Getting Much Too Real

On this dreary Saint Patrick's Day ...




Now that it is official that the craven, pension-grubbing morons are well over their heads in this, it is time to make mention the gradual (or rapid, as things are going now) disintegration of this Second-World country called Canada.


Canada has nearly six hundred infected persons and eight deaths.


A hospital worker in London has been infected. Expect more cases.


Why does this sound familiar?:

The country isn’t overrun with known infections but no one has a firm grasp on just how much community spread is occurring because we aren’t testing every person in the country with a fever or cough. As the country braces for a potential crush of the virus-infected, hospitals are restricting visitors, ramping down non-urgent procedures and surgeries to free up hospital beds, especially ventilated ones, ordering more ventilators, clearing operating rooms for virus patients and refitting mothballed ICU’s. In Toronto, lung and living kidney donor transplants have been put on hold for 14 days to free up ICU beds.

Even then, “the system is likely to be overwhelmed and that’s why I think we need to get more aggressive with this now while we have time,” Kumar said, adding that the kind of aggressive social distancing measures announced by Ontario and Quebec should be implemented nationwide.

Oh, yes:

Coronavirus victims in Italy will be denied access to intensive care if they are aged 80 or more or in poor health should pressure on beds increase, a document prepared by a crisis management unit in Turin proposes.

Perhaps we should have a conversation on why total idiots refused to take action and: create a working emergency response system, privatise healthcare, restrict flights from hot zones, close the border, enforce isolation and pluck heartless bean-counters and paper-pushers from the medical system.


This also sounds familiar:

Churches and charities are preparing for a cash crunch as donations dry up during the COVID-19 shutdown.

The widespread closures in almost every city in Canada mean that people wont be in their places of worship to put money in the collection plate and, as the economy contracts, people will likely have less money to give through other means too.

As the government prepares to announce financial aid for families and businesses on Wednesday, some are urging policymakers to include measures that will ease the crisis for places of worship and non-profit organizations.

“The longer churches have to remain closed, then there are certainly financial implications, especially for smaller parishes that don’t have the same sort of financial support as some of our larger ones,” said Neil MacCarthy, the director of public relations and communications at the Catholic Archdiocese of Toronto. “We’re also trying to maintain as many ministries as we can with outreach to the vulnerable.”

Of course!:

Calvary Temple Camp director Jared Clarke said his application was also deemed incomplete for not checking off the box.

 

The Summer Jobs Program grants were wanted to fund an assistant to the director and a one-on-one worker for children with special needs at the camp for 475 children on Red Rock Lake in Whiteshell Provincial Park, where Calvary Temple, Union Gospel Mission and the Sunshine Fund combine to sponsor just under 200 kids. 

"I have to tell parents I don't know what funding I will have available. If we don't have support for a child with a disability, I am not going to have an unsafe situation," Clarke said.

They may find a cure for this virus but not for stupidity:

According to the Trudeau government, there are about three million Canadians working and living abroad, many of them stranded as borders close, airlines ground planes and European countries go into lockdown.

Ladies and gentlemen, the Parting Glass: