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Sunday, January 3, 2021

Continuing On From 2020 Is .....

Covid19


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January 3, 2021

When I started this blog back in March 2020, when we first went into lockdown, I never dreamed I'd have 2021 dates on any of the postings in it. I thought for sure the whole thing would be over with by now. But alas, here we are, the 3rd of January 2021 and its raging stronger than ever and the morons in charge of our country are too f'n stupid to figure out how to roll out a vaccination campaign, so it wouldn't surprise me any that on January 3, 2022 I'll still be having to post postings in here as it still won't be over here in Canada. 

I mean I can't figure out how they managed to inoculate most of the population against H1N1 in about 3-4 months time, but they can't figure out how to inoculate 50,000 people in a month's time now. Seems like the more time passes, the stupider our population gets. Instead of learning from the past and maintaining some memory of it and how it was done, they promptly forgot as soon as it was over and done with and now they have to reinvent the entire wheel from scratch again. I mean it's not as if we're making the vaccines themselves so having to figure that out isn't the problem - it's the logistics of how to get it from a FedEx truck into our arms that seems to be the problem here. 
 
Whereas it wasn't a problem when it was the H1N1 virus. Everyone had their shots in no time then. I guess though that wasn't as lethal and actually, would've had a detrimental effect on the pharmaceutical industries if they didn't get as many people inoculated against H1N1 as they were able to, because then everyone who contracted H1N1 would've been automatically immune to all flues and colds coming along afterwards - thereby drastically cutting back on flu & cold medicine sales. 
 
So that's why they were able to figure it out and implement it in a flying hurry, but can't seem to figure stuff out this time around, because the longer it takes them to figure it out the more "useless eaters" get exterminated.  That's what it feels like to me. 
 
Too bad one of those "useless eaters" doesn't turn out to be bozo brains mother, Ms. Piggy or one of their spawn, or Haggydodo's kin, or Tam, the genocidal witch doctor's kin (though I don't think that would make a difference in her case, as I don't think she'd care anyhow - heartless beitche that she is). 
 
I mean it's only after Ms. Piggy and Mommy Dearest both returned from the UK in the spring with the virus themselves that bozo brains started taking it seriously - before that he was standing at the border welcoming it with open arms and kisses on both cheeks, because he didn't want to hurt anyone's feelings (namely the Chinese people's feelings - as if they give a flying F about us or our feelings). He wasn't worried about our feelings (you know his taxpaying voters) if we were to get sick with it or have a loved one die from it. That didn't seem to bother him one little bit. He was more concerned about hurting the feelings of some Chinese people than he was about the health and wellbeing of Canadians. Tells you what kind of short sighted ignorant ash hole we have for a PM here in Canada, doesn't it?
 
Just a short recap of what actually happened here in Canada to wake the morons at the helm up a bit and stop being so hospitable to virus carriers by letting them in and letting them "voluntarily self quarantine" - in other words let them in and let them traipse around the country as they pleased, because you can bet your bottom dollar that as soon as one of those who promised to voluntarily self quarantine ran out of an essential item like toilet paper, they were off to the store to get some, or if loss of their job was a threat they went to work, or failing a semester because of it, they went to school guaranteed. You know it, I know it and the offenders knows it too. 
 
I mean look at the woman on the south shore of Montreal who was told to self-quarantine, but instead of staying home and staying put she managed to ride all over Montreal on buses a few times in a week. Yeah like that helped a lot. Helped spread it hither and yon a lot, that is. So if one woman did that (and got caught) how many others do you think did that but didn't get caught then and even now? And we wonder what's going on and why..... 
 
So much for the quarantine methods of the past - which actually helped quell rampant disease outbreaks so they didn't become pandemics. But hey we can't use those methods because someone's civil liberties might be infringed upon - so instead we'll infringe on everyone's civil liberties equally by imposing province wide or country wide lockdowns, which aren't working because they're only half ashed, when the only sectors shut down are retail, & hospitality/entertainment, while everything else is open & working.

So now, on with the bleak reality of it here at the start of 2021.....
 
 
Despite pandemic, Montreal's real estate market had a record year I believe it, considering we don't live in Montreal and we've had 2 people wanting to buy our property in the last couple of months,  even though it's not for sale yet at least. But as our son suggested we could make a killing on it maybe if we put it for sale but for some outrageous price we want for it and if we don't get it, we don't sell. Given the amount of interest shown in it, in the last couple of months we might just do that. 
 
 
 
 
Travellers to Canada will require proof of negative COVID-19 test This should've been required since the beginning of the plandemic and not near the end of it. 
 

And I bet they'll have all 1.5 billion people inoculated before Canada even gets a half a million of our citizens inoculated. 
 

That's one way to get that long overdue disclosure going..... Now that, that bill has been signed into  law by Trump, I guess they'll have to comply.
 
Les premiers vaccins sont arrivés en Montérégie Oui mais, it's a long way from Valleyfield and Vaudreuil Soulanges which are part of Monteregie too. When do you think that part of the Monteregie will see some vaccines??????

 
Trump's $2,000 Checks All But Dead As GOP Senate Refuses Aid Oh but I bet if it were $2,000 a month increases in their salaries they were voting on, it would've been a landslide "yes". They'd have no problems on allowing that for themselves, but for those they've caused to basically become insolvent and maybe even on the verge of destitution, by their laws and shutdowns etc, they can't give them a $2,000 a month helping hand until their plandemic is over with eh? They vote it down and then have the nerve to blame Trump for the people not getting it. What a bunch of lying hypocrites.... Gawd....  

 
11 Things We Won’t Take For Granted Again In 2021 And Beyond Hmmmm I don't know. Most of the things listed there were not missed let alone taken for granted here. I'd have thought perhaps the journalist would've been a little less shallow person then they are and have listed things that actually matter, like being able to see loved ones you missed seeing and actually spending time with them in person & doing things together. Not taking your parents or grandparents for granted and resolving to spend more quality time with them. Being able to meet new people and make new friends, etc... Not this shallow "oh now we can party and greet each other with a kiss" kind of sheite. I guess if you're a 20 something flake, that's the be all and end all of your existance so probably the only thing you're capable of thinking about or missing.
 
 
Quebec changes COVID-19 vaccine strategy, won't hold back doses for booster shots Is that a good idea? Given that we're only getting vaccines delivered a drip at a time? Thanks to bozo brains for his total ineptitude at doing this.....

I bet they're gouging the governments on the cost of the vaccines though. 
 

Well at least some Canadians somewhere can enjoy a nice meal out with a loved one. Though being from NS, there's not all that many restaurants in most of the province, they're only really in towns and the two larger cities of Dartmouth & Halifax. Most of the rest of the province is rural consisting of fishing villages and well they may have a clam shack or snackbar, not many are going to have full blown restaurants to go to anyhow.
 

The variant isn't that new - it's been around since mid-September in the UK and probably since October here in Canada & the US - which probably accounts for the soaring case numbers even though certain places like here in Quebec we've been under a lockdown since the beginning of October.
 

 

 

 
Alberta municipal affairs minister took Hawaii vacation, sources say If they can flout the laws with impunity, why can't the rest of us? After all, THEY WORK FOR US! So if we're their bosses, we should be the ones flouting the laws with impunity while they pay hefty prices for doing so. 

It's not limited. What's limited is your intelligence. There's nothing wrong with re-examinating past tests to see if they show signs of that variant in them and I'd hazard a pretty good guess and say they do.  

I'm sure we're all hoping for that end.
 
 
The Mutated Virus Is a Ticking Time Bomb Probably not any more so now, than when it probably first arrived in October.

What Canada will learn & forget is the whole damned thing, just like they did with the H1N1 roll out. After that was done with, they promptly forgot everything about it. Like some kind of mass amnesia amongst the medical community.
 

For school at least that will probably be a good thing.
 
Covid camps? Put disease ‘carriers’ in DETENTION CENTERS, proposed New York law suggests  Well at one time they had sanatoriums for TB patients. When my mother was a young girl she spent 6 months in one, where she wasn't even allowed to see members of her own family - they weren't allowed to visit her.  Most people didn't have telephones at home then either, so calling on the phone was out of the question and forget things like iPads and laptops, they were merely a sci fi fantasy back then. The only means of communication she had with them was through handwritten letters. My mother was never a big letter writer either, so that basically limited that. So there's nothing wrong with this idea if they change the name from COVID Camp to something more palatable - considering that has a connotation of a death camp rather than a place of healing.

 

 
Federal officials shut down single-dose Moderna vaccine proposal Well if the manufacturer says you need 2 doses for it to be fully effective, then generally you need 2 doses of it. So whatever made the bozos in power think otherwise anyhow?

 

Once upon a time, teachers and students got inoculated at the same time in the school gym or auditorium. 
 
Vatican City plans swift COVID-19 vaccination drive for residents Everyone, everywhere is planning a swift vaccination drive except for here in Canada. Canada plans to take an entire year to vaccinate 35 million people, rather than the 3-4 months that they managed to get it done in, when it was H1N1 circulating. At the rate Canada wants to move at, India would need 2 decades to inoculate their entire population.

 
Vaccine rollout picks up speed in First Nations across Canada So you mean instead of inoculating 2 natives like you did yesterday you managed to inoculate 3 of them today? At that rate you'll be finished in the year 9,999 December 31.

 

 

 
How Israel got vaccines to 9% of its population in less than 2 weeks - far more than any other country That would be equivalent to Canada vaccinating roughly 3.5 million of us in less than 2 weeks. We can't seem to even get 35,000 of us vaccinated in that time frame. Talk about pathetic....

 

 

When they so readily flout their own laws like that, you have to wonder how serious this plandemic really is. Because you would think the politicians would know better than anyone else the situation in their own jurisdictions and the numbers associated with it. So if it's as dangerous as they say it is, why are the politicians willing to risk not only their own lives but also those of their families like they're doing when they flout those laws? So if it's as dangerous as they say it is, they should be terrified into staying home, but since they don't you have to question it and figure that those numbers are just meant to keep us in line, but they know the real numbers which aren't quite so bad as the ones released publicly. 
 
 
'Sky is the limit:' Pilot project using drones to send medical supplies, COVID tests Oh goody for them. They got their toys to work in order to inoculate a couple of people, but what about the rest of us? You know the few million south of there that needs to be vaccinated too!?!

So did pretty much the rest of us across this country with an exception or two here or there.
 

Another self-entitled nitwit that thinks the laws are only for the rest of us. 
 
Two more UCP MLAs returning to Alberta from trips abroad So obviously this plandemic is nowheres near as bad as they'd have us to believe with all their draconian lockdown laws, when they can so blithely flout them without care nor consequence. Not even the care or consequence of them contracting the virus and either dying from it themselves or possibly a family member of theirs. So like I said I wonder just how bad it really is. If they're not overblowing it on purpose in order to scare us into compliance but the pigs at the taxpayers troughs know the real truths and thus the real numbers and know it's not nearly half as bad as they're letting on that it is. That's what I'm starting to think.

 

 
Canadians’ hopes, fears and resolutions as 2021 begins  My hope is that I'll soon be able to post the last post in this blog, my fear is that I won't be able to this year and my resolution is just to enjoy life as much as possible.

No sheite sherlocke, I think we could more or less ascertain that for ourselves when we were told that it was more contagious - more contagious means it's spreads more and faster. Um duhhhh....

 
Canadian scientists work to track new coronavirus variant Good luck with that one.... You'll have to figure out a way to backtrack it to October because it's been here since then.

Because this country's medical authorities are nothing but airheads, imbeciles and genocidal witches. That's why.
 
U.S. millions of doses behind COVID-19 vaccine targets Guess they're taking lessons from the clueless buffoons that are in charge of Canada's vaccinations.

Yet ANOTHER CASE of authorities flouting the laws, as per this quote from the article: The police did not have their masks, or at least most of them. Either they wore it wrong or they just weren’t, says the resident of Gatineau.  --- Followed by this quote: Arriving with a bang on the scene, these reinforcements did not have time to put on their masks, reports communications manager Mariane Leduc. --------- Um so they don't have to wear their masks in the cars when driving together? So those 2 cops in the cop cars live together in the same house then? I mean we know there's not 2 meters distance between the driver and the passenger cops in the cars, so shouldn't they be wearing their masks before they even get in the squad cars together????? Or are those laws only for the rest of us, to give those lamebrained power trippers someone to ticket as there aren't many drivers left on the roads due to the lockdowns now? Is that it? If not then other cops seeing that should issue them hefty tickets for breaking the plandemic laws as well!!!!!! I'm so sick and tired of this culture of do as I say but not as I do, otherwise I'll gouge the eyes out of your heads in fines if you don't, BS. I think all these clowns behaving like that, should have their eyes gouged out of their heads for real. Have that happen to a few of these high and mighty politician & cop, BS flouting ash holes and the rest of them would smarten up and fly right.
 
Quebec shoppers and retailers frustrated and confused about what is an 'essential product'  What's essential to one, may not be to another. And what might seem like it shouldn't be essential to anyone might be under various circumstances. Like say a pair of winter boots because the ones you have got  a broken zipper or maybe a part of the sole missing letting cold water and snow inside, because most people by now would have their boots for the winter. Or you suddenly find out you need to be hospitalized and can't find any decent pjs, housecoat, nor undies either for that matter and need some before you can get admitted. There's all sorts of things that could be a necessity to someone but not necessarily to everyone, depending on situations. That's why I don't like that stupid law. 

 

That's putting it mildly. 
 
Plane crash deaths rise in 2020 despite Covid pandemic I thought we were all supposed to be staying home and not travelling! If we did, there wouldn't have been as many plane crash deaths as that.

Maybe you can find some helpful advice in this article. 
 
Why the pandemic is causing spikes in break-ups and divorces  Well my mother always said there's what she called a "7 year itch", that generally on the 7th year and again at each multiple of 7 years, like 14, 21, 28, etc... you experience the "7 year itch" where no matter what your partner says or does it just irritates the hell out of you and you wish you could be anywhere except where they are. So if the plandemic occurred on the 7 year multiple of a couple's marriage that probably didn't help things at all. But I've found in my own marriage that we do go through rough patches every now and then and while I can only say that maybe out of the 45 years we've been together, those rough patches might've occurred on 2 of the 7 year multiples, the other rough patches were at random. But generally speaking in our case anyhow, the rough patches didn't last a whole year, maybe a few months tops and that was it, they resolved themselves (actually we resolved our issues ourselves). 

And here in Canada too! Like I said since I found out it started in the UK in mid September and since all the lockdowns and other measures meant to slow the spread didn't seem to be working at all. 
 
New coronavirus spread swiftly around world from late 2019, study finds As did the other original virus, only no one will admit that because to do so would be putting the WHO at fault for not alerting us sooner. Which they should've done while it was STILL JUST AN EPIDEMIC IN WUHAN.

I don't know if you can blame the virus for all your violence, because if the virus is to blame for your violence, why didn't we see that everywhere? 
 

Who needs to be furious here in order for the vaccinations to rollout faster? Doesn't seem like there's any adults in charge of our vaccination campaign.
 
Local food pantry feels impact after federal food program abruptly ends This is just sad and doesn't bode well for the year ahead either.

 

Fauci not in favor of expanding gap between COVID-19 vaccine doses

 The US is not prepared for the next phase of COVID-19 vaccinations  You sure they were prepared for the 1st phase because all the headlines I've seen up until now wouldn't suggest that. Quite the contrary if you ask me.

Ontario reports record COVID-19 cases as more politicians cop to foreign travel

And yet more politicians flouting their own laws..... Why would anyone seeing all these flouters do that and get away with it, think they couldn't do it too and why should they obey the laws if those clowns don't have to? I certainly don't think they're any more above the law than I am, so therefore I should be able to flout the laws and get away with it too. 

Scores of people protest conditions at Tendercare after 60 deaths due to COVID-19 

Care residents, health-care workers receive first doses of Moderna COVID-19 vaccine on Siksika Nation 

Australia's COVID-19 cases on the rise as masks made compulsory 

More Canadian politicians caught ignoring COVID-19 recommendations Annndddd on it goes..... 

$1,000 Federal Sickness Benefit Can Be Used To Quarantine After Non-Essential Travel

Yeah sure, give the rich who can afford non essential travel, even more money that they don't deserve. Meanwhile we have thousands of homeless rotting in gutters because they can't afford a place to live, seniors getting kicked out of places because they can no longer afford their rents, the working poor struggling to put food in their mouths and a roof over their heads at the same time.... But yeah, it's obvious these rich SOBs needs the money way more than any of those people do, so give it to them and continue ignoring the most needy in this country like you've been doing since 1867!

Feds weigh cutting COVID-19 benefit for travellers as Canada surpasses 600,000 cases You should do more than just weigh it there bozos, try doing something about it. Maybe pass the savings on to the groups I mentionned above - they actually need it, more than those who can afford to travel for non-essential purposes do.

Pandemic inactivity causing rise in injuries, say Alberta practitioners

N.L. sees active cases drop to single digits as no new cases reported Sunday That's excellent news! Now let's hope it stays like that!

COVID-19 shows the cracks in public education – here’s how to repair them

India OKs AstraZeneca and locally made COVID-19 vaccines 

Aide à la quarantaine : Ottawa entend réexaminer la question

Coronavirus: Which European country is fastest at rolling out the vaccine? 


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Tuesday, August 18, 2020

A Sore Foot, Out Visiting, Pure Exhaustion & ....

More Covid Coverage

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August 17, 2020

Well I see Google hasn't forced me back onto the new crappy editor of theirs and left me alone on this old one. Hopefully, that'll remain the case until or unless they allow linking headlines directly to the URL links, in the new one, like I am able to do in this one.  So for as long as I am able to link the headline titles to the actual links themselves so that when you click on the headline you're taken to the story, without having to read long and sometimes inane and sometimes seemingly irrelevant URLs, all the while trying to not only decipher it, but to figure out if you'd actually like to go and read that story or not.  The way it's able to be done and I've been doing it since day one on here, seems to be easier and more efficient for everyone concerned. And I hope it remains that way even when they're finished with the "new" version.

In the meantime though, as much as I wish I could keep you up to date with the COVID19 headlines it probably won't be possible, because as I said it's harvest time and I have a garden (although at this point it just looks like a giant field of weeds because due to the heat and humidity I haven't been taking care of it, there are still several food items to be found in it, like tomatoes for instance - which I currently have coming out of my ears). So all that food (which won't be as much as there would've been had I have been a better and more weather adaptable gardener - more able to withstand the insane temperatures here in the summertime and so more able to get out there and work on the garden as needed) still needs to be taken care of. Otherwise what's the point of having a garden at all if you're not even going to harvest the food that's there is and use it? 

On top of that we do have other things to do as well, like the usual errands and occasional other outings like visiting people. So as not to contravene any laws, regarding COVID19 out there, the "other people" are the people in our "bubble" - namely our son & his wife. Just to get out of our house and leave the cooking and cleaning to someone else. 😋 Which is what we did yesterday. 

Today, I was either supposed to go with my husband to do errands with him, or stay here while he went, and catch up on working with food, as I have a ton of it to take care of. Neither of which I accomplished because I have a sore foot and couldn't hardly stand on it at all today. It wasn't until after supper tonight when my husband looked at it and says it looks like a small blister (but it doesn't have the same pain as a blister - it feels more like a bruise or a puncture wound). Unsure of what it could be, means I'm unsure on how to treat it. So for now I'm relying on things like Voltaren and the spray on pain reliever Novarnica. Maybe if it gets bigger and we can clearly define what it is, tomorrow I'll be able to make a decisive "treatment" to remedy the situation because now is not the time for me to be sitting things out due to a foot problem, when I clearly need to be standing in front of the stove or at least nearby working on food.

So for the moment at least, I can and will add a few more of the headlines here for your perusal. Many of them might be rather old and so you already know about them, but some might also not only be old but obscure and you were aware of them, so they'll be like new news to you in that case. I will try to get as many headlines in this post as I can, but it still won't be anywhere near being caught up. So away we go....

Secret recipes for McDonald's McMuffin, Disney's beignets, more to make in quarantine  I don't know if I posted this link before or not, but I thought I'd start off with something a little more sweet and less scary than the usual headlines. 


Bill Gates says other nations had better coronavirus responses than US   He makes this sound like it's not an orchestrated effort amongst western nations and that everyone just did their own thing, which couldn't be more untruthful if he tried, considering it was the larger nations like the G20 that went along with this horse sheite on how to treat a pandemic while the smaller 3rd world countries used good old fashioned medical knowledge to handle the pandemic and they did much, much, much better than any of the G20 or western nations did following the WHO directives. So we have to ask ourselves why. Especially countries like Canada, who has a charter of rights and freedoms and things like epidemics and pandemics have clearly defined guidelines on how to handle such things - which is the common sense medical way (the way the 3rd world countries handled it) and didn't involve shutting down whole areas of populations. Considering the  Gates Foundation and the WEF (World Economic Forum) held a symposium on what would happen in the case of a global pandemic just a few weeks before this pandemic got going (and in the very same city where the pandemic started, incidentally). Any thinking person - or those with a thimble full of brains would be wondering why the World ECONOMIC Forum and NOT the World HEALTH Organization aka the WHO would be invited to that symposium with the Gates Foundation.  I mean does it make any sense to you that they would invite an economic agency over a health agency to a symposium about a global pandemic? Because it doesn't to me. 

Bill Gates explains how he would fight coronavirus if he was in charge: 'Don't mislead people' "Don't mislead people"..... Like the way you didn't mislead IBM when you stole CP/M to present to them as MS or PC DOS????? It's getting so that if I ever saw this pretentious jerk in person, I'd spit in his face before I said two words to him. I mean who does he think he is? Don't mislead people. Well then maybe he should come clean about him wanting to make gazillions of dollars on a vaccine that would be needed by the entire world's population against a virus, - that he was probably behind, producing and releasing too for all we know and who wants to crash the world economies so he can introduce his digital currency chip that everyone would require to keep track of their digit currency credits.... You mean that kind of "don't mislead people"? Then if that's what you mean, you are the biggest, greediest and most dishonest culprit of PURPOSELY MISLEADING PEOPLE I've ever seen!  And you need to be stopped!

Bill Gates & Congressman Negotiated “Tracing Deal” BEFORE COVID-19 Panic  Think about this when you read the next headlines....



12 People in a 3-Bedroom House, Then the Virus Entered the Equation  It's always those with the least (space, money, food, health, whatever) that is affected the most by whatever bad things are happening in society, whether that's job cuts, gov't aid cuts, pandemics, whatever....

Hawaii set to welcome Canadians without quarantine restrictions starting Sept. 1  Okay here's my feelings on Canadians wishing to travel outside the country during the pandemic. Since there's so much volatility regarding the pandemic and you never know when, who or how many people are suddenly going to have it and you come into contact with, I think that any Canadians who choose to leave the country to go else where during the pandemic for whatever reason,  have to stay there until until the pandemic's over with and that they're denied re-entry into the country. It was their own selfish desires and stupidity that led them elsewhere, so why should the rest of us have to suffer for their own selfish stupid decisions if they get it and come back home with it? Nope, once you're out, you're out until the pandemic is over with and if that takes decades, or centuries, oh well.... C'est la vie - get used to it and learn to live with your own stupid selfish decisions.

Six Months After WHO Declared it Global Emergency, Coronavirus Cases in the World Top 18 Million

Asia Today: More restrictions in Australia's Victoria state

Birx warns US is 'in a new phase' of coronavirus pandemic with more widespread cases

Britain to roll out millions of 90-minute coronavirus tests  Canada should invest in tests like this, especially if they could determine current and past brushes with the virus as in positive, negative or antibodies exist, kind of test.

Coronavirus: Iran cover-up of deaths revealed by data leak

Coronavirus: The hidden heroes of India’s Covid-19 wards

World / Countries / United States   This page shows the current up to date number of cases in the US, you can also get the current up to date statistics on other countries at this website by choosing the country in question.

COVID-19 Coronavirus Pandemic  The link to compare the countries of the world and to see where your country ranks. Canada is currently the country with the 24th highest amount of cases. By comparison, The USA is number one and the country with the least amount of cases is Anguilla according to this site.

Some COVID-19 survivors suffer psychiatric disorders, Italian study says

Singapore to make travellers wear electronic tags to enforce quarantine   Canada should've done that from the beginning and then we probably wouldn't have had so many cases.

Those coronavirus vaccines leading the race? Don't ditch the masks quite yet

The land with no face masks: Holland's top scientists say there's no solid evidence coverings work and warn they could even damage the fight against Covid-19  I wish the Canadian head honchos over this pandemic would read this. Especially considering that they're  now starting to rethink whether it's a respiratory illness or if it might instead be a circulatory related illness instead.

Advice from a woman who survived covid-19, the 1918 flu - and cancer  Wow! And I do like her advice too!

More than 100 executives warn Congress of 'catastrophic' consequences without relief for small business

Influencers allegedly test positive for COVID-19 after ‘irresponsible’ house parties: ‘Y’all caused an outbreak’

Dollar Sends Warning That U.S. Is Losing Its Grip on the Virus  Losing? I'd say Lost, considering they have the most cases in the world at the moment!

Feds keep lid on company names, dollar amounts in some COVID-19 contracts  It's only our money, after-all. So why should we have the right to know about where it's going to and for what purposes?

Coronavirus: What tests are available?

Coronavirus pandemic: Tracking the global outbreak 

Coronavirus pandemic creates America's first female recession amid child care, unemployment woes I'm not sure about that.... I remember quite vividly myself having to stay home to raise my kids because child care was just too expensive as there were no government subsidized daycares when I had I my kids and so I would've had to hire baby sitters who wanted roughly minimum wage wage at the time. Meaning half my salary as a nurse. The other half which would've equalled minimum wage is where my income taxes would've been taken from but for the whole amount and not just from the minimum wage I'd have been left with, plus my uniform costs, travel and lunch expenses etc.  In the end I was left with barely enough to cover groceries. So to me, it wasn't worth the effort of going out to work and risking my health while doing it just to cover grocery costs. So I stayed home and was here for my kids. Which is maybe why they turned out the way they did, meaning kids that I got complimented on in the community, who were good, decent and kind and ambitious.

Laundry tips to wash away germs amid the coronavirus  Lemme guess. I'm not going to bother reading this because I assume it's pretty much like all the other germs out there.... Use hot water, soap and bleach and you'll be fine kind of deal. But feel free to read it if you wish.

Here are five things to know about how grocery shopping has changed in the pandemic  Prices are higher is pretty much a given. Just about every sector of business uses whatever's going on out there as an excuse to raise prices from "climate change", to ISIS, to war, oil prices to pandemics, to the cost of the Cdn dollar against the American dollar, to whatever excuse they can come up with, to raise their prices. They never lower them back down to what they were before the alleged cause of raising them goes away, though.

As cruising resumes in some parts of world, multiple cruise ships affected by new COVID-19 cases  Isn't a lot too early to be resuming cruises?

US firearms purchases skyrocket during pandemic, according to FBI records  Considering how they've been going crazy trying to kill each other there, lately, I believe it. It's like if the COVID19 virus doesn't get them, they'll take care of it themselves.

Students at Indiana school back on campus after classmate sent home with positive Covid-19 test  I have a feeling a lot of that will be happening here in Canada too, once school resumes.

Tie-dye on the rise as a pandemic pastime  Well why not? We've got to have some fun and colour in our lives. Don't we?

New York's Cuomo calls federal COVID-19 response 'worst government blunder in modern history'   Actually let's call a spade a spade shall we? I mean get real and honest about this whole charade once and for all..... The worst government blunder in modern history was done by all the G20 & western countries in collusion with each other,  but since it was colluded upon, it's not a blunder but a planned catastrophe made to look like a blunder, because all the governments did it when they let the virus into their respective countries by refusing to closing their international borders to all those coming from abroad. If they did that back at the very moment they heard about this epidemic in Wuhan in mid January, none of these countries would be going through any of this now.

CDC says at least 17 people have West Nile virus — here’s how to distinguish symptoms from COVID-19

James Lovelock: Gaia theory creator on coronavirus and turning 101

How a long-forgotten word rallied a nation  Maybe we should all learn that word and what it means to practice it.

The Swiss court ruling on home workers’ rent To bad that law doesn't apply universally.

WHO urges caution over Russian vaccine claims

Coronavirus: How Iran is battling a surge in cases

Coronavirus: When home is both prison and sanctuary

COVID-19 outbreaks in agricultural communities raise harvest fears I understand this, given that I only have a garden and a sore foot, but still it's enough to prevent me from getting all that I need to do done and so some food may spoil on account of that.  So I can understand the farmer that has to stop the harvest because some people are sick with COVID19. For them it's even worse because they have way more crops to harvest than I do and their livelihoods depend on it, whereas in our case it helps cut down on grocery bills, that's all.

Around the world, countries thought to have contained the coronavirus face new waves of infection  That's the thing they haven't contained it or eradicated it. If they did and they didn't let anyone else into the country from outside, they wouldn't be having those resurgences. Those resurgences are coming from previously unknown sources, like people who were in contact with those who had it, but have been incubating the virus in their system silently over time until the symptoms manifested and they then became identifiable patients.

'He don't talk back to me!' Seniors receive robot pets to help with quarantine loneliness  Okay, I just find this to be total silliness, like giving toys to seniors. Yeah I know they say when we get old enough we regress into our second childhood, but this is ridiculous. There's a huge difference between these furry robot dogs and the real thing. If you have a well trained dog, they aren't apt to "talk back to you" either, but rather obey you, instead. It's been my experience that all dogs can be trained with lots of love and patience, and they'll be trained your way to do the things you want them to do, too.

Good Covid-19 News From Italy...and Sweden  Good we need some of that once in awhile - good news.  So here's this portion for now....

Anyhow, that's about all I can manage for now. Take care, stay well and stay tuned for more....









Tuesday, June 23, 2020

Having Survived Father's Day, Someone's Birthday,


The Supposed Apocalypse,  A Neverending

Heatwave & Continuing Coronavirus Pandemic

June 22, 2020

Phew, we made it through June 21st which marked Father's Day, a birthday for our daughter-in-law, the supposed apocalypse as was supposed to be signified by the total solar eclipse that also occurred yesterday, a grueling never-ending heatwave and so far, (knocking on wood) the Coronavirus as well. 

Just hope my garden fares as well, considering it's not raining at all and not even any mist, fog or dew to dampen the ground either. It had better rain tomorrow as the weather people are promising now or I'm going to provide the water to the plants myself, whether the city likes it or not.  

But it is excruciatingly hot out there lately. I don't think I'd survive if we didn't have air conditioning. So I wouldn't have to worry about Coronavirus getting me, because the heat would. I just feel sorry for those who are couped up in tiny apartments with no air conditioning, and no place to catch a breeze on days like today.

 Now for the continuing coverage about the pandemic:




Florida shatters daily record with 3,207 new coronavirus cases  I guess that's what all the beach parties, rioting, rallies and demonstrations will do in a pandemic.

Coronavirus Fears in China Find a New Target: Salmon  Or are they just using that as an excuse to cut back on trade with Europe?




10,000 Canadians to be tested for COVID-19 antibodies in hopes of understanding immunity Here's a more thorough article about the same story as the one immediately above.

COVID-19 In Sask.: 11 new cases on Saturday, scattered across the province It seems to me that the provinces who had the fewest cases up until now, are suddenly starting to develop more cases as we go along.






Guaranteed there's privacy concerns, no matter what they say. All software has privacy concerns, because all programmers build backdoors into their software (they claim it's for debugging purposes and tweaking purposes) that can be used for snooping and other purposes.


Coronavirus: 75 staff at Anglesey chicken plant positive  More meat processing plant woes, only this time in the UK.

Ethiopian maids dumped outside Beirut embassy  Once again, it's the lower echelons of society that get hurt the worst.

Coronavirus: Is the pandemic getting worse in the US?  From everything I've been reading, I'd say yes.



Coronavirus: Why US is expecting an 'avalanche' of evictions  Here too. I don't think Canada's immune to a similar fallout from the virus. I know here in Quebec, there was a tenant's advocate on the news the other night pleading for a moratorium on evictions to be extended, otherwise a lot of people might find themselves in the streets. 





The pandemic won't fix the climate crisis. This $3 trillion recovery plan could  Is this why they collapsed the economies of the world, or one of the reasons maybe?









Cheating becoming an unexpected COVID-19 side effect for universities I guess that was pretty much a given. It would probably be true for other levels of school too.

2 Stocks That Could Soar Once a COVID-19 Vaccine Arrives I don't know personally, I think I'd want to invest in the companies making the vaccines given that they'll have plenty of clients for their product. 




Hit hard by virus, fine dining finds new ways to serve It takes a pandemic for some snoity restaurants to come down off their self placed pedestals and suddenly realize that take-out and delivery services aren't such bad ideas and not just for the pizza joints.  Almost every restaurant in our area no matter the type has always had take out and delivery services combined with their diningroom service. Just the fast food restaurants like McD's, Wendy's & Harvey's didn't they always only had diningroom service couple with drive thru takeout service. Only lately have we started seeing advertisements for their delivery services. But it always astonishes me when I see people in other parts of Canada and the US talking only about going to a restaurant or picking up takeout. I always wonder why anyone who wants takeout doesn't just order it from home over the phone like people in the Montreal region has been doing at least since I was a kid.  It's just one more way to serve potential customers and as a result those restaurants in our area, are still in business and doing fine and don't seem to have any intentions of reopening their diningrooms  anytime soon. 


Beijing’s Latest Virus Outbreak Disrupts Tyson Foods and PepsiCo  Hey all the more meat and food for us. Their loss is our gain, since the food doesn't seem to be conveying the virus, at least not so far as I can tell from my own grocery shopping habits. We basically only consume fresh fruit and veggies that I buy from the store's produce area (where many people pick up, paw through, and squeeze the produce to make sure it's ripe), and hopefully what is supposed to be passing for fresh meat is, from the meat counter. So it's not canned and preprocessed food from eons gone by, that we're buying and consuming. True we do have some canned goods and frozen food in the house, but mostly we like to eat fresh if we can and so that's what I buy. Neither of us have gotten sick with any form of illness from it yet, let alone the coronavirus.  So like I said, all the more for us and since they're paranoid of our food products maybe that'll mean the prices will come down for us.

As Bank of Canada quells sub-zero rates talk, next move may be a hike in 2022 Well that's good to know at least. So we don't have to worry about taking our money out of the bank to hide it under our mattresses. 



The Canada Emergency Response Benefit may be a disincentive for some employees to return to the job  Especially for minimum wage workers, since I doubt they ever saw so much money in their entire lives as what they're getting now.

6 in 10 Canadians optimistic about inclusive COVID-19 economic recovery, some fear others will be left behind  I know without a doubt some are getting left behind, and those are the seniors and the disabled. That's for sure because they're getting left behind now and have been since the beginning.


With no flights, Argentine sails across Atlantic to see parents I'm so glad he made it and was able to get to see his parents!

Germany struggles to impose local coronavirus infections  I think that headlines is wrong and should read "impose local coronavirus lockdown measures" or something similar since the article is talking about quarantine.



Fearing second COVID-19 wave, Europe aims to train 'army' of medics  Maybe nurses and orderlies would be worth training as well. 


RCMP fined 7 Americans last week for stopping to sightsee in Banff National Park Personally, I think all Americans wanting to go to Alaska should be forced to take a boat there or else fly there, but none of this driving through Canada to get there, since they and Brazil have the highest infection rate on the face of the planet and that is something we're trying to cut down on having here.

'Breeding ground for a pandemic': Dog meat still on sale in China, despite new guidelines  And a Canadian journalist or politician was recently censured for mentioning this as a fact. I do believe she was a politician and the fact that she was chastised because of it, made me angry since speaking the truth should never be a reason for being chastised or fired or whatever. If it's a fact, it's a fact and firing someone, or demoting them or suspending them isn't going to change that.

U.S. Home-Mortgage Delinquencies Reach Highest Level Since 2011

The Latest: New Zealand reports 2 new coronavirus cases  It's coming back again, little by little.

What you need to know about the coronavirus right now  The antibody level drop off mentionned in this story is not all that important considering you don't walk around forever with high levels of antibodies in your system for every disease you've ever had or been exposed to or inoculated for. What's enough for your immune system is to have some antibodies which can attack the invading virus while your body ramps up the production of other antibodies in order to fight it. Once your body has learnt the signature of an invading virus and has produced antibodies for it in the past, that's all it needs, because it is now equipped to produce new antibodies against it, if need be in the future. So that's just another fake news, or scare tactic or something to keep people scared and under control here, so far as I can see.

What countries did right and wrong in responding to the pandemic

Pandemic propels old-school bond traders towards an electronic future

Coronavirus: Pub-goers will have to give up personal details to get a pint  Don't get excited there fellow QC'ers. This is in the UK. I know a lot of Quebecois would give their left eye right about now if they thought that would get them into a bar for a cold one, especially on hot days like today.

'No-swab' saliva test for coronavirus piloted in Britain

Coronavirus: Extra police enforce German tower block quarantine  I think this is probably a further insight into the story about German coronavirus measures being taken.

Are more women dying of Covid-19 in India?

Doctor believes this is why cases are trending up in US, but down elsewhere

Brazil becomes the second country in the world to surpass 1 million coronavirus cases

Long-dreaded virus increase hits Iraq as new cases soar  Seems like this virus is everywhere.

People with Type 1 diabetes may be at high risk for severe illness related to coronavirus: Study

Strained supply chain for glass vials could delay coronavirus vaccine Is there any sector of society or industry that this virus hasn't impacted in some way?

Monday marks another new phase of Quebec’s deconfinement. Here’s what can reopen and resume The chart posted at the bottom of this article basically is the best news yet!

20 new coronavirus cases reported in Saskatchewan, majority in the south

The case for and against immigration after coronavirus The government in our time (the time of the seniors having their kids) provided next to no help or support whatsoever. We had to pay for our own child care if we worked and we got a whopping $7 a month per kid in family allowance - which didn't even cover the cost of a package of Pampers diapers and so they wonder why we didn't have kids or that many kids. Who could afford to? Given that the interest rates sky rocketed to 21% and we had a hard enough job paying for whatever mortgages or debts we had we sure couldn't afford extra mouths to feed, bodies to clothe and then babysitters at minimum wage per hour, with no help from the government. So the government has no one to blame but themselves for their own shortsightedness that caused the population to not reproduce itself. We didn't have fancy gov't subsidized daycares with $400 & $500 per month family allowance cheques per kid, along with all kinds of tax write-offs on our income taxes. The most we got was a credit for dependents - depending on how many we had. Now they want to import people to have kids in order to increase the taxpayer base. But is it really worth it? I mean considering the money doled out per kid from birth until they reach 18 years of age in all the allowances and subsidizations, education, medicare and tax write-offs for the parents. I'm wondering how much that comes out to on average per kid per year and then I'm wondering how much money the government could save if they didn't have all these extra kids from imported families to pay for and what they would make on that money if they just invested it. And how much each of those kids will generate in revenue for the country when they get older or are a lot of them going to be a burden on the country (because after all muslims have to pray 5 times a day, which makes it basically impossible for them to have a job as no companies want to allow employees 5 prayer or any kind of breaks per day - half of them have a hard time allowing a 1/2 hour for lunch breaks) and be on welfare for the rest of their lives? Seems to me if you want to import people to increase the population to broaden the taxpayer base, you should be importing people with good work ethics and skills - who will work and pay taxes rather than sitting on their carpets all day praying. But before we get there we have to think about the Canadians that are already here first and foremost and what's the best for them. When you see the head of that organization you will know who their first pick at immigrants will be - it won't be the highly educated German Engineer, nor the distinguished astrophysicist from the UK, instead it'll be some muslims who absolutely need to pray umpteen times a day and thus can't work as a result of it.

Egypt signs deal to receive Oxford University's COVID-19 vaccine  

Canadians working from home permanently should expect salary changes: experts Oh Suckerburg is the expert is he? The expert at what? Fleecing people alive? Stealing data and selling it? Lying? Cheating? What?

First of all, it's not his f'n business what your cost of living is if he is employing you to do something. Since all work is supposed to be fairly paid, that means that if you live in a location where the rents and mortgages and cost of living outstrip every other location on earth but you do the same job as someone living in Bangladesh, you have a choice, you can pay them both equal pay for equal jobs based on 1 of the 2 locations but I can guarantee you the guy living in the most expensive location is not going to want to work for the same salary you're giving the guy in Bangladesh! That's a given. But as the premise of work pay is that equal pay for equal jobs is the norm, it shouldn't matter where one lives. If you pay X amount per hour, week or month or year (depending on your pay periods) to be a programmer or work in a certain department like say accounting, then whatever the going pay rate is for that job should be what is paid for that job no matter where the person lives. How do you as an employer know the reason why someone lives where they do? Maybe one of your star programmers moved back home to Bangladesh to be closer to their elderly parents and help them out, or maybe they moved to another part of the country (Canada or US) not only because the cost of living is cheaper there, but because of other circumstances, like say the spouse lost their job and they no longer have that extra income to support themselves with or excessive debts that they are trying to get under control. It's not because they work for you that you can determine their budget. If the job pays X amount then everyone doing that job should be getting the same pay regardless of where they live!!!!!! Not only that, how much money will this money grubbing scuzzbucket Suckerberg be saving when he no longer has excessive office space to rent and heat and pay utilities on? Seems to me he'll be saving a ton of money just right there. Besides that, there are labour laws and he can't just breech them because he feels like it!!!!! And lose a "few good people"..... If you insist on going with that method of calculating how much someone should be paid, I hope you lose ALL of your good people and you can never ever find replacements for them ever again.

COMMENTARY: Think a COVID-19 vaccine is months away? It could actually take years  Which is precisely what I've been saying too.

An animated journey through the pandemic: RAZOR full episode

More Canadians are refusing work due to COVID-19 — but it's tough to get authorities to agree

Why overuse of antibiotics in COVID-19 could have lasting impact in health care  It's the over-use argument again, this time as pertains to COVID19 patients.

There’s No Cure for Covid-19 Loneliness, but Robots Can Help  I don't know but I think I'd rather have a real seal then that creepy looking one in the picture there. I also can't see myself getting to a point of loneliness in my life where I'd even consider a robot as companionship of any kind. I think I'd rather talk to myself and immerse myself in books, TV, radio, music or anything besides that.

How NYC’s hottest sex club is doing socially distanced orgies  And yet another kinked angle on this virus.

High levels of stress hormone could be killing COVID-19 patients, study suggests And of course the governments and society in general is doing everything in it's power to stress everyone out during this pandemic.

Fear mounts Trump may pressure FDA to rush Covid-19 vaccine by election  Except the FDA aren't the ones making the vaccines. The vaccine makers are. The FDA just approves of them, but first in order for them to approve of one, there has to be one already made.

U.S. home sales tumble to 9-1/2-year low; price growth slows

Canada needs targeted response for future COVID-19 waves to avoid large setback: BoC

Two Trump campaign staffers who attended Tulsa rally test positive for coronavirus

WHO warns of 'accelerating' pandemic as Brazil reaches 50,000 deaths  Considering how it's coming back everywhere even the places it was eradicated from, and the acceleration of it, I wonder if reopening society now is a wise decision or one we'll regret.

As Coronavirus Cases Rise in Arizona, New Mask Rules Spark a Fight

Apple introduces new Covid-19 features: Hand washing guides and a mask-wearing emoji  So in other words Apple has found a way to not only make itself intrusive but also annoying. Good to know, so I can avoid their products with those features in them.

Take it easy! Too much strenuous exercise may shorten your lifespan, study suggests  So this should be good news for those of us stuck at home under lockdown (or as is the current case - due to unrelenting heat waves) and who've developed a more sedentary lifestyle as a result.

Super-potent antibodies show potential for vaccine-like prevention of COVID-19  This really is good news and goes against the story posted earlier that talks about diminishing antibodies over time. Just another example of the confusion and conflicting information about this virus.

MMR vaccine may provide protection against COVID-19 complications  Wondering if that also applies to those of us who contracted those diseases naturally and thereby acquired our immunity to them that way? Because some of us were around long before those vaccines were.

Spike in flu deaths among cities with pro sports teams may spell trouble for COVID-19 That's an interesting statistic I never knew about before.

Coronavirus: Saudi Arabia bars international pilgrims for HajjCoronavirus: Shepreth Wildlife Park staff record life during lockdown  

Coronavirus: Confirmed cases in UK fall to pre-lockdown level

Coronavirus at Smithfield pork plant: The untold story of America's biggest outbreak  Which of course affects the prices & food security.

Reunited donkey and owner cry together  Just heart wrenching. It's moments like this that proves just how much our animals do care for us.

9 brands of hand sanitizer may be toxic, FDA warns  I'm not sure any of these were sold in Canada, but just to make sure, you should check your brand/s in case. In any case, there's also a video there that shows you how to make your own hand sanitizer, as well.

Trump to expand sweeping immigration restrictions, targeting work visas in new order I think the Canadian government should've done the same, since Quebec cut back on the amount of farm workers allowed in but there were still over 2,000 out of work Quebecers who applied for those jobs.
So there's a good chance a lot of other Canadians in other provinces would've too, if the government cut back on amount of TFWs allowed into the country.

U.S. restaurants toil to stay open, including in city hosting GOP convention

Minority small business owners harder hit by pandemic closures: "A total nightmare"  I'm not sure if it's the same or anywhere near that on this side of the border. If not, I hope it doesn't get to be like that either.

Coronavirus outbreak at German meat packing plant drives virus reproduction rate back up

Gov. Andrew Cuomo on confronting a "frightening" pandemic, and thoughts on his political future I'm only posting this here, because he struck me as a genuinely honest and caring politician (at least as far as the pandemic is concerned) when I saw him on the Daily Distancing Show with Trevor Noah. A rareity in the political world for sure. Though, I will credit Francois Legault the premier of Quebec with some of that as well.

Coronavirus stokes consumer demand for disposable pee bags After one of our most recent trips out to do errands I can certainly understand why. Though, I still don't know how or where you're supposed to use them as there is no privacy other than in a bathroom (which you're not allowed into), in order to use them.

Food scarcity is on the rise in America as the economy reels

Disneyland workers push back against plan to reopen next month I know LaRonde in Montreal isn't anywhere near what Disneyland is, and is only an amusement park, but here it's still closed with no opening date announced and the people there are hoping they can open soon, contrary to the sentiments expressed by the people at Disneyland.

COVID-19 in Canada: B.C. and Toronto enter new phases of reopening, Canada to remain closed to international travel  Well at least that's one right decision made.

4-day work week with fewer hours, same pay could become a reality in some workplaces post-COVID-19

COVID-19 taught Canada a costly lesson — that early border closures can work Anyone who spent a half hour in med school knows that! But you can't expect snowboard instructors, art teachers and double agents masquerading as health officers to know that, I guess. But even most people with even a modicum of commonsense or a thimble full of brains would know that. The fact that the 3 stooges at the helm didn't doesn't speak very highly of their intelligence. Unless like my husband said, they knew and they knew very well, but they didn't want to do it, because then they'd have no reason to crash the economy like they did, and impose draconian measures like lockdowns etc... He has to be right and I have to be wrong, because otherwise if I'm right that means that collectively the 3 of them Tam, Haggydo & Trudeau are dumber than a bucket of shrimp. So it was planned in order to do what my husband said. The only question is "why?" Which I keep asking all the time. Why would the bozos at the helm want to do that to their own country and citizens?