Canadian COVID-19 News

[Westcliffe01]

Originally Posted by Lake-Effect

Don't believe everything you see on Youtube.

If you're sick, go to the hospital.

So you consider the 2 authors to be a completely unbiased source ? Media Matters for America (MMfA)[2][3] is a politically left-leaning[4] 501(c)(3), nonprofit organization, with the stated mission of "comprehensively monitoring, analyzing, and correcting conservative misinformation in the U.S. media https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Medi...rs_for_America

[CruisingCouple]

Originally Posted by Mike OReilly

This already makes you both exceedingly unusual. Your immune systems must be super-human .

Actually, it is quite common after spending 20 years raising kids
https://www.webmd.com/parenting/news...atching-cold#1

Originally Posted by Mike OReilly

This is how scientific knowledge progresses. I appreciate you being a guinea pig for the greater good -- seriously, I do.

It was unintended. Believe me. We have the choice of either having a sample drawn again. Or going the blood donation route. We have decided to do the blood donation method since my wife is Type AB- and I'm type O-. AB- is VERY rare. Mine is universal Type. They always are needing universal donors, and the plasma for AB Types. Although in this case it probably won't go to the blood bank. Likely labs will get it. And then they share with us the results of the tests on it. My wife is mostly interested in that. According the MIT Medical Study both of our blood types have been found to be statistically lowest risk for COVID infection.

[Montanan]

Okay time to shake things up and get back to a cruising subject with some Covid theme music.

Titled: If Yacht Rock was written in 2020 Parody

https://www.facebook.com/watch/?v=291443615535369

[Mike OReilly]

Originally Posted by AiniA

Not sure I agree with you hear Mike. I checked and the first Quarantine Act was passed in 1872 and quarantine was used before that. The use of Grosse Ile in the St Lawrence in the 1840s is the best known example.

Yes, and I'm not in favour of returning to that kind of a past. We've made such gains since then in human rights and personal dignity. I fear that this pandemic will be the excuse power uses to gain more power.

BTW, I sailed past and anchored quite close to Grosse Ile on my journey down the St. Lawrence. It's a national historic site and museum now, but even as we sailed past I believe I could hear the horrific echos of the past.

[Mike OReilly]

Originally Posted by CruisingCouple

Actually, it is quite common after spending 20 years raising kids
https://www.webmd.com/parenting/news...atching-cold#1

Interesting. The study cited here indicates an effect, although not nearly as cut & dry. And it is a long way from your achievement of "going on 20 years since either me or my wife has even had a common cold." That is still super-human.

[Macblaze]

Originally Posted by Westcliffe01

So you consider the 2 authors to be a completely unbiased source ? Media Matters for America (MMfA)[2][3] is a politically left-leaning[4] 501(c)(3), nonprofit organization, with the stated mission of "comprehensively monitoring, analyzing, and correcting conservative misinformation in the U.S. media https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Medi...rs_for_America

You do recognize that left leaning in US terms usually means right leaning in Canada, right? LOL

[Lake-Effect]

Originally Posted by Westcliffe01

So you consider the 2 authors to be a completely unbiased source ? Media Matters for America (MMfA)[2][3] is a politically left-leaning[4] 501(c)(3), nonprofit organization, with the stated mission of "comprehensively monitoring, analyzing, and correcting conservative misinformation in the U.S. media https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Medi...rs_for_America

Unbiased enough to make this call, yeah.


Since you seem to like Youtube:

https://zdoggmd.com/undercover-nurse/

https://zdoggmd.com/elmhurst-hospital/


On the second link, below the video are replies from medical staff at Elmhurst.

[CruisingCouple]

Originally Posted by Mike OReilly

And it is a long way from your achievement of "going on 20 years since either me or my wife has even had a common cold." That is still super-human.

Not really. It's more common than one would think. Try marrying a RN that's a health and fitness nut and living with her for 40 years. There's likely many factors that affect it, even genetics. But lifestyle probably also plays a role.

It's like the debate over why married men live longer than unmarried. It's not a debate. It's a fact with no real scientific reason. Although in this day and age of various types and stages of cohabitation, maybe it's less clear.

It's been studied with still no real conclusions as to why. But that doesn't change the fact that it's a real phenomenon.
https://www.health.harvard.edu/mens-...nd-mens-health

[Lake-Effect]

Some Canadian cross-border truckers give their opinion on whether the Canada/US should be opened soon. (spoiler alert: no)

[Stu Jackson]

Originally Posted by CruisingCouple

How about a medical checkpoint at the border crossings? >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>

Funny you should mention this. "We" just started doing it. Is the US doing the same?

[AKA-None]

Originally Posted by CruisingCouple

How about a medical checkpoint at the border crossings? I think the viral tests are recognized as being pretty accurate, and this is what is used at the US ports of entry at the airports. But they've only implemented it for air travel so far. They've COMPLETELY ignored the road and maritime ports of entry. And it's not like the resources don't exist to do it.



So like our friends in Canada that want to come to the US to get to their boat. Prior to the border crossing there is a medical checkpoint where they get tested. If they are clean, they are good to go. If they test positive, all the normal stuff on that side of the border applies for people with positive test.



The actual lab process does not take very long. The antigen test takes less than 30 minutes in the lab. The paperwork, processing and record keeping takes longer than the actual test.



For pete's sake, they been doing this with animals shipped across country borders for years. There are infectious diseases in animals that are way more contagious than Corona in humans, that will outright mass kill various animal species if they come in contact with it. It has worked successfully for that for at least 40 years now.

Yes it does and they kill entire farms worth of animals if they detect these illnesses in any of the stock. Yeap that’ll work with people too.

Seriously?

[CruisingCouple]

Originally Posted by Stu Jackson

Funny you should mention this. "We" just started doing it. Is the US doing the same?

Are you kidding Stu? They're so wrapped up in what's going on in the slum holes down south they could care less.

[CruisingCouple]

Originally Posted by AKA-None

Yes it does and they kill entire farms worth of animals if they detect these illnesses in any of the stock. Yeap that’ll work with people too.
Seriously?

I wasn't talking about the methods used to control an infection when it happens. I was talking about the testing methods and requirements to transport them to ensure they're "clean". Bio-safety for animals transported across borders has historically been many, many times more stringent than it is for humans in today's world of global travel.

[NaClyDog]

https://www.ctvnews.ca/health/corona...eeks-1.5024278


Happy to see we made the right decision in deciding not to fly anywhere for the time being.

[Mike OReilly]

Don't try sailing to Canada this year:
Sailors get police escort out of Makkovik after surprise landing

Makkovik is about mid-Labrador. I infer from the story the crew of the "38' to 40' sailboat" declared some sort of emergency as they approached from Greenland. I'm skeptical of this coincidence, and apparently so are the authorities.