Cooking Corn Chowder
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July 20, 2020
I'm getting there with the freezer food salvation. I have only calamari, raspberries, pumpkin, and some fondue meat left to contend with, because I found this awesome recipe for Grandma's Corn Chowder because I was looking for a recipe to use a lot of corn. This recipe not only did that (though I used only one can of cream style corn and substituted the rest with previously frozen corn kernels), but also provided a way for me to use up my previously frozen chopped shallots and celery, along with a package of previously frozen bacon and pork scraps. So it took care of a lot of things I was wondering what I'd do with. The recipe doesn't call for celery but my mother used to put some in her corn chowder and it doesn't call for shallots either, but it does call for a medium onion and I had about a medium onion's worth of chopped shallots frozen. So I figured hey what the heck they're almost the same. Plus I cooked & mashed the frozen carrots & turnips we had, together as one dish, to freeze for later.
Geez, I never realized how much food we had in that freezer, nor how awesome it is to have things precooked for when you forgot to get something out to thaw up in the fridge, or when you're too busy to cook and just want to shove something in the microwave to warm up.
The next things I'll be taking care of is the calamari and that fondue meat. Then I have only raspberries and pumpkin to worry about and both involve making desserts of some kind. Not sure what yet though. Have to take care of the really perishable stuff first before I worry about that. Besides I have a raspberry bush which is where I got the ones in the freezer from in the first place, so while it's wrong to waste food and I don't wish to, I won't be without raspberries unless that monster vine in the back of our property strangles the life out of them.
Like the monster morning glory vine did to my mint and corn. 'Cept that one I can get my revenge on as it's also considered to be "winter spinach", so I harvest it to blanche the leaves as a spinach substitute. That'll teach it to strangle my plants on me.
And by the looks of my garden even though it's been severely neglected by me because of the excruciating heat we've been having lately, I will have to start harvesting some stuff from it soon and take care of it, whether that involves canning, blanching or baking depends on the type of plant it is. But yeah even neglected weed infested gardens do yield some stuff worth saving. So that looks like that'll be taking care of whatever time I have in the near future as well and the closer it gets to frost, the busier I get trying to salvage whatever I can. Typically in a typical year that's sometime in October usually. But this year is not typical by a long shot and it's not over yet either. So who knows maybe we'll have to harvest in August or perhaps maybe in December who knows?
Anywho..... Back to the Coronavirus headlines.... Get your cuppa whatever and settle in, there's a lot of it and it doesn't ever end either from what I can see....
Record Numbers of Americans Try to Buy Guns
That's not a surprise at all. Everytime there's a problem there they arm themselves to the teeth and go on a looting rampage.
Bolivian sex workers bet on see-through 'biosecurity' raincoats to reduce contagion risk
France will require face masks indoors as virus picks up They're mandatory here in QC already and I don't know about you, but I can't stand them. They're suffocating, as far as I'm concerned.
A KFC Takeout Order Led Australian Police To Give Partygoers $18,000 Coronavirus Fine They sound as ticket happy as the Montreal cops are! Wondering if they get a percentage added onto their salaries from the amount of fines given out as an incentive to give as many fines as they can?
Public's disconnect from COVID-19 reality worries experts Because most people don't know anyone who's had it and everyone pretty much thinks that the measures used to combat it are all wrong, it's like using a jackhammer to kill an ant, pretty much. Given that by law (it's actually in our constitution - the outlining of how quarantines and health acts are to be handled) the governments around the world including ours, way way way overstepped their bounds, by law. I'm pretty sure in a previous post on here - perhaps the one with Final in the title, near the end of it, there is a link to, or maybe a copy & paste of what it says precisely in our constitution about handling pandemics, health emergencies and quarantines and it says that the person/people who are infected are to be quarantined. It doesn't say anything at all about shutting society down entirely. So yeah, we're disconnected, because the whole freaking world is totally unhinged when it comes to this virus. So what do you expect of the average person then?
Quarantines or not, Americans descend on summer vacation spots This goes right along with the previous article about public disconnect.
Dogs to blame for COVID-19? No way, says new study I don't know which idiot was saying that dogs are to blame, but whoever they are, they do not deserve either, their grant they got to study that, nor their license to practice their profession whatever that's supposed to be. Half the time I think some of these so-called scientists are nothing more than shyster clowns trying to make living off of grants from others to study bogus BS and depending on who the study is done for, they'll find a way to finnagle the facts to suit their clients wishes.
One third of young adults at risk for severe COVID-19 infection But hey, lets go party, at the beach, at the bar, in mommy's basement, at the park.... Doesn't matter where, happy hour can be anywhere....
Most air conditioning systems don't protect against the coronavirus. In some cases, they can actually facilitate spread Adrianna Rodriguez USA TODAY Oh big choice here..... Die of heat stroke in a matter of hours from shutting it off, or leave it on and maybe just maybe, contract COVID19. I think I'll leave it on and take my chances.
Banks Stand to Make $18 Billion in PPP Processing Fees From CARES Act Geez no matter what the crisis is, the US banks always find a way to profit off it. Back in 2008 with the asset backed paper scandal - created by the banks themselves - they not only didn't get any repercussions from it (except Lehman Bros. went out of business but other than that....) instead they profitted it from it by demanding the government bail them out by convincing the government they were too big to fail. So they not only created the crisis themselves, they found a way to profit from it too.
Caution: The Market Is Set for a 30-40% Drop Soon! I'm just amazed it hasn't bottomed out like it did in October 1929 in the infamous stock market crash that caused the Great Depression. I'd have thought that by now, we'd be in the midst of it.
Texas’ Cadillac of Death Picks Up COVID Victim After Victim
The lockdown rule Prince Louis can't stop breaking Maybe a little royal cuteness will lighten the mood a touch.
I Went To Disney World The Day It Reopened After The Coronavirus Closures, And This Is What It's Really Like For those who can get there and are interested in this.
Potential scandal brewing over Florida COVID stats
'They're really trying to kill us': How the coronavirus crisis worsens food insecurity in Black communities They're not only trying to kill you, they're trying to kill anyone that's old, sick, weak, poor, disabled and just plain "undesirable" in their books.
Gatineau woman describes atmosphere of fear in Florida
Confirmed US virus cases rise amid new global restrictions
Moderna COVID-19 Vaccine Induced Adverse Reactions In "More Than Half" Of Trial Participants I don't think the press release about it saying it was promising mentioned the stuff posted in this article, which is an eye-opener.
COVID-19 situation in the U.S. 'scary' and 'dangerous,' Canadian long-haul truckers warn
Alberta father-of-two dies after 'non-essential' heart surgery postponed due to COVID-19 Another sad side-affect of this terrible virus, depriving people of essential health care that they need to save their lives, like that. So if you don't die of the disease itself, they'll ensure that whatever other terminal/fatal condition you have you'll die of anyhow. So they should add those numbers of fatalities to the covid numbers to get the real death tolls. Because they should all be lumped in with it, they were deprived life saving medical care on account of virus. Then I bet the numbers would be much much higher than they are.
Montreal heat waves may have claimed 14 lives this year, public health says
Data map shows 45% of US counties are seeing uncontrollable spread of COVID-19 outbreaks - as latest model predicts 224,000 American deaths by beginning of November And they want to come to Canada for vacation? I say, stay home! We don't want nor need your germs here! Keep them to yourselves!
Californians turn against each other amid 2nd coronavirus shutdown I'm beginning to wonder if this whole thing is also being used as a psy-ops study. To see how people react in different situations, like to massive lockdowns and then reopenings and then lockdowns again....
Manhattan’s Party Scene Roars Back to Life, Covid or No Covid And like Florida's party scene there'll be repercussions afterwards. Without a doubt.
'Epicenter of the epicenter': Young people partying in Miami Beach despite COVID-19 threat Just keep right at it. The US population is too large anyhow. It needs to be winnowed out some. Maybe get rid of all the loose nuts and screws there.
Morgan Stanley Joins Wall Street Gold Rush on Record Profit Oh surprise, surprise, yet another US bank found a way to make a killing off this crisis, while the average American is having massive financial problems now. Kind of like in 2008 when they were bailed out and the average American got foreclosed upon and no one bailed them out. It's just one gimmick after another on ways they can find to fleece the people of their money and tax monies too while they're at it.
Study links good health-care in Canada to higher COVID-19 death rate If this isn't a load of hok'um I don't know what is. Gawd, if that's the case the Japanese should have the highest death rate, since they have the most seniors on the face of the earth.
Why do we have different blood types — and do they make us more vulnerable to Covid-19?
YouTubers Turned Down Trying To Hand Out Free Masks In Huntington Beach If we weren't forced by law to wear one, I wouldn't either, especially considering all the scientific reports I've seen on their effectiveness at controlling spread (which is they're basically totally ineffective), and how suffocating they feel on me.
New US coronavirus cases hit record high, south and west worst hit
Eviction Looms for Millions of Americans Who Can’t Afford Rent So what happens when the buildings are emptied of tenants who can't pay rent and new tenants who can pay it can't be found? What will the landlords do with a bunch of empty buildings that they have no income coming in on? What will the banks do with them once they're foreclosed upon? Where will the people go? Will they set up shanty towns just on the fringes of town? Will they all start living in tents on campgrounds? Wouldn't it just be better for the landlords to accept payment over time and possibly lower the rent for future months so that it's more affordable for their tenants? I mean there's a difference between no money, money coming in hand over fist and making obscene profits, and covering costs with a little left over for profit. Maybe the landlords could settle for the last option rather than the second one and by doing that they let their tenants live and they get to live as well, maybe not in as much luxury as they were accustomed to before, but at least they're not getting their buildings foreclosed upon and having their credit ratings wrecked on them. I don't know, I'm just saying, if I were a landlord I wouldn't be so hard on my tenants because I need them to survive too and if I get rid of them and can't get new ones because my prices are too high, then I'm only shooting myself in the foot, the knee and eventually in the end, in the head.
Scientists call for volunteers to be exposed to the coronavirus to test vaccines
Chinese executives get ‘pre-test’ injections in vaccine race In a way it's good they're testing it on themselves first. That would inspire more confidence in me than other firms that ask for volunteers like the ones in the story above.
Russia is hacking virus vaccine trials, US, UK, Canada say
US sanctions world's top surgical glove maker over forced labour
Portuguese officers raid clinics claiming 'ozone therapy' cures COVID-19
Germany readies tougher lockdowns to ward off second wave
Mosquitoes flying free as health departments focus on virus Mosquitoes are always flying free around here. We live in mosquito alley I think. Some days we can't go outside in our own yard without being covered in Muskol.
Coronavirus: Spain orders culling of almost 100,000 mink It's going to bankrupt the mink ranchers. Wow. There goes a lot of fur coats down the drain. Why? I don't know as they have been telling us and telling us that animals (though that's supposedly where it started - was in animals) don't have and can't get coronavirus. So what and who do you believe?
Coronavirus: 'How we’re surviving a second virus lockdown'
'You call me selfish for not wearing a mask?'
Coronavirus: Big choices for EU leaders on recovery billions I think it's going to cost us billions just in taxes nevermind recovery. We have to fill to hole Trudeau dug in our money pit, now.
24 hours in a COVID-19 hot spot leaves no walk of life unscathed. This is what it's like.
Cruises will not sail in US waters until October after CDC extends its 'no-sail' order For those who thought trying to cross the land border might be impossible and thought about sailing to the US coastline instead.... I guess that's out now too. Maybe if you hire a skydiving plane and fly over the US border and jump out with a parachute on, you'll be able to get there. If you really want to, that is.
More than half of all states, including California and Michigan, pause reopening or take steps to halt the spread of COVID-19
'COVID hallucinations saved my life': Coronavirus-induced vision told a woman near death to call 911 It's more like a feverish delirium that saved her life. It's the fever and not the virus that causes delirium induced hallucinations. That's true of any high fever whether it's caused by coronavirus or kidney infection, or any other illness that can cause high fevers.
A nightmare scenario for farmers is happening right now That's rough when the food isn't refused right away and it sits and spoils and then you find out and have to take it back after that. That's a loss and a waste of perfectly good food.
Rand Paul has some wildly irresponsible ideas about a future coronavirus vaccine I'm not a doctor either, but I was a nurse and I agree with Paul Rand on this and call the idiot reporter out for being a total moron with a megaphone on a pedestal peddling FALSE NEWS. That's where false news comes from, from totally uninformed and uneducated and lazy reporting. Since the 1980s I've seen a super decline in journalistic integrity and this one is one near the top of "it has to take cake" category. So don't believe everything a journalist says over what a doctor says in this pandemic as I think doctors know more about what they're talking about than some loudmouth know-it-all blabber mouths, like this reporter appears to be.
24-year-old who beat Covid-19 after nearly 80 days in the hospital says she regrets not wearing a mask 80 Days in the Hospital! Wow! That's a long time especially for someone so young, who are supposed to be able to beat the virus easier than older people do. She must've had it really rough! I'm glad she survived in that case!
Militant groups use murder, arson to enforce lockdown in Colombia, says rights organization and we think wearing ankle bracelets to keep us at home is bad.... Wow...
This is what awaits us after the pandemic Well nationalism and a cold war doesn't make for a new world order. A new world order is based on a one world government with nations linked together kind of like the now failed EU, but on a global basis allowing all citizens to travel and work anywhere they want etc... We don't see that now. We see a major clamp down with closed borders and all nations for themselves. Kind of like the world I grew up in before all this globalization garbage started.
Canada to inessential US travelers: Please stay home Seriously!
FBI warns public about surge in scams amid coronavirus Even criminals can't resist taking advantage of a good crisis or pandemic either. I'm sure some of the scams happening in the US is also happening here too. So be vigilant.
Pompeo says China 'was aware' of human coronavirus transmission before telling world, WHO was 'co-opted' He's probably right, considering they were messing around with this particular virus since before 2016 because in 2016 is when Gilead Sciences & them came up with a anecdote aka redemsivir that they began fighting over patent rights on then too. So of course they knew. You can't make an anecdote for a virus you never saw, studied, or experimented with. Doesn't happen.
COVID-19 power shift: Experts have 'deep worries' about hospital data sent to Washington
Troy Harlow has always made sure to pay his mortgage on time. Wells Fargo had other plans for him. I don't think I detest any commercial establishment more than I detest Wells Fargo. It's the only bank I've ever been in where the security guard trained his gun on me and held it there, while I asked for my Canadian money to be exchanged into American money (I was going to pay the exchange rate and whatever fees they wanted to charge). The teller whined at me in a nasal voice "we don't do foreign currency exchanges here". It was the only bank in the area and I was exasperated because the Americans wouldn't take Canadian money, they called it monopoly money because of the colours on it, so we couldn't buy gas, we couldn't get a meal, we couldn't do anything as we had no American money left on us. (This was in 1980 so long before debit machines and ATMS). I was ready to basically cry because we were literally stuck there within walking distance as we couldn't even put gas in our vehicle to go anywhere. And here's this gun-toting trigger happy American standing there with his gun on me as if I was a communist (they were against all commies at the time) trying to exchange my Russian Rubles for US Dollars or something. Later on when I came back to Canada and saw that people in stores, gas stations and literally everywhere were accepting the Yankee Greenback and giving them fair exchange rates on it right there at the business establishment's cash register, I was fuming mad. I figured we should not accept their money either as it looks like old antiquated dish rags that's been laundered so many times it's starting to look smeared. So I have a particular interest in posting this story, just to hold their nastiness up to the light to let more of the world see what kind of rotten (a few expletives) bunch of thugs they are and rub their noses in it!
Graphic: Coronavirus deaths in the U.S., per day
The coronavirus has destroyed the job market in every state Wondering what it's done to the provincial job markets here...
A Better SUMMER Just a fun article to help you enjoy your summer a little more this year.
Remdesivir shortages force doctors to make "heart-wrenching" choices Until the production of this is ramped up and they can make more doses in shorter periods of time, doctors will have to continue to make these anguishing decisions. I'm just glad I'm not a doctor and never was, in cases like this.
Iceland is broadcasting the world's screams to relieve coronavirus stress More coronavirus craziness..
Doctors share sobering stories as coronavirus cases spike
Domestic abuse isn't a crime in Russia. One survivor says "the police don't help." There was a report out the other day saying how drastically the percentage of increased domestic violence has gone up in Canada since the pandemic began. I don't remember the numbers but they were incredibly high and here we have laws (weak as they are, they're still laws against it) and shelters for women & kids subject to abuse to go to. In Russia domestic violence is legal so these poor victims have no recourse and nowhere to go. Imagine being in lockdown for months like that. I just can't even imagine being in lockdown for 1 day like that, as it doesn't even take that long to kill someone or batter them to death.
20-year-old student documents bike trip from Scotland to Greece to get home to his family during pandemic
Laundry's worst cycle: The coronavirus' impact on dry cleaners and tailors - COVID chronicles The people who aren't getting their clothes dry cleaned any more are probably healthier now that they're not in contact with all those dry cleaning chemicals and I bet the areas around the dry cleaning businesses are less polluted too.
Tesla tries to assure workers there's no big virus outbreak Doesn't he hire well educated people or high school flunky drop-outs? Just wondering because if he hires well educated people who can read and understands what's going on, what makes him think they'll believe him? High-school and elementary school flunky drop-outs might, but I think those are his scrapyard workers, garbage haulers and metal bangers and not anyone who knows anything at all about the type of stuff he builds and works with.
UN makes largest single appeal amid warnings of unprecedented hunger due to pandemic All the more reason for me to try to salvage whatever food I can.
No servers, no tables: Israeli cafe is pandemic-friendly It's not the servers that I worry about. It's the people in the kitchen behind the closed doors - the ones we can't see.
As COVID-19 financial crisis wages on, some economists warn of a divergent 'K-shaped' economic recovery
'Big bravo to British Columbians': Lead researcher says COVID-19 study shows low infection in B.C. Keep up the good work BC!
Passengers warned over COVID exposure on two more flights through YVR I thought the airlines were bellyaching about having to shut down. If they were totally shut down we wouldn't be facing situations like this.
Federal government to provide provinces and territories with $19B for 'safe restart' of economy
B.C. warned of potential for 'explosive growth' as 102 new COVID-19 cases announced over weekend
Geez what happened there BC? I just said keep up the good work and here you went and let me down. It's too bad that you're seeing more cases like this, because you were doing really good for the longest time.
Some employees cite CERB as reason to refuse return to work, CFIB survey says
Ontario to get $7B of federal government’s $19B pandemic recovery funds There's 10 provinces & 3 territories, so why are they getting about 1/3rd of the money do they have 1/3rd of the population of Canada? If that's the case, is Quebec getting about 1/4 as they have roughly 1/4 of the population. If so, that doesn't leave much for the other provinces & territories relatively speaking. Does it? If that's the case what are the territories going to be getting? I mean they have nowhere near the population the provinces do, but yet they need more financial assistance than the provinces in my humble opinion.
Surge of 42 new coronavirus cases in Saskatchewan, active cases jump to 114 What's going on here? First BC, now you.
Trump Spokesperson On Border Closure: Americans Don’t Want To Go To Canada Anyway Good! they can stay home as far as I'm concerned! Most of them probably don't even know where Canada is anyhow!
COVID-19 Walk-in clinic opens in Beaconsfield today It's about time they had one on the west island now I'm just wondering when the Vaudreuil-Dorion district will see one?
Like the monster morning glory vine did to my mint and corn. 'Cept that one I can get my revenge on as it's also considered to be "winter spinach", so I harvest it to blanche the leaves as a spinach substitute. That'll teach it to strangle my plants on me.
And by the looks of my garden even though it's been severely neglected by me because of the excruciating heat we've been having lately, I will have to start harvesting some stuff from it soon and take care of it, whether that involves canning, blanching or baking depends on the type of plant it is. But yeah even neglected weed infested gardens do yield some stuff worth saving. So that looks like that'll be taking care of whatever time I have in the near future as well and the closer it gets to frost, the busier I get trying to salvage whatever I can. Typically in a typical year that's sometime in October usually. But this year is not typical by a long shot and it's not over yet either. So who knows maybe we'll have to harvest in August or perhaps maybe in December who knows?
Anywho..... Back to the Coronavirus headlines.... Get your cuppa whatever and settle in, there's a lot of it and it doesn't ever end either from what I can see....
Record Numbers of Americans Try to Buy Guns
That's not a surprise at all. Everytime there's a problem there they arm themselves to the teeth and go on a looting rampage.
Bolivian sex workers bet on see-through 'biosecurity' raincoats to reduce contagion risk
France will require face masks indoors as virus picks up They're mandatory here in QC already and I don't know about you, but I can't stand them. They're suffocating, as far as I'm concerned.
A KFC Takeout Order Led Australian Police To Give Partygoers $18,000 Coronavirus Fine They sound as ticket happy as the Montreal cops are! Wondering if they get a percentage added onto their salaries from the amount of fines given out as an incentive to give as many fines as they can?
Public's disconnect from COVID-19 reality worries experts Because most people don't know anyone who's had it and everyone pretty much thinks that the measures used to combat it are all wrong, it's like using a jackhammer to kill an ant, pretty much. Given that by law (it's actually in our constitution - the outlining of how quarantines and health acts are to be handled) the governments around the world including ours, way way way overstepped their bounds, by law. I'm pretty sure in a previous post on here - perhaps the one with Final in the title, near the end of it, there is a link to, or maybe a copy & paste of what it says precisely in our constitution about handling pandemics, health emergencies and quarantines and it says that the person/people who are infected are to be quarantined. It doesn't say anything at all about shutting society down entirely. So yeah, we're disconnected, because the whole freaking world is totally unhinged when it comes to this virus. So what do you expect of the average person then?
Quarantines or not, Americans descend on summer vacation spots This goes right along with the previous article about public disconnect.
Dogs to blame for COVID-19? No way, says new study I don't know which idiot was saying that dogs are to blame, but whoever they are, they do not deserve either, their grant they got to study that, nor their license to practice their profession whatever that's supposed to be. Half the time I think some of these so-called scientists are nothing more than shyster clowns trying to make living off of grants from others to study bogus BS and depending on who the study is done for, they'll find a way to finnagle the facts to suit their clients wishes.
One third of young adults at risk for severe COVID-19 infection But hey, lets go party, at the beach, at the bar, in mommy's basement, at the park.... Doesn't matter where, happy hour can be anywhere....
Most air conditioning systems don't protect against the coronavirus. In some cases, they can actually facilitate spread Adrianna Rodriguez USA TODAY Oh big choice here..... Die of heat stroke in a matter of hours from shutting it off, or leave it on and maybe just maybe, contract COVID19. I think I'll leave it on and take my chances.
Banks Stand to Make $18 Billion in PPP Processing Fees From CARES Act Geez no matter what the crisis is, the US banks always find a way to profit off it. Back in 2008 with the asset backed paper scandal - created by the banks themselves - they not only didn't get any repercussions from it (except Lehman Bros. went out of business but other than that....) instead they profitted it from it by demanding the government bail them out by convincing the government they were too big to fail. So they not only created the crisis themselves, they found a way to profit from it too.
Caution: The Market Is Set for a 30-40% Drop Soon! I'm just amazed it hasn't bottomed out like it did in October 1929 in the infamous stock market crash that caused the Great Depression. I'd have thought that by now, we'd be in the midst of it.
Texas’ Cadillac of Death Picks Up COVID Victim After Victim
The lockdown rule Prince Louis can't stop breaking Maybe a little royal cuteness will lighten the mood a touch.
I Went To Disney World The Day It Reopened After The Coronavirus Closures, And This Is What It's Really Like For those who can get there and are interested in this.
Potential scandal brewing over Florida COVID stats
'They're really trying to kill us': How the coronavirus crisis worsens food insecurity in Black communities They're not only trying to kill you, they're trying to kill anyone that's old, sick, weak, poor, disabled and just plain "undesirable" in their books.
Gatineau woman describes atmosphere of fear in Florida
Confirmed US virus cases rise amid new global restrictions
Moderna COVID-19 Vaccine Induced Adverse Reactions In "More Than Half" Of Trial Participants I don't think the press release about it saying it was promising mentioned the stuff posted in this article, which is an eye-opener.
COVID-19 situation in the U.S. 'scary' and 'dangerous,' Canadian long-haul truckers warn
Alberta father-of-two dies after 'non-essential' heart surgery postponed due to COVID-19 Another sad side-affect of this terrible virus, depriving people of essential health care that they need to save their lives, like that. So if you don't die of the disease itself, they'll ensure that whatever other terminal/fatal condition you have you'll die of anyhow. So they should add those numbers of fatalities to the covid numbers to get the real death tolls. Because they should all be lumped in with it, they were deprived life saving medical care on account of virus. Then I bet the numbers would be much much higher than they are.
Montreal heat waves may have claimed 14 lives this year, public health says
Data map shows 45% of US counties are seeing uncontrollable spread of COVID-19 outbreaks - as latest model predicts 224,000 American deaths by beginning of November And they want to come to Canada for vacation? I say, stay home! We don't want nor need your germs here! Keep them to yourselves!
Californians turn against each other amid 2nd coronavirus shutdown I'm beginning to wonder if this whole thing is also being used as a psy-ops study. To see how people react in different situations, like to massive lockdowns and then reopenings and then lockdowns again....
Manhattan’s Party Scene Roars Back to Life, Covid or No Covid And like Florida's party scene there'll be repercussions afterwards. Without a doubt.
'Epicenter of the epicenter': Young people partying in Miami Beach despite COVID-19 threat Just keep right at it. The US population is too large anyhow. It needs to be winnowed out some. Maybe get rid of all the loose nuts and screws there.
Morgan Stanley Joins Wall Street Gold Rush on Record Profit Oh surprise, surprise, yet another US bank found a way to make a killing off this crisis, while the average American is having massive financial problems now. Kind of like in 2008 when they were bailed out and the average American got foreclosed upon and no one bailed them out. It's just one gimmick after another on ways they can find to fleece the people of their money and tax monies too while they're at it.
Study links good health-care in Canada to higher COVID-19 death rate If this isn't a load of hok'um I don't know what is. Gawd, if that's the case the Japanese should have the highest death rate, since they have the most seniors on the face of the earth.
Why do we have different blood types — and do they make us more vulnerable to Covid-19?
YouTubers Turned Down Trying To Hand Out Free Masks In Huntington Beach If we weren't forced by law to wear one, I wouldn't either, especially considering all the scientific reports I've seen on their effectiveness at controlling spread (which is they're basically totally ineffective), and how suffocating they feel on me.
New US coronavirus cases hit record high, south and west worst hit
Eviction Looms for Millions of Americans Who Can’t Afford Rent So what happens when the buildings are emptied of tenants who can't pay rent and new tenants who can pay it can't be found? What will the landlords do with a bunch of empty buildings that they have no income coming in on? What will the banks do with them once they're foreclosed upon? Where will the people go? Will they set up shanty towns just on the fringes of town? Will they all start living in tents on campgrounds? Wouldn't it just be better for the landlords to accept payment over time and possibly lower the rent for future months so that it's more affordable for their tenants? I mean there's a difference between no money, money coming in hand over fist and making obscene profits, and covering costs with a little left over for profit. Maybe the landlords could settle for the last option rather than the second one and by doing that they let their tenants live and they get to live as well, maybe not in as much luxury as they were accustomed to before, but at least they're not getting their buildings foreclosed upon and having their credit ratings wrecked on them. I don't know, I'm just saying, if I were a landlord I wouldn't be so hard on my tenants because I need them to survive too and if I get rid of them and can't get new ones because my prices are too high, then I'm only shooting myself in the foot, the knee and eventually in the end, in the head.
Scientists call for volunteers to be exposed to the coronavirus to test vaccines
Chinese executives get ‘pre-test’ injections in vaccine race In a way it's good they're testing it on themselves first. That would inspire more confidence in me than other firms that ask for volunteers like the ones in the story above.
Russia is hacking virus vaccine trials, US, UK, Canada say
US sanctions world's top surgical glove maker over forced labour
Portuguese officers raid clinics claiming 'ozone therapy' cures COVID-19
Germany readies tougher lockdowns to ward off second wave
Mosquitoes flying free as health departments focus on virus Mosquitoes are always flying free around here. We live in mosquito alley I think. Some days we can't go outside in our own yard without being covered in Muskol.
Coronavirus: Spain orders culling of almost 100,000 mink It's going to bankrupt the mink ranchers. Wow. There goes a lot of fur coats down the drain. Why? I don't know as they have been telling us and telling us that animals (though that's supposedly where it started - was in animals) don't have and can't get coronavirus. So what and who do you believe?
Coronavirus: 'How we’re surviving a second virus lockdown'
'You call me selfish for not wearing a mask?'
Coronavirus: Big choices for EU leaders on recovery billions I think it's going to cost us billions just in taxes nevermind recovery. We have to fill to hole Trudeau dug in our money pit, now.
24 hours in a COVID-19 hot spot leaves no walk of life unscathed. This is what it's like.
Cruises will not sail in US waters until October after CDC extends its 'no-sail' order For those who thought trying to cross the land border might be impossible and thought about sailing to the US coastline instead.... I guess that's out now too. Maybe if you hire a skydiving plane and fly over the US border and jump out with a parachute on, you'll be able to get there. If you really want to, that is.
More than half of all states, including California and Michigan, pause reopening or take steps to halt the spread of COVID-19
'COVID hallucinations saved my life': Coronavirus-induced vision told a woman near death to call 911 It's more like a feverish delirium that saved her life. It's the fever and not the virus that causes delirium induced hallucinations. That's true of any high fever whether it's caused by coronavirus or kidney infection, or any other illness that can cause high fevers.
A nightmare scenario for farmers is happening right now That's rough when the food isn't refused right away and it sits and spoils and then you find out and have to take it back after that. That's a loss and a waste of perfectly good food.
Rand Paul has some wildly irresponsible ideas about a future coronavirus vaccine I'm not a doctor either, but I was a nurse and I agree with Paul Rand on this and call the idiot reporter out for being a total moron with a megaphone on a pedestal peddling FALSE NEWS. That's where false news comes from, from totally uninformed and uneducated and lazy reporting. Since the 1980s I've seen a super decline in journalistic integrity and this one is one near the top of "it has to take cake" category. So don't believe everything a journalist says over what a doctor says in this pandemic as I think doctors know more about what they're talking about than some loudmouth know-it-all blabber mouths, like this reporter appears to be.
24-year-old who beat Covid-19 after nearly 80 days in the hospital says she regrets not wearing a mask 80 Days in the Hospital! Wow! That's a long time especially for someone so young, who are supposed to be able to beat the virus easier than older people do. She must've had it really rough! I'm glad she survived in that case!
Militant groups use murder, arson to enforce lockdown in Colombia, says rights organization and we think wearing ankle bracelets to keep us at home is bad.... Wow...
This is what awaits us after the pandemic Well nationalism and a cold war doesn't make for a new world order. A new world order is based on a one world government with nations linked together kind of like the now failed EU, but on a global basis allowing all citizens to travel and work anywhere they want etc... We don't see that now. We see a major clamp down with closed borders and all nations for themselves. Kind of like the world I grew up in before all this globalization garbage started.
Canada to inessential US travelers: Please stay home Seriously!
FBI warns public about surge in scams amid coronavirus Even criminals can't resist taking advantage of a good crisis or pandemic either. I'm sure some of the scams happening in the US is also happening here too. So be vigilant.
Pompeo says China 'was aware' of human coronavirus transmission before telling world, WHO was 'co-opted' He's probably right, considering they were messing around with this particular virus since before 2016 because in 2016 is when Gilead Sciences & them came up with a anecdote aka redemsivir that they began fighting over patent rights on then too. So of course they knew. You can't make an anecdote for a virus you never saw, studied, or experimented with. Doesn't happen.
COVID-19 power shift: Experts have 'deep worries' about hospital data sent to Washington
Troy Harlow has always made sure to pay his mortgage on time. Wells Fargo had other plans for him. I don't think I detest any commercial establishment more than I detest Wells Fargo. It's the only bank I've ever been in where the security guard trained his gun on me and held it there, while I asked for my Canadian money to be exchanged into American money (I was going to pay the exchange rate and whatever fees they wanted to charge). The teller whined at me in a nasal voice "we don't do foreign currency exchanges here". It was the only bank in the area and I was exasperated because the Americans wouldn't take Canadian money, they called it monopoly money because of the colours on it, so we couldn't buy gas, we couldn't get a meal, we couldn't do anything as we had no American money left on us. (This was in 1980 so long before debit machines and ATMS). I was ready to basically cry because we were literally stuck there within walking distance as we couldn't even put gas in our vehicle to go anywhere. And here's this gun-toting trigger happy American standing there with his gun on me as if I was a communist (they were against all commies at the time) trying to exchange my Russian Rubles for US Dollars or something. Later on when I came back to Canada and saw that people in stores, gas stations and literally everywhere were accepting the Yankee Greenback and giving them fair exchange rates on it right there at the business establishment's cash register, I was fuming mad. I figured we should not accept their money either as it looks like old antiquated dish rags that's been laundered so many times it's starting to look smeared. So I have a particular interest in posting this story, just to hold their nastiness up to the light to let more of the world see what kind of rotten (a few expletives) bunch of thugs they are and rub their noses in it!
Graphic: Coronavirus deaths in the U.S., per day
The coronavirus has destroyed the job market in every state Wondering what it's done to the provincial job markets here...
A Better SUMMER Just a fun article to help you enjoy your summer a little more this year.
Remdesivir shortages force doctors to make "heart-wrenching" choices Until the production of this is ramped up and they can make more doses in shorter periods of time, doctors will have to continue to make these anguishing decisions. I'm just glad I'm not a doctor and never was, in cases like this.
Iceland is broadcasting the world's screams to relieve coronavirus stress More coronavirus craziness..
Doctors share sobering stories as coronavirus cases spike
Domestic abuse isn't a crime in Russia. One survivor says "the police don't help." There was a report out the other day saying how drastically the percentage of increased domestic violence has gone up in Canada since the pandemic began. I don't remember the numbers but they were incredibly high and here we have laws (weak as they are, they're still laws against it) and shelters for women & kids subject to abuse to go to. In Russia domestic violence is legal so these poor victims have no recourse and nowhere to go. Imagine being in lockdown for months like that. I just can't even imagine being in lockdown for 1 day like that, as it doesn't even take that long to kill someone or batter them to death.
20-year-old student documents bike trip from Scotland to Greece to get home to his family during pandemic
Laundry's worst cycle: The coronavirus' impact on dry cleaners and tailors - COVID chronicles The people who aren't getting their clothes dry cleaned any more are probably healthier now that they're not in contact with all those dry cleaning chemicals and I bet the areas around the dry cleaning businesses are less polluted too.
Tesla tries to assure workers there's no big virus outbreak Doesn't he hire well educated people or high school flunky drop-outs? Just wondering because if he hires well educated people who can read and understands what's going on, what makes him think they'll believe him? High-school and elementary school flunky drop-outs might, but I think those are his scrapyard workers, garbage haulers and metal bangers and not anyone who knows anything at all about the type of stuff he builds and works with.
UN makes largest single appeal amid warnings of unprecedented hunger due to pandemic All the more reason for me to try to salvage whatever food I can.
No servers, no tables: Israeli cafe is pandemic-friendly It's not the servers that I worry about. It's the people in the kitchen behind the closed doors - the ones we can't see.
As COVID-19 financial crisis wages on, some economists warn of a divergent 'K-shaped' economic recovery
'Big bravo to British Columbians': Lead researcher says COVID-19 study shows low infection in B.C. Keep up the good work BC!
Passengers warned over COVID exposure on two more flights through YVR I thought the airlines were bellyaching about having to shut down. If they were totally shut down we wouldn't be facing situations like this.
Federal government to provide provinces and territories with $19B for 'safe restart' of economy
B.C. warned of potential for 'explosive growth' as 102 new COVID-19 cases announced over weekend
Geez what happened there BC? I just said keep up the good work and here you went and let me down. It's too bad that you're seeing more cases like this, because you were doing really good for the longest time.
Some employees cite CERB as reason to refuse return to work, CFIB survey says
Ontario to get $7B of federal government’s $19B pandemic recovery funds There's 10 provinces & 3 territories, so why are they getting about 1/3rd of the money do they have 1/3rd of the population of Canada? If that's the case, is Quebec getting about 1/4 as they have roughly 1/4 of the population. If so, that doesn't leave much for the other provinces & territories relatively speaking. Does it? If that's the case what are the territories going to be getting? I mean they have nowhere near the population the provinces do, but yet they need more financial assistance than the provinces in my humble opinion.
Surge of 42 new coronavirus cases in Saskatchewan, active cases jump to 114 What's going on here? First BC, now you.
Trump Spokesperson On Border Closure: Americans Don’t Want To Go To Canada Anyway Good! they can stay home as far as I'm concerned! Most of them probably don't even know where Canada is anyhow!
COVID-19 Walk-in clinic opens in Beaconsfield today It's about time they had one on the west island now I'm just wondering when the Vaudreuil-Dorion district will see one?
