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I think this phrase is key. As someone who believes there is more to this life than what we see here and now, I am not afraid of dying. When we get older there are many things that could take our life that younger people would not fear. Covid is just one of them! So when that day comes for me, I imagine I will want to spend as MUCH of my time left as possible with family and other loved ones! I often wonder if you ask Grandma and Grandpa "Would you rather live another 2 years locked away, isolated from loved ones OR would you rather have 1 more year surrounded by the love of your family"...which would they choose? For me, it is a no brainer. I would take quality over quantity any day. I have heard of many people who have pulled family members out of nursing homes for that exact reason, and I applaud them for it (and my family has permission to do the same to me if a time like this happens again when I am older!)

wow

jealous...about the surroundings....and the fact you have hair to cut!

I hope more do as well! I expect more people took early retirement when they saw what was happening, so it is wonderful to hear about your "barber" doing the opposite. Probably means you have long scraggly covid hair now though.

Very impressive Lew. That is selfless right there!

So the US has a higher death rate...how do you know Canada will not catch up? The lockdowns slow things down...at the end of all this the death rates may actually be similar. We all will die some day (unless the world ends first!). In my work have first hand experience with all types of death. Almost every single covid death I have seen has been in people 80 and over...and almost every one of those, the family told me the person was in very poor health as it was. In other words, they were already near the end of their life. I think I have only seen one under the age of 70 (that person was 69, and also in poor health). So I am not "comfortable" with any death, but I do understand that death can not be beaten...it is inevitable. If I saw numerous younger people dying I would change my tune perhaps. But I have not seen that. What I HAVE seen is a ridiculous increase in overdose deaths during this pandemic...and I mean ridiculous...like more than one a week. For instance in the past month we have had one covid death (that person was over 90) but I have seen approx 10 overdose deaths, the oldest of those people was just over 50. THAT is a bigger issue than covid in my opinion. All deaths matter, but for us to think we can "beat" death, especially in people over 80, we are fooling ourselves.

see and i would say this is proof that they DON'T work. If they did, why did we need 3 of them? In my opinion, all lockdowns do is slow the inevitable. These stats prove it. A virus will do what a virus will do. You can't stay locked down forever (unless you are retired!). So THAT is what they should have done...."lock down" the vulnerable, and let others carry on with their lives.

that is an article from 2015. Every current stat I have found puts beds with ventilators over 2000. The bigger issue that I am reading about is the staffing, rather than the equipment (currently). Again, could be wrong, but I think the information in that link is outdated

I am no expert, so just did a google search. The CP24 site that I looked at said 2300 ICU beds...almost double what your source says. Did a second search and also came up with 2300 beds from that site.

my wife has got us pretty much moved to Florida...looking at houses there. Ontario has gone berzerk

wow 300 k each way! Hope it was worth the drive...the 300 k back is a tough one after a skunking (been there done that...sometimes muskies suck)

hmmmm....an accident? One that leads to being in ICU? That is reaaally stretching it. I have been on thousands of trips and never once needed a visit to the hospital. With fewer people on the roads this would be even less likely! How many times have any of us ended up in ICU from a fishing trip? I am gonna put those odds at about 1 in 100 000. Far more end up in there from alcohol and drug use...yet that seems permissible Hospitals overwhelmed? When we were in lockdown last year I went to the hospital. I had injured myself playing hockey before lockdown, but I waited awhile to go because the hospitals were apparently overwhelmed. Finally when the pain wouldn't subside I went in. What I saw was a shock! Honestly you could have shot a cannon through the Guelph hospital! I have never been served so quickly in my life. Checked in, met a doctor, had an xray, met a doctor again to get the news, and then back in my car driving away in less than 45 minutes! There were tons of staff hanging out at the nursing station talking to each other. The hallways, meeting rooms and waiting areas vacant. I acknowledge I was in emerg not icu, but seriously...if icu was so stretched why did they not re-allocate some staff or room from emerg? Lakes will still be there in a month - I hope so! And if they are, I hope my dictator government permits me to use them. Even if they don't...I plan on finding a way

better go tomorrow...they will find a reason to pull that from you before you know it

Dave if you released those fish they will be HUGE by now. Great tip!

Tell me about it. So I AM allowed to go fishing, but I am NOT allowed to go to my cottage. What if I go fishing at my cottage? So confused

ya...it was kind of a joke...but not really. The world has gone absolutely insane. As a funeral director I have seen FAR more overdoses the last couple months than covid deaths. What are we doing about that?

pike also spawn really early....gobies might not be too active at that water temp yet.

...of course. How long til military checkpoints on roads?

with a charter it is probably deliberate I would say! Trying to tick people off so they stay away from "their" spot. These guys spend enough time on the water, they definitely know better (and will probably be the first one to criticize you if you don't get out of their way)

agreed...easy peasy. I have no mechanical skills but winterize it myself. Like others said..I change the upper oil and lower oil, run stabilizer through it for a few minutes, change the oil filter and I also pull the plugs and spray some fogging oil in there. Been doing that every year for 7 years and have never had an issue. Going to replace impeller this year just in case, but these are things a 2 stroke would need as well (due to lack of skill I will pay someone to do impeller)

terrible.

haha....seen that one before. What I didn't notice the other time is that "weren't" and "biting" are both spelled incorrectly. Just goes to show, throw a mask on a fish and nothing else gets noticed!

sounds good send me a message if you are coming this way

the most desirable things in that picture are a Dr. Pepper and the chicken carcass in the bottom left corner of fridge.

Good for you! I have the same type of idea, but as a Dutchmen I am too cheap to cut up some perfectly good downspout. Instead, I drilled holes around the top lip of the rubbermaid and just hang the lures from these holes. If you are ever down Guelph way let me know, I have a bunch of lures that I was planning on selling...just too lazy to post them on line anywhere. Will be looking at 50 cents on the dollar (ie double tens for 15-20 bucks, cranks for 10 to 15 etc)