SirBillybob

Jennifer Melfi: Toodle-fucking-oo ... due to the pandemic.

Jake Gittes: I said I want the truth, due to the pandemic! Evelyn Mulwray: She’s my sister AND my daughter, due to the pandemic! Dorothy Gale: Aunty Em, there’s no place like home, due to the pandemic. (She can say that again.)

Correct, that’s what I meant. One test feedback error’s ripple effect could have worse consequences down the line than, say, a surgeon designating the wrong side with a marker preparatory to an inguinal hernia repair.

Oddly the news shows a temperature-taker at Toronto main airport wearing just a shield when a mask should be added. Words are exchanged every few seconds over a very short distance.

At least one positive is now walking around spreading it.

Closing at midnight enables them to abide by the newly imposed “nightclub” restriction. Admission by appointment maintains the allowable numbers of people according to floor plan. They are essentially in the restaurant-type category during the current measures. They may also have a requirement to cleanse the facility between shifts under a hygiene obligation.

There is a ‘little’ hint and it concerns issue. I am guessing it is an illegitimate love child situation and the OP was asked for support but it puts him in a compromised position.

Just finished The Testaments. I was born a few miles from Cobalt, Ontario where Atwood’s fictional symposium moderator is situated as a university professor. Season 4 of THT had to close up shop early in production (Toronto?). There had been tentative plans to develop The Testaments.

Found a version of the article ... https://news.paxeditions.com/news/other/two-canadian-insurers-are-now-offering-out-country-coverage-covid-19

Toronto’s Globe and Mail had a piece a week ago indicating Canadian Blue Cross and Medipac in Canada have coverage options now. But I cannot access the article.

Mine occasionally gets put into storage, but rarely in the past had it been more than the several months up to now. I would prefer it to be arrested and thrown into the hole.

Globe and Mail posted an article on it 6 days ago. I do not get free access. But from the first sentence it appears CDN Blue Cross and Medipac are opening up to coverage. I once used Medipac because my Allianz coverage is only valid for 30-day trips.

I entered a thread on it mid-April under the Traveling Members section.

It is also important to check both trip disruption costs and medical expenses in the foreign nation in which you may be ill. They are two different aspects of a policy.

Most do not. You need to check. Mine is Global Allianz (my BMO MasterCard) and it quickly disqualified CoV coverage in March, unless you were mid-trip, because it became widespread enough to be a known risk entity.

They have been open for 4wks&4days.

A few countries including Thailand and French Polynesia now require proof of medical insurance that includes coronavirus, so wise to check this if and when Tahiti plans materialize.

Initial antibody prevalence results suggest about 75% of Canadians CoV+ up to the point just following the Spring infection peak were undetected, leading to a 4-fold correction the likely appropriate metric. Some areas in the world are reporting closer to 90% and a 10-fold correction. However, the Quebec results are not yet included, will be soon, and may drive up the figure because it was the hardest hit province. The results so far, excluding Quebec, suggest a mortality rate closer to about 1 in 50 cases ( where 50 includes under-the-radar cases).

I am not sure whether you refer to better/worse deaths per capita or number of cases per capita. California ranks 28th and 24th, respectively for USA. The USA cases:deaths ratio is 28:1 and California is 52:1 due to extreme variability in this metric to date, comparing all states. This variability among states is no less pronounced than national comparisons. To confound matters, several states peaked and dropped and held in case incidence trajectory, many states started to climb later and continue to do so while not yet peaking, and yet another group rather gradually climbed from early on and have not peaked. Finally, about 20% are demonstrating a 2nd peak within the first wave; they were evidently getting control then weren’t: CO, HI, IN, IA, LA, MD, MN, ND, OH, VA.

We are about 2 weeks out from study results of the more accurate incidence, along with estimates of undetected cases, of Coronavirus that has occurred in Montreal.

Bars closure correlated with flattening the curve. Bars closure correlated with unflattening it. That means the virus has won and knows better than mankind the strategy of a rock and a hard place. Someone should just call it.

Clapping/applause emoji is “appreciative thanks”, correct? Discouraging but not surprising that re-opening experiments do not seem to be succeeding anywhere. It is a respiratory pandemic and we all suck back the same air. Spain itself is now 55% above the EU threshold that had been set for non-EU red zone nations.

Quebec just reached a 7-day average, on an upswing, equal to June 22nd when new case rates were decreasing. The July 1st lifting of many bans had been based on that earlier downward trend. Quebec’s latest mortality figure is also a whopping 5% relative to case count, and we know that metric tends to lag anyway. More accurate national data about truer infection rates, based on antibody serology, will be released imminently. It is about 8-fold in British Columbia. I believe Spain about 5-fold, New York State about 12-fold, and Brazil 5-fold but enormous regional variability there. Brazil’s regional variability, multiples of 1 to 8, corroborates the idea that true prevalence is difficult to pin down both globally and nationally, with some of the variability an artefact of surveillance methodology.

There is already growing pressure to close the bars, due to concern that an increase in infections attributable to drinking establishments along with transmission cascade effect will scupper plans to open schools in 6-7 weeks. Society is more collapsible if parents have to further supervise their kids than if a smaller proportion of people are denied pub life.

Ah, OK. Actually the hours are 24/7, without a period allowed for general traffic, as always. The one vehicle on the video is a police cruiser; getting up closer you can see the label and navy side strip, in front of A&W near Stock. There are actually 3 points of apparently un-breachable boxes. I assume they can be shifted or at least that emergency vehicles have a workaround solution by parallel laneways that do not require a diversion to the main streets parallel to and bookending Ste-Catherine north and south of her.