Covid19
May 1, 2022
Since my last post in here, I got that horrible chafing torture device off my thumb. I went down to the Montreal General Hospital on April 26th and saw the doctor and she took that horrible thing off my thumb (not a moment too soon either, as all the back side of my thumb was rubbed raw with and the underside along with the palm of my hand where that thing covered was starting to develop blisters too). She prescribed physiotherapy twice a week, but once a week bare minimum for me if I can't afford doing it twice a week, but as anyone on OAS knows, that's a joke and a half. How the F are we supposed to afford $200 a week? I guess if I want to go on strictly a water diet, I might be able to, but that would entail getting my husband to do the same as well and I don't think he's up for that especially since he's diabetic.
Without telling Mme Savard the head of that department for Metro our financial situation, I did tell her what it would cost to have physiotherapy done - whether I got it done in the area, where it would cost minimum $100 per session, or if I had to pay for a taxi ride into Montreal and back for a free session, that would likely cost more, because back in 2018 when I came home from the airport, it cost me $40 for the ride from the airport to the tip of the Montreal Island where my husband drove to wait for me to arrive - as it would've cost more the moment we left the island. That I know for a fact as someone I know who's father is one of those airport taxi cab drivers told me that. At the time, they (the Montreal airport cab drivers) weren't allowed to charge more than I think it was $40 for a trip anywhere on the Montreal island, if they went off island it was free game basically. And the Montreal airport is literally less than half way between here and the Montreal General Hospital, so that's at least $40 one way and that's IF I get my husband to drive me onto the island so I can take a taxi from there and then another $40 back to that point IF the rates hasn't gone up since then and IF the rates apply to ALL taxi fares no matter their origin or destination point. In other words if those fares do not only apply to airport taxis and apply to all taxis on the island. IF that's the case then maybe instead of $100 per session it would be about $80 per session (for the taxi fare), as my husband doesn't like driving in Montreal at all and I don't drive.
Despite the fact that she tried to convince me when we were on the phone together that she was a very compassionate person, I've yet to see any signs of that. She offered me only $1,000.00 for my injury due to their negligence and I refused. I'm glad I refused because at the bare minimum it would've cost me over $1,000 just for my physiotherapy - given that the doctor prescribed 2 times a week for 6-8 weeks (depending on progress and need). So if I accepted that original offer of hers I'd have been out $200 - $600 just to cover the therapy costs, not to mention the $200 it's already cost me to get there and back 2x (the first time on March 22nd, when that torture device was put on and then on the 26th of April when it finally came off). Like I told her, gas isn't cheap and hospital parking isn't free.
Which is why I believe it would cost me way more in taxi fare now than it did in 2018 - for the simple reason that gas is almost double in price now compared to what it was then. So with that in mind, no taxi driver is going to go into debt just to drive people around - they need to pay for their costs which right now is highway robbery prices of $1.92 per litre or close to $8.00 a gallon (for those still working in gallons) plus make a living. So I'd hazard a guess and say that that $40 limitation on fare prices has gone out the window.
So as of today's date, I've gotten nothing but being treated like a criminal by Bruno Lemay (a member of the family that owns that Metro Plus store where I fell on the ice and broke my thumb on March 8th because I merely wanted two boxes - which contained 100 gloves each, I think - of those flimsy charcuterie gloves their employees use to handle the meats at the deli dept., to cover my thumb splint when I needed to wash something as those big rubber gloves sold in the cleaning dept don't cut it as they're too big for my hands & for my purposes like being able to clean my teeth and hold my toothbrush without it disappearing in the glove, or to cover when I needed to wash veggies to prepare food etc, as the surgical gloves I ended up having to use were expensive - 30 for $10,00 and hard to get on over that stupid device and hard to take off again, so I wanted those flimsy gloves to use and thought as a gesture of goodwill for a loyal client he should give me at least one box considering I hurt myself on his family's property, if not sell them to me). Instead he refused and started acting like we were trying to rob him - he was backing away from us and towards the phone where I figure he was getting ready to call the cops, so we left and haven't set foot on his stupid property since.
So much for being a loyal customer of theirs since they had their one and only store on the island behind the shopping center where Steinberg's and Consumer's Distributing was located, back in the early 1980s. Nice to see how we loyal customers of 40 odd years are being treated. We were customers of his family's store, I'm sure, before he was even born, and that's how he treated us.
IF he had've let me have at least one box of those gloves with some sign of contrition or sympathy on his part, that's all it would've taken. I would not be going through any of this now. But each time I'm faced with obstinance, opposition and callousness, the more dug in I get. Like my mother used to say I can out stubborn the stubbornest.
All any of them from him on through Mme Savard had to do was be fair and decent with me, but none of them were, so my demands escalate with each new insulting dealings I have with them. The more insulting their dealings are with me, the more it makes me want to get as much as I should rightfully be entitled to and I can tell you it's far more than I've been offered so far. All I've been offered so far are insults - as far as I'm concerned.
As witnessed by the run around given me by Francois Lebel (the first corporate contact at Metro Richelieu head office), and Mme Elaine Savard, the supposedly compassionate one, who offered me $1,000 and refused to even entertain my needs and costs in that "settlement", which I refused.
That would not have even covered my therapy sessions (or transportation to free sessions if I can't find any other closer hospital that does hand therapy in my region and I already know I can't as there's only 1 hospital in our area and they don't do it), let alone the pain and suffering and humiliations I endured while I had that stupid torture device on my thumb, because being righthanded and having a useless thumb on my other hand, I had no means of doing my clothes (zippers and buttons and snaps) up on my own (not to mention a lot of other things like cutting my own food, opening the prescription pain pills bottle - that was prescribed specifically for the pain of my broken thumb - I couldn't get into them to get one without someone who had a working thumb's help and a lot more things I couldn't do on my own either and needed help with). So whenever we went out somewhere and I had to undo or take my coat off, my husband had to do it up for me, that's not to mention when I had to go to the washroom, I'd have to hold my pants up and pull my shirt down over the front of them and hope no one noticed that they weren't done up, and get my husband to do them up for me. So if they didn't get the idea that my pants weren't done up, up until he did them up for me, they did then. I can't even explain how embarrassing and humiliating that is.
When we were at restaurants, I had to make sure to not order anything I needed to pick up to eat, like hamburgers, anything on pita, ribs or wings or fried chicken - only things I could pull apart with a fork - so fish and pasta and things like that. I couldn't do any cleaning which may have caused us to lose a potential sale on our house, due to it's state of disorder and needing to be cleaned. I couldn't even put dishes in the dishwasher as I had no grip at all with that thing on - partly because of my thumb being broken but I couldn't even grasp things with my fingers and palm because that thing basically made sure whatever I was holding slipped out of my grasp onto the floor - ergo broken things and lots of spilled liquids and even food onto the floor. When I wanted to pick up a cup or glass to drink I had to use both hands and hold it the way a baby holds their own bottle to drink. You can't live in this world without a thumb, EVERYTHING REQUIRES A THUMB EXCEPT the keyboard and a trackball - it does technically require a thumb too, but you can use it with your index finger replacing the thumb quite easily. So the only things I could spend my time with was online, reading, or watching TV, as I couldn't do much else - no housework, no cooking, and definitely no hobbies even making that item I made for my friend I needed help with as some of the steps I couldn't do on my own. So it severely affected me in more ways than one (and may have contributed to losing a house sale on top of that).
In fact, the doctors that I spoke with, all said having a broken thumb is considered a major disability. Now imagine having a broken thumb on your dominate hand and a useless one altogether on your other hand - ergo NO thumbs at all, not just a broken thumb and a thumb that would have to learn to take over doing things for the one that's broken. I wish. I wish I had a thumb that could do that, but the sad fact of the matter is, I don't. I have a useless deformed thumb on my left hand. I think that deserves some compensation just for that too. The fact that I was basically totally incapacitated because of my broken thumb and continue to be to large extent, as I still don't have anywhere near the full use of it that I had before, because to get to that point I would need physiotherapy which I can't afford on the wonderful generous pensions Canada gives it's seniors (which is basically a subsistance allowance) and Metro refuses to compensate me for.
So because of that, now, I'm just fed up with always being victimized and bullied by
everyone and everything out there (as evidenced by the NHL player related ashholes that
moved in next door and their first act was to cut branches off my
beautiful maple tree - without us asking them to, or even provoking them into
anything and all the other crap they did to us since they moved in including trying to have me arrested on false charges). Then I fall on the ice at Metro, because they didn't salt or
sand it and I'm the one they're treating like a criminal and they can't
even be bothered to offer fair and just or even a consolation item of restitution to me for my
injuries. They act like it's my fault when it's their fault for not
keeping their sidewalk free of ice. Since it was after dark and that day
had hovered around the melting point I did see the dark patch on the
ground but had no way of knowing that the temperature was back below 0C
and so it was no longer water and had turned into ice. I assumed it was a
puddle of melted snow there - ergo water and safe to walk on, because
like I said it was after dark, so it was hard to see whether it was
water or ice and I just assumed it was water. But either way even if it
was ice, there was no way to get by there without stepping in/on it or
getting off the sidewalk as the patch was rather wide and went from one
side of the sidewalk to the other, right up to the edge of the curb (the entire width of the sidewalk and about 1 meter long).
Come to think of it, I haven't gotten my Metro & Moi money lately either. I'm pretty sure they owe me between $10 & $20 of Metro & Moi money as well and that's got nothing to do with my injury. That's got to do with the points earned while I was still shopping there so it's what we earned by buying from them as a rebate. So not only won't they pay anything for restitution on my injury, it seems like they don't even want to give me the Metro & Moi money they owe me. Unless they just haven't been paid out to anyone yet and will be later on this month. But I do believe that they are normally paid out in March or April and as both months are gone by now, I wonder.... But if what I believe is really what's happening, then that's super petty of them. I guess I'll know for sure by the end of May, because I know that I'd have gotten one of those Metro & Moi money things by then if they aren't deliberately withholding it from me. Just putting that out there, in case what I think is really the case so I don't forget to mention it in the class action lawsuit and/or to the mainstream media, as a demonstration of their pettiness.
So because of all of those reasons, I am now going to be launching a fully public campaign aimed at finding ALL of the injury victims who have not been fairly compensated for their pains and suffering and costs related to it, caused by negligence of Metro Plus, Metro Richelieu and just plain old Metro stores all across Quebec & Ontario where they are located, and any injuries or illnesses caused by their Selection brand products in order to launch a class action suit against them.
As an afterthought after speaking to a store owner friend of mine, I think maybe the class action lawsuit could also include store owners who are renting their shop space from one of those Metro entities, who've lost business due to shut downs caused by building damage (like leaky pipes for instance) and had stock ruined by such building damages that the Metro owner of the space refused to or neglected to pay the commercial tenant back for and if the commercial tenant had to assume the cost of repairs themselves even though that's not stipulated in the lease, they can also join the class action suit to recuperate the costs they put into repairing Metro's property for them, even though the building damages weren't caused by the commercial tenant and for all other damages & losses incurred due to that building damage.
So in essence anyone seeking reparations and damages for injury, illness, loss of business and stock or cost of repairs effected on Metro's property in order to be able to continue to function as a business there, even though Metro refused to pay for the repairs, would be welcome to join this class action lawsuit I think - unless whatever lawyer we get to represent us, thinks differently - but maybe by joining us now, you'll find all the others in the same boat and be able to band together to launch your own separate commerce related class action lawsuit.
I will be opening very soon, a Redit, a Snapchat, a Twitter, a Facebook, and an Instagram account and starting a new blog only for that purpose and ALL of them will be linked here too. I will also open an email account where anyone can leave a private message dealing with their claim and I will also try to engage the mainstream media in their investigative journalist segments to find out what's going on and why they're behaving like this. I plan to basically plaster the internet with this, but they won't be getting off scott free like they're trying to do now.
Hopefully when word gets out how ruthless and uncaring they are towards clients of over 40 years, people will wake up and realize what they're all about and start boycotting them too. Boycott Metro stores everyone!
So stay tuned for the email and net addresses dealing with that situation. If you or anyone you know has been injured on a Metro property or by one of their Selection Brand products get in touch at one of those upcoming addresses and add your/their name to the list of plaintiffs. Or if you're a commercial tenant at one of their properties, that's taken a financial loss due to their negligence - whether that's something like burst waterpipes or not sanding/salting properly and as a result a vehicle went through the window causing stock damage and days of lost revenue while things were being repaired. Or if you had to pay for repairs yourself but were never reimbursed by your Metro landlord, you can join our class action lawsuit, to try to recuperate those losses.
Other than that, I had to do our income taxes last week as well. I tried to get all the unsavoury stuff over and done with in as short a time as possible, so the day after getting that torture device off, I did our income taxes. But really it wasn't that bad. It's gotten a ton easier since the gov'ts started dumping their data directly into your tax forms at H&R Block's site. The worst part of it was trying to remember SIN numbers and finding all our stupid papers. Once those were found and access codes were entered it was basically a breeze. Good thing it's getting easier to do because my brain isn't getting any younger and I don't think I'd be able to handle it myself if it got more difficult and complicated.
Aside from that not much else happened since the last time I posted here, except we went out for dinner tonight at a restaurant. Yikes the prices have skyrocketed! If I'd have known what it was going to cost before we sat down to eat, we either might've had something different or gone somewhere different. Well we would've gone somewhere different and in fact tried to, but it looks like it's fallen a victim of Covid. Too bad as it was a nice restaurant. So that's why we wound up at the restaurant where we fell victim to the price shock Covid is probably being blamed for.
Yup, so on with the MAJOR NIGHTMARISH BACKLOG of Covid headlines. Egads it's scary looking in my bookmarks folder and with the new Rolling Thunder protest this weekend, the headlines section of my folder isn't getting any thinner. So before the next protest happens, I need to get rid of some of those headlines backlogged in there by putting them in here. So get a beverage to sip on as this is going to be a long one...... I know it won't be all of them but I'll try to get through as many as I can.
YouTube is banning prominent anti-vaccine activists and blocking all anti-vaccine content You know you have to wonder why, they're making such an effort to censor anti-vaccine activists and anti-vaccine content if what those people are saying is so wrong and unproven. You'd think that if the vaccine worked as good as these censors think it does, they wouldn't need to censor anyone about anything as the proof would be in the pudding as they like to say. But obviously it's not, and there's plenty proof to the contrary of what these censors assert, so that those anti-vaccine activists might have a point or be more right than they know. Maybe people's reluctance to get the vaccine has nothing to do with what the anti-vaccine group is saying, it might have more to do with the pro vaccine group trying to ram their "truths" and "facts" down everyone else's throats without it being given a fair chance to hear both sides of the story. All the pros and cons before making up their minds. Maybe the fact of the matter might be that they're terrified of the vaccine simply because they're terrified of what it might be those censors are trying hide by censoring the anti-vaccine groups. Guess they never thought of that though as they're too narrow minded and stupid to be able to think of that.
Are People Angrier Nowadays? And What Can We Do To Manage It? Of course we are after being told to socially distant ourselves from everyone else. We've forgotten how to be sociable, polite, have empathy for others and just good old fashioned manners. Then we have ass holes treating others the way I've been treated lately (with the ass holes next door, and how Metro has been treating me) that makes people who usually go by the motto they were raised on as in "live and let live" - in other words you treat me decently and with respect and I'll do the same with you, want to retaliate. Up until last year when that NHL player's family just blew my lid by them deciding to cut the branches off my tree and try to use our property as if it were theirs and then how I was treated by Metro after me injuring myself due to their negligence and them refusing to even give me a box of flimsy cellophane gloves, just blew my lid and I've decided I've had enough of being treated like crap by everyone and their dog and decided that if I had to blow my lid in public and stand up for myself to make this sheite stop that's precisely what I'm going to do. In my case my anger stems from having had enough of being bullied and victimized and now I'm fighting back.
Over half of Canadian businesses struggling to find workers: report Those businesses should examine their hiring practices and how they manage their human resources. Because I can guarantee you that the businesses that pay well and have good employee benefits and treat them humanely instead of like indentured slaves, probably have no problems finding employees.
Majority of restaurant operators say business conditions are worse now than three months ago, survey finds Again this was back in September. I know that around here 2 of our favourite restaurants went out of business. One of them we went to go to tonight but it was closed and the restaurant's overhead sign was taken down. The other one was a Chinese restaurant that was sold earlier this year, to another Chinese owner - who's food is very very good. Different menu with different prices, but the food is excellent and if you know how to order you get a large selection of food for cheaper prices than the Dinner for x amount of people dinners were from the other restaurant owner. It was the new owner that gave us that trick for ordering a large selection of dishes from 2 different "dinners" for 2 which basically wound up being more than enough for 4 people but at half the cost of the previous owner's menu for 2 people with way fewer dishes. So I think I like the new restaurant food as much as if not more than the other restaurant's food and the prices way better. But that's to say that even in this area there's a been a few restaurants that suffered from the plandemic. Also there was a Greek restaurant we used to like, I don't know if that one closed due to the plandemic or if it closed this location and moved elsewhere.
COVID lockdown was a ‘live social experiment’ revealing how women, men behave during pandemics This whole plandemic has been one massive live experiment on everything to do with working from home, how far you can push a population before they push back, how to hoodwink a nation into giving up their constitutional rights, how to crush a nation and keep them crushed under your thumb, how to bankrupt certain industries and filter money to favoured industries and gov't cronies, how to rid the world of x amount of "useless eaters", how to destabilize whole economies so that new financial measures can be introduced (read digital money), to determine how to censor one group while seeing how gullible the rest of the population is, if the mRNA vaccines will have any effects or repercussions on our genetic pool and our individual DNA and a whole lot more, I'd say. Basically it's a massive experiment to see just how f'd up they can make things before everything falls apart or they get strung up for crimes against humanity. Whichever comes first.
COVID may cause 'restless anal syndrome' - report I have restless leg syndrome which I've had for years now. At least since 2016, I think it has to do with low potassium and magnesium levels in me because when I take those supplements or eat foods high in those minerals, it stops. The thing is though it mostly starts when I'm in bed trying to sleep or when I'm sound asleep and I hate waking up during the night to eat anything so I take the supplements but because the pills are coated they don't act as fast as if say I ate a banana or avocado.
Bacon prices have reached record levels. Here's why they might not go down anytime soon That's part of it, but mostly it's because they don't have to go down. Everyone in business is maintaining all these higher prices and a lot of them aren't because it's costing them more, but simply because they see everyone else charging more, so they think they can get away with charging more too, whether they need to or not. It's called greed and gouging. It's as simple as that in a lot of cases.
Bacon prices reach all-time high in Canada This week at least the Giant Tiger in our area is selling 500grs of Spalding Bacon for $2.97. That's a pretty good price from even before the plandemic came along and drove the cost of breathing up by a gazillion percent.
Vaccinated pregnant women pass antibodies to unborn child: study So if that's the case she should also pass the antibodies she acquired naturally (as in having had the disease herself or her own natural immunity to it if any) to her baby as well. This wouldn't just apply to vaccination generated antibodies but all manners of acquisition of such antibodies.
Covid restrictions force some retailers to rethink Vietnam as a manufacturing hub Personally, I think what this whole supply chain fiasco is teaching us, is the old adage of "we're never better served than by ourselves". So in other words instead of contracting all our work out to other countries we could make & grow most of the stuff we need in our own country. We're a resource rich country so instead of mining, drilling and harvesting everything to sell over seas in order to reimport it as some kind of product, why don't we just make it ourselves? It would create jobs and save a ton of money on transportation (which would cut down on CO2 gases - so win/win there) and we wouldn't be left waiting on things that never come due to some problem in some other country - be it covid related, political upheaval, labour related, or whatever problems other countries might experience. At least if it were made here we could deal with our own problems and get them resolved so they could continue to manufacture said goods. Right now we're held hostage due to everything being made in China and China's basically under a total lockdown where nothing's working or being made. Earlier there was a report about shipping containers held up at ports due to lack of dock workers - if it were made here, it wouldn't matter if there was a dock worker shortage or not as everything from harvesting/mining and drilling for the raw materials to the final production of it would be done here in Canada. But hey what do I know about the world economy and globalization except that I don't see anything good in it, for us Canadians.
As it's past my bedtime yet again, I'm leaving it there for now. In the meantime take care and stay tuned. Don't forget BOYCOTT METRO PLUS, METRO-RICHELIEU & METRO STORES in Quebec and Ontario and stay tuned to this blog if you or someone you know wants to join the class action suit against them for any injuries or illnesses sustained because of their negligence. I will be getting to work on all the various social media platforms in the coming days and setting up an email address where you can contact me privately if you wish.
