Looking at a Covid map

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These days and for more than just covid I haven't been going out much. I had all the signs of covid back in February my son arrived back from Spain. I unfortunately have had the "long hall" symptoms however I was also and am still recuperating/adjusting to  other treatments. These days tho I feel pretty darn good, just completed my one year after tests, and one more small surgery to go, and I should be good.

I get a lot of pushing from friends and family to get out there but quite frankly I haven't trusted myself since all these imbalances accumulated. During this time as many know from the chat room I had some local issues I became mixed up in (willingly) then Loose passed and suddenly things became solitary. One commitment That I had promised Loose was to reach out to my 70's Swiss Chick  I end that when I fell ill and so I've been inching my way thru that.

Yesterday Cindy pulled me from the house and we went to a large shopping center on the edge of town. Man was I surprised not one person was without mask, same for their children. Every store had a sanitizer and most had a clerk at the entrance. I came across some EU style shirts I really like, when that happens I typically buy a dozen but was not permitted to try one on, not permitted to use the changing rooms!! 

I had to go to the public washroom for the try on??? Not sure how that makes sense.

Anyways I found the cooperation to the rules out this way striking.. Is this a Canadian thing well likely not. What Canada has that many other countries don't is a under populated over taxed land mass to support. So for me I think we see the rules less as infringement and more as a responsibility towards our neighbors and our systems...

Our news representatives have a very small market to hold onto, get caught playing hockey with the facts here and you loose. We expect no party divides with our broadcasts, Barbra Frum is still our bench mark for integrity.

This is something I believe (my opinion) we do better North of 49. So questioning the truth is just something Canadians are known for and when we find out we've been mislead well its just a whole different Hockey game. We also have a minority government at this time; even tho Mr. Fancy Socks is short on credibility for his silver spoon self servings, I for one think that this minority gov. is serving us better than a solid majority, simply put they have no choice..

Too my Ontario friends Ford has really stepped up, I can see him making a run for the big ticket    

[Marcarl]

Ford might, but I don't think the party will, but that's just my opinion.

Fancy foot, has been dancing, but he is also held to account a bit, yep, minority might not be so bad for a while.

Covid? now there is another story, but I see it a 2 separate camps. Those in the country and the city/urban. Country folks (even small towns and small cities) have much more to entertain themselves than those who live in large cities, Hence I think, there is a much heavier case count in the urban areas. The death toll in the older population is much higher than in the younger set, and that is understandable, older are not as resistant anymore and have other complications that have been already making a mark, and we group them together in one massive housing unit which this virus seems to take advantage of. So I wonder, and I wonder some more.

[saddlebum]

It does seem the only time the middle class or blue collar segment of our society catches a break is when we have a minority government. This same group of members of society seemed to get pushed aside and ignored any time we have a majority government regardless who the ruling party is. Go Figure.

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9 hours ago, Marcarl said:

Country folks (even small towns and small cities) have much more to entertain themselves than those who live in large cities, Hence I think, there is a much heavier case count in the urban areas.

Likely and a couple things come to mind: Take N.Y. a transport hub, same as TO. Vancouver they infected by border crossings from Washington, Que. well that's an easy one look at how we greet one another, smooching everywhere we go and for a good smooch the masks come off!

@saddlebum Yes sir and we have the history to prove the statement as fact... And, if we look back at the Balcony days G.S.T. is temporary just long enough to pay off the debt. How many debt times have we paid? General revenue is what it turned out to be,  the same will happen again with the failing Paris Accord, the West is not going to play along this time, and they know it. The only way it can be revenue neutral is if tax dollars cloak it..

Many years back I was asked by E.M.and Resources to join in a competition on developing a solar collection system which Canada would then donate to third world countries as part of our G7 commitment to under developed countries. Canada wanted to join the race for efficient solar collection which at the time CA. was marketing rather well. Mine out of all the entries won the competition. Here's the point: tax dollars paid  paid for that as did corporations such as mine did and others as well. We were all committed to the project, all but the government that is. Every Canadian weather they new it or not wasted every penny spent. Collage students in Que. took up the challenge to design a carbon capture at the chimney they successfully built a prototype, it was to be tried at the old MTL. city burn dump, well what happened to it, suddenly pushed to the archives.

Right here in this country we have the brain power to solve or at a minimum partake in solving footprint issues. AB. faces this with every shovel full we mine from the tarsands, we supported and developed many new processing technologies even building and experimental processing plant to prove the technology, after 2 years of doing so what did they do, deny us to prove it at a higher production scale. WTF more tax dollars flushed away.

Federal Dollars: In 04 I agreed to build a project that was to incorporate Geo Thermal for heating and cooling, essentially turning the the concrete masses into a battery, then half way thru the developer decides  to add to the project solar panels to the structure for domestic hot water. Are you kidding me I said, after engineering  is complete? I went to see this so called Canadian built system, the same chit that we used in the early 80's, development went nowhere in 25 years. Why? Confusing, how does it relate? Well it was part of a federal subsidy still after 25 years we are subsidizing and old technology? Here's the best part: after setting up and getting the Geo planted building the parkade, issuing all the PO's for the construction of the project my contract ended, very glad to get out of Yuppyville to be honest, 4 years later and 2 years behind schedule I get asked to reengage.. I meet with the groups and listened to the mess they got themselves into, the project was broke. They could not get the subsidies promised because they could not manage the collections correctly, with a team of engineers too boot. Well this taxpayer only has grade 7 and the problems were very obvious to me; they on the other hand were blinded by the collecting of our tax dollars.

We knew in the 80's what they were just finding out.

So what's the answer? Smaller bites just like we Albertan's had to do with our tarsands. Tax dollars need investment and then royalties when used for development, it is not suppose to be used as treats for Lobbyist or those that will own the patents outright.

Can we identify the problem? Leadership is the problem. Leadership is not about personal anything, with the exception of Integrity. They are suppose to be inspirational, set goals build educated teams and accomplish. Federal  leadership is failing world wide with few exception say Like Germany. Yet smaller governments say SK. are performing better. Mr. Fancy Socks has had more scandels in the least amount of time than I can ever recall during his first 3 years than his predecessor. 

I would like to see a leader that knows what a sardine fork looks like or where they are kept. Next sliver spoon wantabe that feels the need to do us a favor by serving we the people please just go play with your own purse..

Well there you have it, the ramblings of an old Canadian simply fed-up of the soundbites and squandered tax dollars.

Now if we could only find the delete button for daylight savings.. hmm 

Edited November 1, 2020 by Patch