“China eats weird animals disease”

Lockdown for thee. No lockdown for me.

No Christmas vacation for thee. Grab the swimsuits and call the limo for me.

What is going on?

Why do we listen to them?

Waiters, bartenders, and workers in the tourism industry are once again feeling the impact of the pandemic-related closures on New Year’s Eve, as more Ontarians plan to welcome 2021 at home.

An online survey of 1,091 adults revealed that Ontarians spend an average of $366 on New Year Eve in a typical year. But on the last day of the tumultuous 2020 year, residents in the province plan to spend an average of $170.

Government, stop trying to make COVID panic happen for policy … it’s not happening.

Very interesting…

Sainted Irish Mother is in Hospital.

She was scheduled to be transferred to another facility this week, until Covid broke out in the department she was headed for.

So she was being held in place until an alternate destination could be found.

Today I received a call saying she has been placed in isolation for 14 days after being exposed to a covid positive staffer.

She is fine and covid free – so far but she is 95 with underlying conditions so that is worrisome.

Ugh.

Ontario is reporting 3,328 cases of #COVID19 and nearly 63,900 tests completed. Locally, there are 888 new cases in Toronto, 431 in Peel, 418 in York Region, 257 in Windsor-Essex County and 194 in Ottawa.

— Christine Elliott (@celliottability) December 31, 2020

Province needs to call in the military again to help Ontario’s long-term-care homes, says health coalition head

Measures taken to protect those in Ontario’s long-term-care homes have been a failure and the military should once again be sent into the facilities, says the executive director of the Ontario Health Coalition.

Natalie Mehra said, as the second wave of COVID-19 continues to ravage Ontario, the conditions inside long-term-care homes for the elderly are at an all-time low.

A 24-year-old Vancouver man spent Christmas night in jail after repeatedly hosting parties that violated COVID-19 public health orders.

Vancouver police say they issued multiple warnings and fines to the man before arresting him on Dec. 25 and charging him under Section 99 of the provincial Public Health Act. He was released on Boxing Day.

The City of Toronto is taking a harder stand against residents who illegally use city ice rinks.

Emergency management head Matthew Pegg cautioned Wednesday that paid-duty police and municipal security officers will beef up patrols at the city’s 54 outdoor skating rinks.

The 1918 Spanish flu was a killer of historic proportions.

In 1918 and 1919, the novel H1N1 “Spanish flu” virus killed between 50 million and 100 million people—as much as 5 percent of the world’s population—mostly within a few months, making the contemporaneous mass murder of World War I look like a bagatelle. The pandemic was, Laura Spinney writes in her book Pale Rider: The Spanish Flu of 1918 and How It Changed the World, “the greatest tidal wave of death since the Black Death, perhaps in the whole of human history.”