11th
March
2020
For the next while, keeping track of the latest medical mystery is important. At least, I guess so. Locally, our provincial government has opened two COVID-19 clinics. Schools have published a protocol for dealing with any student that gets up in “germ’s way” due to travel during their March break. Universities (plural) are locking classroom doors and telling students to profit from the online courses that once were considered 3rd rate.
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posted in health, politics |
6th
March
2020
How should we react to a new pandemic? Based on the responses from south of here, we have no idea. It’s been weeks since the first head’s up that there might be a “new hired gun in town”, to use an old Western movie line.
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posted in economy, health, travel |
4th
March
2020
Wash your hands! Come on, who hasn’t heard that order from a parent, or missed the memo in every food prep area? Well, I grew up in a time when soap and water sufficed, and I never got used to the squirt and go world of hand sanitizers.
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posted in health |
29th
February
2020
Leap Day is almost over. Nothing to report here. I mean, the press carries a whole spectrum of messages, but I live far from the “madding crowd”. You see, this might be the big one. A disease that can stop humanity going onward. I know, it seems like a hoax. In fact, that’s exactly what the president called it, during his most recent rally.
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posted in health, humour |
26th
February
2020
The story depends on the teller, obviously. Right now, the world at large is concerned about a respiratory virus, known as Corona Virus COVID-19. Codespeak for yet another transmitted illness. What is important is that we know very little about this, and so the media is left to fill in the holes in our understanding.
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posted in environment, health |
21st
February
2020
Remind me, again, why I don’t want to travel with a crowd. Oh, right; contagion. I’m not a germophobe, but I do realize that evolution plays a role. Bugs are getting better, while the rest of us are simply careless. Imagine finding yourself in an airplane, with fourteen confirmed cases of the latest, after the “smartest” leader mandated that there was no reason to quarantine anybody from anything. Or how about finding yourself on an ocean cruise with an outbreak of something serious. You can’t get off and walk home. I’m going to continue my life as an erstwhile hermit for the foreseeable future.
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posted in health |
24th
January
2020
As a person that has not spent much time as a tourist, I have moments of personal glee. In particular, when I see a place in a movie or other media moment that I have already visited. Really. Seeing something as ordinary as a public building becomes an extraordinary event, if I’ve already been there. Case in point, a marriage movie from today, where I recognized the church AND the picket fence across the road. Sublime.
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posted in economy, health |
22nd
January
2020
In that murky world of firmware upgrades that go awry, there is something worse than failure. What do you do (next) when things halt, and all of the online forums suggest that you keep trying, again, and again? How much of your time are you willing to invest? I guess I am going to find out (got a gadget that is stuck in update limbo).
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posted in health, technology |
2nd
January
2020
I appreciate my health care system. Right across Canada, we seem to be able to find our way past the cash register and actually access trained doctors, nurses and technicians. You’re sick? We’ve got your back!
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posted in economy, health |
22nd
October
2019
As I lay on my back in the crushed stone of the driveway, an adjustable wrench in hand, I remembered. The reason why our bicycle rack tended to remain in the back of the garage was that it was such a beast to install. Or use. We had to bring the electric bike into the city for service, and my offer to put it in the rear of the Rogue had been politely refused. It would ride in style, or not at all. And so I persevered, and the delivery went without a hitch (due to the hitch). There’s a lesson in there, I think.
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