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Kimmio Laughterlove said:
I'm not sure this particular issue has anything to do with my lifestyle. Why do you ask?

Yes, it certainly is a bummer! I have to do a bunch of physical work on their behalf to get ready. And I have to pass the landlords' storage room to get to the kitchen. Once they start moving stuff away from the walls, they will likely realize they should've cleaned it up a long time ago, when there were no tenants here - and I predict that my stepbrother (landlord) will be down here for weeks cleaning and reorganizing it. They live in their own world - they don't mean any harm but they don't think outside their world.

As per your question...I get it. I want to move back to Vancouver after covid is over. I don't like it here much. I came back for temporary respite after my separation, and got stuck with no means to get out of here. This town reminds me of The Good Place. Lol. It's been that for me since I got here. A kind of pretty purgatory where random nuisances and other disruptions to the peace keep happening, with frequency.
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I hope it works out. And that the carpenter ants can be dealt with
 
revsdd said:
The PM didn't say that the army shouldn't be caring for the elderly without proper training. He said that Canada shouldn't need to have the military doing this at all. I think he meant that we should have some way other than calling on the military to deal with a crisis like the ones being experienced in several nursing homes. Having said that, one of the nursing homes that's had to call in the military is one that a member of my church died in of COVID a couple of days ago. I think some nursing homes are overwhelmed by the crisis, and nursing home staff probably aren't really trained to deal with such an emergency. The military on the other hand trains its troops (including its medical personnel) to deal with crises and emergencies. Their presence will be a big help.
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There’s a lot of care homes in Victoria. We haven’t much coronavirus (yet) on Vancouver Island. But it will get here. The stories of the care homes are sad. All these very vulnerable people in one place. Lets hope for a vaccine.
 
ChemGal said:
Quebec is making some very bad decisions right now IMO, they are already having massive issues with their long term care homes, watch their hospitalizations spike up in a month and deaths in about 2.
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I didn’t realize that Quebec had closed the bridge over the river at Ottawa. A friend from Ottawa told me. A few people are trapped on the wrong side.
 
Waterfall said:
I think it's not just long term care homes. Its any enclosed area, such as cruise ships, hospitals and factories etc......which is why I believe they're worried about opening schools...... with classes that have 30 students to a room that could be bringing the virus home.
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Good point. Apparently meat packing plants are bad too. Several in the US closed after many employees became ill.

Watching the drama of the Diamond Princess was awful. Japan should have taken off the passengers sooner. I guess they didn’t more disease coming ashore. Even the Japanese citizens were forced to stay on the ship.
 
I’m obsessively reading everything I can find. This is scary, although it seems to be rather uncommon. Still, this virus is definitely not just a bad flu.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/health/2020/04/24/strokes-coronavirus-young-patients/

After reading this, I found a video by a doctor who makes videos (not sure why, I think they’re intended for health care workers) He goes through how this might happen. Most of it is way above my pay grade, but I think this a summary is: the virus gains access to a host cell using the ACE 2 receptor. That’s well known. If the virus finds its ways into the bloodstream, it infects the cells lining the arteries. It uses the ACE 2 receptor of course.

Now apparently the loss of the ACE 2 receptor affects the way the blood clots. It can cause blood to clot and cause a stroke.

 
ChemGal said:
Currently, Alberta and New Brunswick are the only provinces that publish testing data that includes the ages of all people tested — including the negative tests.
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Reposting the quote, partially for myself too. I did look at the BC site, and the dashboard isn't the greatest for getting some info, maybe that's what they looked at?
I still find it out about the differences in demographics. Better data over time I guess.
 
ChemGal said:
Reposting the quote, partially for myself too. I did look at the BC site, and the dashboard isn't the greatest for getting some info, maybe that's what they looked at?
I still find it out about the differences in demographics. Better data over time I guess.
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I don't always check the daily news briefings by the health officer and minister, and sometimes the Premier. This is the page I do look at everyday. Especially the table that shows case stats by region, updated daily, or almost daily.

 
EasternOrthodox said:
There’s a lot of care homes in Victoria. We haven’t much coronavirus (yet) on Vancouver Island. But it will get here. The stories of the care homes are sad. All these very vulnerable people in one place. Lets hope for a vaccine.
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It's already been here for months. We don't know that it will get here in large numbers. Maybe we can ward it off while curves are flattening elsewhere. We seem to be doing that.
 
EasternOrthodox said:
I hope it works out. And that the carpenter ants can be dealt with
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They were taken care of. Thanks! But getting ready for exterminators, then cleaning up and putting things back after is almost like moving. I'm still tired after all that commotion in my house and people in and out and moving things around - the introvert in me finds that exhausting - and my back is sore. I didn't do the heavy lifting but I did more bending and lifting than is best for me.

I came home after being out 5 hours - half was spent working from my parents' house and the rest was riding around aimlessly in the cold (Tues was cool and wet) waiting to go home - and my step brother was in the driveway, in the rain, with my door open. He decided that day would be the best day to build me a better "ramp" for my scooter because he got the impulse to do it right then. It is a good idea and I appreciate the work but the timing sucked. I was freezing and wet and there was stuff piled on top of my bed and in the middle of my small bedroom floor - I wanted to just get it done and go to bed but I couldn't. He seemed oblivious to that. And social distancing was out the window. So I went out for another hour. Got a Tim's at the supermarket and groceries while I was there (waited in line in the rain). He said he'd wrap up in an hour. An hour and a half later he was just getting going. I decided I'm going to take a long hot bath and then he'll be done. My roommate is occupying the bathroom. 20 min later, I get to take a bath. I put pjs/ lounge around clothes on and go to my room...he's still there working, with my doors open.

At that point, I decided to ask my parents if I can sleep there. "Ok." Then, he is finished just as I was leaving. I was too exhausted to move things off my bed by then. Had been up since 6:30. I went and crashed and came back the next day to fix my room back up.

It was nice of him on one hand...clueless timing on the other. My landlords are really in their own worlds!
 
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And...I really needed a better solution for getting over the door ledge than what was temporarily in place before because my back wheel on one side kept getting stuck...it helps and he did a good job...it was just the timing of the project!
 
Kimmio Laughterlove said:
They were taken care of. Thanks! But getting ready for exterminators, then cleaning up and putting things back after is almost like moving. I'm still tired after all that commotion in my house and people in and out and moving things around - the introvert in me finds that exhausting - and my back is sore. I didn't do the heavy lifting but I did more bending and lifting than is best for me.

I came home after being out 5 hours - half was spent working from my parents' house and the rest was riding around aimlessly in the cold (Tues was cool and wet) waiting to go home - and my step brother was in the driveway, in the rain, with my door open. He decided that day would be the best day to build me a better "ramp" for my scooter because he got the impulse to do it right then. It is a good idea and I appreciate the work but the timing sucked. I was freezing and wet and there was stuff piled on top of my bed and in the middle of my small bedroom floor - I wanted to just get it done and go to bed but I couldn't. He seemed oblivious to that. And social distancing was out the window. So I went out for another hour. Got a Tim's at the supermarket and groceries while I was there (waited in line in the rain). He said he'd wrap up in an hour. An hour and a half later he was just getting going. I decided I'm going to take a long hot bath and then he'll be done. My roommate is occupying the bathroom. 20 min later, I get to take a bath. I put pjs/ lounge around clothes on and go to my room...he's still there working, with my doors open.

At that point, I decided to ask my parents if I can sleep there. "Ok." Then, he is finished just as I was leaving. I was too exhausted to move things off my bed by then. Had been up since 6:30. I went and crashed and came back the next day to fix my room back up.

It was nice of him on one hand...clueless timing on the other. My landlords are really in their own worlds!
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The damp west coast: I find such days cold too. I see a bit of sun peeking through today... spring is coming. I always get a psychological lift in spring.
 
EasternOrthodox said:
The damp west coast: I find such days cold too. I see a bit of sun peeking through today... spring is coming. I always get a psychological lift in spring.
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I do too! It was just a one or two day glitch in that lift.

(I think spring is here...everything is in bloom and all the insects and critters are active...hence, the ants coming out of the woodwork. Literally!)
 
Waterfall said:
It's lovely that the smaller home is doing so well (85 residents), but Eatonville has 275, I could see more of a challenge especially if management is working against you.
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The one in NS/ Halifax that is so badly affected has 480 some residents and had 22 out of 26 (or 28 ?)deaths. They have moved residents to a hotel to create space/ single resident rooms.
 
Feeling a bit grumpy today. Just heard that our hoped for campsite for the summer will probably not be available after all. Public Health seem to be deciding that ALL camping is 'close contact'. We, of course co-habit, and are pretty much staying away from others. No trips to Costco or Walmart for us. Our dreamed of campsite is isolated - on a low use northern lake in the forest. Six or seven sites. We camped at the same campground last year and were often the only people there! I understand that there are flu outbreaks on some of the Reserves in the north - but we will be far away from them. PP campgrounds aren't where most indigenous folks hang out anyway. Seems to me it is more 'dangerous' to go into a local store for some milk or something. Mutter,mutter, grump.
 
Northwind said:
This is an excellent critique of two doctors whose video is making the rounds these days.

Let's Talk About the Bakersfield Duo
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I LOVE the way the writer makes the point that the test positive rate does not equal the prevalence rate.

In order to determine the prevalence rate, a random sample of the population must be done. I have expressed this opinion many times over the last few months. I am sure I have mentioned it once or twice here on WC2.

Ontario, with its plans to reopen the economy, is only looking at the test positive rate.
 
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