We're On The Eve Of Destruction, Again! A Pandemic Journal

      So, here we are again, on the eve of destruction. Turns out everywhere except China is seeing a surge in Corona virus, Europe is shutting down, Canada, especially Ontario and Quebec are mulling shutting down, locally it's escalating beyond cute and in the US they are expecting a giant surge next week, the week before the election, so it's going really really badly!!!

Some figures;

World cases 41.4 million

USA 8.5 million

India 7.7 milllion

Brazil 5.5 million

Russia 1.4 million

Canada 205,749

Locally in Calgary a wedding of 60 some people infected almost 50! The Foothills Hospital has seen a large outbreak causing 80 or so staff to have to isolate (which also uses all of their sick days) some schools have seen mini outbreaks, I actually think it is schools opening that have caused such a surge but I hate kids so take that however you like! The little bastards are just germ factories as bad as old folks homes and cruise ships! Jason Kenney and his band of cohorts have all exposed themselves to covid, I think, from their recent UPC meeting, where they voted 50 some % in favor of privatizing health care of all things! In the middle of a pandemic of all things!!! Unfortunately Kenney has tested negative but quite a few of them have tested positive including Ric McIvor, awww I wish them all the very very best, god bless! Kenney will not release updated covid stats for Alberta, it's all so Trumpy, Kenney should ask himself if it's worth the risk of covid to suck so much Republican cock washed down with so much Trump Kool-aid!?!?!

Just watching right now Obama holding a rally where people sit in their cars and listen and honk, it's the hot new thing these days! Too funny and so is the election right now! The US election is the only thing keeping my spirits light these days. The weather has turned to shit, snow and cold, minus temps as daytime highs! I hate it but Trump is losing his mind right now as we slowly approach election day, so slow it seems! Trump has taken to dancing (extremely terribly) to the Village People at his rallies where thousands of people don't wear masks! Turns out the Sturgis Bike festival may have spawned a surge in virus throughout the upper MidWest and many of us normal folk believe Trump rallies will have the same effect. I was wondering if he is just a Chinese or Russian plant sent here to spawn more virus in the American populace!? Geeze! Trump, with the help of the best Dr's in America, apparently got over corona and is now holding rallies everyday and saying shit like "don't let corona control your life" it only kills old people, it may be sometime in the future but right now it's maddening insanity! The funny part to this story may be that his wife Melania is having a harder time getting over the virus as she practiced only holistic methods, was supposed to be on the campaign trail but is too sick to attend. The other funny part is that the White House event for their religious twit Coney-Barret became a superspreader event, infecting so many people, Senators, most of the Trump staff including KellyAnne Conway and now pundit Chris Christie who I think is lucky to survive this! Such a fat sack of shit! Tomorrow is the last debate, wonder if it will go better than the last? Ha ha, Trump is so mad and off his game he apparently stormed out of a 60 Minutes interview with Leslie Stahl and now claims he has the tape and will release it! WTF!?!?!? All of this will be funny or make for a great movie one day in the future but for now it's as grueling as our shit weather! The US has now had over 227,000 deaths and is expected to just get worse right now so I don't really see a path ahead for trump in this election, he recently said "I might have to leave the country" at a rally and I truly believe this is his intent, he always tells us what he really thinks and with the legal trouble he is in post-presidency this may be his best plan! We found out yesterday that trump has a secret bank account in China, just like my dad who had a secret bank account on the West Coast, this did not go over will with my mom and I'll bet Trumps won't go over well either!!! Where can he go? He needs so much attention so I doubt he would disappear to a small tropical island, France, Russia? LOL who the hell would have him? The French wouldn't ruin a steak the way he wants, he has nowhere to go, Russia is colder than Canada I would love to see the whole Trump family shivering their asses off in Russia!!! I think Biden may win in a landslide, the polls may be wrong in the opposite way this time, unable to count new voters, turns out the more Republicans try cheap chicanery tactics the madder I think especially Black people get and are voting en masse. The entire country is voting like crazy 4 times more than 2016 in the early voting, people are tired of this clown and his handling of the virus! Almost 25 million people have voted already, probably more than all the eligible voters in Canada! It's a lot of interest, a lot of anger!

     There is some confusion around Halloween, our authorities say it can be safe if distance is kept and trick or treating is done outdoors. I think it's too cold at this time of year and still too risky! I usually love Halloween, the costumes, the hot dads with their kids, the leftover candy but I think we should skip it this year. I wonder how bad things will be by Christmas and if my 86 year old mom will survive this, she probably will just to spite us all! I wonder how bad this winter will be? We've already had so much cold and snow, with this trend we may all be buried by December! God, waiting for history to unfold is like slow motion paint drying, I just want to fast forward to the end already!

     

October Surprise!

     October 3rd, my late dads birthday, he would have been 88, we are losing a lot of people from this generation lately notably Ruth Bator Ginsburg. That news was devastating and had me yelling for a least a coupe of days, of course the power hungry GOP want to fill this seat even though last time it was the opposite when we had Obama as President. Only an intervention from God himself can stop this now, more on that later.....

     It has been a hot summer and that has lasted into the fall, it could be because California and the entire West coast have been having unprecedented heat and fires, we have had a few smoky days around here but it has not been bad compared to other years. I had the Calgary Horticultural Society come to film my garden in August, I had signed up for an open garden this year but because of the pandemic they are opting for short videos instead. Since they did not tell me any of this was happening until two days before I was unprepared and not extremely happy with my video, my life is always stupid like this! We also had Gords dads funeral as well as his Aunt Dianes' to be held at the same place and day near the farm in Saskatchewan. What's better than one funeral? Two of course! So my headspace was not exactly on the garden at this time.

     The funerals were totally covid era events, held outdoors in the cemetery of course, with black facemasks. Most of the Saskatchewan relatives were too scared to mingle with us outsiders, most of us including Gords cousins coming from BC and Calgary, Gords sister coming from Ottawa, it was a moderately small affair considering funerals in normal times usually fill the town hall with over 100 people! Gords dad we already said good bye to back in the spring so I got thru that part allright but Aunt Dianes' was so sad, she died at the age of only 70 which is very unfair, mostly I am so sad for these nice people who are her kids and fairly young grandkids, it's just so god damned unfair!!!

     September has been so nice this year, it could be a coming apocalypse as the world heats up beyond human limits? If the world started to burn up uncontrollably I think Canadians would still revel in wearing t-shirts in January, "oh I know the world is ending but it's so mild for the middle of winter" is what most of us would say, lol! Anyway, it is the 3rd of October and we have not even had a light frost yet, I still have most of my houseplants outside, it is more like California than Alberta right now! The grass is fried and brown everywhere but everyone still has all their annuals, it's just gorgeous everyday and the forecast is more of the same!

     So, the big news as of Thursday is that Trump has tested positive for Covid!!! It is just too insane to comprehend with so many implications! Turns out there was likely a "super-spreader event" held at the White House as they announced their Supreme Court pick Amy Coney Barrett. Since most of the GOP are not in the practice of wearing face masks many top GOP idiots have also contracted the virus including Kellyanne Conway and Chris Christie and some prominent GOP Senators. It's so nuts, who knows how this will affect the election? Trump has gone to the hospital because he is a fat asshole who is also 74, a very high risk category indeed! I actually don't want him to die as I would like for him to experience losing the election and get arrested immediately after becoming an ex-president! I would like to know what the Trump cultists who think Covid is all a hoax think about this now!? Trump himself even called Covid a "Democrat hoax", I hope he gets a serious scare. I also think about when Trump, with the help of Russia and the National Enquirer, tried to spread rumours about Hillary's health back in 2016. Most of all I hope this doesn't swing the vote in his direction, who can imagine how this will play out right now??? In a way I also wonder if God really is Jewish and this is all payback for screwing with Ginsberg's legacy on the court, the first woman and Jewish person to lie in state at the Capital.

     Right now we are getting mixed messages from the Dr's one source says he is in critical condition at Bethesda Hospital and this morning another Dr not answering if he is on oxygen now or ever before, always obfuscating lies and misinformation with this guy! If he did die I suppose it would solve a lot of problems, maybe hold up this stupid nomination, would there be a State Funeral right before an election? Who would go? He has pretty much insulted every President both living and dead and deserves zero respect from anyone, the military who he calls "suckers and losers" or the public who he lied to about the dangers of this virus. There is just so much to get into about Trumps recent behavious but you can see this all in the movie one day, we have another gorgeous day and I don't want to waste it typing here all day!