the quarantine laws.
Nova Scotia expands access to COVID-19 vaccine to people 80 years old and older Even in the 70s there were a lot of octagenarians, so I can imagine now. Now they're apt to have quite a few people 80 & over to inoculate.
Cops crash highrise condo party after bottles tossed to the ground I guess the party guests weren't the brightest crayons in the box then...
Maybe I should find one or two of these classes to follow myself....
Hospitalizations up for the first time in weeks as Quebec adds 805 new COVID-19 cases It seems like our numbers are going up and down like a frigging yo-yo.
Quebec schools report thousands of active coronavirus cases among students and staff As this report was written in September and then recently updated, if you can make sense out of it and know which portion of the story belongs in September and which is more recent, kudos to you.
Mmmmmmm.... I want to order a couple of those meals. I told my husband about it and he scoffed at me saying if I thought they were going to go bankrupt I was crazy as they were charging about $20 for a hockey puck sized chunk of maple sugar. I said it wasn't because of them going bankrupt or not, it was because in all the years we've lived in QC, I've always wanted to go to a sugar shack (when we had the kids at home I wanted to take them for the experience, they got the experience alright but not from us, from the schools they went to) but he never wanted to go. So he said "ah, okay, fine". As long as it saves him a hike in the muddy woods in March, I guess it's fine.
Just an ordinary person who used to be a nurse at one time, and now just an ordinary person who used to be a nurse at one time with a blog that's afforded me the opportunity to see what this BS is all about and as a result I'm now just an angry at the gov't person who used to be a nurse at one time. If I were younger I'd probably be a died in the wool anarchist or outright revolutionary, now.
That's all for now. In the meantime until next time, take care and stay well.
