CDC Urges Americans To Just Say No If Friend Offers Them Coronavirus ATLANTA—In an effort to stop the spread of the potentially lethal pathogen, the Centers for Disease Control held a press conference Monday to urge Americans to just say “No” if a friend offers them the coronavirus. “While it may seem cool to be …
Monthly Archives: March 2020
CBC Is Bringing Back Your Local TV News
Good news, people who rely on CBC Television for local news. You’re getting it back. CBC/Radio-Canada President and CEO Catherine Tait says Canadians will be seeing more of their local television news hosts during the supper hour starting Tuesday. The public broadcaster came under fire last week after announcing evening and late-night TV newscasts would be temporarily suspended …
A Place To…No
Update: The list has been trimmed down fairly significantly since it was first published. Here it is as of April 3rd, 2020. Original: The Ontario government has ordered that all non-essential businesses be closed by midnight tonight (the beginning of Wednesday, March 25th) for at least two weeks. But what does that mean, exactly? Who …
The Food Bank Of Waterloo Region Could Really Use Donations About Now
This frigging Coronavirus is going to hit a lot of us very hard in many ways. Some of the hardest hit are going to be those among us who are already struggling financially. So even though I might sound like a broken record over here, if you’re one of the fortunate ones and are in …
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Waterloo Region’s Hospitals Are Looking For Donations To Help Them Buy More Supplies
Our hospitals here, much like the hospitals everywhere, need supplies and the money to buy them. If you can help out, please do. The COVID-19 outbreak is placing unprecedented pressure on our hospitals. The support of our community will help to tackle the growing demands. To help our Waterloo Region Hospitals prepare, a joint fund …
Religious Michiganders Allowed To Give Each Other Coronavirus
Should be interesting to see how the good lord handles this one. Will he side with the people he created or with the fast moving, highly lethal virus he created? Will he split it somewhere around the middle to keep up his reputation for working in mysterious ways? To find out, keep an eye on …
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A Calculator To Make You Feel Like An Idiot For Buying All That Toilet Paper
Judging from the stores around here some of you could have used this service a couple weeks ago, but hey, it’s never too late. And so I give you How much toilet paper? The simple calculator for how much toilet paper you need to survive the pandemic. Not everyone is able to get to a …
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Do I Have The COVID Virus?
I knew it wouldn’t be long before I started seeing more of these things. Nice work here. Amusing and informative. These are alarming times. I work in a university, in an extracurricular setting, developing innovative competencies in students. We consider communication, collaboration, creativity and problem-solving to be the pillars of our programming. I find myself …
CBC Television Shuts Down Local News At The Worst Possible Time
I’m going to hope that this was honest to god unavoidable, because what a terrible move otherwise. At times like these we need more local news, not less. There are people relying on their local news for up to date information about what’s happening around them, especially the older ones or the ones that live …
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Bell Has Decided To Bell
I’ve lost count of how many times I’ve said it, but once again, Bell is proving me correct. If nothing else, they’re consistent. At a time when just about everyone is trying to help people out and make things a little easier, Bell has decided that it would be better to do not that. Changes …
