Showing posts with label long covid symptoms. Show all posts
Showing posts with label long covid symptoms. Show all posts

Tuesday, May 31, 2022

Peanut Butter & Banana Chicken Brochettes, Working With More Food, Cancellations, & Backlogged Headlines About....

Covid 19

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May 30, 2022

As my parents instilled the credo of "waste not, want not" in me, I can't let anything especially anything that can be eaten go to waste.  My parents were products of the Great Depression and every scrap of food was precious to them and their families. So they didn't let anything go to waste. As a result I was taught to save all leftovers for future meals, not to let things that you can eat go to waste (and now a days there's even cookbooks that have recipes showing you how to use the whole  thing - from the peels and roots to bones and fat). So as a result, we had a yard full of dandelions recently which as you may or may not know I turned into jelly and syrup. 
 
We also had a watermelon, and I saved the white part of the rind to make into watermelon rind pickles - one of my favourites since I was a kid. A neighbour gave me an armful of rhubarb (even though we grow our own), which I chopped up according to the amount needed for a rhubarb strawberry pie recipe that I happened to find. I also chopped up the required amount of strawberries (which was essentially all the strawberries we had in the fridge) and put them into a large freezer bag with the recipe in question folded so the name of it shows, in another smaller freezer bag and sealed and stuck that inside the bag of rhubarb and strawberries to freeze for later use, as I also bought blueberries (before the neighbour came along with the rhubarb) to make a pie with.Which I want to make first, but haven't been able to get around to it yet. 
 
So I figured before the rhubarb and strawberries go bad, I'd chop them up and freeze them for a particular use (as the quantity required of each fruit is already in the bag) and to ensure I knew precisely which strawberry/rhubarb pie recipe it was for and so I didn't have to go searching for it when I was ready to make the pie, I'd print out the recipe and fold it so the title showed inside the smaller freezer bag and slip that bag inside the bigger bag containing the fruit and ziplock them altogether before freezing. That way when I take the bag of fruit out to make the pie, I can just remove the bag containing the recipe and I'm good to go without trying to hunt down that particular recipe. 

I still had enough rhubarb leftover so I chopped it up and made a rhubarb crisp out of it, for tomorrow night's dessert when we have a friend over for dinner.

Then I was looking at the chicken cubes I had in the fridge for supper tonight and wondering what to do with them and was thinking "satay" kebabs/brochettes.... But I know my husband isn't that fond of chicken and I didn't know if he'd like satay or not, so I jazzed it up a little by adding 1 inch chunks of ripe (not overly ripe - just ripe) banana inbetween the chicken marinated in the satay marinate recipe I found and passed it off to him as "peanut butter & banana chicken" (he loves peanut butter & banana sandwiches so hey why not?). Shhhh don't tell him it's "satay" because he has a hard time with "foreign food" sometimes especially when it involves chicken (his least favourite meat beside fish). He loved it, so did our little dachshund - who hobbled out to the kitchen to bum food, despite her sore paw that she's been trying for the most part to stay off of.  He even grilled it for me on the BBQ because he liked the name I gave it. So chicken satay with banana chunks is my invention and that is called Peanut Butter & Banana Chicken brochettes/kebabs (brochettes is what the French call kebabs or skewers). 

So phew all the food has been taken care of, except I want to marinate the chops we'll be having for supper tomorrow when our friend is here for dinner. Then it's just sides I have to worry about - which will probably be a salad of some kind.
 
And because of more road work today,  the house visitation that was scheduled for today was cancelled. So I have no clue when we'll actually get any offers on this place as our record for visitations for this year so far isn't good. It's been one thing after another whenever the realtor schedules appointments they usually wind up being cancelled or postponed for one reason or another. It's like the universe doesn't want us to move. I can't imagine why, because I definitely want to move. 
 
Now back to the backlogged headlines which never ever seems to end. The more I post it seems the more I have to post. The bookmark file always seems to be the same size no matter how many headlines I go through per post. Anyhow, starting from where I last left off....
 
COVID-19 hospitalizations, cases and deaths start to plateau as provinces lift measures Just to prove they didn't really need to keep those measures in place like they were trying to do despite all the protests against them.
 
 
Businesses still requiring proof of vaccination risk challenges, constitutional experts say Like said before, there's an easy way to deal with that. If you don't agree with their demands don't do business with them - boycott them. It's as simple as that. If enough people do like you, they'll get the message and drop their demands or not get the message and go bankrupt. 

Are B.C.'s COVID-19 rules based on science or politics? Here's what Dr. Bonnie Henry had to say So in other words based on her answer - politics. That's what their policies are based on if they agreed beforehand on when to lift measures etc, between provinces... That says politics with nothing whatsoever to do with science.

 
 


 
 
Drink milk to prevent COVID? Scientists say dairy protein may fight viral infections Well milk does have vitamin D added to it, so maybe that's why?  The additional vitamin D helps fight it? Like they were saying at the beginning of the plandemic - which I said could be the case as bats probably lack vitamin D since they basically spend all their time in the dark.
 
 
Canada’s Trudeau Faces Fallout After Trucker Protest I wish he faced it. He faced more of a fallout in EU's parliament than he did in our own. 

 

 

 

Convoy organizer Tamara Lich wants out of jail, appeals bail denial She should've never been arrested in the first place, much less denied bail. This whole system in Canada from judicial to parliamentary systems are corrupt and rotten to the cores  and ALL OF THEM - EVERY F'N MEMBER OF THEM NEEDS TO BE REMOVED FROM OFFICE & TRIED FOR THEIR OWN CRIMES, WHETHER THAT'S UNILATERILY & WITHOUT CAUSE ABROGATING SOMEONE'S CONSTITUTIONAL & LEGAL RIGHTS OR FOR GENOCIDE & CRIMES AGAINST HUMANITY & TREASON (giving Canadian taxdollars away to terrorists should be grounds for treason I think) AND OTHER CRIMES. EVERY F'N ONE OF THEM, INCLUDING THAT JUDGE.
 
Numbers suggest many American protest convoy donors also gave to Trump, Republicans Oh doncha JUST LOVE THIS....😝😝😝 The CANADIAN Broadcasting Corp doing an investigative journalism on TRUMP & AMERICAN DONORS & TRUCKERS!!!!!! Hey Crap for Brains Corp.... WHAT ABOUT DOING INVESTIGATIVE JOURNALISM ON THE CROOKEDNESS OF MR. DRESSUP AND HIS TYRANNICAL RESPONSE TO OUR TRUCKERS???????? Hypocrites are us..... There is no shortage of Canadian BS Companies - when it comes to our lamestream media. They can gawk and point fingers and even do a what colour underwear they're wearing article about others, but they can't be bothered to ask any questions of the morons that head this country up and expose anything to do with them. Why? Probably because of the outrageous BRIBE SHIETE FOR BRAINS GAVE THE CDN MEDIA TO REPORT FAVOURABLY ABOUT HIM WITH THAT 60 MILLION DOLLAR GRANT HE GAVE THEM BEFORE.


 
COVID-19: End of 2 more public health measures in Ontario supported by the numbers, experts say  Doncha just love how these numbers that support the ending of health measures fall in line with the demands of the  truckers??? How convenient that the numbers say those measures should be dropped just then - it has absolutely NOTHING to do with how terrified the politicians were of losing control of things because of the massive protests country-wide started by the truckers. No, no, no.... Definitely not - it's the numbers and the science that all seem to agree with the truckers. I bet the numbers and science agreed with the mass population and truckers LONG BEFORE THE CONVOY STARTED, but the powers-that-be loved the unbridled power trips those measures afforded them and so didn't want to give them up. That's why they decided to fight the truckers rather than dialog with them - because they knew they had nothing they could say to them, because whatever they would've tried to say in order to keep their measures in place would've been nothing but lies and knew the truckers and others would've been able to disprove their lies publically. So that's why they didn't dialog with the truckers and instead decided to fight them the way they did. That's the whole story in the nutshell kiddos.
 
 
Multiple COVID-19 variants may be able to infect a person at the same time: study Is this elementary school health class or what? Of course multiple variants or viruses can infect a person at the same time. It doesn't mean because you got sick with this virus that that virus somehow can't attack you too. It's not like the first virus is a gatekeeper to your immune system and doesn't let other viruses in unless they have special VIP passes or something. I  mean hello, who thought that multiple variants could NOT infect you at the same time? Show me that person's license to practice the hoodoo voodoo witch doctor medicine they're practicing and I'll suggest that that gets revoked as they're too stupid to even practice that. I mean seriously.

FIRST READING: Oh, look at that, nobody cares about COVID anymore Yup and before the truckers came along that's ALL they cared about and had their shorts all wadded up over the least little thing to do with COVID.

La santΓ© publique cherchait comment justifier le couvre-feu, 6 heures avant l’annonce As per this French article, where the CBC discovered that there was NO JUSTIFICATION FOR THE LOCKDOWN & CURFEW JUST BEFORE NEW YEAR'S EVE PROVES, it was just another maniacal grab for power and way of separating and fining people just for Gestapo Bozo Legault's jollies. PERIOD END OF FRIGGING STORY. And he wants to be re-elected?????? If anyone French, English, Italian, Chinese, Martian speaking re-elects that idiot is even stupid than he is. Especially after I've proven already he was the one that closed all the walk-in clinics in the province, renamed all the hospitals so their phone numbers were impossible to find in a timely manner (read emergency situation), under staffed and just in general FAILED THE MEDICAL SYSTEM HERE IN QUEBEC BIG TIME & MISERABLY. But yet he has the cahunas to try to claim "he fixed it". F off.... You can't even get to see a doctor anymore. Instead you have to call this number in order to be told which number to call, so you can TALK TO A DOCTOR ON THE PHONE. How does one get a throat culture to see if they have strep, or get their lungs or heart listened to to see if there's any serious issues with either of them, get an injection like a tetanus shot, get a knee put back into joint, get a stitch in your forehead because of a wack in it with a hockey stick, etc, over the phone.... All things that used to be done by walk-in clinics without swamping hospital ERs that were already swamped before he eliminated the walk-in clinics. So he's trying to claim those are improvements to our medical system here in QC????? I guess he obviously doesn't know what the word "improvement" means, then eh? Proving how f'n stupid he is and anyone voting for the moron is even stupid than he is.
 
Quebec public health director defends plan to lift COVID-19 restrictions early  Like I said above.... The real truth is the protests scared the crap out of them, THAT'S WHY they changed their tyrannical minds about it and no other reason.

 

 

 
Use ArriveCAN to enter Canada Because sheitehead in Ottawa is so f'n stubborn he doesn't know when to quit. While he had no qualms about letting the virus in, in the first place, he now doesn't know when enough is enough and to drop it already. Talk bout a slow learner.

 

Russia backs jail time for 'fake' army news, restricts media That would be an awesome idea especially for ALL CANADIAN MEDIA who's reports didn't jive with international reports on domestic matters. Like the trucker convoy for instance. All Canadian journalists who covered that should now be in jail as none of them told one iota of truth regarding that event. EVERY F'N ONE OF THEM EITHER LIED, OMITTED FACTS OR EXAGGERATED, BUT NONE OF THEM PORTRAYED ANY SENSE OF  TRUTH OR REALITY OF THE WHOLE AFFAIR.  Instead they only painted the picture the government wanted them to paint and that was that the truckers were terrorists.  Which couldn't have been further from the truth if you tried. So yeah, CTV, CBC, GLOBAL, CITYNEWS and all the newspapers' JOURNALISTS SHOULD ALL BE BEHIND BARS NOW!!!!!!
 

 

CRA asking residents to justify receiving CERB in Mississauga, Brampton, Hamilton and rest of Canada Well my parents always said "the gov't gives with one hand and takes back with the other". So this isn't anything new.

 

More than 1,000 vehicles gather outside Washington to protest COVID-19 measures And Mr. Moronface thought it was bad in Ottawa, eh? He would've been peeing and poohing his pants if there were that many in Ottawa.

 
 

 

 
Seniors should be refunded for services lost due to COVID-19, advocacy group says Or for their extra expenses, like when they weren't allowed to go out shopping for themselves and told to stay home and order everything. Most of that "everything" required credit cards in order to order it, credit cards comes with interest charges which aren't free. So those should be reimbursed. 

 
Coping one stitch at a time during lengthy pandemic Like I said in the first few posts of this blog, hobbies, cooking, gardening, learning new skills was a way to kill time and accomplish something. I even provided copious links to several of those endeavours for those wishing to try their hand at such, or just to find new recipes or projects/patterns for hobbies they already had. I love making and trying new things almost on a daily basis. New recipes, new hobbies, new techniques, new projects etc...  Today's "new thing" was "Peanut Butter & Bananas Chicken Brochettes" and some of last week's new things were dandelion jelly and dandelion syrup. While I've knit more afghans (large double or queen size bed covers like what the woman is holding in the picture) than I care to count, knitting is not one of my preferred hobbies. It's just the oldest one I have as I taught myself how to knit when I was about 7 or 8 years old using pencils as knitting needles. I really don't have the patience for it though as I find it super tedious and sometimes downright boring and annoying (especially when you think you've got it only to find out, oops you worked the 3rd stitch back wrong or the 3rd stitch on the 3rd row down wrong, or dropped a few stitches here or there). Or when the yarn starts to get tangled in the skein/ball and it's hard to pull. And other aggravating things like that. I prefer working with things like clay  or wax - or even beads - things that if it goes wrong, you can either improvise and turn it into an improv work of art, or simply smoosh it all up together or melt down into a blob and start all over again either with the same design or something else.  Where there are no perceived imperfections because there is no precise pattern like there is with knit patterns. I prefer doing things that I enjoy rather than cause me boredom and aggravation.

COVID-19 vaccine mandate for health professionals pushed back again  Guess they're finding out what the other provinces that tried that found out.... That if they do that, they'll have even less health care workers than they have now.

 
Northern Health goes to court to shut down Prince George nightclub defying COVID-19 health orders Yup the fun police have to find a way to punish a club that defied orders to shut down during the plandemic and not allow people to enjoy life on their premises.

1 in 40 Islanders now has COVID-19  So that's essentially 2.5% of the population. It's scarier when you see 1 in 40 as opposed to 2.5%, isn't it? 1 in 40 sounds like way more than a mere 2.5% sounds, doesn't it? This is how they scare you into complying with their BS and they're still trying to do that even after they've lifted all the mandates.

 

Queen pays understated tribute to Ukraine in first in-person meeting since catching COVID OMG Mr. Weenie Dickhead is trying to impress the Queen with his vocabulary except that he's a f'n moron and even with his attempt to impress her with his vocabulary he failed miserably because what he said is redundant because insightful and perspicacious mean the exact same thing. I'm telling you every time he opens his mouth he shows us what he really is - a freaking moronic genocidal, tyrannical imbecile. A total and colossal embarrassment to the Canadian people. 

 
More Nova Scotians turn to food banks as cost of living continues to rise That was then.... Yesterday I saw a local ad in a grocery flier online for T-bone steak for $19.99 a pound. My husband couldn't believe it, so I showed him and he shook his head. He said that's insane. I said, yup, if it keeps it up, pretty soon it'll cost us a hundred bucks and all we'll get out of that is a peep show. We'll get to see a t-bone steak for $100.00, if we want to smell it, it'll cost more and for a 1 cubic inch of the stuff it'll be double the peep show price. Seriously that's what it seems like it's coming to if the gov'ts world wide don't put their adult pants on and put the kibash on the BS between the WEF and Gates, the BIS and other money grubbers of this world and stand up for their populations who can barely afford to breath as it is, nevermind eat. Eating is becoming a luxury it seems like. Maybe that was what the forced vaccinations were for - as they were for the most part mRNA - meaning they might alter our genetic code somehow - maybe that was to allow us to survive on merely love and water and not need food to stay alive. Who knows?

 

School superintendents could face arrest for trying to enforce mask, vaccine mandates Here in Canada the parents would throw them a heros parade and give them medals.


 
THE COVID-19 PANDEMIC: A POTTED HISTORY FOR (FUTURE) READERS If you want more than just a "potted history" feel free to read this blog in it's entirety as it was started just a couple of days after the pandemic was declared and there's almost every English language COVID story I could find on the net along with a few French ones as well, covering ALL ASPECTS OF IT. Lately though, since near the end of last year I got more and more cynical as I saw what was happening and the lies and BS the authorities were trying to feed us coupled with the insane draconian laws and fines, it just got to be too much. I could no longer "just be an old ex nurse" my anti-gov't, anti-BS, self came screaming to the surface, so much so I couldn't force it down anymore and had to just call 'em as I saw 'em whether anyone else out there liked what I was saying or not, because to me when it's the truth, it's the truth and no amount of whitewashing it, will change it. So while you get the headlines and the stories, you also get my take on it and what my BS & lie detector is screaming at me about it. So far, I've yet to be proven wrong.

 

First wine of defence? Quebec researchers find tannic acid can stop COVID-19 from replicating Hmmmm wondering if that's the same researchers that said having a couple glasses of red wine cut down on heart attacks, when they proved that it's actually the red wine drinkers themselves were less genetically inclined to have heart disease, not because they drank or didn't drink wine but because they weren't predisposed to it to begin with due genetics and lifestyle.

Exclusive ski club received $1.4M in federal COVID relief amid 'record' year Someone should investigate to see if that's where Mr. Moron Dickhead Dressup was a snowboard instructor before he landed the much more lucrative career of being the Cdn PM. 

COVID long-haulers dealing with issues accessing financial assistance Perhaps they should each open an exclusive ski club, maybe then they'd get some financial assistance.

 

 
 
 
California officials raided preschool, interviewed 2-year-olds over mask policies Wow.... Even Gestapo Legault hasn't sunk that far, yet.

 

'Freedom Convoy' assets to remain frozen through end of March They shouldn't have been frozen at all. Nothing like legalized robbery. This is what you call robbing the poor to pay the rich. The exact opposite of Robin Hood, given the lion's share will go to the city of Ottawa and businesses. While the citizens of Ottawa will be lucky if they see 10 cents each.  But on top of that, why should the truckers pay for this as protesting is LEGAL or was until sheiteface in parliament who trembled in his boots at the thought of the big bad "terrorist" truckers and had to go into hiding, came along. Yet the real terrorists like Omar Khadr, he's not only NOT afraid of, but actually likes enough to give 10 million of Canadian taxpayers dollars too. Talk about F'd in the head moron - he's his mother's son alright. She's equally F'd in the head. So he can GIVE a REAL TERRORIST 10 Million dollars of OUR MONEY, but has to try to FLEECE hard working truckers who he deemed to be terrorists 20 Million dollars of THEIR MONEY.  Got the picture yet of what kind of tyrannical asshole we're dealing with here in Canada?  A total f'n wack job.
 
Ottawa police confirms it's investigating officers for allegedly supporting 'Freedom Convoy' OMG we can't have any of that, actual police who want to stand up against a tyrannical dictator by supporting those who are doing just that. No the police are supposed to operate as the long arm of the tyrant in power and be his jackbooted gestapo, not actually want to stand up against such a tyrant by supporting those who are doing just that.

COVID pandemic death toll may be 3 times higher than official tally, new study finds That, that's just freaking impossible because that means there'd have to have been 3 times more deaths overall from everything. Because right now if you were in a motorcycle accident but knew someone who had covid, your death from the accident was automagically written up as being COVID related. If you died of cancer, but caught covid while you were in the hospital your death certificate listed covid as cause of death, if your uncle that you never saw had covid and you died of a sudden heart attack your death was listed as covid. If you went to an establishment where someone 6 weeks before your visit was, that had covid and you died due to some other illness, it was listed as covid. So in other words EVERYONE WHO DIED DIED OF COVID. So for there to be 3x more covid deaths, there would've had to have been 3 times more deaths period. That's pretty much how the CDC instructed hospitals to list covid deaths. Don't believe me? You can find the documents by clicking on the relevant link in my right hand side panel. 

Two years of the COVID-19 pandemic: What's changed and the real reason we can loosen rules now I can save you the trouble of reading all that BS.... The REAL REASON is Called the Freedom Convoy. Period end of story.

 
What is an 'adverse event?' Inside the recently released report on Pfizer's COVID-19 vaccine Yes, that's called massaging the data to make it look more benign than it actually is. At this point in the game, I neither know nor care what those "events" were because no matter what anyone says the so-called "experts" are going to soft peddle them to make them seem harmless, when in actual fact I and most everyone else out there already knows thats total BS, based on all the previous stories and data released up until now. Facts are facts folks and it doesn't matter how much you massage them they aren't going to change.

 


No going back to what we used to think of as normal, experts say on pandemic anniversary Why the F not? I haven't worn a mask since the requirement was dropped here in QC. I've gone to packed restaurants, I've hugged people and I'm no worse for the wear. I refuse to live whatever time I have left in fear and constantly scared of every little thing. Like my mother used to say, "when it's your time to go, it's your time to go". I want to enjoy whatever time I have left. The tyrants in power already robbed me of 2 precious years of that time. I'm not letting them or anyone else rob me of another second of it.

 

 

Quebec opts for quiet, reflective day to mark 2nd anniversary of COVID-19 pandemic Yeah if it's quiet and not in your face, Gestapo Legault will be less likely to be grilled about his role in those deaths.

 
Canada posts significant jobs gains as COVID restrictions lift That definitely would NOT have happened if the restrictions were NOT lifted. So thank the big bad scary truckers for that, as they're the ones that got the restrictions lifted in the first place.


Pandemic Fears Give Way to a Rush for Bomb Shelters Don't you just love it!?! The powers that be, need one way or another to keep you off balance, scared and compliant. Don't you think it's more than just  a tad convenient that Putin decided to invade Ukraine just as the Freedom Convoy won it's point and got the Cdn gov't and other world gov'ts to drop all their restrictive mandates???? I'm wondering if this wasn't all planned out in advance somehow.... Gawd, I wouldn't doubt it at all.

Pfizer CEO: Fourth Covid Shot is ‘Necessary’ Necessary so he can make more money. 

 

 
Now I'm going to try to stealthily sneak off to bed, before anyone notices I'm gone.... Until next time take care and stay well.
 
In the meantime don't forget to BOYCOTT Metro, Metro Plus and Metro Richelieu stores. If you have a claim that you wish to make against them for injury or loss sustained because of their negligence you're more than welcome to join the class action lawsuit I wish to launch against them. You can visit the blog mentioned here:  Metro Injury 'n' Loss Victims, or write:   metroinjurynlossvictims@outlook.com


 







 
 
 
 










 
 





 

Monday, May 2, 2022

A Nightmare of Neverending Headlines Dealing With.....

 Covid19

Courtesy Pixabay.com
 
May 1, 2022
 
 Since my last post in here, I got that horrible chafing torture device off my thumb. I went down to the Montreal General Hospital on April 26th and saw the doctor and she took that horrible thing off my thumb (not a moment too soon either, as all the back side of my thumb was rubbed raw with and the underside along with the palm of my hand where that thing covered was starting to develop blisters too). She prescribed physiotherapy twice a week, but once a week bare minimum for me if I can't afford doing it twice a week, but as anyone on OAS knows, that's a joke and a half. How the F are we supposed to afford $200 a week? I guess if I want to go on strictly a water diet, I might be able to, but that would entail getting my husband to do the same as well and I don't think he's up for that especially since he's diabetic. 

Without telling Mme Savard the head of that department for Metro our financial situation, I did tell her what it would cost to have physiotherapy done - whether I got it done in the area, where it would cost minimum $100 per session, or if I had to pay for a taxi ride into Montreal and back for a free session, that would likely cost more, because back in 2018 when I came home from the airport, it cost me $40 for the ride from the airport to the tip of the Montreal Island where my husband drove to wait for me to arrive - as it would've cost more the moment we left the island. That I know for a fact as someone I know who's father is one of those airport taxi cab drivers told me that. At the time, they (the Montreal airport cab drivers) weren't allowed to charge more than I think it was $40 for a trip anywhere on the Montreal island, if they went off island it was free game basically. And the Montreal airport is literally less than half way between here and the Montreal General Hospital, so that's at least $40 one way and that's IF I get my husband to drive me onto the island so I can take a taxi from there and then another $40 back to that point IF the rates hasn't gone up since then and IF the rates apply to ALL taxi fares no matter their origin or destination point. In other words if those fares do not only apply to airport taxis and apply to all taxis on the island. IF that's the case then maybe instead of $100 per session it would be about $80 per session (for the taxi fare), as my husband doesn't like driving in Montreal at all and I don't drive.  
 
Despite the fact that she tried to convince me when we were on the phone together that she was a very compassionate person, I've yet to see any signs of that. She offered me only $1,000.00 for my injury due to their negligence and I refused. I'm glad I refused because at the bare minimum it would've cost me over $1,000 just for my physiotherapy - given that the doctor prescribed 2 times a week for 6-8 weeks (depending on progress and need). So if I accepted that original offer of hers I'd have been out $200 - $600 just to cover the therapy costs, not to mention the $200 it's already cost me to get there and back 2x (the first time on March 22nd, when that torture device was put on and then on the 26th of April when it finally came off). Like I told her, gas isn't cheap and hospital parking isn't free. 
 
Which is why I believe it would cost me way more in taxi fare now than it did in 2018 - for the simple reason that gas is almost double in price now compared to what it was then.  So with that in mind, no taxi driver is going to go into debt just to drive people around - they need to pay for their costs which right now is highway robbery prices of $1.92 per litre or close to $8.00 a gallon (for those still working in gallons) plus make a living. So I'd hazard a guess and say that that $40 limitation on fare prices has gone out the window.

So as of today's date, I've gotten nothing but being treated like a criminal by Bruno Lemay (a member of the family that owns that Metro Plus store where I fell on the ice and broke my thumb on March 8th because I merely wanted two boxes -  which contained 100 gloves each, I think - of those flimsy charcuterie gloves their employees use to handle the meats at the deli dept., to cover my thumb splint when I needed to wash something as those big rubber gloves sold in the cleaning dept don't cut it as they're too big for my hands & for my purposes like being able to clean my teeth and hold my toothbrush without it disappearing in the glove, or to cover when I needed to wash veggies to prepare food etc, as the surgical gloves I ended up having to use were expensive - 30 for $10,00 and hard to get on over that stupid device and hard to take off again, so I wanted those flimsy gloves to use and thought as a gesture of goodwill for a loyal client he should give me at least one box considering I hurt myself on his family's property, if not sell them to me). Instead he refused and started acting like we were trying to rob him - he was backing away from us and towards the phone where I figure he was getting ready to call the cops, so we left and haven't set foot on his stupid property since. 
 
So much for being a loyal customer of theirs since they had their one and only store on the island behind the shopping center where Steinberg's and Consumer's Distributing was located, back in the early 1980s. Nice to see how we loyal customers of 40 odd years are being treated. We were customers of his family's store, I'm sure,  before he was even born, and that's how he treated us. 
 
IF he had've let me have at least one box of those gloves with some sign of contrition or sympathy on his part, that's all it would've taken. I would not be going through any of this now. But each time I'm faced with obstinance, opposition and callousness, the more dug in I get. Like my mother used to say I can out stubborn the stubbornest. 
 
All any of them from him on through Mme Savard had to do was be fair and decent with me, but none of them were, so my demands escalate with each new insulting dealings I have with them.  The more insulting their dealings are with me, the more it makes me want to get as much as I should rightfully be entitled to and I can tell you it's far more than I've been offered so far. All I've been offered so far are insults - as far as I'm concerned.
 
As witnessed by the run around given me by Francois Lebel (the first corporate contact at Metro Richelieu head office), and Mme Elaine Savard, the supposedly compassionate one, who offered me $1,000 and refused to even entertain my needs and costs in that "settlement", which I refused.  
 
That would not have even covered my therapy sessions (or transportation to free sessions if I can't find any other closer hospital that does hand therapy in my region and I already know I can't as there's only 1 hospital in our area and they don't do it), let alone the pain and suffering and humiliations I endured while I had that stupid torture device on my thumb, because being righthanded and having a useless thumb on my other hand, I had no means of doing my clothes (zippers and buttons and snaps) up on my own (not to mention a lot of other things like cutting my own food, opening the prescription pain pills bottle - that was prescribed specifically for the pain of my broken thumb - I couldn't get into them to get one without someone who had a working thumb's help and a lot more things I couldn't do on my own either and needed help with). So whenever we went out somewhere and I had to undo or take my coat off, my husband had to do it up for me, that's not to mention when I had to go to the washroom, I'd have to hold my pants up and pull my shirt down over the front of them and hope no one noticed that they weren't done up, and get my husband to do them up for me. So if they didn't get the idea that my pants weren't done up, up until he did them up for me, they  did then. I can't even explain how embarrassing and humiliating that is. 
 
When we were at restaurants, I had to make sure to not order anything I needed to pick up to eat, like hamburgers, anything on pita, ribs or wings or fried chicken - only things I could pull apart with a fork - so fish and pasta and things like that. I couldn't do any cleaning which may have caused us to lose a potential sale on our house, due to it's state of disorder and needing to be cleaned. I couldn't even put dishes in the dishwasher as I had no grip at all with that thing on - partly because of my thumb being broken but I couldn't even grasp things with my fingers and palm because that thing basically made sure whatever I was holding slipped out of my grasp onto the floor - ergo broken things and lots of spilled liquids and even food onto the floor. When I wanted to pick up a cup or glass to drink I had to use both hands and hold it the way a baby holds their own bottle to drink. You can't live in this world without a thumb, EVERYTHING REQUIRES A THUMB EXCEPT the keyboard and a trackball - it does technically require a thumb too, but you can use it with your index finger replacing the thumb quite easily. So the only things I could spend my time with was online, reading, or watching TV, as I couldn't do much else - no housework, no cooking, and definitely no hobbies even making that item I made for my friend I needed help with as some of the steps I couldn't do on my own.  So it severely affected me in more ways than one (and may have contributed to losing a house sale on top of that).
 
In fact, the doctors that I spoke with, all said having a broken thumb is considered a major disability. Now imagine having a broken thumb on your dominate hand and a useless one altogether on your other hand - ergo NO thumbs at all, not just a broken thumb and a thumb that would have to learn to take over doing things for the one that's broken. I wish. I wish I had a thumb that could do that, but the sad fact of the matter is, I don't. I have a useless deformed thumb on my left hand.  I think that deserves some compensation just for that too. The fact that I was basically totally incapacitated because of my broken thumb and continue to be to large extent, as I still don't have anywhere near the full use of it that I had before, because to get to that point I would need physiotherapy which I can't afford on the wonderful generous pensions Canada gives it's seniors (which is basically a subsistance allowance) and Metro refuses to compensate me for.
 
So because of that, now, I'm just fed up with always being victimized and bullied by everyone and everything out there (as evidenced by the NHL player related ashholes that moved in next door and their first act was to cut branches off my beautiful maple tree - without us asking them to, or even provoking them into anything and all the other crap they did to us since they moved in including trying to have me arrested on false charges). Then I fall on the ice at Metro, because they didn't salt or sand it and I'm the one they're treating like a criminal and they can't even be bothered to offer fair and just or even a consolation item of  restitution to me for my injuries. They act like it's my fault when it's their fault for not keeping their sidewalk free of ice. Since it was after dark and that day had hovered around the melting point I did see the dark patch on the ground but had no way of knowing that the temperature was back below 0C and so it was no longer water and had turned into ice. I assumed it was a puddle of melted snow there - ergo water and safe to walk on, because like I said it was after dark, so it was hard to see whether it was water or ice and I just assumed it was water. But either way even if it was ice, there was no way to get by there without stepping in/on it or getting off the sidewalk as the patch was rather wide and went from one side of the sidewalk to the other, right up to the edge of the curb (the entire width of the sidewalk and about 1 meter long).
 
Come to think of it, I haven't gotten my Metro & Moi money lately either. I'm pretty sure they owe me between $10 & $20 of Metro & Moi money as well and that's got nothing to do with my injury. That's got to do with the points earned while I was still shopping there so it's what we earned by buying from them as a rebate. So not only won't they pay anything for restitution on my injury, it seems like they don't even want to give me the Metro & Moi money they owe me. Unless they just haven't been paid out to anyone yet and will be later on this month. But I do believe that they are normally paid out in March or April and as both months are gone by now, I wonder....  But if what I believe is really what's happening, then that's super petty of them. I guess I'll know for sure by the end of May, because I know that I'd have gotten one of those Metro & Moi money things by then if they aren't deliberately withholding it from me. Just putting that out there, in case what I think is really the case so I don't forget to mention it in the class action lawsuit and/or to the mainstream media, as a demonstration of their pettiness. 

So because of all of those reasons, I am now going to be launching a fully public campaign aimed at finding ALL of the injury victims who have not been fairly compensated for their pains and suffering and costs related to it, caused by negligence of Metro Plus, Metro Richelieu and just plain old Metro stores all across Quebec & Ontario where they are located, and any injuries or illnesses caused by their Selection brand products in order to launch a class action suit against them. 
 
As an afterthought after speaking to a store owner friend of mine, I think maybe the class action lawsuit could also include store owners who are renting their shop space from one of those Metro entities, who've lost business due to shut downs caused by building damage (like leaky  pipes for instance) and had stock ruined by such building damages that the Metro owner of the space refused to or neglected to pay the  commercial tenant back for and if the commercial tenant had to assume the cost of repairs themselves even though that's not stipulated in the lease, they can also join the class action suit to recuperate the costs they put into repairing Metro's property for them, even though the building damages weren't caused by the commercial tenant and for all other damages & losses incurred due to that building damage.  

So in essence anyone seeking reparations and damages for injury, illness, loss of business and stock or cost of repairs effected on Metro's property in order to be able to continue to function as a business there, even though Metro refused to pay for the repairs, would be welcome to join this class action lawsuit I think - unless whatever lawyer we get to represent us, thinks differently - but maybe by joining us now, you'll find all the others in the same boat and be able to band together to launch your own separate commerce related class action lawsuit.
 
I will be opening very soon, a Redit, a Snapchat, a Twitter, a Facebook, and an Instagram account and starting a new blog only for that purpose and ALL of them will be linked here too. I will also open an email account where anyone can leave a private message dealing with their claim and I will also try to engage the mainstream media in their investigative journalist segments to find out what's going on and why they're behaving like this. I plan to basically plaster the internet with this, but they won't be getting off scott free like they're trying to do now. 
 
Hopefully when word gets out how ruthless and uncaring they are towards clients of over 40 years, people will wake up and realize what they're all about and start boycotting them too. Boycott Metro stores everyone! 
 
So stay tuned for the email and net addresses dealing with that situation.  If you or anyone you know has been injured on a Metro property or by one of their Selection Brand products get in touch at one of those upcoming addresses and add your/their name to the list of plaintiffs. Or if you're a commercial tenant at one of their properties, that's taken a financial loss due to their negligence - whether that's something like burst waterpipes or not sanding/salting properly and as a result a vehicle went through the window causing stock damage and days of lost revenue while things were being repaired. Or if you had to pay for repairs yourself but were never reimbursed by your Metro landlord, you can join our class action lawsuit, to try to recuperate those losses.
 
Other than that, I had to do our income taxes last week as well. I tried to get all the unsavoury stuff over and done with in as short a time as possible, so the day after getting that torture device off, I did our income taxes. But really it wasn't that bad. It's gotten a ton easier since the gov'ts started dumping their data directly into your tax forms at H&R Block's site. The worst part of it was trying to remember SIN numbers and finding all our stupid papers. Once those were found and access codes were entered it was basically a breeze. Good thing it's getting easier to do because my brain isn't getting any younger and I don't think I'd be able to handle it myself if it got more difficult and complicated.  
 
Aside from that not much else happened since the last time I posted here, except we went out for dinner tonight at a restaurant. Yikes the prices have skyrocketed! If I'd have known what it was going to cost before we sat down to eat, we either might've had something different or gone somewhere different. Well we would've gone somewhere different and in fact tried to, but it looks like it's fallen a victim of Covid. Too bad as it was a nice restaurant. So that's why we wound up at the restaurant where we fell victim to the price shock Covid is probably being blamed for.
 
Yup, so on with the MAJOR NIGHTMARISH BACKLOG of Covid headlines. Egads it's scary looking in my bookmarks folder and with the new Rolling Thunder protest this weekend, the headlines section of my folder isn't getting any thinner. So before the next protest happens, I need to get rid of some of those headlines backlogged in there by putting them in here. So get a beverage to sip on as this is going to be a long one...... I know it won't be all of them but I'll try to get through as many as I can.
 
Scandinavian country moves into 'very high' risk category for travel  Remember these are old headlines - that you may have missed back then. So this is not the current situation.


 

 
Unvaccinated Americans falsely say the need for booster shots proves Covid vaccines don’t work, Kaiser survey shows Booster shots or not, the vaccines DO NOT WORK. If the Smallpox vaccine worked as good as those COVID vaccines worked, Smallpox would still be going around and around and around the globe on a non-stop basis.

YouTube is banning prominent anti-vaccine activists and blocking all anti-vaccine content You know you have to wonder why, they're making such an effort to censor anti-vaccine activists and anti-vaccine content if what those people are saying is so wrong and unproven. You'd think that if the vaccine worked as good as these censors think it does, they wouldn't need to censor anyone about anything as the proof would be in the pudding as they like to say. But obviously it's not, and there's plenty proof to the contrary of what these censors assert, so that those anti-vaccine activists might have a point or be more right than they know.  Maybe people's reluctance to get the vaccine has nothing to do with what the anti-vaccine group is saying, it might have more to do with the pro vaccine group trying to ram their "truths" and "facts" down everyone else's throats without it being given a fair chance to hear both sides of the story. All the pros and cons before making up their minds. Maybe the fact of the matter might be that they're terrified of the vaccine simply because they're terrified of what it might be those censors are trying hide by censoring the anti-vaccine groups. Guess they never thought of that though as they're too narrow minded and stupid to be able to think of that. 

 

 
 
YouTube's CEO says free speech is a 'core value' even after removing videos by Putin critic Alexey Navalny  Liar! If that were the case you would NOT be censoring anti-vaccine groups!

Are People Angrier Nowadays? And What Can We Do To Manage It? Of course we are after being told to socially distant ourselves from everyone else. We've forgotten how to be sociable, polite, have empathy for others and just good old fashioned manners. Then we have ass holes treating others the way I've been treated lately (with the ass holes next door, and how Metro has been treating me) that makes people who usually go by the motto they were raised on as in "live and let live" - in other words you treat me decently and with respect and I'll do the same with you, want to retaliate. Up until last year when that NHL player's family just blew my lid by them deciding to cut the branches off my tree and try to use our property as if it were theirs and then how I was treated by Metro after me injuring myself due to their negligence and them refusing to even give me a box of flimsy cellophane gloves, just blew my lid and I've decided I've had enough of being treated like crap by everyone and their dog and decided that if I had to blow my lid in public and stand up for myself to make this sheite stop that's precisely what I'm going to do. In my case my anger stems from having had enough of being bullied and victimized and now I'm fighting back. 

 

 

 

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
Over half of Canadian businesses struggling to find workers: report Those businesses should examine their hiring practices and how they manage their human resources. Because I can guarantee you that the businesses that pay well and have good employee benefits and treat them humanely instead of like indentured slaves, probably have no problems finding employees. 

 
Ukraine faces new jump in COVID-19 infections This was back in September. Now I'm sure Covid is the least of their problems.


Majority of restaurant operators say business conditions are worse now than three months ago, survey finds Again this was back in September. I know that around here 2 of our favourite restaurants went out of business. One of them we went to go to tonight but it was closed and the restaurant's overhead sign was taken down. The other one was a Chinese restaurant that was sold earlier this year, to another Chinese owner - who's food is very very good. Different menu with different prices, but the food is excellent and if you know how to order you get a large selection of food for cheaper prices than the Dinner for x amount of people dinners were from the other restaurant owner.  It was the new owner that gave us that trick for ordering a large selection of dishes from 2 different "dinners" for 2 which basically wound up being more than enough for 4 people but at half the cost of the previous owner's menu for 2 people with way fewer dishes.  So I think I like the new restaurant food as much as if not more than the other restaurant's food and the prices way better. But that's to say that even in this area there's a been a few restaurants that suffered from the plandemic. Also there was a Greek restaurant we used to like, I don't know if that one closed due to the plandemic or if it closed this location and moved elsewhere.

 


Broadway's "Aladdin" shuts after only one performance since "Re-opening Night" due to breakthrough COVID cases Just in case you forgot and need reminding a breakthrough covid case, is a case of covid in a person who's been vaccinated. A testimony to how well those vaccines work.
 
School Officials Beg Biden and FBI for Protection Against Threats From ‘Angry Mobs’   Well we do know that our American friends can be over-the-top crazy and over-the-top paranoid as well, so this is no surprise. Strange and out there even for them, but not surprising.

COVID lockdown was a ‘live social experiment’ revealing how women, men behave during pandemics This whole plandemic has been one massive live experiment on everything to do with working from home, how far you can push a population before they push back, how to hoodwink a nation into giving up their constitutional rights, how to crush a nation and keep them crushed under your thumb, how to bankrupt certain industries and filter money to favoured industries and gov't cronies, how to rid the world of x amount of "useless eaters", how to destabilize whole economies so that new financial measures can be introduced (read digital money), to determine how to censor one group while seeing how gullible the rest of the population is, if the mRNA vaccines will have any effects or repercussions on our genetic pool and our individual DNA and a whole lot more, I'd say. Basically it's a massive experiment to see just how f'd up they can make things before everything falls apart or they get strung up for crimes against humanity. Whichever comes first.


The workers who keep global supply chains moving are warning of a 'system collapse' Andddd did anyone listen???? Apparently not because we're seeing the results of that now....

COVID may cause 'restless anal syndrome' - report I have restless leg syndrome which I've had for years now. At least since 2016, I think it has to do with low potassium and magnesium levels in me because when I take those supplements or eat foods high in those minerals, it stops. The thing is though it mostly starts when I'm in bed trying to sleep or when I'm sound asleep and I hate waking up during the night to eat anything so I take the supplements but because the pills are coated they don't act as fast as if say I ate a banana or avocado. 

Bacon prices have reached record levels. Here's why they might not go down anytime soon That's part of it, but mostly it's because they don't have to go down. Everyone in business is maintaining all these higher prices and a lot of them aren't because it's costing them more, but simply because they see everyone else charging more, so they think they can get away with charging more too, whether they need to or not. It's called greed and gouging.  It's as simple as that in a lot of cases.
 
Fully vaccinated B.C. mom urges vigilance after testing positive for COVID-19  Because that snake oil elixir we've been sold on as being vaccines work so wonderfully. NOT.

Due Process — And Normal Social Relations — Are Being Destroyed By COVID Snitching Culture Yup, it sounds a lot like what we were told the old USSR & KGB were all about, and how that was such an awful society to grow up in, and ours was way better because we didn't do things like that. Righhhtttt....

 


 

 

 
'It's really scary': Alberta physicians face more aggressive, misinformed patients That's because they've not been allowed to hear both sides of the debate and have been force fed gov't lies and propaganda for the most part. 

 
Rex Murphy: More reasons some Canadians distrust the powers-that-be   He's usually right on the money. He's good, you ought to read his articles. 

Bacon prices reach all-time high in Canada This week at least the Giant Tiger in our area is selling 500grs of Spalding Bacon for $2.97. That's a pretty good price from even before the plandemic came along and drove the cost of breathing up by a gazillion percent. 

 


 

 

 
Quebec politicians clash over using COVID-19 vaccine passports in National Assembly The rules only apply to us little minions and not to the rule makers apparently.

 

 

Hopes rise that Pfizer COVID-19 vaccine will be authorized for use in children aged 5 to 11 by late October, and Russia suffers worst one-day death toll I don't know why anyone would hope for that, but I guess so.... Grasping at straws for any panacea that might work.... Like in the days of the old snake oil elixirs.

 

 
New preliminary evidence suggests coronavirus jumped from animals to humans multiple times This is pure unadulterated BS speculation as you will see later on in articles from this year when I get to them which definitely won't be tonight or even in the next couple of posts. It'll take a while before I'm there as there's just sooooooooooo many headlines to do with this plandemic.

Vaccinated pregnant women pass antibodies to unborn child: study So if that's the case she should also pass the antibodies she acquired naturally (as in having had the disease herself or her own natural immunity to it if any) to her baby as well. This wouldn't just apply to vaccination generated antibodies but all manners of acquisition of such antibodies.

 


Covid restrictions force some retailers to rethink Vietnam as a manufacturing hub Personally, I think what this whole supply chain fiasco is teaching us, is the old adage of "we're never better served than by ourselves". So in other words instead of contracting all our work out to other countries we could make & grow most of the stuff we need in our own country. We're a resource rich country so instead of mining, drilling and harvesting everything to sell over seas in order to reimport it as some kind of product, why don't we just make it ourselves? It would create jobs and save a ton of money on transportation (which would cut down on CO2 gases - so win/win there) and we wouldn't be left waiting on things that never come due to some problem in some other country - be it covid related, political upheaval, labour related, or whatever problems other countries might experience. At least if it were made here we could deal with our own problems and get them resolved so they could continue to manufacture said goods. Right now we're held hostage due to everything being made in China and China's basically under a total lockdown where nothing's working or being made. Earlier there was a report about shipping containers held up at ports due to lack of dock workers - if it were made here, it wouldn't matter if there was a dock worker shortage or not as everything from harvesting/mining and drilling for the raw materials to the final production of it would be done here in Canada. But hey what do I know about the world economy and globalization except that I don't see anything good in it, for us Canadians.

 

 

 

Up to 90% of Americans may have some form of Covid immunity after delta wave, Dr. Gottlieb says Here they're saying that up to 90% of Americans may have some form of immunity after Delta, but yet they started really pushing the boosters in December and January. Claiming that everyone needed them.

 
‘Biggest crash in world history’: Personal finance expert Robert Kiyosaki predicts economic crisis in October Oh for sure. He's a little premature with his time line, but yeah it's a comin' and we're right on the cusp of it, I'm sure.

 
 
As it's past my bedtime yet again, I'm leaving it there for now. In the meantime take care and stay tuned. Don't forget  BOYCOTT METRO PLUS, METRO-RICHELIEU & METRO STORES  in Quebec and Ontario and stay tuned to this blog if you or someone you know wants to join the class action suit against them for any injuries or illnesses sustained because of their negligence. I will be getting to work on all the various social media platforms in the coming days and setting up an email address where you can contact me privately if you wish.