caretaker

I could do 14 days standing on my head. 15 minutes in the grocery store first and I could do a month. The quartermaster gene stays with you.

scrubbedexpat091

Not an option in Canada. And if outside of a major metro area could take up to 2 weeks to receive an order, internet ordering is slow and not as robust as you have in the US.


Yes it's not crucial for me, just was a random thought that for those who have no friends or family, and don't have a credit card, could really be up the creek if they can't leave their home for 2 weeks. I couldn't order anything online at the moment if I wanted to, no credit available on the card, but I only have a $500 limit, and all the auto payments go on it (various insurance, BC Hydro and cell phone) and then I pay it off at the end of the month when we get paid.

Charlee has at least a month of food in the freezer, the cat we buy week worth at a time, but I may start buying 2 weeks worth at a time for the time being.

For those in Surrey and Vancouver, some grocery store outbreaks.

The article also includes some deaths per capital for a couple provinces, I knew Quebec was bad, just didn't realize how bad.

Per capita rate of deaths:

8 per 100,000 in BC
82 per 100,000 in Quebec
25 per 100,000 in Ontario

https://www.vancouverisawesome.com/c...sitive-3137002

caretaker

53 per 100,000 in Saskatchewan

Stumpylegs

UK is currently at 85 per 100,000 - so similar to Quebec on a whole.

caretaker

I was just chatting with my old friend on skype text messaging, and he told me the nursing home just called and his mother has tested positive. I've known them almost 50 years.

BEVS

Oh . Difficult. I shall hope her case will be mild.

BristolUK

Add in the one in five having some sort of mental health issue (anxiety, depression so far) within 3 months of 'recovery' and then realise that an awful lot of people - in New Brunswick's case, that's most of the cases - have yet to reach that three month point so it could be more, and you realise the virus is best avoided rather than something to be "got over with and then I'll be fine."

scrubbedexpat091

BC doesn't as far as I can tell break deaths down by age. I suspect since majority of cases are in younger age groups, this is is keeping the death rate relatively low, but I dunno for sure.

Zoe Bell

I am so sorry for everyone who is being personally affected by this shitty shitty virusEvery time I think about meeting up with someone I shouldn't or doing something risky I remind myself of the far reaching implications

Interesting about the depressive issues after.. I'm fairly convinced that soon drs will find an organic reason for several types of depression . Such as a virus or the like. I believe Lyme's disease is also known to have this affect.

40 years ago scientists were adamant that viruses couldn't cause cancer....now we vaccinate against viruses we know can.. maybe soon we will have similar treatments for depression

scrubbedexpat091

My sisters husband still having some issues, he is back on oxygen, recovered and not sick, but the virus caused so pretty severe damage to his lungs apparently, he can't work as his job was physical and he can't keep up breathing wise.

scrubbedexpat091

It is interesting reading the experiences of people around the province for testing.

Some places are walk in and take a bit of time, other places have doctors screening before testing, my area I just had to make an appointment online, answer self screening questions, walk next door, nurse did the test, in and out in less than 10 minutes. No drive thru service though, you have to go inside the urgent care facility.

Revin Kevin

UK now up to 87/100k - interestingly USA death rate is "only" 81/100k.

caretaker

To compare between the provinces and the states, here for the sheer joy of copy and paste:
https://www.ctvnews.ca/health/corona...ates-1.5051033
And now we have twice as many cases as we did on Nov 1:
https://www.ctvnews.ca/health/corona...ov-1-1.5209320

OrangeMango

At this point, the only answer is the vaccine and how to get ti distributed within countries.

I'd say, it's my guess that the UK and Germany would probably be very quick in organizing that, Canada, I don't know, but also bearing in mind that in Canada the land mass is also way bigger.

Siouxie

Talk about 'scaremongering headlines! https://toronto.ctvnews.ca/ontario-c...ling-1.5205259

Ontario could see more than 9,000 new COVID-19 cases per day by end of year: new modelling

Reading the article..