SirCranksalot

again---same here.in fact, our local IDA only admits 1 person at a time and nobody over 70.

Yup---apparently most pharmacies do likewise. If not, maybe use a different one.

You seem to be a pretty handy guy----this will give you the general idea!! Make a humdinger of a flinger!!

How can you have a Newfie garden w/o an old tire. Maybe a wheelbarrow tire might do you. I might have one kicking around---want me to bring it over??

Thx---but i was just pulling Brian's leg!! 😁

What does CTC stand for?? Inquiring minds want to know!!😁

It looks like the military did the general public a big favor! I think they have blown the lid off the atrocious conditions in nursing homes.https://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/long-term-care-pandemic-covid-coronavirus-trudeau-1.5584960?cmp=newsletter_Coronavirus%20Brief_1316_30754

Here is what 1 doctor had to say about the T-Bellwoods Park fiasco. Time to show a bit more respect to those medical and other personnel who are on the front line!! -------------- “My heart is torn,” said Dr. Abdu Sharkawy, an infectious disease specialist and ICU doctor at Toronto Western Hospital, who recorded an emotional plea Saturday from the hospital, where he was working ,,,,,,,. He has been caring for very sick COVID-19 patients for a month. “I saw a visual representation of an ‘I don’t give a f---’ attitude, of ‘It’s not my problem.’ I understand how people can have a sense of relief. I want people to have a sense of release, paired with an understanding that this is not done. That’s what gives me trouble here. That’s what makes it difficult for me to go to bed at night. It’s the fact that I don’t think enough people understand that.

Exactly---there are quite safe ways of doing things and there are dumbass, reckless and inconsiderate ways of doing things. Sort of like driving a car----we don't all need to stay off the roads just because there are a few dipshetz out there. What we need is enforcement just as the traffic cops enforce the law. A couple of cops with a ticket book busily writing would have smartened those people up really quick-----no need for this media frooferaww and political crud.

The home office trend started a couple of decades ago. Some(all?) of the sales reps that I dealt with at work had lost their office space by about 2000. My youngest is in the computer business and was working for a Co.in NYC while living in TO. This will certainly accelerate that trend. I could quote you more examples that I know personally . More companies need to think outside the 'office box' if they are to survive.

Yup---a big outbreak of assholitus!!

There are alternatives to doing stupid stuff----My post above in an example of how people can get out and enjoy the sunshine and fresh air, get some exercise, spend time with family or friends and be quite safe. It just takes a bit of forethought and consideration of the effect your behaviour may have on others. OR do you see your role in life is just to serve as a bad example??

A very different scene!! We did a family visit in Earl Rowe PP yesterday. The gate was open. there were probably about 100 cars. Families with kids scattered about sitting at the tables, running around, enjoying the day outside---a real mental health day. A few people sitting on the beach etc. Overall a very pleasant sight to see. There may have been the odd case where there were more than 5, but not many. People respecting distancing rules as they moved about. Even in TO there is quite a bit of green space where people can scatter about. Inexcusable!

That's crazy! By that standard more than 5 cars stopped at a traffic light is illegal. We met with family at Bass L PP on Sat.We were 7 incl kids but maintained the proper dist. Maybe that was illegal?? I suggested that if any authorities came along we would pretend we didn't know each other.

Maybe I am a punk but I am no longer young---about your age I think! My kid once asked me " Dad back in the olden days, y'know when you were growing up..........."

You sure it was the Second WW, not the First?? 😃😁

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Sadistic %%$#!! At least you could leave her some food and maybe a drink on your front steps for 'curbside' pickup. BTW---my son's work partner was tested so my son spent 4 days in his bsmt with his wife leaving 'curbside' meals on the stairs! Fortunately the guy's test was negative so he has been let out to go back to work!

They seemed to miss the point. I doubt that the province originally closed all ramps because of possible violations of social dist at them. The issues, as many have pointed out, were to discourage non-essential trips as well as avoiding relatively hazardous activities. Similarly, trail riding in our local forests, for e.g., was forbidden.

You must have have really splurged!! Our popcorn was a mere $30!!

Somehow the logic that applies in Penetang, Midland and elsewhere does not apply to Wasaga Beach!!

They never did close it.!!! Maybe you can express the same sentiment to the town---contact info on-line

trying to outrun the virus?/?????

Wasaga Beach boat ramp open I must admit I was, and am, a bit ambivalent about posting this. I contacted the town a couple of weeks ago and suggested that they be consistent with almost every other municipality and close it, but they have decided that there's no harm in leaving it open. So you can either thank me for posting this or crap all over me for encouraging people to do the 'non-essential. The launch at Nancy I in Wasaga is a couple of km from the mouth if you choose to fish the bay.

Written from an American perspective but most applies here: "For a small amount of perspective at this moment, imagine you were born in 1900. On your 14th birthday, World War I starts, and ends on your 18th birthday. 22 million people perish in that war. Later in the year, a Spanish Flu epidemic hits the planet and runs until your 20th birthday. 50 million people die from it in those two years. Yes, 50 million. On your 29th birthday, the Great Depression begins. Unemployment hits 25%, the World GDP drops 27%. That runs until you are 33. The country nearly collapses along with the world economy. When you turn 39, World War II starts. You aren’t even over the hill yet. And don’t try to catch your breath. On your 41st birthday, the United States is fully pulled into WWII. Between your 39th and 45th birthday, 75 million people perish in the war. Smallpox was epidemic until you were in your 40’s, as it killed 300 million people during your lifetime. At 50, the Korean War starts. 5 million perish. From your birth, until you are 55 you dealt with the fear of Polio epidemics each summer. You experience friends and family contracting polio and being paralyzed and/or die. At 55 the Vietnam War begins and doesn’t end for 20 years. 4 million people perish in that conflict. During the Cold War, you lived each day with the fear of nuclear annihilation. On your 62nd birthday you have the Cuban Missile Crisis, a tipping point in the Cold War. Life on our planet, as we know it, almost ended. When you turn 75, the Vietnam War finally ends. Think of everyone on the planet born in 1900. How did they endure all of that? When you were a kid in 1985 and didn’t think your 85 year old grandparent understood how hard school was. And how mean that kid in your class was. Yet they survived through everything listed above. Perspective is an amazing art. Refined and enlightening as time goes on. Let’s try and keep things in perspective. Your parents and/or grandparents were called to endure all of the above and ......YOU ARE CALLED TO STAY HOME AND SIT ON YOUR COUCH"