1. Tiger gets Wuhan Flu with dry cough and no appetite
(What does this mean about our dogs and cats? Yes cats can spread it, dogs apparently cannot)
2. The wear or not wear a mask debate is settled now. WEAR A MASK
- On Friday, both the US and Singapore switched to advising citizens to wear masks when they leave their homes.
- Wearing masks in public has been ingrained in Hongkongers’ collective psyche since the deadly severe acute respiratory syndrome epidemic of 2003, and experts now believe the habit helped the city of 7.4 million keep its Covid-19 numbers down to 845.
- Some recent studies suggest that infected droplets can travel further than 2 metres when a sick person coughs or sneezes, prompting calls to extend the use of masks.
(This article is important but for reasons beyond my fathom this link will not open on my computer, but opens instantly on the Android phone. If you can read this article please do. It opens perfectly on a computer if you do not use a VPN )
3. WARMINGTON: Expect to see military vehicles on GTA roads
Toronto has not seen Canada’s military on the streets since the city was hit by a monstrous snowstorm 21 years ago.
Residents may see them again Monday.
Don’t be alarmed, insists the Department of National Defence (DND).It’s not a deployment — just the military gearing up to help if they’re needed.
“Members of the public will see a larger number of military personnel and vehicles on the roads between the Greater Toronto Area and Canadian Forces Base (CFB) Borden (near Barrie), starting on Monday April 6, 2020,” Lt. Nadine Abou Rjeily said in a statement.
“As part of the whole-of-government approach to fighting COVID-19, hundreds of Canadian Armed Forces members from Joint Task Force Central (JTFC) will be moving from their various units across the province of Ontario to CFB Borden,” said the statement. “In Borden, these forces will be forming a task force that will be centrally prepositioned on the base and kept ready to respond to future requests for assistance from the Government of Canada in the fight against COVID-19.”
(The first time we heard of a “whole of government response” was when they debated M-103 to permanently crush freedom of speech that went against the Government narrative on opinions of Islam.)
4. Quebec: Walmart security guard in Sherbrooke run over by man frustrated by COVID-19 measures
A security guard at a Walmart in Sherbrooke, Que. is in critical condition after being hit by a driver frustrated by the store’s COVID-19 prevention measures.
On Saturday around 5 p.m., a 25-year-old man and his spouse arrived at the store in the Galeries Quatre-Saisons shopping centre, around 160 kilometres southeast of Montreal.
They were told by the security guard that only one person per car could enter. Sherbrooke police said they believe the suspect was frustrated by that and hit the security guard with his vehicle.
“It was a completely gratuitous act, but with extremely serious consequences,” police spokesperson Martin Carrier told Radio-Canada.
The couple fled the scene and they were later found in a home in Sherbrooke. The driver was arrested and questioned.
He is facing charges of armed assault with a vehicle, aggravated assault and committing a hit-and-run, Carrier said.
The victim’s family did not wish to speak with the media, but his brother wrote on Facebook that when they arrived to pick him up after work on Saturday, they came across a “crime scene” instead.
(The article fails to name the attacker. We think this is due to a technical glitch in CBC’s computers whenever someone who does something awful has more than one M in his name)
5. Japan to declare one month State of Emergency
Google must either show its “crown jewels” to a man it described to the High Court as a search engine optimisation expert – or give up parts of its defence in a long-running competition lawsuit, the High Court has ruled.
In a case unfolding in Britain over whether Google wrongly demoted price comparison rival Foundem from its search results in favour of paid-for adverts, Google must now decide which it values more: the algorithms that rank its search results, or its stance that manually fiddling with those results to promote its own paid-for products over rivals’ sites doesn’t break competition laws.
High Court judge Mr Justice Roth posed the stark question to Google’s lawyers in mid-March, just as the global coronavirus situation began triggering governmental responses in the West.
Foundem had asked for legal permission to bring in independent expert Philipp Klöckner to read confidential documents disclosed by Google in court.
Those documents were court exhibits filed by Google engineers Cody Kwok and Michael Pohl. They sought, as the judge put it, “to explain the operation and aims of Google’s ranking algorithms, and how they have been applied to shopping comparison sites generally and Foundem in particular”.
(What fun! Next to politics! Lets see the DEO data on that and see how Google tinkers with public opinion that way)
7. The following video, Claws of the Red Dragon, shows the connection between the Communist totalitarian government of China and Huawei. But this video accidentally answers another question. How in bed is the Canadian government with the Chinese government. And the answer is, you cannot see this movie/video in Canada unless you have a VPN set to a US server.
Perhaps permission can be obtained to make this available in Canada via a torrent tech site like 3speak. UPDATE: Canadians can see it here
(Watching this video now. Looks fascinating so far)
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I tie a bandana around my face like the stagecoach robbers in the old westerns, the people of my generation think it a hoot when I tell them to “Stand and Deliver”. I don’t do that with the younger generations because I then have to explain the joke.
I sometimes tell my wife to “Stand and Deliver.”
Then she smirks and walks away.
I started last night, copied URL to my email. Will look at it tomorrow as I have important work to do today. Fascinating, yes indeed.
And I’ll send the 3sSpeak link to my English contacts. Thanks.
Re CLAWS OF THE DRAGON – Is it possible that Trudeau is now under Chinese threat – possibly death threat – even ownership, to a point that his family is exiled in Harrington Lake for their protection and he remains in self-isolation for his own protection, only venturing out for a few minutes for his pressers?
There is something wrong with his self-quarantine story.
It’s possible, I would like to say that China isn’t ready for that type of action but with China telling the European Nations no medical equipment without the nations letting Huawei build their 5 g network we have to rethink what they are ready to do. China can’t take us in a head to head battle but the way the war is being fought it’s going to be a long hard fight. The way Trump and his people keep talking about this being a “Pearl Harbor” moment is telling, they realize that we are fighting a war of survival and that the as in WWII we are playing catch up.
I have been expecting follow up plagues but not ones that came from China, Things are going to get wild.
In another thread Vlad posted the J.E. Dyer article from yesterday that I posted in the readers links. I finally found time to read the entire article and the last paragraph supports you conclusion. I would suggest you read the entire article about the time line of the virus, starting on when the research probably started then she shifts over to the current actions of the CCP that are doing a lot of public relation damage to China and the final paragraph are her conclusion on why they don’t care about the public relation damage.
I feel Pearl Harbor-ed.
I know what you mean.
5/ My college roommate hasn’t been out much since the beginning of February. We think the first case there was late January. People in her circle have been VERY careful – they invented social distancing.
Shinzo Abe didn’t want to postpone the Olympics, so they tested very few people and reported even less. I’m not a Japanese citizen, so I refrain from saying what I think of their elected government.
2/ Finnish study shows coronavirus aerosols remain airborne for minutes
The organisations investigated how extremely small aerosol particles are released and travel on air currents when people cough, sneeze or even speak. The research teams included dozens of scientists from flow physicists to virologists, as well as experts in medical technology and infectious diseases.
The study modelled how novel coronavirus might spread using a trip to the supermarket as an example. For example if a person who has been infected with the virus sneezes between the aisles at the supermarket, they release a cloud of droplets that may also contain the virus. The model suggests that the cloud spreads some distance from the infected person.…
Aerosols take minutes to dissipate
All of the research groups arrived at the same initial conclusion: the aerosol cloud spreads farther than the immediate vicinity of the infected person. While the cloud will dissipate over time, that process could take minutes.
“If someone infected with coronavirus coughs and walks away and some one else nearby comes over, aerosol particles containing the virus could end up in the other person’s respiratory tract…”
In the model used by the researchers, the test subject coughs in the aisle between the shelves in a typical supermarket, which has a ventilation system that is typical for such outlets.…
Such minute particles do not sink to the ground, but float about on air currents or remain suspended in the air.…
https://yle.fi/uutiset/osasto/news/finnish_study_shows_coronavirus_aerosols_remain_airborne_for_minutes/11294808