Covid 19
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November 6, 2020
As I'm forced to wait an hour before we go do our errands that we have to do at the bank, liquor commission and grocery stores, I figured I'd use some of that time to maybe start on today's edition of playing catch up to October 31st's headlines, as there's still tons to go.
So getting started on it now....
First link is to an epub book that's downloadable at the longfiles link given at that page. I am linking to it, because it seems to be quite interesting that might provide an eye opening look at the origins of this virus, that I thought you might be interested in.
This report is tying totalitarian governments in with AI, but the way things are going in this pandemic and the fact that most of the countries seem to be coordinating their efforts at curtailing (not sure if it's really the virus, or more than likely us) whatever it is they're trying to curtail, in lock step and harmony with each other. I mean is it any coincidence that everyone in the western world from Argentina right on up to Canada in the Americas all went under lockdown with the same measures in place on the same day? I don't think so. They didn't all just happen to have the same measures and plans in place by happenstance, no they planned and coordinated it together. They're trying to act in unison, or were anyhow, now there's splinter groups which are more draconian than others - take QC & ON as perfect examples of that - they're provincial neighbours with their borders touching each other here in Canada. QC has gone the nazified gestapo route closing everything in sight and telling us we have to stay home and we can only associate with those in our immediate households (unless you're single then you can have one person over to see you). But now they're telling us we have to associate with 25% fewer people, so that means if you're a family of 4 one of you have to go. I'm not sure how I associate with 25% fewer people though unless I quarter my husband and keep only 3/4s of him and discard the other 1/4th. And giving police power to enter homes to break up house parties (because having any social interactions or fun at all is strictly forbidden and subject to fine and or arrest). While Ontario still has a lot of places like restaurants and gyms etc open and they're restricted to something like 10 people being together at a time - more if it's outside and so on. Nowhere near as draconian and restrictive as QC is, that's for sure, but yet their numbers are right up there close to those in QC....
That's in the US, I'm not sure of the numbers here in Canada.....
Covid-19 crisis would have to be 'really, really bad' to implement a national lockdown, Fauci says I wonder what's his definition of "really, really bad"? Because it seems to me if your country is right there in the top 3 countries with cases and deaths, in the entire world, you could classify it was being "really, really bad". Seriously. By comparison QC has a piddly amount of cases and deaths, but it's under a gestapo like lockdown. So when is the US going to figure it's bad enough for a national lockdown? When 50% of the population (I'm talking actual population and not case numbers) dies from it? Is that when? Just wondering what the criteria for "really, really bad" is, when you're the top country in the world with cases and deaths, already?
The Flaming Lips performed a concert with the band and fans encased in plastic bubbles Okay well this is just a little excessive I think, but well, hey whatever floats their boats...
Poor pooches. I hope they eventually get to wherever they're supposed to be...
Zakaria on global inequality: Years of progress have been undone in months Exactly! It was planned and orchestrated that way. Probably at the Gates & WEF's conference they had in Wuhan just prior to the release of this virus.
It's not just the remote work that could spell doom for your favourite dry cleaner, but all the special occasions that one would get dressed up for, where special clothing would need to be dry cleaned and maybe have some alterations done in order to wear for that big occasion you would be going to if they weren't all forbidden, like big weddings, funerals, graduations, anniversary parties, fundraisers, or other occasions, where you'd wear these special clothes, but wouldn't wear them on a regular basis. Like an evening gown or tuxedo won't be worn to the office or wherever you work, those are for special occasions, so after hanging in the closet for an extended period of time without being worn, they'd normally be taken out and dry cleaned before the occasion you'd wear it to. Since all of those occasions are forbidden now it's highly unlikely those clothes will be going to the dry cleaners anytime soon, either.
Fellow Canadians don't get too excited about this, because as usual it's just in the US.
I wish that here in Canada we'd have regions that would fight back, but noooooooooo Canadians for the most part are nothing but a bunch of sheeple that would follow their gov'ts (no matter how corrupt and conniving they are) off the edge of a cliff, rather than stray or fight back. Fighting back is beyond us as a group as we don't seem to have the will nor the guts to even try.
What health "information"? Where, there's very few actual health information articles in my blog and trust me I've covered as many sources for COVID19 info as I could possibly find and there's very little actual real bonafide health info in these articles. Most of the info, is basically conjectures and suppositions but nothing really concrete, that they can say definitely one way or the other about anything to do with this virus, except it's shape (which we've all seen pictures of already). So what information are they talking about here anyhow? Thinking that Vitamin D or blood type O may play a role in protection against it and being 100% sure that it does is two different things, until we get an affirmative on those being a sure defense against the virus, then it's just a supposition. We can only assume that they help and not be certain about it. So that's why I say there's very little health information about it, because most of it thus far has been suppositions based on a few trials, or data taken from some patients (but not all). Anyhow if they're brave enough to come out and say that they think vitamin D plays a role in prevention it won't hurt anyone to take vitamin D up to about 1,000 iu per day, to increase your odds of beating it. Err on the side of caution rather than against it. And with winter approaching vitamin D might help with your mental health too, by warding off SADD.
You can probably find a few of those at ebook3000.com
Just look in the "Cooking" section or if you want a specific title, you can search for it at the right hand top of the page in the "search" feature there.
This would seem to be to me, a perfect example of how scared and paranoid the governments have made or is trying to make us of each other. This is just sad.
That's great news!
Oh I love this.... The computer nerds at twitter knows more about medicine than an actual doctor does eh? And as far as the CDC goes, they've been caught in so many crooked schemes to do with this virus I'd BELIEVE ANY DOCTOR NOT ASSOCIATED WITH THE CDC OVER THE CDC!!!! They've been nothing but one big organization of lying scumbags when it comes to this virus. It's been proven (and I have the articles linked in the blog somewhere too) that they don't work, when someone coughs or sneezes forcefully enough and when you have covid it's not a quiet little church mouse cough no it's as forceful as an air compressor almost. So he's right it doesn't help much. They only help against small droplets (like when someone is talking) or the lingering virus in the air after someone has coughed or sneezed. That's all.
Precisely! My thoughts exactly!
Educators teaching online and in person at the same time feel burned out Yup, our son was complaining about this in the spring when they took the course he was teaching out of the classroom and put it online, but because his class involves a lot of hands on work and in some cases with very expensive CAD software that the students can't afford to buy for themselves, he had to be not only online for the theory but in class for the hands on and computer CAD part of it. He said that he felt like he was working 16 hour days most of the time because it's not only the classes, the students had to have time to consult with him after class if they didn't understand something - like a one on one session for maybe 15-30 minutes each or thereabouts. He said when it was a hard concept to grasp he would wind up doing that for hours as almost all of the students would want his help. Plus besides that he had to grade the work that was handed in and that he always had to and it always took a few extra hours to do that, but with the online & in class teaching along with the time online to answer questions and help the students, he felt like he was working 16 hour days and get paid for 8 hours a day. He said he was glad it only lasted a few weeks and wasn't a whole semester long because he would've quit. So I can sympathize with these teachers.
Yeah he doesn't sound like the brightest crayon in the box, that's for sure. He got what he deserves.
Early numbers suggest domestic violence homicides may be on the rise around the country If that's true, that's downright scary! Like I said before if you're a domestic violence victim GET YOUR KIDS AND YOUR PETS & LEAVE IMMEDIATELY AND GO TO A SHELTER OR SOME PLACE SAFE & DO NOT LOOK BACK OR GO BACK!!!!! OTHERWISE YOU MAY WIND UP LIKE THESE VICTIMS - D E A D !!!!!! Which I'm sure you don't want to have happen to you, your kids or pets! So stay resolute once you leave.
Top infectious-disease expert says 'the next 6 to 12 weeks are going to be the darkest of the entire pandemic' Hmmmm well from my standpoint we're half way through the 6 week period and it hasn't worsened that much if any. It's still pretty much constant at a constant rate here in QC. It's roughly a thousand new cases a day if you believe the stats the government keeps releasing. I'm inclined to wonder about those though as I still don't know anyone personally who knows they had it for sure. Yeah there's me, my son, his wife (who works in a hospital full of Covid kids apparently according to Arruda he's the head of the pediatric infectious diseases at the Montreal Childrens and that's where she works as one of the nurses that are sent on the floors to draw blood for the blood tests so she's in contact with all of them on a regular basis), our neighbours who all think we had this stupid disease back in January and February but have never been tested for it, because according to the medical establishment it's impossible that we had it then. Well me, my son & his wife, must've if she's in contact with COVID kids all throughout her shift day in and day out, and she didn't get sick with it, nor did he nor me. So I still stand by my claim that I had it in early January - 1st week of January in fact. Those are the only 4 people I know besides myself who thinks they had the virus, otherwise I don't know of anyone who even thinks they had it, let alone can prove they had it.
hehehe now that's an idea for the gyms, dance studios, hairdressers, pubs, restaurants etc to try here in QC. The pencil pushing idiot that's our health minister probably doesn't know the difference as he's probably never set foot in a gym, dance studio, or church to save his gawd forsaken life!
14-year-old Indian-American girl’s discovery could lead to a possible cure for coronavirus Here's more about that genius girl and her discovery!
Or.... Could it be that the lockdown is causing diabetes in those who are already borderline diabetics? Because during the lockdown they claim everyone is baking more and eating more. Eating more alone puts on pounds, the larger you get the more prone you are to becoming diabetic, especially if you're borderline diabetic already. Now if you're eating more carbs which is what baked goods consists of almost entirely, that being Flour and Sugar both will exasperate diabetic conditions and if you're borderline diabetic push you over the edge to becoming a full-fledged diabetic. Even people who aren't borderline diabetic, but might have a family tendency towards diabetes can develop diabetes if they consistently overeat or are eating more carbohydrates in their diets than they were before the pandemic. Because I'm not sure COVID 19 the disease itself is causing diabetes so much as the new diets and eating habits of everyone under lockdown. It's best to moderate your food intake and avoid excessive carbs. I'd say as much carbs as you can, but you still need a certain amount in your diet for energy. Carbs convert to sugar in your system and that's what your body burns as fuel, so without carbs you are lethargic. But no one needs cakes, cookies, donuts, pancakes, waffles, and sandwiches on a daily basis. When I was a kid, we had dessert only on special occasions, pancakes on Saturday mornings and that's about it. I don't remember having a slice of toast until I was nearly 10 years old. No sandwiches either we usually had whatever was leftover from last night's supper warmed up or fried up as a "hash" for lunch or chowder or soup with crackers. Oh yeah we used to have this awesome brown bread my mother used to make to go with the Saturday night beans we had for supper every Saturday night but other than that we didn't have much bread or bread products in our diet - until I was 10, a few years after my mother took me and left my father. So I grew up like that and I still don't like sandwiches very much unless it's something like a submarine (hoagie they call it in the US I guess) or a club sandwich, or my all time favourite - hot lobster sandwich. So as I was able to grow up and survive pretty much without baked goods of almost any kind, I'm pretty sure if you put your mind to it too, you could start to winnow some of those items out of your diet - which might help you lose weight but will definitely cut back on your chances of developing diabetes. The form of carbs I got and was my fuel was potatoes. That was pretty much it.
Universities say cancelled exams in high schools won't hamper post-secondary plans I guess for kids graduating highschool this year or next, that's a load off their minds.
Pandemic heightens importance of 'hygge' moments, says Danish ambassador Of course, we all need to relax and cosy up to someone or maybe a good book and just unwind and think about other things besides those that are causing us stress. I love this idea and have tried to incorporate it into my life ever since I became an adult (even if I never heard the word "hygge" before). That's partly why I live where I do, so I can stand 15 minutes staring out the window at sunset time and watch the beautiful sunsets over the water, whenever I want. We chose this location to live for it's beauty, serenity and tranquility, for the beautiful scenery and quietness while being about 5 miles away from one the major cities in Canada - so the best of both worlds, rural quietness & beauty and all the amenities of a huge city just a short drive away. But "hygge" (without knowing the word) was always a big part of our lives. That's maybe why I'm still functional and haven't short circuited and blown a few fuses yet, because some of this COVID related stuff (especially the draconian measures the gov'ts are taking) makes me livid sometimes. I just get so angry sometimes I want to scream, but there's no point at screaming at anything within earshot as nothing around here is responsible for that sheite.
In a population of over 35 million that's still not a very significant number and you have to remember most of those cases are already resolved and the ones that aren't yet, are mostly mild or asymptomatic, so nothing to get anxious about. Those that are positive are supposed to be isolating at home, so you shouldn't be coming into contact with them. Theoretically anyhow.
Despite pandemic, Quebec's wineries report fruitful summer Good for them. Because the few grape clusters we had on our vines got eaten by the birds. Grrrrrrrrrrrrrr. I swear it's like I spend all my time and money growing things for the birds and bugs to eat. We've had blueberry bushes for years now, if we've had 4-5 blueberries from them we're lucky because the birds get them before we can. Same with the grapes they got all of them as well. The only berries we manage to get any of is our raspberries, as the bugs seems to eat the strawberries the minute they ripen.... Good thing the don't like rhubarb even though it's not a berry or fruit, or I doubt we'd get any of that as well.
That was on October 19th, now it's supposedly: 45,360, 632 in just over 3 weeks it's added about 5 million more to the total.
There are so many places where you can get free ebooks to read online or download to read offline or on a device, you can start by clicking on the ebooks link in my right hand side label bar and you'll be taken to all the relevant pages with links to such, etc... You'll never spend money on a book again, because you'll never live long enough to read whatever is already available for free at these sites.
Senior desperate for new windows ready to ditch prescriptions after emergency aid denied And here's all these Phd candidates saying the parents need more money then they already have because of COVID while totally ignoring impoverished seniors who've never gotten a break from the gov't in their lives for anything - even now we're still not, but yet parents are raking money and benefits in hand over fist. They'd go hang themselves if they had to raise their kids the way we had to with no help from no one not even the gov't. They wouldn't be able to cope, the poor cry baby snowflake generation of today. They'd all be in insane asylums because they'd be driven crazy by all the expenses we had to pay out of pocket on our own on meager salaries, if they had to do the same thing. Knowing them though, they wouldn't have any kids to start with if they thought the only help they were going to get from the government was a big $7 a month per kid and that's all. No tax write offs for expenses, no year off for maternity and or paternity leave, no subsidized anythings at all (as in art and ballet classes or hockey) no daycare, none of that was available for us when we had our kids. We had to pay for everything out of pocket ourselves. We still have to pay for everything out of pocket ourselves because the government STILL WON'T HELP US WITH ANYTHING.
Why are the outbreaks always in those facilities and not in some warehouse or factory or even horse stables? We never hear of outbreaks in places like factories or warehouses or places like riding stables or things like that. They're always in meat packing places and care homes.
Maybe they'd sell more if they showed some of the masks rather than the face of the guy who's behind them.
Littered masks a growing concern around St. John's, says local runner
That's it for now.... Until next time, take care & stay well.
