August 14, 2020
Well it certainly has taken long enough for Goggle to uncover or provide answers on how to get back to the "legacy blogger". I only just discovered where to access it late last night, and while I have accumulated a ton of story links since I last posted a post in here, I don't know when I'll be able to start posting them all again. Because as is par for the course in my life, when a void is created where I used to do something but don't currently for whatever reason, something comes along immediately to fill the void.
One of the things filling the void is doing errands that needed to be done for eons now but not being able to due to the lockdown and pandemic and gradual reopening of things.
So today we took our dog in for her nails to be cut. And I'm telling you, this insolent brat (well she's a 30 something or 40 something year old brat, to me) with her own brats I wanted to just slap like the little beitche she was/is. If she were my daughter I would've hauled off and smacked her one in the face for behaving like this one did. I'm walking into the pet shop where we have an appointment for the dog's nails and I have the dog on the leash. The dog (like most dogs) is ahead of me, almost to the door. I'm almost to the door myself (given that the leash is only about 2 feet long, that means I'm not more than 2 feet behind - not 2 meters - which is 6 feet, but 2 feet). Then I see this tub of lard with her brats en tow hustling toward the door as fast as she can literally jiggle the blubber there and the brats running ahead of her. They get to where I am (and I'm about ready to open the door - less than an arm's length away from it) and I said to her "so much for physically distancing eh?" and she replies "yeah so? no big deal!" I replied "well it is, to me, because my husband is a senior" (not to mention I am too but that's beside the point to this beitche apparently). So then she opens the door and holds it for her kids and well she couldn't just slam it in my face, so held it for me too. So then she says snidely "thank me for holding the door for you" and I turned around and said "why? I could've held it for myself, I didn't need you to do it" while thinking "yeah thank you for holding the door for me and possibly exposing me to COVID19 because you're too ignorant and stupid to physically distance yourself and your brats from others especially seniors".
It's people like her and her ilk I've had the hardest time restraining myself over since this all began. Most people including me, tries to defer to others when they see they're going to be crossing paths etc, and they or I stop and let the others go first. It's called common decency and manners, but some are ill bred swine who have no manners and acts like the world belongs to them and they can do whatever they want without regard for others. But I was ahead of her, way ahead until she started boogeying towards the door, like there was a fire up her butt, instead of noticing I was there first and stopping and keeping a distance and letting me enter first, no she had to beat me by a half a second to get to the door first, without any regard for physical distancing at all. That's what irked me, not that she was necessarily at the door just ahead of me, but seeing the effort she made to be just ahead of me, instead of taking her time and behaving as is socially acceptable now - by deferring to someone who was ahead of her and keeping her distance and then to be so cavalier about it by saying "yeah so? no big deal!". But the snideness about holding the door open remark was the icing on the cake as far as I was concerned and what would've merited a good slap upside the face if she were my daughter. That one wasn't brought up, she was thrown up as we used to say in elementary school. And she's a wonderful example for the two brats she's throwing up, all over the place.
This being August and one of the few months of the year where vegetables are being harvested or are cheap, I've found myself overwhelmed with food that I need to work with. This includes still some of the food that I had to work with when our freezer went on the fritz last month. So lately I've been consumed with taking care of various kinds of fruit, a large quantity of pumpkin puree, while tons of tomatoes came in the door from the garden as well. Not to mention zucchini. I am trying my best to take care of it all, before it goes bad, so I don't really have a lot of computer time on my hands lately. After all my first duty is to myself and my husband and as we require food like everyone else, I need to look after it, while I can. So the computer and thus this blog etc will be as I can and when I can, so in other words second fiddle, as long as Goggle doesn't mess the editor up again or force me back onto that mess they called an upgraded blog editor.
But there are a few links at least that I really want you to see and be aware of. The first one, as far as I'm concerned is the most important of them all:
Details emerge of Vaccine Choice Canada lawsuit over coronavirus response Because this lawsuit isn't just about vaccine choices, it's about all the damage done to the economy, the oppressive measures taken like lockdowns and forcing mask wearing etc, to stem what appears for the most part to be no worse than a bad seasonal flu. The only thing that I wished they hadn't included in this lawsuit is the 5G cell towers, because that may give the judges who may decide whether or not to hear this case pause and wonder if the plaintiffs aren't just conspiracy theorist freaks and dismiss the whole thing out of hand without even hearing it, despite all it's other valid points of contention. I really do hope that a judge gives it the go ahead, because it deserves to be heard and sorted out in a court of law, assuming that is if the lawyers on both sides knows the pertinent questions to ask and asks them, and doesn't just gloss over certain parts because it wouldn't be good for their side of the case, if the truth were known.
Health officials are quitting or getting fired amid outbreak Too bad this isn't also the case in Canada.
The Coronavirus Is New, but Your Immune System Might Still Recognize It Hence the possible reason some of us show no symptoms when we have the virus or we fight it off easier than others.
Canadians worried about side-effects of COVID-19 vaccine: poll And they should be, considering that many pharmaceutical companies will be exempt from any legal liabilities due to a result of their vaccine's side effects - harmful or otherwise.
More than 1 billion students face 'generational catastrophe' due to COVID-19, UN warns Is this being used as yet another excuse to dumb students down even more than they already were compared to past generations?
Having difficulty buying appliances during COVID-19? Here’s why Finally a plausible explanation as to why something as fundamental as a freezer, ordered in mid July couldn't even be hazarded a thought of delivery before mid September. It's lucky my husband got our freezer going again or we'd have literally been up the proverbial creek without a paddle, otherwise because there's no way whatever food we had we'd have been able to keep in a fridge or camper coolers for longer than a week tops and there's just no way we'd have been able to consume all that food in that short a timespan.
Scientists Uncover Biological Signatures of the Worst COVID-19 Cases
An impassioned obituary for a 79-year-old coronavirus victim blames Trump for his death, then calls out Texas Gov. Greg Abbott and people who refused to wear masks People are starting to have had enough and are opening their eyes to the reality of the situation now and laying blame where it ought to be laid. Canadians should do the same and start naming Tam, Trudeau, Hajdu and their provincial premiers and health officiers too. Because it's their fault that it got into the country and provinces to begin with and let to spread rampantly all over the place before they even bothered to even acknowledge it, nevermind decide to try to curtail it's spread. Not only should they be named and shamed in each and every COVID19 obituary posting, but all of these people should band together and demand legal action - to have those people removed from their posts and replaced with more competent honest people and tried for their negligence and crimes against humanity, or at least sued for gazillions of dollars each, if nothing else. Seriously. I'm not joking.
Coronavirus did come from bats, say WHO scientists sent to Wuhan No one is saying it didn't. What they are saying is this: it may have come from bats originally, but that didn't stop man (in this case the Chinese), from taking that virus and modifying it to suit their purposes. Or as Gilead Sciences was also involved, it might've been an American / Chinese joint effort to make a bioweapon and the anecdote for it, in order to gain leverage over other countries and make dictates and demands for certain things with the anecdote being held out as the carrot for cooperation.
The Pandemic Is a Dress Rehearsal In this case, "For what?" is the question. Is there something even more sinister and drastic they want to pull on us, in order to achieve some malevolent goal that we would not allow them to achieve if we had a choice in the matter? Is that what's waiting in the wings of this dress rehearsal?
What Lockdown 2.0 Looks Like: Harsher Rules, Deeper Confusion It's inevitable. We know it's coming. They've been talking about it since before we got out of the first lockdown. Back then it was proposed that there be a 30 day out of lockdown and a 50 day lockdown cycle. Well we endured 2.5 months of lockdown (at least here in Quebec) and it's about that long since we've been out of lockdown but even though we are having less than 100 new cases a day reported and our curve has long since been flattened, they're talking about a 2nd wave and lockdowns again or at least threatening them.
'We're in for a bad and rocky ride:' Ex-WHO doctor who helped eradicate smallpox predicts COVID-19 turmoil for years And we have the WHO to thank for that, because they could've averted the whole situation by merely alerting the world to the severity of the epidemic going on in Wuhan and advising everyone to close their borders to all foreigners immediately, before the Chinese gov't even announced the virus to the world.
Red Flags Soar As Big Pharma Will Be Exempt From COVID-19 Vaccine Liability Claims
Pet owners urged to support lonely animals during return-to-work transition after lockdown This is important because bored pets become destructive and disobedient. If you want your pet to remain obedient and docile you need to provide for your pet's mental and physical well being while no one is home to entertain, exercise, or discipline them.
Early Covid-19 Spread Greater Than Initially Reported, Disease Was Far More Widespread in Wuhan: Study
These Symptoms Could Tell Covid-19 Apart From Flu This Winter In case you might have a need to know before this winter arrives.
This posting was very short in comparison to most other posts on here, because as I stated above I don't have a lot of free time to spend on the computer these days due to having to take care of food. In this case that involves, baking, preserving (making pickles, jams, relishes, chutneys, etc), dehydrating, and blanching. Which also increases the amount of dirty dishes I have to contend with too. So it's almost a steady stream of cooking and washing dishes, cooking some more and washing more dishes etc... Right now I'm facing the dish washing part of the cycle, that I have to take care of. I just wanted to post some of the more important and salient headlines for you to be aware of, until I have time to post more headlines later on.
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Restocking Freezers & Pantries &
Continuing the COVID19 Coverage
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July 27, 2020
We're not quite finished restocking the freezer yet, as there was way more food given away and perished than what we were able to buy today. But basically today was spent grocery shopping trying to restock the freezer and maybe pick up some depleted pantry items here and there. So we're probably going to have to finish that tomorrow. If we can. Looking at next week's fliers I'd say we'd better try to finish it tomorrow or we're not going to have the same selection of meat nor the same prices.
Other than that, it's just trying to keep on top of the COVID headlines, which are looking scarier and scarier by the minute lately. Rather than talk about them, maybe I should post them and you can see for yourself, what I'm talking about. So here we go....
Eerily prescient 2020 plague novels Summer reading suggestions?
Is it safe to stay in a hotel amid the coronavirus pandemic? I don't know how safe it is or isn't. All I know is that since Aviva one of the biggest insurance companies in Canada won't insure hotels against COVID19, it can't be all that safe, or at least not in Aviva's estimations.
Movies delayed by the coronavirus pandemic, including 'Mulan,' 'Bill & Ted 3' and 'Tenet' This virus has to get into everything and cause a problem with everything. Doesn't it?
Seniors who struggle with technology face telehealth challenges and social isolation Perhaps the younger generations can help the older ones adapt, learn and cope with the technology that is used for telehealth and keeping in touch remotely, before we go into lock down again. If necessary print out the procedures in numerical order of what to do first, 2nd and 3rd, in order to logon to computer or tablet (even explaining how many rapidly successive clicks or taps to use on which icons etc...) to get to a certain program or application in order to use it and then how to log off and shut it down again. If their memories are bad, forget setting it up with a password for logon or if one is absolutely required, make it a simple one and write it down for them. Because as we age, some of us find it harder and harder to learn new things, never mind things to do with new technology, even just memorizing their own phone number if it's recently been changed can be a chore and a half for some. So help them out the best you can while you can get within an arm's reach of them, to help guide them through it the first time or two they use those things.
Four California teens create Covid-19 coloring book for children and raise money for charity Good for them. It would be nice if more kids used initiative to do things of benefit to the wider community, whether that's something like these kids did, or just spend a few hours with seniors who live alone keeping them company and helping them with some of their harder chores like lawn mowing or snow shovelling and things like that.
How the coronavirus almost killed a healthy woman with "no normal symptoms"
Camper van rentals seeing business double during pandemic If we could've afforded such a luxury I wouldn't have minded renting one and touring the province of Quebec. Yeah I've seen it pretty much from east to west along the TransCanada (highway 20) and parts of the Laurentians, but there's still a large swath of it I haven't seen and would love to see, while I still have my health. But alas camper rentals are only for the well to do and not for people like us.
Trump faces backlash after declaring most COVID-19 cases "harmless" Well when you consider the amount of cases there are world-wide compared to the amount of deaths, you pretty much have to agree with him there. But the ones being swamped treating such cases and the ones suffering through a case of it, probably don't agree with him. But in all honestly it's just because of how contagious it is and how fast everyone's getting it - meaning all at the same time, so it looks worse than it is because of the sheer numbers of people coming down with it all at once. But when you look at the amount that came down with it, the amount that recovered and the amount that actually died from it, he's basically right.
Pandemic: A snapshot of life in Rome
COVID-19 rashes: How your skin can be a sign of the virus
Today’s coronavirus news: Ontario’s public health units report 143 new cases in the last 24 hours, but no fatalities
'I feel like I’m being forced to choose': Alberta parents concerned over school reopening plan Most parents around the world probably feel like this too.
What constitutes a second wave in Canada?
Pfizer Vaccine Deal at $20 a Dose Sets Ceiling for Rivals Shouldn't they have one already made and ready to go before setting prices?
Hundreds of thousands of Canadians could get a tax break for working from home during pandemic
'Very shocking': Video captures huge crowds, lineups in Niagara Falls Another resurgence on the way in Ontario it looks like.
Good vibrations? COVID quiet time soothes Earth's seismic shakes Another angle on this virus that none of us perhaps thought of.
BC gov. enlists 'influencers'
Nova Scotia goes one week without a report of a new COVID-19 case Kudos to you NS.
Not all COVID-19 antibody tests are created equal, but which ones are best?
Worried About 5G? Study On Zebrafish Shows Radiation Exposure ‘Predominately Benign’ Since there's been a conspiracy theory linking 5G & Coronavirus, going around, I thought it worth posting this headline, as a counterbalance to the other 5G related articles.
Va. Tech Professor Creates Surface Coating That Inactivates Coronavirus In An Hour Too bad we can't have all our packaged store bought goods, clothes and household furnishings coated in that stuff.
COVID-19 patients will be ‘sent home to die’ if deemed too sick, Texas county says
Okay as a former nurse, this is just the height of idiocy if you ask me. You're going to send people who are so sick they'll die, home. Okay for starters how are they going to get home? Obviously driving themselves are out of the question. So that means someone's going to have to take them home. Who would that be then? A taxicab? An Uber cab? Maybe dear old dad, or maybe sonny boy? So you're going to risk exposing those people to someone who's so sick they're going to die, which means whoever gets exposed to them will probably wind up almost as sick if not as sick. That's besides all the other people that someone comes into contact with. Okay, now while we've been having that debate, the homeward bound conveyance has pulled into the driveway of the sick person's home. The sick person is helped out of the vehicle and into the house. If they live alone, they're already in quarantine and will probably die within hours as they won't be able to even get or do the most basic tasks for themselves like get to the bathroom unaided or get a drink of water on their own. If they aren't there by themselves and there's someone else who lives there and will be trying to take care of them, then while you're making plans with the undertaker for the patient that just came home, also make plans with the undertaker for all the others who also live in that house. Because that's the size of it. And if the others that live in that house have jobs outside the home get ready to make room in the hospitals for all their coworkers and family member as well. You want to talk about community spread and high death rates? Well that's the way to go in style! To me it just seems like the whole world fell on their collective heads and knocked whatever few brains they had loose as soon as this pandemic began in Wuhan. This is just another classic example of that.
Two Florida mayors urge residents to wear masks at home Just how are they going to enforce that one, I wonder?
Virus Can Travel 26 Feet at Cold Meat Plants With Stale Air
As it happened: UK PM says 'lessons to be learned' from pandemic
What's driving Canada's increase in COVID-19 infections? See the hotspots
Passengers on 30 flights in Canada potentially exposed to COVID-19 Yeah that's the way we're going to curb the spread of it. Put carriers of it on flights and send them hither & yon across Canada. Are you nincompoops in charge of the airlines that careless and stupid? Maybe you should go bankrupt and that would cut down on the spread of the virus in this country big time. So I don't want to see or hear anymore bellyaching about "oh we're going to go bankrupt if the gov't doesn't let us fly soon". Because the way you are wrecklessly handling it, I hope you do go bankrupt.
Despite uptick in new cases, Quebec opts to allow larger public gatherings
New COVID-19 hospitalizations jump in Ontario as cases drop
Coronavirus: Disney delays blockbuster films due to pandemic Something else being affected by the pandemic, as if there aren't enough things already affected by it.
Out of date design of long-term care homes left residents more vulnerable to COVID-19: study What actually left them more vulnerable was the way they were abandonned or the way they kept changing the staff. That's more precisely the problem. But don't deal with that because that's a human issue, where actual currently working staff and supervisors could and should be held to account, instead of long dead architects.
Can You Get COVID Again? It's Very Unlikely, Experts Say Huge huge relief to me and what I've basically been saying all along. And given that scenario, it's highly unlikely a vaccine will be needed by the time one is ready, because the majority of the population will have already either died from it or acquired immunity to it, naturally.
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