Coronavirus
Apr 1st 2020, 9:18 pm
#1096
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Re: Coronavirus
Apr 1st 2020, 9:42 pm
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Re: Coronavirus
Good thing to have in times like this, electricity company being a crown corporation, the government can do more directly.
Reducing rates for everyone by 1%.
Residential customers who have lost their job or income reduced due to COVID will get a three month bill credit worth three times their average monthly bills over the past year that doesn't need to be paid back.
Small businesses that have been forced to close will have their April to June bill forgiven.
three-month deferment to large businesses
Major industry partners such as pulp mills will be able to defer 50% of their bill for 3 months.
Residential customers are also eligible to apply for assistance from the existing Crisis Fund, BC Hydro has had in place prior to COVID.
service disconnections for non-payment have been suspended.
BC Utilities Commission is in discussions with FortisBC which is a private utility company that provides natural gas and some customers have for electricity to see what they can offer their customers.
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/briti...sses-1.5517900
Reducing rates for everyone by 1%.
Residential customers who have lost their job or income reduced due to COVID will get a three month bill credit worth three times their average monthly bills over the past year that doesn't need to be paid back.
Small businesses that have been forced to close will have their April to June bill forgiven.
three-month deferment to large businesses
Major industry partners such as pulp mills will be able to defer 50% of their bill for 3 months.
Residential customers are also eligible to apply for assistance from the existing Crisis Fund, BC Hydro has had in place prior to COVID.
service disconnections for non-payment have been suspended.
BC Utilities Commission is in discussions with FortisBC which is a private utility company that provides natural gas and some customers have for electricity to see what they can offer their customers.
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/briti...sses-1.5517900
Apr 1st 2020, 10:50 pm
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Apr 2nd 2020, 1:05 am
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Apr 2nd 2020, 1:41 am
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Re: Coronavirus
They don't show the April 3 payment for me anymore, it was there but now it's gone and only shows the April 9 payment. Others online I have seen some say they have both 3rd and 9th and others are like mine and only show the 9th.
Maybe time to shut transit down for a couple weeks? I imagine other drivers likely have it and don't know it.
https://www.citynews1130.com/2020/04...-for-covid-19/
Maybe time to shut transit down for a couple weeks? I imagine other drivers likely have it and don't know it.
https://www.citynews1130.com/2020/04...-for-covid-19/
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Apr 2nd 2020, 2:53 am
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Re: Coronavirus
Lots of lay offs have arrived and there's talk of giving up rented office space implying that rehiring this year isn't expected. Ontario has implemented a sus law so it's not sate to go our. I'm feeling increasing like one of the pilots in the attic in Allo Alllo.
Apr 2nd 2020, 2:58 am
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Re: Coronavirus
Apr 2nd 2020, 2:33 pm
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Re: Coronavirus
Well blow me down with a feather. One of my favourite shows in the 80's.
https://news.sky.com/story/coronavir...pital-11967427
https://news.sky.com/story/coronavir...pital-11967427
Apr 2nd 2020, 2:58 pm
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Re: Coronavirus
We live in the era of smart phones and stupid people. This is in LA where there is a stay at home order.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?t=&v=jRVvMoEoItU
https://www.youtube.com/watch?t=&v=jRVvMoEoItU
Apr 2nd 2020, 3:17 pm
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Re: Coronavirus
Boris Johnson, although a bit late to the party, has at least partially recognised that we are one society rather than a collection of individual subsets each with their own agendas.
Apr 2nd 2020, 3:33 pm
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Re: Coronavirus
It's a powder keg waiting for someone to light the fuse. Not in this case but someone will somewhere.
And... in the same city...
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-52108162
This 'stay at home and lock the doors' advice is becoming an essential feature of life.
Last edited by dave_j; Apr 2nd 2020 at 3:38 pm.
Apr 2nd 2020, 4:16 pm
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Re: Coronavirus
Some time back I started a thread about secrecy and the lack of openness from provincial government and now some of it is relevant to the current state of affairs.
There have been five or six flights into Moncton where at least one person on each flight was quickly confirmed as having a positive test. The province has either kept quiet or cited 'privacy' while PEI government (one passenger was resident there), airport and airline have since been more forthcoming.
When it first happened - the province's first case, IIRC - the government said they had traced potential contacts and, sure enough, the subsequent 'cases' had a close connection. That was sort of reassuring, but they were not other passengers.
Now maybe other passengers were contacted and warned. But I don't think you need to be paranoid to wonder if there were other people for whom an arrival date and time might have been useful. Someone at the airport meeting someone off the flight. A taxi driver picking someone up. Car rental staff.
There are people who could have come into contact with 'carriers' - even if just next to them at the luggage carousel, maybe lifting a suitcase for them, all sorts.
But now it's emerged that there were people on the flights who were not contacted and the first they knew was the fluke of reading a footnote on a round up of news on the CBC website and realising it was their flight.
Anyone in other provinces aware of this sort of thing?
There have been five or six flights into Moncton where at least one person on each flight was quickly confirmed as having a positive test. The province has either kept quiet or cited 'privacy' while PEI government (one passenger was resident there), airport and airline have since been more forthcoming.
When it first happened - the province's first case, IIRC - the government said they had traced potential contacts and, sure enough, the subsequent 'cases' had a close connection. That was sort of reassuring, but they were not other passengers.
Now maybe other passengers were contacted and warned. But I don't think you need to be paranoid to wonder if there were other people for whom an arrival date and time might have been useful. Someone at the airport meeting someone off the flight. A taxi driver picking someone up. Car rental staff.
There are people who could have come into contact with 'carriers' - even if just next to them at the luggage carousel, maybe lifting a suitcase for them, all sorts.
But now it's emerged that there were people on the flights who were not contacted and the first they knew was the fluke of reading a footnote on a round up of news on the CBC website and realising it was their flight.
Anyone in other provinces aware of this sort of thing?
Last edited by BristolUK; Apr 2nd 2020 at 4:20 pm.