The vortex of arctic air might be leaving us, today is wall to wall sunshine so it feels much warmer but still has a very chilly wind. It's nice to see the sun after a week of cloud and light constant flurries, it's my version of hell actually, cold cloudy snowy, yeesh! Friday I didn't want to go out at all and took the dog for only a 20 minute run, I watched You Tube most of the day. Saturday is much nicer we went for our normal walk in the park and today so many less wandering idiots, mostly dog walkers and only one jogger. The CDC in the states says wearing a mask may be the best idea as the virus is spread thru talking/breathing etc. so I think breathing as hard as possible while running thru crowded parks cannot be good, I was thinking this last weekend, it's just a bad idea! Jogging has never been a good idea I don't know why people do it at all?
News bits; Heard last week that Sweden is keeping things normal but trying to protect the most vulnerable, this is probably not working if you look at the stats. I know, I thought this in the early days, back when we were in Saskatchewan, like why halt the economy? But we know so much more now like covid can affect anyone of any age and a lot of the unaffected are just carriers, it's just such a contagious disease!
Global News tells us that in the early days Canada and the US had a similar rate of infection, 10 to 1 which reflects our population difference, right now infection rates are 22 to 1 compared to Canada.
Trump continues to be a total idiot of course, contradicting the CDC, they say to wear masks in public, Trump says to wear a scarf and of course he will also not wear a mask! The biggest story of the day is that Trump is "ordering" private company 3M to stop shipments of medical masks to Canada and Latin America, they are the continents supplier it turns out. Trudeau lightly threatens retaliation by saying a lot of nurses from Windsor work in Detroit and we don't want retaliation now do we? 3M says this decision would have humanitarian consequences and has no plans to stop shipments to other countries. Trudeau reminds the Americans that a lot of the raw materials from these masks come from Canada and backs down on retaliatory measures, keeping dialog open yada yada...I'm sure, judging from past performances, that we have not heard the last of this and Trump will be super pissed he can't order private companies to do things, they will be getting a bitchy tweet at 5 am I am sure! Why didn't Trump enact their version of the War Powers Act which allows him to direct companies to make things, respirators etc. ? Weird, you'd think this guy would want all the power in the world but he missed this one, oh well, don't give him any ideas now!
In local news Jason Kenney has decided to give 1.1 Billion fucking dollars to fund the Keystone XL Pipeline! In the middle of a Pandemic! Our news tries burying the story and everything is dwarfed by this stupid virus so who knows how this will fall out? This is OUR taxpayer money, going to a private oil company, next year a further 6 Billion for this pipeline, all this while cutting education and health care! In another "I told you so segment" we are learning that a clinic in one of the small towns around here is closing it's emergency department and losing some of it's doctors and scaling back hours, it is likely that more rural clinics like this will follow. The minister for health sent out some bitchy statement saying that nothing will change with health care and we will hire more Dr.s. Yeah OK, we'll see about that, anyone want to live in a province where winter lasts 10 months and is filled with stupid rednecks and they don't want to pay you?, lets see the world beat a path to Alberta! Idiots.
Trump has put Jared Kushner in charge of something about the virus, who knows what? He says earlier this week that stockpiles are not for the states they are for "us", no one knows what that means, us the Trump family?, us the White House?, it's stupid as usual, they need to have competent people in charge not the products of nepotism!
A lot of people online are "in love with Cuomo" the Governor of NY, and why not he does great informative press conferences. Stephen Colbert wins the week with saying that a certain number of Americans are "Cuomo-curious" and just finding out that they are "Cuomo-sexual" I think it's hilarious! My favourite joke last week was Jimmy Kimmel saying that we either have to suffer being in quarantine for months or on the other hand might have the chance the meet Prince.
People are realizing that they have to cut their own hair now. I never thought of it either because I have been cutting my own hair for 30 or more years! And what of high maintenance women? Oh boi, what a pickle society is in now! I haven't been anywhere except grocery stores and the beer store so I worry about buying or shopping anywhere else, how do we buy things now? I'm not sure. The art supply store sent an email earlier that said they will organize curbside pick up, I imagine a lot of stores are doing something like this, but do I have to phone ahead? I hate phoning!
I hope we are on to more spring weather now, it is god damned April, tomorrow is Palm Sunday, the sunshine has me on a slightly less angry bent today so I hope that continues. I did spend two days cleaning the basement and could spend about 5 more! Maybe we'll get around to the rest soon?
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