SirBillybob

What is the win? REM will be 25 minutes. I don’t recall ever making it by car in that time. Even if ordering a ride were to get me there faster than half an hour I don’t live the kind of life that means getting out of shape over a few extra minutes spent here or there. I also never cut time short at the airport. Granted, REM might not be the best option depending on how rushed you are and what your starting point is, what you are willing to pay out, etc, but I cannot imagine a life that pressured. Maybe if you are regular crew or frequent flight commuter? This reminds me of the kind of discussion I have had with Barcelona locals. I take a relatively new subway route to and from the airport that involves one elevator transfer between two lines but is longer by 4 kms / 5 minutes (OMG!), as opposed to a shorter route (as the crow flies) with two rather extensive tunnel-walk transfers. Some think it’s dumb and they stick to the route that is geographically shorter, but others chatting with me while also taking my preferred method agree that you don’t have to break as much a sweat hauling luggage, the extra few minutes offset by the time it takes for the alternative additional line transfer.

From a true-north map perspective the REM route is close to a mirror image of the Hwy 20 route because the latter arcs southwest prior to going more due west to Dorval. For me, the REM will be much more convenient. However, I am close enough to McGill Stn to walk without a winter coat, less than 3 minutes if the Union entrance is open. For the 747 I must walk 15 minutes south and east (these are described directions contrary to true magnetic north) if I want a chance to get a seat before it fills up along René-Levesque. And time it for its schedule. For that reason, I have often called an Über to get to the airport. At the airport I have frozen my ass off waiting in line for the 747 if I have not hauled a parka to a sun destination in winter. ———- Speaking of Mirabel, I am in a SARS-CoV-2 research trial in Mirabel municipality. What a hassle to get there via public transit! And a new EXO commuter train station near the clinic has a delayed opening, surprise surprise.

Once the REM train route to the airport commences, the 747 express bus will only run 01:00-05:00, the 4 hours REM does not operate. Assuming most members here stay in The Village, you would take the Metro subway a few stops to McGill and transfer to the airport train there. About 25 minutes from McGill to airport, even though the route semi-circle arc is quite a bit to the north part of Montreal Island, but very frequent service. A lot of people are unhappy about it. About 50% percent of current users want the bus option maintained. The many travellers that like the Lionel-Groulx Metro Stn 747 departure, feeding from the 3 Metro subway lines, will have to add a subway ride a few stops to the east, McGill or Bonaventure. At Bonaventure it is an additional indoor walk of at least 5 minutes to the REM departure at Central Station. There are other Metro subway options feeding into a third REM station intersecting the two networks but they are not relevant to most readers here.

On the accompanying message card: “For all your sticky body parts.”

He’s in love with you. Having his body oil at yours and your body wash at his is like a mutual transitional object agenda. He probably imagines you doing wicked things with his dildo after it has been deep inside him but left in your care. In future, watch out for your panties as they can be easily bundled up and spirited off as the next trophy level.

Today’s cloud cover in Montreal area will obscure it. I will be no wiser a man.

In the meantime, while Brazil is mired in political and legal wrangling regarding vaccine purchase contracts and medical clearance for vaccine candidates, as of Dec 30th a negative COVID PCR test is required for anyone entering the country.

There is a dizzying array of factors that influence transmission potential within outdoor dining. I think it is reasonable to say that indoor dining poses greater risk. If the difference could be quantified by relative risk, the background infection incidence rate could drive the guidance around thresholds of incidence that support restriction levels. When you have a confidence interval, for example the Japanese study that attempted to compare the two, of 6-fold to 60-fold risk of indoor vs outdoor dining, erring on the side of caution suggests that you restrict outdoor dining at the point in time background case incidence has multiplied by a factor of 5 or so compared to the highest incidence rate at which outdoor dining was allowed while indoor dining not permitted. However, there are environmental and structural variables that influence risk beyond that (see attachment). And arguing about what edge of the confidence interval to lean towards if the calculated indoor risk is 19-fold the outdoor, as in the same study. And disagreement about how much mitigation and associated disruption sacrifice is legitimate to prevent one death ... similar to the general Number Needed to Treat construct. And so on. https://ncceh.ca/documents/field-inquiry/outdoor-winter-dining-during-covid-19-pandemic

Growing out my ear hair and not caring. Making sure that every pair of socks has one with the manufacturing label tuck-folded with one from the half of them that are not labelled.

Every single material thing that we let or put into our bodies has the potential for landing somewhere on a continuum that ranges from benefit to harm in terms of physical wellness. Complicating matters is that the effects of behaviour aimed at enhancing emotional wellness, itself on its own continuum, intersect on one or the other side of a theoretical neutral point on the physical one, and there are endless factors that influence that singly or cumulatively. Think the colloquialism “guilty pleasure” as one small example of the general intrinsic paradox. Throwing shade intended to land outside of one’s perceived reference group and to mediate the soup of physical-mental biochemistry is just that. Doing it on a public domain forum is conveniently gluttonous. Really, how much of an audience is needed to throw down a gauntlet?

Blanche: “Yippie Aye Yay ... K-Y!”

I think the answer requires some extensive Seoul-searching.

Now I am really confused. Polatsk is the geographical centre of the European continent and the middle of the pandemic in Europe.

Not to mention sensible Brussels sprouts and less sensible Belgian chocolate.

I stand corrected ... I have dug deeper and discovered that there are huge discrepancies in poll results depending on who is conducting them, the nuances of the questions being asked, and whether sampling has regional exclusivity versus comparative cross-nationality. There are some poll data that actually show that Québecois (Franco and Anglo alike) may have the most favourable attitudes and intentionality in Canada related to COVID vaccination. In some ways, we may have a paradox of too many fingers in the pie to get reasonably accurate and representative results.

I don’t know if this article will link because it is a paid subscription. Montreal is one of the central (and was the 1st) of Pornhub headquarters, unbeknownst to me. https://www.theglobeandmail.com/canada/article-ottawa-working-to-address-child-pornography-as-montreal-based-pornhub/ If you cannot access the article you can likely look up a New York Times piece about it.

Top or bottom? Cut or uncut? Incall or outcall? Cash or credit? Boom.

So, back to Brazil ... Talk about all over the place. The state of São Paulo may be utilizing the CoronaVac vaccine, a China-Brazil collaboration, administering it on an emergency basis starting in January, because it will be able to access and assemble the constituent elements very quickly. Brazil, mainly healthcare workers there, has been one of the major Phase 3 study locations but there are no efficacy results yet released. Apparently the threshold number of infection cases has been reached, or will be soon, and we should see the data imminently. São Paulo represents a one-fifth share of the nation’s population.

My main source of providers is Brazil. I had myself only signed up to Facebook and Instagram a few years ago. I was surprised when I realized the link between their (and I assume my own) Whatsapp number and the “people you may know, discover people, etc” aspects of social media. Over time, more and more of them seem to be ‘privatizing’ their accounts, omitting their number (like I do) from their account registration, or I suspect if they have a high yield business they may use an exclusive number for clients. I myself have omitted my mobile number ... I only have the one ... and I get annoying reminders to enter that data. At first, I found it awkward to use their pseudonym in conversation with them if I knew it was manufactured, or sometimes I thought their real name suited them better (LOL, I want to be a bossy nom de plume consultant). I have written off many an ad based on a lame name, that is, a first and/or surname that can theoretically exist in the real world. Parenthetically, It bugged me a little when a provider up here in North America, likely due to his own shortsightedness, for many years used the wrong Romance language spelling version of a name that he intended to pair with the particular Mediterranean country that he identified as his roots. I teased him by using a dramatic accent associated with the country from which he devised the spelling he chose but that was not his background. He did not speak any Med language. Ironically, his true given name in my view did not suit his actual ethnic background. You know what I mean about saying a name ... it is personable to use someone’s name when conversing with them. But then I noticed with the Brasileiro fellows that I only got called “baby”, “bb”, etc in conversation or text, so I started doing the same. Mind you, they have to deal with countless of the generic “baby” punters, and an error for them may be costlier, while I tend to be selectively obsessed and cannot for the life of me forget any of their particulars!

Cute. Anyone’s guess. Actually, if Cuba makes like Sputnik and remains spaced from other nations it does not urgently need a vaccine, having had only 1 case per 1,390 population and 1 death per 83,000 population. It is not improbable that the overall death rate will be lower because of the lack of tourists potentially bringing seasonal influenza into the country. It is somewhat of a powerhouse in general vaccine development and has a few of its own candidates that will not easily be studied within its own population because the case incidence is too low, and it lacks the resources to launch Phase 3 trials in other countries. Cuba’s COVID crisis is more economic than health-related, with drastic food shortages. Queues for food far exceed those of coronavirus testing. Getting back on its feet will hinge on eventual incoming tourists that will have had vaccination accomplished. Canadian snowbirds are a big source of tourism revenue but it will be at least a year before that occurs. I wonder if the global shake-up will alter US-Cuba relations in a way that assists Cuba to recover. Until Cuba regains sufficient capital to perhaps be able to import a vaccine it will likely be among those countries relying on the global COVAX initiative.

The constellation

Looks like Brazil is forging ahead with UK-based Oxford-AstraZeneca’s vaccine as its first line vaccine, while the UK is forging ahead with US-Germany based Pfizer-BioNTech’s product (manufactured in Belgium) for its initial rollout. Not surprising for Brazil given the cold-storage challenges for a nation in tropical/subtropical climate along with a vast size and scattering of remote areas. ——— Addendum: the Pfizer and Moderna vaccines have been officially ruled out for Brazil.

I would venture to say is genuine. Might be his first time in Stockholm. Seems to have been in Brussels a lot. Phone number is the same one he gave me in Zürich 30 months ago.

I was only referring to a Laval U Medical Anthropologist’s reference in the press to changing poll data. I think that the poll questions are very brief and basic. I have not drilled down to explanatory variables within her research or that of others in Canada. The latest poll occurred, I believe, prior to the 2nd week of November release of vaccine data, but within the window of the second wave equalizing or surpassing the May peak. It seems that vaccine interest nationally is decreasing in spite of no sign of case incidence waning. Quebec province’s uptake of flu vaccine historically, however, has been the lowest in the nation. But your question is certainly pertinent given the same poll results by that same researcher in Quebec yielded 75% in favour of vaccination 6 months ago, dropping to 25% currently!

As far as the question of Montreal clubs goes, add to this that a vast majority of Québecois, more so Francophones than Anglophones, are resistant or tentative about COVID vaccination ... only about 25% reporting interest and intent in potential early inoculation rollout.