Novel Coronavirus

[ChemGal]

I don't know whose decision it was, but it is oddly coincidental. It's stranger not to notice that.

There are many movies about pandemics. Considering the timing with Ebola, the time it takes to produce a movies, etc. I think it would be weirder if we didn't have one that was released in the last year-ish.

 

[Mendalla]

There are many movies about pandemics. Considering the timing with Ebola, the time it takes to produce a movies, etc. I think it would be weirder if we didn't have one that was released in the last year-ish.

There's an article I read, forget where, about an author from Montreal who started developing a novel about a pandemic something like six years ago. It was due to come out later this year but the publisher has bumped it up, at least for e-books (print schedules can't be moved as easily of course). Apparently she researched the hell out of it, looking at pandemic planning that's gone on around SARS, H1N1, and so on, resulting in the book being extremely accurate when you compare it to what's happening.

 

[Mrs.Anteater]

There are many movies about pandemics. Considering the timing with Ebola, the time it takes to produce a movies, etc. I think it would be weirder if we didn't have one that was released in the last year-ish.

I noticed that around the time I fly to Germany, which I used to do every year, about within two months before, there is always a real plane crash as well as a movie with some catastrophe on a plane. It can’t be a coincidence. So far, I have always been lucky that it has always been happening before I fly.

 

[GeoFee]

There are authors who see into the unfolding human pattern. These communicate what they see through fiction. That fiction permitting access to the author’s imagination.

Our bodies are liable to the infection of any virus. Our minds are liable to the infection of anxiety. Once rooted that anxiety infects our spirit. This leading to our liability regarding structures of control.

Some among us are working diligently to capitalize by the exploitation of anxiety in the population. It may not be visible but it is very much in play.

 

[EasternOrthodox]

I agree. It's complicated isn't it.

My husband saw an article yesterday that said the ferries were actually 90% full. He mentioned something about how walk-ons were not factored in properly. I suppose we'll learn more in the next while.

There’s still so much we don’t know. It’s disconcerting.

 

[EasternOrthodox]

This is the sad and ongoing story in Dorval Quebec:

Coronavirus: 31 dead, elderly covered in feces at Dorval long-term care facility | Globalnews.ca

Quebec Premier François Legault unveiled on Saturday that 31 elders at the private long-term care centre Résidence Herron in Dorval have died since March 13.

globalnews.ca

Grim reading. Care homes have been a problem in other places too.

 

[BetteTheRed]

Points to the huge problems caused by the movement, everywhere, to contract and part-time workers. No benefits, cheaper wages, but then almost everyone has to work more than one job. Same in the grocery industry. At least one of our part-timers is working at both No Frills and Costco.

 

[EasternOrthodox]

Here’s “excess deaths” in several European countries. Some have asked to how factor in things like the drop in automobile accidents. I think they’d be smaller but what do I know? It‘s a start. The same data from South Korea would be useful because of all the testing they did. Their death count from certificates could be compared to the excess death count.

EUROMOMO

www.euromomo.eu

 

[EasternOrthodox]

Points to the huge problems caused by the movement, everywhere, to contract and part-time workers. No benefits, cheaper wages, but then almost everyone has to work more than one job. Same in the grocery industry. At least one of our part-timers is working at both No Frills and Costco.

I suspect the care home workers aren’t very well paid. Likely no benefits either.

 

[BetteTheRed]

Correct. Maybe we have to re-evaluate the worth of certain positions in our economy/society. Also the place (nowhere from my position but I might be open to argument) for a profit motive in eldercare.

 

[Northwind]

I suspect the care home workers aren’t very well paid. Likely no benefits either.

That's a big issue that has been around for some time. It seems too that workers aren't getting access to proper PPE.

 

[Luce NDs]

In Brave New World old people were turned out and denied ... downers ... more efficiency modes!

The prize of pure capitalism when the people are ignored and ignorant ... I should have used naive to be more politically correct! Captially; notice I'm wrong ...

 

[KayTheCurler]

My quarantined kid has to go for testing today. She was on an infected cruise ship and has a runny nose. Her original release date was Thursday - now we wait and see. It is hardly surprising that she is anxious to get some freedom as she has been in almost continual quarantine for about six weeks.

 

[Northwind]

I hope your daughter is well Kay

I learned that my friend up north continues to improve. She's more alert and is still in ICU.

 

[ChemGal]

My quarantined kid has to go for testing today. She was on an infected cruise ship and has a runny nose. Her original release date was Thursday - now we wait and see. It is hardly surprising that she is anxious to get some freedom as she has been in almost continual quarantine for about six weeks.

I'm a bit surprised she meets the testing criteria . Many have to be sicker than a runny nose. It's nice for her if she can get it though.

 

[Northwind]

 

[ChemGal]

I'm a bit surprised she meets the testing criteria . Many have to be sicker than a runny nose. It's nice for her if she can get it though.

And the update that started less than an hour ago informed me that now testing is for all of those with symptoms.
@Kimmio this means we're closer to putting focus towards antibody testing, active infections needed to come first.

 

[KayTheCurler]

I'm a bit surprised she meets the testing criteria . Many have to be sicker than a runny nose. It's nice for her if she can get it though.

She was on an infected cruise ship for weeks. Then she travelled by plane - from Paris to Montreal and on to Calgary alongside potentially infected people. She has a runny nose. Local infection control people said Get Tested.

 

[ChemGal]

She was on an infected cruise ship for weeks. Then she travelled by plane - from Paris to Montreal and on to Calgary alongside potentially infected people. She has a runny nose. Local infection control people said Get Tested.

Oh yeah, I guess I had forgotten that international travel was still included, it hasn't been mentioned much anymore because most were done. For so long if people were doing ok at home, even if they were positive the risk of infecting others was so low. Heath care, hospitals, and group homes/long term care were what we were hearing about here for quite a while.

 

[Kimmio Laughterlove]

Dr. Bonnie Henry:

She also cautioned people from jumping to criticize others who spend time outdoors.

“I have seen many, many examples of people who are having a conversation with their neighbour from a safe distance,” she said. “People are out with their family, with their housemates, having picnics, sitting in the sun, going for a walk — those are fine.”

Coronavirus: 11 new deaths in B.C. as total number of cases nears 1,500

B.C.'s last COVID-19 update was on Saturday, when the province reported three new deaths and 35 new cases.

globalnews.ca