A Pandemic Journal; The Hunger Games Begin

      Mid August, god damn the summer is slipping away! The days are already shorter but we are due for another hot spell at least.The faster time goes the faster we will hopefully be rid of the Trump era, he is doing everything possible to rig the election of course, you were warned back in the Impeachment trial my friends! Trump and his toadie in the US Postal Service are busily trying to hold up the mail and cause distrust just in time for mail in ballots, he even admitted it out loud! Put nothing past this piece of shit! This week Biden announced Kamala Harris as his running mate, it's all very historic, first woman, black and asian too, already Trump is trying to question her citizenship, I tell you this guy has no ideas left! Birtherism is soooo 2014!!!! Aside from racist and sexist attacks however the Republicans have failed to articulate an actual argument against Biden/Harris, all they have is conspiracy theories. And speaking of conspiracy theories over a dozen Q annon believers have won primaries in deep red Republican districts, these people are truly nuts, they believe democrats are satanists who are also cannibals and pedophiles and also hope to execute them all one day! Actually this would put you at odds with hate crime laws in Canada I think!?!? Only one Republican said anything so now I guess they are the party of batshit insanity??? Speaking of batshit insane we recently saw tens of thousands of dipshit bikers gathering for the Sturgis Festival, no masks and even a concert from Smash Mouth, remember this shitty band from the 90's? Yeah, the lead singer was mocking mask wearing. Once again let me just add how foolish this is and really I hope you idiots suffer the consequences, it's just criminal that innocent people are exposed to these fucking retards! It is ridiculous that the beard guy from the CDC say to wear masks on CNN recently the week after this Sturgis nonsense, it is meaningless if there are no mandates in place to restrict such gatherings! America looks like a 3rd world "shithole" right now led by despotic lying idiots!

     As for Canada, the Bloc are busily trying to unseat the PM over this WE Charity scandal, are people into this? Should we have an election during a pandemic and change our government that is doing quite well on the pandemic? I don't think so but I do not have a Quebecois mind, do we always have to be hostage to these nut cases in this country? And in virus news Alberta leads the country in new cases!!!! We're number one!!!! We're number one!!!!! Where is Kenney? I have not heard one comment from him. Don't forget most people are probably sending their kids back to school in a couple of weeks too, this will not go well, I wonder if we will have school by Christmas?

     Next week we are travelling to Saskatchewan for a funeral extravaganza, a formal service for Gords dad and his sister Diane who also died recently, what's better than going  to a funeral? going to two, one right after the other! I don't know if I have the capacity for this much emotion? In one sense it's nice to get away and stay at the lake on the other it's so much family to deal with! Apparently the Saskatchewan folks do not want to come and mingle with us "outsiders" so this will be a strange event at best!

A Pandemic Journal, Midsummer Madness!

     The end of July is giving us some really hot weather and uncharacteristically humid too! Highs of 31 and 65% humidity, it's almost unheard of here, usually hot days are extremely dry here on the Northern Plains. Just a few wacky things of note during this time. Cases are increasing especially in the Calgary area, where a few weeks ago we were boasting 20 to 30 new cases a day we are now up to 130! And yet the charge to get back to school is just as strong as ever before, I think it's nuts but people can't stand their kids so.....
     Trump continues to lose his mind, this week tweeting about moving the election, nice try but I really think people are on to you! Ironically Herman Cain (yes the 9-9-9 guy) died from Covid virus, notable in this story is his attendance at Trumps Oklahoma rally last month, without a mask of course! This also brings the total of black people who support Trump to a number counted on one hand! Also we learned that Republican dip shit Louie Gohmert also tested positive right before flying with Trump, aww too bad! He also believes that wearing a mask gave him the virus, yes this is what stupid people think now! Gaaaaaad. You know I recently watched the Netflix doc about the flat earthers, people who want to believe the world is flat, that it has been a 500 year cover up, what for? they don't know either. Not bad as modern docs go, there is a segment where astronaut Mark Kelly says that while believing in a flat earth may be innocuous the disbelief in science could have detrimental effects one day, as this was filmed before 2020 I think we now see where this internet nonsense has led especially Americans! We have a few nuts in Canada too but for the most part I think our leaders follow science not these horseshit theories from internetlandia! I am just waiting for the day Trump gets covid, you'll hear me laughing all day!
     Civil rights leader John Lewis was buried this week, eulogized beautifully by President Obama who also eloquently slammed Trump who was too scared to show up of course. Hurricane Isaias bears down on Florida, pretty early for hurricanes I'd say and really everyone should be asking "is there a plan?" the virus will love people huddled in shelters. For some reason weather broadcasters everywhere are trying to pronounce it "Is-e-a-us" rather than what obviously looks like "I-zay-us" as in Isiah from the Bible. Even if it were a Spanish pronunciation it would be more like "E-say-as" so I don't know what the hell these people are on about!?!? Expect many more hurricanes this year, yet another area for the dip-shit in chief to fuck up again!!!
    Sports is trying to make a come back with hockey beginning in Edmonton this week and baseball having some some problems like the players keep contracting covid, but hey lets open schools in 4 weeks!?!?
Well, back to the heat, I think we're really going to miss this summer before the virus comes raging back in the fall!