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Wednesday, July 29, 2020

Amidst the Drenching Rain & Other Things....

Quite Possibly Catching Up to 

COVID 19 Headlines

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July 29, 2020

Having gotten soaked while out doing errands, I'm trying to dry off here while writing this. Hopefully, today will be the day that I finally get caught up with all the headlines. I don't know if I will or not, but I hope I can.

First I'm going to go shove supper in the oven, maybe start some rice and a couple other things for supper and then I'll continue on while supper's cooking.


When will coronavirus cases peak? It's getting harder for experts to predict I don't know why they even bother to try because so far none of their predictions have been right to start with.


Local TV stations across the country set to air discredited 'Plandemic' researcher's conspiracy theory about Fauci  There is a link to the actual Plandemic video in my blog somewhere. There may be label to get there to it in my sidebar. If you wish to see the unedited original version of it. I don't know about  the "discredited" here, because I didn't see or hear of any discredits in what she said, other than the gestapo measures used against her to silence her from letting this information out.




Noses usually catch COVID-19 first, so keep them covered with face masks, experts say   This should be a no brainer and go without saying, but I get how there's a lot of people out there that are clueless airheads and couldn't think about even the simplest things without severely injuring themselves, as in causing their brains to start short circuiting and smoking.

Ancient teeth show that epidemics began much further back in history  As you can see from this article Mother Nature has had a history of trying to wipe us out, with one pandemic after another for a long time now. 


Why the World Worries About the Virus 2.0 Nuclear Option  Orrrrr they can do it the sensible way, by quarantining only those who test positive and those they came into contact with over say a 14 day period of time. That might wind up being a lot of people overall but it's still not the whole city, town or country. It's just a certain small segment of the population that have interacted with or been in close social contact with the infected individual and not everyone.

Sinclair says it will postpone and 'rework' segment featuring conspiracy theory about Fauci  Like I said the original Plandemic is viewable via a link from my blog (click on Plandemic in the  right side bar to be taken to the page with the link). So you will be able to gauge the "rework" and see what kind of subterfuge they're trying to pull here, versus what was really said. If everyone here knew who Paul Hunter was and listened to CBC news, and the debates between Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump during their last election, you'd know what I mean when I say "making it up as he goes along" - which is what Paul Hunter did to try to describe the debates on CBC news that night. If you listened to him, you'd think Hillary would've been voted in as not only the US president but Queen of the freaking Universe because she could say and do no wrong while all that Trump said or did was wrong. In a lot of what Paul Hunter said, he misquoted and took things totally out of context to prop Hillary up and kick Donald in the head. I know because I watched the debates and then the CBC National newscast that night. Bet the same will go on here. She'll be taken totally out of context or misquoted to besmirch her, while propping Fauci up. 




Warning, graphic video: Nurse attack on Chicago train  This is a sucker title, trying to lure you to watch it. You can watch it if you wish, I'm just going to say I've seen worse dust ups in highschool hallways. 









Quebec reports 169 new COVID-19 cases, one additional death At least now, there's fewer deaths, or so it appears.

Coronavirus: What would working from home in Barbados really be like? That sounds like a way better option than that idiotic option of working from a hotel for "just" $100 for 8 hours. If you're going to pay that amount of money to work, why bother to work at all? Obviously you don't need the money if you can afford $500 a week just for 8 hours a day. So you don't need the job.


No end to Covid-19 webcam shortage  I seriously don't know why anyone would want one unless it's required for work like for video-conferencing etc, because hackers love them and taking them over to spy on the webcam's owner/s. All the webcams that came without our computers etc, have been taped over when we first got the computers and that's the way they're staying. So I essentially don't even want the ones that came with our equipment, so there's no way we're going to go buy some more.



Traveling while Asian during the pandemic  First of all, regardless of your ethnicity, why are you travelling NOW, can't you wait until the pandemic's over before you start traipsing around the globe? Whether you have the disease or not.




Nearly 2 dozen lifeguards in New Jersey test positive for coronavirus after hosting social gatherings  Wondering how many beach goers they were all in contact with too?



Congress Was Already Broken. The Coronavirus Could Make it Worse.  I think that much is evident to most of the world already.

Coronavirus infections reach 60,000 in Israel as protests continue  The cops or military personnel in this picture aren't the brightest crayons in the box, wearing the masks to just under their noses. Hello, it's a RESPIRATORY DISEASE! And what is the most direct route to your lungs? The nose? So if that's the case, shouldn't that be covered? And with the girl screaming in their face like that, let's hope that girl isn't infected because if she is, so is that female officer.


Stompin' Tom Centre making music despite pandemic restrictions 'Course they have pictures to this article but not the minature therapy donkey article. 




Investors Set Aside Coronavirus Worries, Driving a ‘Melt-Up’ in Markets  I've never heard of a melt-up before, but what the heck...


Euthanasia Rates For Dogs 'Could Rise By 25% In Lockdown Fallout Awwww it'd better not. We already have one dog, but having put down a super senior citizen dog last month, we can take another one, so if anyone in southwestern Quebec has a small to medium sized dog (my husband said "or a Great Dane" - that's his favourite dog) that they got during the lockdown but don't want to keep upon return to work, please let us know and we might be happy to provide a forever home for the pooch in question. Use the comments section on here to let me know about your interest in giving them to a new loving owner, and I'll find a way to get in touch with you, but you might have to keep checking back in the comments section (on the post that you left the comment on) to see if there's a reply from me.  Just leave a comment describing the dog, it's age, breed, behaviour problems (if any), whether it's been socialized or not (gets along or not with other dogs & people) and medical history (vaccinations it's had, any medical problems it has and needs current or ongoing treatment for etc). Then when I read it (which will probably be within a day or so of you having left the message), I'll respond in the comments section to you on that same post (like today's post for instance) that you left your comment on. We would prefer (in a perfect world) a miniature male dachshund, but bigger male dogs are also welcome instead. This particular post will always be easily accessible in the right sidebar, using the "dog euthanasia rates" label. Just click on that and it'll bring you right here. Then scroll to the bottom of this page where the comments section is and see if I left a response for you.  As we're senior citizens we're here pretty much 24/7 except when we need to go out for errands, but we generally aren't gone longer than a couple of hours when we do go out like that. So the dog won't be left alone for long, well not at all actually because our little female dachshund will be here to keep it company.





Officers clear out "disheartening" Brampton house party with 200 attendees Like Ford called them.... Yahoos.... I can't understand where some people's brains are at, or in this case, do they even have any? 


Lawyer Cletus Flaherty discusses workplace rights, obligations and legislation for COVID-19  I'm not sure if the advice given by this lawyer applies only to Nfld & Labrador or if it applies Canada wide, but in any case, those in Nfld-Lab can probably use the advice given here, even if no one else can.


'We hugged and hugged': Families reunite at N.W.T. seniors' homes after COVID-19 rules loosen  Awwww, that's what I missed most about the lockdown too, was hugs from the kids. It felt so good to finally be able to get one and give one. 

Canadian woman dying of cancer will be able to reunite with American fiancĂ©  I was going to say the headlines changed from when I bookmarked it, until now. Because the headlines originally said they were being kept apart because of the COVID19 border rules. Now it says they'll be able to reunite. Finally someone in  government grew a braincell and a heartcell. Perhaps we have hope as Canadians that our government isn't composed solely of heartless, spineless & brainless jerks, but that some of them actually have compassion and a working braincell or two in their head.






As it happened: Covid 'most severe health emergency' WHO has faced  Because for the most part the only other pandemic that's been through since the inception of the UN & thus WHO, is the Hong Kong Flu in 1969. The WHO wasn't around during the Spanish Flu, nor the Black Plague nor any of the other probably much more serious pandemics than this one.  It's the only healh emergency it's ever faced and given it's lousey track record on this one, let's hope they never face another one again.


Coronavirus: 'I killed my mother with my own hands'  How much more misery and anguish can this virus keep throwing at us anyhow?

Covid-19 is 'the most severe' emergency WHO has declared, the agency warns as number of global cases hits 16 million - a rise of one million in just FOUR DAYS  Like I said above, it's pretty much the only health emergency it's ever faced and it failed spectacularly at it. So we should just disband that useless institution and start practicing medicine the common sense way instead of the idiotic NWO way.



Chinese Doctor Alleges Covid-19 Cover-up, Says Wuhan Market was 'Clean Already  Well of course the market was "clean already", because it never came from there to begin with. It came from the Wuhan Biolabs - since it's anecdote was made prior to 2016 and completed in 2016 by the Wuhan Lab and Gilead Sciences. 



Even if there's a coronavirus vaccine next year, don't expect to throw away your mask and stop social distancing, a top vaccine developer says  So then what's the point of the vaccine then? Is it just to deliver the implantable chips that Gates is working on? Is that it? That it won't do anymore than that? If that's the case, take your "vaccine" and shove it, you know where. At least Moderna is saying that if theirs is 90% effective you'll be able to go sans mask and shoulder to shoulder with your buddies, pals and loved ones.

Travel bans cannot be indefinite, countries must fight virus at home: WHO Tedros there should be a travel ban on you! You should not be permitted to go anywhere except to jail!  But yeah there should be travel bans remaining until this virus is beaten into oblivion! 

Deluded Anti-Mask Tourists Swarm COVID-Plagued Puerto Rico

‘It’s really devastating us’: Beach towns fear they won’t survive a summer of COVID-19

Sinclair Pulls the Plug on Anti-Fauci Propaganda — This Time 

Diabetes highlights two Americas: One where COVID is easily beaten, the other where it's often devastating

Virus vaccine put to final test in thousands of volunteers

Red Deer hospital restricts visitors after COVID-19 outbreak

Quebec sees 'worrying spike' in COVID-19 infections among young people

Tensions rise over COVID-19 outbreak in Haida Gwaii

Aviva insurance faces class action lawsuit from hotels denied COVID coverage

Canada provides exception for U.S. students planning to study north of border   Don't know why they'd provide an exception, especially if most classes are going to be conducted online. If that's the case they can stay home and still take the courses. The US isn't providing exceptions I don't think.








 











Getting Almost Current With

The COVID19 News

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July 28, 2020

Having finally restocked the freezer with fresh meat, life can return to normal around here for a change. Or for what passes as normal I guess.

So that means I should (I make no promises though because the shoulds very often turn into shouldn'ts in my life) have more time to work on the blog here and try to stay at least close to current with the headlines. Anyhow, I'll give it my best shot and we'll see how that works out.

So now here's today's effort. Get comfortable and ready to do some reading...


Eight killers die of coronavirus on America's biggest death row Well at least the virus was good for something.... 

We Can't Wear Face Masks, Don't Shame Us, Say Those With Invisible Illnesses I know, boy do I know. I suffer from asthma and while I take my medication before leaving home, so I don't have to drag it around with me, it's getting so I'm tempted to, just so I don't have to wear a mask, because if anyone says anything I can pull my inhaler out of my pocket and show them that I'm asthmatic. I hate wearing the masks that much.

ECONOMIST WARNS: U.S. 'cannot carry on for long' with 32 million unemployed  It must be way more than that, considering they said there's 21% unemployment there and there's a population of 400 odd million. So that would presume at least 80 million out of work and not just 32 million.

'They threw everything at me': Coronavirus patient leaves New York hospital after 128 days during which he had seizures, infections, and a drug-induced coma   Wow! He's lucky he was able to leave the hospital at all and not in a body bag, by the sounds of what he went through!

New CDC guidelines say people with mild to moderate COVID-19 need to isolate only 10 days   So much for QUARANTine - Quarant = 40 in French. Meaning 40 days. Even now with the 14 days quarantine that they used as the standard up until now, I don't think was enough, given that boats that've been asea for 35 days started having cases of COVID aboard, even though when the crew originally boarded 35 days prior they had no symptoms. Someone must've been harbouring the disease for those 35 days in question in order for it to suddenly appear aboard a boat that hasn't been near land in 35 days. So I think 40 days is the required amount of time minimum for isolation for this virus. That's probably why it's running amok like it is because the isolation period is too short. I wouldn't doubt it.

Coal should play no part in post-coronavirus recoveries, U.N. chief says  How else are you going to heat a blast furnace to produce and harden steel if not with coal?  These UN clowns have no idea about what they're talking about or how to do things. I don't even think there should be a UN for all the good it's done. Which is absolutely none. The WHO is part of it, and look what they got us into now with this pandemic. They are just a bunch of inept mouthpieces - paid shills by their respective countries to put their countries 2 cents worth into the dialogs going on there. But none of them actually knows or understands what it is they're talking about most of the time.

Hutterite leader says COVID-19 outbreaks leading to stigmatization  Most of the time, the community named is inhabited 100% by hutterites when it's a hutterite community. They've been naming communities all over the country, like Montreal North where it's mostly ethnic minorities and poor people. Do you think they didn't feel stigmatized too? You're not the only ones in the country who's communities are being named and they're not naming the communities in order to shame them, they're naming them so others who don't want the disease can stay away until it's cleared up.  So stop with the whining. I don't see why certain groups feel they're more special than others and so should be treated differently than everyone else. Why? What makes you so special anyhow?




German sniffer dogs show promise at detecting coronavirus The trouble with that is, the amount of sniffer dogs you'd need in order to minimize the spread of the disease.

Many Americans See The Hand Of God At Work In Current Events  I can't say as I blame them, considering what it says in Revelations about the end times.

Flight From the Cities: New Home Sales Jump 13.8% in June—Highest Since 2007  I hope they're not all moving prematurely, thinking that working from home is going to be the new normal, because I've seen reports where a lot of companies aren't too enthused with it. They say there's a lot of problems with working from home, from training new personnel to getting things done immediately, to team collaboration on projects etc. So it may only be a temporary situation and people may wind up going back into work at the office eventually.












Quebec tourists 'invade' public beaches in Gaspe region, fueling tensions  I know what they mean. We used to have a nice lake by our cottage in the Laurentians and then bikers started showing up and not only swimming but taking baths and washing their motorcycles in the lake. Aside from causing pollution, it caused blood suckers and leeches to start propagating in the water too.  Very few cottagers had the nerve to approach the bikers to tell them to leave or to smarten up, so we had to put up with it, as there were no cops around at all.  It wasn't fun, I can tell you that much. So as far as Quebecers go I can vouch for that and that behaviour is still the same despite the many years it's been since we had our cottage.


Boris Johnson tells Brits to lose weight to curb winter COVID-19 outbreak as he says he’s lost a stone He lost roughly 12-15 lbs (stone weight), because he was sick with COVID19 and lost that weight while he was sick.




Mom creates ‘virus veil’ for her kids to wear to school — experts applaud the ‘ingenuity’ but say safety tests are needed  This looks a lot safer than those stupid clothe rags everyone is wearing on their faces these days.


Health experts tell Ottawa to hurry domestic vaccine funding amid China delays  You know other than knowing and realizing that Trudeau is an obtuse moronic idiot that needs to be kicked in the head, shins and groin before he gets a message, I seriously can't understand why we partnered with China on making a vaccine, given all the kicks in the head, groin and shins China's given us over the last few years. You'd think that Ottawa would be more than a little leery of doing any kind of business with China, nevermind something as vital and developing a vaccine for Canadians. That I just wouldn't trust in China's hands at all, if I had anything to do with it. So I don't understand why he does.

N.B. border restrictions could infringe on mobility rights, says civil liberties group They're probably right because I think the constitution allows for unhindered passage between provinces and territories amongst Canadian citizens.


Got a toothache? Don't let fear of COVID-19 keep you from getting treatment, dentists warn

How to socialize safely outside your bubble  I guess until this virus has gone away for good these are some of the things we'll have to get used to doing.

 Could Rt number be a key indicator of whether we need return to lockdown mode?

Asylum claims being filed in Canada continue to rise slightly despite pandemic   You know, I'd think that all those wanting to come into Canada from the US that's being stopped should include these people too. Paying medicare coverage for all the Canadians with coronavirus must be hard enough. Plus all the gov't handouts given out to everyone and now we're letting more people in, to have to pay medical expenses for if they get the virus? And to give them money to survive during the pandemic instead of issuing a welfare cheque or two with stringent requirements that they take a job within a set period of time and get off welfare, we're probably not expecting them to be able to find a job in these circumstances so will continue to give them money until the pandemic's cleared up?  That's a win win situation for most of those people who decide to traipse across our border on a whim. While it's a pay pay lose lose situation for most Canadian taxpayers.

Kenya COVID-19 hospital gears up for surge in new infections

N.L. and Quebec, fuelled by pent-up pandemic demand, leading the way in auto sales growth 

Life's a beach, but some European countries have new COVID-19 fears

Yukon COVID infections reach 14 as resident infected outside territory

Nova Scotia making mask-wearing mandatory in most indoor public places by July 31  Behind Quebec who's already made it mandatory.

Sherbrooke authorizes 300 people to attend baseball game, despite public health recommendations

WhereIsMyName: Afghan women campaign for the right to reveal their name This is a really sad COVID story about a woman who's husband beat her up because she gave a doctor her name for a prescription.

24 million Americans fear missing next rent payment as benefits dry up I swear I think they engineered this pandemic to get rid of as many people as possible, in as many ways as possible. If the disease itself doesn't get them, then maybe poverty and resulting starvation might.

How risky is it to get a haircut, go to the gym? New gov't site has the answers Getting a haircut isn't risky at all, if it's done at home by a family member like our haircuts were.

COVID-19 outbreak declared on Haida Gwaii with 13 cases

Analysis: Two more Montreal bar closings raise COVID concerns

UFO sightings across Canada have spiked during the pandemic, maybe that's because we have more time on our hands and more time to star gaze.  If you're interested in this subject you might be interested in these books:  The UFO Dossier is a PDF,  UFOs: Government Secrets Kept  is a MOBI, and Evidence, the Case for NASA UFOs is a PDF, all books are downloadable at the longfiles link. And this following article that recently appeared in the Daily Mail in the UK: Previous Next Pentagon's UFO hunting department was NOT disbanded in 2012 as stated and could now give public reports every six months amid claims it found 'vehicles not made on this earth'

Online shopping has doubled during the pandemic, Statistics Canada says

Treading water: a simple comfort during a global pandemic  I guess if that's all the space you're allotted and all you can do in it, you have no choice but me, if I go swimming it's to go swimming, not to tread water or lie on the beach/pool deck baking in the sun. I love swimming and would swim everyday if there was a place to go swimming that was viable.

Saskatchewan experts say COVID-19 myths cause for concern  Numbers speak for themselves. Today's tally is.....  16,893,532 cases, 663,478 deaths and 10,456,398 recovered. That's world-wide. It looks to be more contagious than lethal if you ask me. Ergo on a par with a bad flu or bad cold. The governments have a vested interest in keeping us scared, because that way we'll comply with their laws more readily than if we didn't believe them and believed the numbers themselves instead.

EU eyes COVID-19 vaccines at less than $40, shuns WHO initiative Looks like it's not only Trump shunning the WHO. Wondering why? Is that maybe because they're nothing but a bunch of negligent genocidal liars? Probably. I know Tedros is. That's a given.

WHO clears air on COVID-19 vaccine being for wealthy people

The-rich-are-looking-to-buy-access-to-covid-safe-havens That was going to be inevitable, I think. It was only a matter of time.

Record numbers of coronavirus cases in every global region - Reuters tally

The Message Behind Gold’s Rally: The World Economy Is in Trouble  I'm not too sure we actually needed a gold rally to tell us the world economy is in trouble. I think that's been pretty evident for a while now.

COVID-19 in Canada: Virus curve is seeing an 'uptick', supply of first approved virus drug Remdesivir 'not plentiful', Dr. Tam warns
I said back in February or March that anyone wishing to make money ought to invest in Gilead Sciences because of their drug redemsivir. This is the one that was made in conjunction with the Wuhan lab in China and that Gilead and the Chinese gov't were fighting over world-wide patent rights for it, since 2016. Which proves beyond a shadow of a doubt that this virus was around since at least that long and known about - you don't make anecdotes for viruses you know nothing about and never saw before. Just doesn't happen. Just the existance of this drug proves the whole Wuhan meat market story a freaking lie.

Coronavirus: Spain drives fears of European 'second wave'

Coronavirus: Obesity increases risks from Covid-19, experts say

College student visa: Trump admin bars new foreign students taking online classes in US And if Cdn colleges and universities are only offering online classes we should do the same, because they can stay home wherever they happen to live and still take the courses online like all the rest of the Cdn kids will have to do too.

Long-lasting COVID symptoms from lungs to limbs linger in coronavirus 'long haulers'

COVID coping: How to make the most of quarantine mood swings

Nearly three-quarters of Americans believe this recession will last until 2021. How will it affect your investments?

Miami-Dade County surpasses 100,000 Covid-19 cases  That's only one county in the whole country. Those figures alone are nearly Canada's total figures for this pandemic so far.

England and Scotland went separate ways on Covid-19. It may lead to a full divorce  I'm sure the Scotts won't mind.

MIT researchers created a reusable face mask that works like an N95 respirator  We each have one but they're P100 masks - what you usually see the cops wearing when they want to make some dangerous drug busts. Those things, with replacement filters.

The pandemic's unlikely pet: Chickens  Well with all the baking everyone's doing, it's no surprise they want their own steady fresh supply of daily eggs, if they can get them.

Huge black bear spotted relaxing in a pool is one big summer mood   Okay this isn't a COVID article, it's another cute wildlife article along the lines of the moose taking a swim in a backyard pool. If you haven't seen this picture, you really ought to. It'll instantly lighten your mood and make you forget some of the terrible news this virus is renown for already.

That's it for now. Take care until next time.




 













Tuesday, July 28, 2020

Restocking Freezers & Pantries &

Continuing the COVID19 Coverage

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July 27, 2020

We're not quite finished restocking the freezer yet, as there was way more food given away and perished than what we were able to buy today. But basically today was spent grocery shopping trying to restock the freezer and maybe pick up some depleted pantry items here and there.  So we're probably going to have to finish that tomorrow.  If we can. Looking at next week's fliers I'd say we'd better try to finish it tomorrow or we're not going to have the same selection of meat nor the same prices. 

Other than that, it's just trying to keep on top of the COVID headlines, which are looking scarier and scarier by the minute lately.  Rather than talk about them, maybe I should post them and you can see for yourself, what I'm talking about. So here we go....

Eerily prescient 2020 plague novels  Summer reading suggestions?



Is it safe to stay in a hotel amid the coronavirus pandemic?  I don't know how safe it is or isn't. All I know is that since Aviva one of the biggest insurance companies in Canada won't insure hotels against COVID19, it can't be all that safe, or at least not in Aviva's estimations.


Movies delayed by the coronavirus pandemic, including 'Mulan,' 'Bill & Ted 3' and 'Tenet' This virus has to get into everything and cause a problem with everything. Doesn't it?





Seniors who struggle with technology face telehealth challenges and social isolation  Perhaps the younger generations can help the older ones adapt, learn and cope with the technology that is used for telehealth and keeping in touch remotely, before we go into lock down again. If necessary print out the procedures in numerical order of what to do first, 2nd and 3rd, in order to logon to computer or tablet (even explaining how many rapidly successive clicks or taps to use on which icons etc...) to get to a certain program or application in order to use it and then how to log off and shut it down again. If their memories are bad, forget setting it up with a password for logon or if one is absolutely required, make it a simple one and write it down for them.  Because as we age, some of us find it harder and harder to learn new things, never mind things to do with new technology, even just memorizing their own phone number if it's recently been changed can be a chore and a half for some. So help them out the best you can while you can get within an arm's reach of them, to help guide them through it the first time or two they use those things.

Four California teens create Covid-19 coloring book for children and raise money for charity  Good for them. It would be nice if more kids used initiative to do things of benefit to the wider community, whether that's something like these kids did, or just spend a few hours with seniors who live alone keeping them company and helping them with some of their harder chores like lawn mowing or snow shovelling and things like that.

How the coronavirus almost killed a healthy woman with "no normal symptoms"

Camper van rentals seeing business double during pandemic  If we could've afforded such a luxury I wouldn't have minded renting one and touring the province of Quebec. Yeah I've seen it pretty much from east to west along the TransCanada (highway 20) and parts of the Laurentians, but there's still a large swath of it I haven't seen and would love to see, while I still have my health. But alas camper rentals are only for the well to do and not for people like us.

Trump faces backlash after declaring most COVID-19 cases "harmless"  Well when you consider the amount of cases there are world-wide compared to the amount of deaths, you pretty much have to agree with him there. But the ones being swamped treating such cases and the ones suffering through a case of it, probably don't agree with him. But in all honestly it's just because of how contagious it is and how fast everyone's getting it - meaning all at the same time, so it looks worse than it is because of the sheer numbers of people coming down with it all at once. But when you look at the amount that came down with it, the amount that recovered and the amount that actually died from it, he's basically right.

Pandemic: A snapshot of life in Rome

COVID-19 rashes: How your skin can be a sign of the virus

Today’s coronavirus news: Ontario’s public health units report 143 new cases in the last 24 hours, but no fatalities

'I feel like I’m being forced to choose': Alberta parents concerned over school reopening plan  Most parents around the world probably feel like this too.

What constitutes a second wave in Canada?

Pfizer Vaccine Deal at $20 a Dose Sets Ceiling for Rivals  Shouldn't they have one already made and ready to go before setting prices?

Hundreds of thousands of Canadians could get a tax break for working from home during pandemic

'Very shocking': Video captures huge crowds, lineups in Niagara Falls Another resurgence on the way in Ontario it looks like.

Good vibrations? COVID quiet time soothes Earth's seismic shakes  Another angle on this virus that none of us perhaps thought of.

BC gov. enlists 'influencers'

Nova Scotia goes one week without a report of a new COVID-19 case   Kudos to you NS.

Not all COVID-19 antibody tests are created equal, but which ones are best?

Worried About 5G? Study On Zebrafish Shows Radiation Exposure ‘Predominately Benign’  Since there's been a conspiracy theory linking 5G & Coronavirus, going around, I thought it worth posting this headline, as a counterbalance to the other 5G related articles.

Va. Tech Professor Creates Surface Coating That Inactivates Coronavirus In An Hour Too bad we can't have all our packaged store bought goods, clothes and household furnishings coated in that stuff.

COVID-19 patients will be ‘sent home to die’ if deemed too sick, Texas county says  
Okay as a former nurse, this is just the height of idiocy if you ask me. You're going to send people who are so sick they'll die, home.  Okay for starters how are they going to get home? Obviously driving themselves are out of the question. So that means someone's going to have to take them  home. Who would that be then? A taxicab? An Uber cab? Maybe dear old dad, or maybe sonny boy? So you're going to risk exposing those people to someone who's so sick they're going to die, which means whoever gets exposed to them will probably wind up almost as sick if not as sick. That's besides all the other people that someone comes into contact with. Okay, now while we've been having that debate, the homeward bound conveyance has pulled into the driveway of the sick person's home. The sick person is helped out of the vehicle and into the house. If they live alone, they're already in quarantine and will probably die within hours as they won't be able to even get or do the most basic tasks for themselves like get to the bathroom unaided or get a drink of water on their own. If they aren't there by themselves and there's someone else who lives there and will be trying to take care of them, then while you're making plans with the undertaker for the patient that just came home, also make plans with the undertaker for all the others who also live in that house. Because that's the size of it. And if the others that live in that house have jobs outside the home get ready to make room in the hospitals for all their coworkers and family member as well. You want to talk about community spread and high death rates? Well that's the way to go in style!  To me it just seems like the whole world fell on their collective heads and knocked whatever few brains they had loose as soon as this pandemic began in Wuhan. This is just another classic example of that.

Two Florida mayors urge residents to wear masks at home Just how are they going to enforce that one, I wonder?

Virus Can Travel 26 Feet at Cold Meat Plants With Stale Air

As it happened: UK PM says 'lessons to be learned' from pandemic

What's driving Canada's increase in COVID-19 infections? See the hotspots

Passengers on 30 flights in Canada potentially exposed to COVID-19  Yeah that's the way we're going to curb the spread of it. Put carriers of it on flights and send them hither & yon across Canada. Are you nincompoops in charge of the airlines that careless and stupid? Maybe you should go bankrupt and that would cut down on the spread of the virus in this country big time. So I don't want to see or hear anymore bellyaching about "oh we're going to go bankrupt if the gov't doesn't let us fly soon". Because the way you are wrecklessly handling it, I hope you do go bankrupt.

Despite uptick in new cases, Quebec opts to allow larger public gatherings

New COVID-19 hospitalizations jump in Ontario as cases drop

Coronavirus: Disney delays blockbuster films due to pandemic   Something else being affected by the pandemic, as if there aren't enough things already affected by it.

Out of date design of long-term care homes left residents more vulnerable to COVID-19: study What actually left them more vulnerable was the way they were abandonned or the way they kept changing the staff. That's more precisely the problem. But don't deal with that because that's a human issue, where actual currently working staff and supervisors could and should be held to account, instead of long dead architects.

Can You Get COVID Again? It's Very Unlikely, Experts Say  Huge huge relief to me and what I've basically been saying all along. And given that scenario, it's highly unlikely a vaccine will be needed by the time one is ready, because the majority of the population will have already either died from it or acquired immunity to it, naturally.














Friday, July 24, 2020

Advanced Anniversary Present &

Coronavirus Headlines

Courtesy Pixabay.com

July 24, 2020

As we had to go out and do an errand today, we decided to get ourselves a shared anniversary present, as tomorrow is our 45th anniversary. So we went and bought one of those ink tank printers. It's supposed to be way cheaper than printer cartridges and print way more pages than a printer cartridge printer prints per cartridge. This is the model we got EcoTank ET-2760 All-in-One Cartridge-Free Supertank Printer . It's good I went to that page, as I was totally unaware that it has voice activated printing as well, which my husband will love. I am super wary about voice activated anythings myself because of what/who might be listening and what might be stored/recorded for later reference by unknown parties. Anyhow, it's the one my husband chose and if it makes it easier for him to use, so I don't have to do all the printing for him, then Yippie! That's awesome. But if it's voice activated and he still has problems using it, then I don't know.... 

What fueled this purchase? Total and utter disgust at the price of the ink cartridges for our old HP printer. Just the cartridges alone were half the cost of that printer. It's freaking ridiculous when ink costs almost as much as a new printer does. A couple years ago we bought a little Canon Pixma printer for less than the cost of one ink cartridge for the HP printer. We still have it and use it once in a while. It's a nice little printer and the ink cartridges on it, aren't so expensive so we use it for the laptop computer.  But um yeah, this is the second printer purchase we made because of the cost of ink cartridges for the HP.  And maybe we wouldn't have, if it had an option to print if there was still black ink left, despite other colours being empty. But nooooo..... You can print once using black only if another colour ink cartridge is empty, otherwise you have to have all your cartridges containing ink even if you wish to print only in black.  That was enough for me. I'd had it and decided I'm tired of that ridiculous scam and if I have to be scammed like that, then the ink better last longer and be cheaper too.  

We had an awesome Brother inkjet printer that we had for years - I think 8 years and it was still good and working when we gave it away. That one allowed us to print even if we had only black ink left and so it ran like that for years unless we had graphics or pictures to print. When our son was doing his Interior Design course at Dawson and had stuff to print out in colour is when we invested in colour cartridges for it, otherwise we just used black and were fine for the longest time like that. 

So when we got the HP and discovered we couldn't print unless all the cartridges had ink in them, that was frustrating. But after awhile it gets to the point where you wonder why you even use a printer like that anymore. So that's what spurred today's purchase. Just tired of being held hostage over this colour or that colour or whatever colour even when we want to only print in black and the exorbitant cost of them.

Now off to make some beef teriyaki kebabs for the BBQ and some rice to have with them, for dinner....  BRB....  

Pull up a comfy seat, get your glasses and a cool drink and dive in to the following COVID19 related stories:


Coronavirus: Harmful lies spread easily due to lack of UK law   In other words the government wants only their version of things known, and not the real truth. 

Coronavirus: Why are Americans so angry about masks?  Probably because they don't like being told what to do by their governments all the time. Can't say as I blame them, really.


Black, Latino and poor people are less likely to get $1,200 coronavirus stimulus checks, new report says  This is just sad and the excuses given are like they know that this will prevent these groups from getting that money too. So what happened to good ole paper checks sent out in the mail for those who don't have the bank accounts or things like that? Just because they're too poor to actually need a bank account doesn't mean they shouldn't be allowed to have that money. They probably need more than the rest of the people out there do.


Study says actual number of Covid-19 cases is far greater than thought  Of course it is! What'd they think anyhow? Especially considering a lot of people probably had really mild cases of it and maybe didn't even realize that that's what they had and continued going about life as per usual without taking any medication or self-quarantining etc. 

Mom who lost two kids to Covid-19: Take this seriously  Very, very sad. Losing one kid is sad, but 2? I had a hard time coping with the loss of my adult daughter to cancer, I can't imagine losing 2 young kids around the same time. I'd be a basket case probably




Bankruptcies surging as coronavirus levels the U.S. economy  I'm sure that was part of the plan all along.

The East Coast heat wave isn't helping COVID-19 efforts  We've had so many heat waves this summer and are looking at another one starting tomorrow, I'm sick of it already. I can't stand the heat at all, but this summer is almost right on par with the summer of 2018 where it was so unbarely hot I couldn't stand to go outside at all. Same thing happening again and you can tell by looking at my garden. Last year this time my garden was awesome looking with just the wanted plants growing and a lot of them had already produced a lot food by this time last year. So far this year all we've gotten out of the garden is leafy greens like kale, lettuce, mustard and spinach and1 cucumber. This year and a few before are so discouraging I doubt I'll have another garden next year.






How Deadly Is Covid-19? Researchers Are Getting Closer to an Answer  Basically, it looks like it's on par with the flu because 5 - 10 people per thousand is 0.5% - 1% and so we're being forced to wear masks, stay in lockdown and crash our economies for that? 

People are more likely to contract COVID-19 at home, study finds Okay but someone had to contract it outside the home and bring it in. It didn't just knock on the door and invite itself inside, it came into the home lodged in someone's respiratory tract. So someone brought it into the home, and that was probably someone who lives there. But it came in from the outside via someone in the home contracting it from someone else outside the home.

Red rash-like splotches in the MOUTH may be a new symptom of coronavirus, Spanish study suggests  More symptoms to watch for.  There's lots more in the previous post on here. 


A concert is being held to learn how COVID-19 spreads at large events. Here’s how And here we are telling everyone to stay 2 meters apart and wash their hands and wear face masks especially at the public  events of 200 people or less we're allowed in QC.


The Real Unemployment Rate Is 21%... And Heading Higher - Wondering what the real unemployment rate in Canada is....



Split societies, global chaos and World War Three: We could be in for the most tumultuous era in modern history   Isn't this guy just a bowl full of laughs? Wow! Talk about pessimism overload....

Coronavirus: 'Infection here for many years to come'  I'm sure this is something we've all been waiting to hear. Said rather snidely.

Why making plans helps manage pandemic stress  When you're busy doing stuff or planning to do stuff, you don't have time to stress about the pandemic.  Trust me.

Is video dating here to stay?  I can't even imagine that. How does that work? Does he pretend he's taking you out to a fancy Italian restaurant and cooks up Chef Boy Ar-Dee for himself (but doesn't let you see the can), while you sit at the other end of the telecommunications connection watching him stuff his face with his pasta, while you sit there with your tuna sandwich and try to pretend it some  fancy Italian dish? I mean how do you video date? How does that work exactly? And then after he scarfs down his Chef-boy-Ar-dee does he try to seduce you by trying to convince you he took you out for an expensive Italian meal and so now you owe him so you'd better do some sexting stuff with him? Is that how it works? Just wondering....
Coronavirus updates: US reports more than 1,000 deaths for the first time since May 29; CDC says virus rates 10x higher

Swedish epidemiology boss says questioned COVID-19 strategy seems to be working  Well considering they have a population of 10 million and Quebec has a population of 8 million and the death rates are comparable, even though Quebec when into overdrive on locking everyone and everything down for months on end and Sweden didn't lock anything or anyone down. Just for comparison this article says "Sweden's death toll of 5,646" , in comparison to Quebec's current figures for July 24th (today's date) is: 5,663. So what was the point of all those measures the Quebec gov't went overboard taking anyhow? To wind up with more deaths per capita than Sweden who took no measures???? Just want to know why we went through all of that to wind up with a worse death rate than Sweden.

People are using honest obituaries to blame governors for coronavirus deaths and invite them to their loved ones' funerals  I don't blame them. I'm only wondering when the arrests for crimes against humanity and genocide starts and lawsuits against the various authorities in charge? Because that is bound to happen eventually.

Covid-19 Vaccines With ‘Minor Side Effects’ Could Still Be Pretty Bad

Antimaskers turn to mesh, crochet and lace to boycott face covering requirements

Coronavirus: What jobs are available post-lockdown?  This is in the UK, though other places around the world may have the same types of jobs available too.

What did people say about wearing masks in the 1918 pandemic? It sounds familiar

A day inside MLB’s COVID protocols   Sports are on their way back and one of the first stories from the sports teams is this one.

NFL-Total of 95 players test positive for COVID-19, union says  And followed close behind by this one.

Anyhow, until tomorrow, that's all for the day. Take care & stay well.