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Well up here in the land of igloos, coronavirus cases exploded from 200 to 300 overnight.
Ontario has clearly lost the containment battle and is no longer testing people with the coronavirus.
Folks in Ontario finally figured this out and panicked, cleaning out the grocery store shelves!
Snow is now being hoarded!
Zerosum:. Imagine that! Mexico closing their US border! That will really upset the Dem’s open borders policy!
Oxymoron:.
Funny you say that!
In Canada the biggest new source of coronavirus infects are now from Canadians travelling back from the US!
Before it was China, then Iran, then Egypt, then Italy, now the US!
Of course dopey Trudope isn’t closing any air flights even though his wife got it visiting the UK!
I think Trump will need to hit him over the head with a 2 x 4 first, by threatening to close the US/Canada border, before Trudopeo wakes up!
Up here in Ontario, the province announced that they will not be testing anyone who doesn’t meet their criteria because they still don’t have enough test kits! I think they are still limited to about 100 a day.
Even if you have the coronavirus you will still not be tested! Just sent home to self isolate!
Ontario has clearly lost the containment battle. It is full out community spread time!
I live just north of Toronto’s airport.
Obviously the steeple have finally figured out the truth and panicked!
Walmart store shelves were empty tonight! The panic started slowly Wednesday night, picked up steam Thursday, and on Friday people were running into the store from their cars!
I joked with one of the old Walmart greeters, “So you took a nap, and when you woke up the store was empty”!
VietnamVet:. Well let us hope the arrival of warm weather slows down the spread of this virus!
Nothing else seems to be working!
Zerosum:. This might interest you!
Milan, Italy’s virus epicenter is home to over 100,000 Chinese! There are direct flights between Wuhan and Milan.
Why so many Chinese in Milan? Well Italians sold their textile Mills to the Chinese who then imported their countrymen to staff the Mills!
Now you know why the coronavirus struck Milan so hard!
The lefty Major of Milan was even promoting a “hug a Chinese” campaign during the outbreak!
Dave Note:. I agree! People making light of the coronavirus will continue to behave and act, in a manner, that helps the spread, far and wide.
But then we already know 43% of people who self quarantine, do not! So nearly half cheat!
That is sufficient to ensure nearly 100% spread rates!
Here in Canada cases jumped from 67 to over 200 today. Italy here we come!
Most surprising we are seeing leadership from the province of Quebec of all places! BC and Ontario have the most cases and should be leading but are not! BC is doing better than Ontario!
Yesterday, Quebec closed all their schools, from day care to universities! Hard to believe!
Today a few universities in Ontario are going online. My daughter’s school, Ryerson, in downtown Toronto, announced everything is going online.
Thanks Quebec for kicking everybody else’s (especially Ontario’s) ass into some kind of action!
Quebec is opening 10 more regional community centers (2 already operational) with testing. Total = 12.
Ontario is just opening it’s first “assestment” center, and no you can not get tested there! Testing is reserved for only those who qualify! (and you don’t!)
Question for John Day.
My wife read something from a Japanese doctor.
The doctor said one way to self test at home if you think you have the virus is to try and hold your breath for 10 seconds. If you can, then the virus has not yet spread to your lungs. However if you discover that you cannot hold your breath for 10 seconds without difficulty, then you need to seek medical attention immediately.
Now that the coronavirus has possibly hit home, maybe now Trudeau will get serious!
Now everybody in the world will just travel through Canada to get to the US!
There are still direct flights between Canada to everywhere in the world!
Want to fly to China? Direct flights to Shanghai!
Nobody is being screened entering Canada!
In Ontario there is still no community testing!
Just self quarantine please, even though half don’t!
Sunnycool:. Maybe I could send you some Canadian polar bears!
They might work better than canons!
If you don’t feed them, they will eat people!
Boilingfrog:. Yes poor people cannot afford to be sick! And if they are not dead, will continue to work because they have no choice!
In an earlier post only 57% actually self quarantine! The other43% don’t!
VietnamVet: Congress’s recent virus bill of $8.2 billion, if I remember correctly includes $3.2 billion for international efforts!
What this really means is Congress is more concerned about lining up their next big kickbacks!
Just like foreign aid to the Ukraine!
Here in Ontario, health officials are still in lala land.
There is no community spread! People feeling ill should just self quarantine!
Nursing homes being infected.
Every suburb of Toronto now has multiple cases!
Read a study on SARS self quarantine results. The study showed only 57% actually quarantined! The other 43% didn’t bother to quarantine themselves as it was too much effort and it interfered too much with their lives!
To back up the cheating results, one of the US’s top SARS scientists, who caught SARS, was seen in public, with recorded photos of her as proof!
So quarantining only works for just over half the population! So those Canadian health officials droning on how everybody is self quarantining themselves are just full of it!
On a side note:. Some of you know I suffer from RP in my eyes!
When I was first diagnosed with RP and was legally blind, my doctor said by law he was legally required by law to report me to the government and they would take away my driver’s license. However he said he wasn’t going to report me, leaving everything up to me to decide. Naturally I let my wife drive me home!
About 5 years later, I read an interesting article from the Canadian or American medical association, about what happens when doctors do or don’t report patients.
First of all doctors did not like being forced by the government to play the roll of God for their patients. Very Understandable!
So here is what this study found!
When doctors did report their patients, 75% after loosing their driver’s license, continued to drive!
However, when doctors did not report their patients to the government, 75% quit driving on their own!
So my doctor was very smart! He already knew this!
I know John Day, Dr. D, Dr. Rich, will probably say that sounds about right! Basic Humans 101!
My take on this is when people are given the power to decide what is in their best long term interest, the majority will make the responsible decision.
However if another person or the government makes the decision for a person, that person will resent it and probably continue doing whatever they have been told they can no longer do!
The DNC’s election theatre is doing a good job of creating lots of drama these days!
Now that the hired cast, earier voted off the stage, have all rallied around brain dead Joe, the next scene has the DNC hiding Joe!
Obviously the side of beef directing the DNC’s theatre isn’t willing to take any chances that old Joe might steal her nominatiion!
Dr. D:. Leadership is kind of a strange thing to define.
We often think leadership means making a lot of noise in front of a group of people.
However most leadership really comes from quiet determined individuals just going about their daily lives. These kinds of people lead by simply putting their thoughts into action. If they are not there, then nothing happens. For these types of people you can safely shoot their leaders and nothing will happen!
Some of these quiet leaders are socially shy. They don’t say much. They just quietly convert their thoughts into reality. However try to divert them from their tasks, you will only succeed temporarily, because as soon as you stop pushing them, they will revert right back to doing what they perceive to be their first priority.
Sometimes when trying to push them against their will, they will suddenly and unexpectedly react in a manner you don’t expect. Then you have discovered too late, that they won’t jump off the cliff as you were expecting them too!
I call these types crocodiles! Push them too hard and they will quietly lure you into deeper and deeper water, before suddenly turning on you and drowning you!
Crocodiles are leaders too!
Zerosum: You are correct! My opinion doesn’t count either!
I suspect I am just a bit more jaded about Canada’s media than you are! I also started life in Quebec which didn’t help my outlook either! Then there was my very woke Father!
I also suspect another reason for my being so jaded, relates to the fact that I have worked in many different countries around the world. This certainly helped to open my eyes to things I would have been perfectly happy to have never seen!
I have been overseas when; the Shah of Iran was over thrown, the Falklands Islands War, the Congo civil war, the Israeli’s bombing Iraq’s nuclear plant, the USSR shooting down a Korean 747 airliner. All impacted me directly!
Don’t get me wrong! I still think both Canada and the US are two of the best countries in the world to call home! I just think they could both do better!
I certainly hope both Canada and the US are able to cope with the coronavirus!
After all, I have family in both countries!
Zerosum:. Yes, Canadian officials talk the talk, but notice they say nothing about what they are doing to address comminity spread! Nothing!
That is because they are facing a shortage of test kits too! Look at how few they have tested! Actually they rarely mention how many they have tested! And the media don’t ask either!
The cases in Alberta are still waiting for test confirmations from Winnipeg! Testing takes Manny’s days!
The only difference between Canada and the US, is Canada’s media are all toeing the government line!
This makes everything appear slicker in Canada!
In reality, Canada is not doing any better than the US!
We Canadians have been given a false sense of security!
Actually if you multiply Canada’s numbers by ten, since the US has ten times the people, Canada’s numbers are very similar to US numbers.
However, there is one critical area that Canada may do better than the US, is when more test kits become available, nobody who needs to be tested, is going to hold back, due to concerns over the costs of being tested. In the US this issue remains unasnwered k.
In Canada, health officials are in complete denial about community spread of the coronavirus!
The virus has hit two retirement homes, one in Vancouver, and the other in Toronto!
One has died in Vancouver. Still no community testing!
Canada’s case numbers are completely fake!
It is still … Don’t Test, Don’t Tell!
The media is all about praise for government actions!
None of the media are asking the right questions!
For the folks who are all worried that the DNC don’t know what they doing, relax!
The DNC folks know exactly what they are doing!
They are merely trying to save their own jobs!
LastTwo:. Since Hillary is the DNC’s election theatre director, she will let you know who you can vote for!
I saw a comment elsewhere saying Congress should be shutdown due to the high average age of its current occupants and that if any of them got the coronavirus it would be worst than the stock market crashing!
On the other hand, for all of the reasons given above and more, Congress should be forced to stay open!
V. Arnold:. Do you have any concerns about taking so much vitamin C that it might affect your kidneys or liver?
V. Arnold:. Re-Iran. The reason the people of Iran are getting hit so hard by the coronavirus is simply because of the attitude of their religious leaders.
Iran will be a country where the majority of the people will get infected. Sad.
The numbers of coronavirus in Canada and US will explode as more test kits become available.
In Canada, the health officials have only allowed people who travelled to eight countries and are ill to be tested.
Only now are they admitting they “may” need to start testing for community spread. But it is just talk for now.
Most Canadians think they can just walk into a hospital and get results in 1 hour, if they want, thanks to the media spread gov propaganda.
In Canada the media doesn’t bite the government hand that feeds them.
I noticed oil prices have suddenly taken a dive to about $40.
I don’t think OPEC liked it when Russia said no!
Dr. D. Rich:. Talking about cruise ships, today one of Canada’s health officials, said they would really encourage Canadians to think twice about taking a cruise! Rare honesty!
Especially since passengers could easily get quarantined in some 3rd world country and there would be nothing they could do for them.
Bosco:. Another thing I remember was the authorities put purple dye in the gas farmers used to try and prevent them from selling gas on the black market.
The police would check your vehicle’s gas tank to see if there was any purple dye in it!
My other Grandfather, living in Ontario, was a farmer so he got purple dyed gas for the farm. What used to really piss him off were the people who would come around at night to steal the gas from his car because it wasn’t purple gas.
For his car, he of course had to get by just like everybody else using their gas ration coupons. I believe he then greatly increased the number of farm dogs but even that didn’t stop the problem! I think the thieves just fed the dogs!
Bosco:. Canada also banned the sale of rubber tires!
The reason I know this is my Grandfather, who lived in Meota, Saskatchewan, had an old car that he could not afford to keep running.
One day a man came around and asked if he could buy the four tires! Grandpa said yes, but only if he bought the whole car!
My Dad said the guy didn’t dither for one second, paying Grandpa his price, cash on the spot! Clearly he was running booze and needed the tires!
Bosco:. To be honest, many Republicans expressed concerns back in January. I remember the big up roar from the Democrats and media when President Trump stopped direct flights from China! They were more concerned about hurting China’s feelings than the safety of their fellow countrymen!
I suspect saying anything about the coronavirus back then, just made one feel unwelcome. So you just learn to keep your worries to yourself.
The media are experts of seemlessly switching their positions 180 degrees and anointing blame!
Bosco:. I believe he is telling us what he believes is the truth!
Of course we have already seen lots of bits and pieces of the coronavirus story here on the TAE, so this isn’t a complete surprise to us. Since we are older, we have more than a passing interest!
But for many people, they are still in total denial.
Some it is just a flu, so no big deal! Some still believe it affects only Asians. Last time I looked, Italians and Iranians don’t look very Asian to me and hundreds of them have already died!
Zerosum:. Obviously I need to add Canada to your list of favorite countries!
China sits at the top of your list.
However Iran really takes the cake for it’s true 3 monkeys approach! They just announced that 40% of Tehran’s 12 million population will have the flu in 2 weeks! Probably the only true thing they have said in decades!
With Iranians dropping dead like flies, their religious leaders are too busy praying to Allah.
P.S. One day while driving on the main highway in Morocco, between Marrakesh and Casablanca, I saw an old man riding on a donkey. Just before the donkey stepped out onto the highway, right in front of me, I saw him lift his head to the sky, probably saying “Praise to Allah”.
Never once did the man look either way to see if any traffic was coming on the highway! He was quite content to leave the driving to his donkey, which never lifted it’s head, but steadily kept on walking across the Sahara desert, highway be dammed!
Yes, I had to stop from going 100 km/hr to avoid hitting him and his donkey! Despite my screeching brakes, he never once glanced at me!
That is the mentality of the people running Iran!
Raul:. The DNC’s election theatre director is Hillary.
Hillary hired over 20 clowns to run for president since she lacks the stamina.
Maddow recently let it slip that Bernie was ruining 2020 for Hillary like he did in 2016!
VietnamVet:. What I would really like to know is what we’re the thousands of people inside the CDC doing between the time President Trump shutdown flights from China in early January up until now?
I remember when he stopped the flights from China, the big uproar of indigination from all the Democrats in congress and media.
Were the CDC people deliberately sitting on their hands as instructed by the Democrats????
It sure looks like it! Obviously the CDC did nothing to prepare for this coronavirus!
Pointing the finger at the one man who has been fighting the deep state tooth and nail since the day he arrived, just seems far too easy. The blame game sure as hell doesn’t help a single person.
Zerosum:. We all know everybody will have gotten the coronavirus and died before the issue of who pays for the tests is resolved.
Raul:. Interesting picture re-1900.
The bananas displayed were the original more tasty Gros Michel bananas that got wiped out in the 1950s by the Panama disease or banana wilt.
Today we eat the Cavendish banana which is resistant to the Panama disease.
However, a new worse fungus has developed that attacks Cavendish bananas and many other banana varieties.
I think we in the west are now entering the exponential phase of the coronavirus.
Cases doubling or tripling every day now.
In Canada and the US we are still limited to just a few hundred tests per day.
Raul:. Very nice picture showing horse polution! You know the stuff before cars!
The kind of polution that smelled, attacted flies and other insects! Very nice to step into too!
Yes, I remember my Father talking about how wonderful those days were! Not!
As a kid, they used to take a new carefully unwrapped soap wrapper, remove the soap, and then insert horse dung into said soap wrapper, rewrap, and then leave it at someone’s door for discovery!
Yes the good old days!
Dr. D. :. Another thing health officials are doing up here in Canada, is after someone tests positive, and is sent home to self quarantine, is they are contacting possible contacts and asking these people to self monitor, and if they get sick to self quarantine.
Again very little testing is being done. Obviously hiding the lack of test kits.
