Covid-19

[Bob Carriere]

ALL travel should be restricted.......... provincial borders may not be practical
in Canada........ imagine if Ottawa people could no longer get their cheap beer in Gatineau, Prov Quebec just a few KM away but you could drive to Thunder Bay to see a friend some 1000 KM and drag Toronto dust as you go by.....

Very eerie outside right now....... went to the nearest drugstore for prescriptions..... nobody talks...almost a hush as in a church...... no trucks on the road...... no construction...... regular stores are all closed .....

....and that is how it should be in MHO.

Still wearing rubber gloves while sending emails.....

[Phil Waterman]

Hi All

Hay, Bob tried typing with rubber gloves but my touch screen didn't know I was there.

Wife and I went out at 5:30 a.m. this morning to the special Old Foggies shopping hours at the grocery store. Around here that means anybody who looks 60 or older, who is willing to come out and shop between 5:30 and 7:00 am.

This is only our second grocery shopping trip since the beginning of this. Last time it was spooky with lots of shelves empty. In particular, eggs, meat, stripped clean frozen food, bread were picked clean.

But what was of particular note was the paper products isle that had only 12 roles of paper towels, no TP or Kleenex. That was the bad news. The good news was they had filled empty paper product shelves with cases of BEER and it was on sale.

Well that was last time today it was a little better with at least a limited selection in all areas, paper products were stll a little thin. Accept for some strange reason the had lots of the jumbo paper napkins packages. Now only the bottom two shelves had case of BEER and it was still on sale. ( To be clear they didn't move the beer from it's normal isle, that isle was still full as well. )

Other observations almost everybody in the place shoppers and employees alike were wearing rubber gloves. Many wearing masks, or had their scarves covering nose and mouth. Everybody was also respecting the social distancing space.

Other than that living in a rural area not much, effect on us , we really feel for people living in high density area.

Cheers from the woods of New Hampshire Phil


Oh yes we have had to cut way down on watching the news, you can only take so much talking political heads, who really have nothing to say. No matter which side of political devide.

[Andrew Rowe]

I wonder if in the future and with hindsight, this "Crisis" will end up being like the Y2K event, where we were all told that the World was going to end and we had to spend heaps of money at the accountant to become compliant?
Probably why Trump will re-start the American economy before anyone else?
Cheers Andrew.

[rob love]

Originally Posted by Andrew Rowe

I wonder if in the future and with hindsight, this "Crisis" will end up being like the Y2K event, where we were all told that the World was going to end and we had to spend heaps of money at the accountant to become compliant?
Probably why Trump will re-start the American economy before anyone else?
Cheers Andrew.

I only wish we could be so lucky. Here in Canada we are just at the start of this. The "curve" is not really flattening yet, and could well be much worse than it is due to the limits on testing. Here is a site I like to use for a Canadian report: https://covid19tracker.ca/dist/index.html

[Tony Smith]

Michael R, it might be easier to just link that page so that members can delve down into each countries's stats if they wish.

https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/

[Grant Bowker]

While the absolute numbers aren't pretty, the contrast between countries in terms of infections and deaths per million population are "interesting" when comparing some of the "most advanced/wealthy" to "less advanced/wealthy" in the list. And before anyone assumes incorrectly, I'm not equating wealth with advancement.

[Robin Craig]

Grant, wealth equates to the ability to afford travel in far flung places inside and outside your place of work / residence. That is how its spreading on that basis I perceive.

Im glad I live on an island.

[Michael R.]

Sunday, 29 March, 2020:

A restaurant in Toronto, Ontario, Canada offers free meals, no questions asked.

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/toron...d-19-1.5513874


“A longtime family restaurant in Toronto is trying to help people who've lost their jobs during the COVID-19 outbreak by giving out free meals to anyone in need — no questions asked.

Like many restaurants in Ontario, Little India is facing a major financial loss after stopping dine-in service to slow the pandemic's spread.

But when former customers started asking if they could eat now and pay later, the owners knew they had to pay it forward.

"We existed in this community for more than 20 years. This community gave us everything," said general manager Sri Selvarasa, who runs the restaurant with his three brothers. Their family business has been on Queen Street West since 1995.

"Whatever we are today, it's because of this community. And now it's time."

Continued . . . “