COVID-19

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If Boris Johnson recovers, maybe he will spend the rest of his career as a serious NHS booster.

Sadly, given his and his party's ideological beliefs, if he recovers he's more likely to claim it shows the NHS is more than adequately funded already.

[Low D]

Marianne Faithful in hospital, described as 'stable'.

She must be one of those thinking "after the life I've lived, if I die from touching my face..."

[DzM]

Marianne Faithful in hospital, described as 'stable'.

She must be one of those thinking "after the life I've lived, if I die from touching my face..."

That would be like Keith Richards dying of a staph infection or something (or getting hit on the head with a coconut which, I understand, actually happened).

[Frances]

(or getting hit on the head with a coconut which, I understand, actually happened).

Fell out of the tree both he and Ron Wood were climbing trying to pick coconuts, then went jet skiing.
He knocked his own ass out. The coconut is innocent.

[DzM]

The coconut is innocent.

That should be on a T-shirt.

[Mike from Boston]

Marianne Faithful in hospital, described as 'stable'.

She must be one of those thinking "after the life I've lived, if I die from touching my face..."

That would be like Keith Richards dying of a staph infection or something (or getting hit on the head with a coconut which, I understand, actually happened).

There is a meme of the four Rolling Stones-with Jagger, Watts and Wood wearing masks and Richards of course, doesn't need one!!

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How's it going across the ocean with the not-so-deadly-but-sort-of-scary virus?

What's this all about: https://www.nytimes.com/2020/04/16/worl ... virus.html ?

Canadians: just when you think you know 'em, they leave you speechless

[Low D]

How's it going across the ocean with the not-so-deadly-but-sort-of-scary virus?

What's this all about: https://www.nytimes.com/2020/04/16/worl ... virus.html ?

Canadians: just when you think you know 'em, they leave you speechless

That photo is like a horror movie poster!

I could play the whole "Quebec is a distinct society" line, or argue that that care home is a special case, but it's true that the majority of our outbreaks out here in BC are also in care homes. One problem is the proliferation of dependence on "auxiliary" staff, generally thought of as part timers but everyone now relies on them for the *majority* of work. So employees routinely work in multiple centres and have no benefits or sick days. You see the recipe for pandemic success in this modern economy?

This is a problem everywhere, including my life (15 years auxiliary!) Secure, full time jobs WITH PAID SICK DAYS for EVERYBODY should be one takeaway from this shitshow. Let's never go back to "normal". Canadian songwriter Bruce Cockburn said it best: The Trouble With Normal Is It Always Gets Worse. Tattoo that one on the inside of your eyelids so you see it every time you blink.

[Low D]

Meanwhile we've had a mass shooter on the east coast, First Nations teenagers stealing liqour shot dead by police in the middle of the country, and homeless activists breaking in to abandoned schools here on the west coast. Have we become the USA?!

[Frances]

Meanwhile we've had a mass shooter on the east coast, First Nations teenagers stealing liqour shot dead by police in the middle of the country, and homeless activists breaking in to abandoned schools here on the west coast. Have we become the USA?!

They killed indigenous teenagers?

OMFG.

And before any fucking Trumper gets cocky on here saying they shouldn’t have broken the law, let’s remind everyone how your stupid, fat, lily-white asses are marching all over the place with guns annoying the adults because Sean Hannity (or whoever) said so and not getting shot... so. shut. the. fuck. up. (in advance) and go cash your “socialist” stimulus rebate check, dipshits.

[Low D]

Meanwhile we've had a mass shooter on the east coast, First Nations teenagers stealing liqour shot dead by police in the middle of the country, and homeless activists breaking in to abandoned schools here on the west coast. Have we become the USA?!

They killed indigenous teenagers?

OMFG.

And before any fucking Trumper gets cocky on here saying they shouldn’t have broken the law, let’s remind everyone how your stupid, fat, lily-white asses are marching all over the place with guns annoying the adults because Sean Fuckface Hannity (or whoever) said so and not getting shot... so. shut. the. fuck. up. (in advance) and go cash your socialist check, dipshits.

Police in Winnipeg, Manitoba (geographically speaking, the centre of Canada) shot 3 First Nations citizens (incl 2 teenagers) in a 10 day stretch. 2 deaths, 1 teen has survived. Another First Nations teen shot in November after a robbery (survived). In some senses this is nothing new via-a-vis racism & Indigenous peoples in Canada, but it's also getting way too little attention in the rest of the country because COVID.

And yah look, some of these people had weapons, but the stats are clear - white perps get shot less, get convicted less, get out on bail more, spend less time in prison. The real story is Canada's long history of colonial racism and GENOCIDE and multi-generational trauma. Meanwhile, our "Liberal" government is still fighting paying reparations (court-ordered compensation) for children & families who were caught in Klanada's genocidal schemes.

So yeah, i guess the theme of these last few posts is don't believe all the hype from Michael Moore & John Oliver etc when they compare the USA to us... I mean, obviously we're better, but that's a pretty low fucking bar.

[Frances]

[Police in Winnipeg, Manitoba (geographically speaking, the centre of Canada) shot 3 First Nations citizens (incl 2 teenagers) in a 10 day stretch. 2 deaths, 1 teen has survived. Another First Nations teen shot in November after a robbery (survived). In some senses this is nothing new via-a-vis racism & Indigenous peoples in Canada, but it's also getting way too little attention in the rest of the country because COVID.

And yah look, some of these people had weapons, but the stats are clear - white perps get shot less, get convicted less, get out on bail more, spend less time in prison. The real story is Canada's long history of colonial racism and GENOCIDE and multi-generational trauma. Meanwhile, our "Liberal" government is still fighting paying reparations (court-ordered compensation) for children & families who were caught in Klanada's genocidal schemes.

So yeah, i guess the theme of these last few posts is don't believe all the hype from Michael Moore & John Oliver etc when they compare the USA to us... I mean, obviously we're better, but that's a pretty low fucking bar.

I had friends as a teenager who are Native American. One group were active members of the same tribe while the other side of the family were separated from the tribe and had a cattle ranch. Both families lived on reservation land.

It was completely isolated and really had its own set of laws as far as committing a crime, so long as you got back to the reservation with the goods, LOL. Stealing a car was not far fetched at all. I’ll just say that it was the late 80’s and everything that went with it.

Obviously the feds would come in for anything too serious.

The thing was, my friends were absolutely fucking crazy. The one cousin would do things like tap people in parking lots with her car if she felt like it. Pedestrians, not other cars. The other cousin had real violence issues, like someone who had grown up in abuse and didn’t know anything else.

My crazy friend who liked to drive into people had a younger sister who robbed a drug dealer and eventually committed suicide up at the fancy Indian Casino. As her family were estranged from the tribe they didn’t receive any profits from said casino.

My other, violent friend is an artist who has had work in the Smithsonian in DC. So that is a success story.

I remember his saying that he never belonged at the reservation and still felt like an outsider when in a more urban environment. He definitely identifies with his indigenous culture but being stockpiled in the middle of nowhere is not what any young adult wants.

My other friend (whose sister killed herself) did receive decent education grants and had an adorable studio blocks from one of the poshest beaches (Mitt Romney owns a house there) in California. We would go to the rich people’s Safeway and I would steal the place blind, of food. Adult me knows they were just letting the pack of freaks get away with it.

There was definitely an attempt to keep alcohol away from households at the reservation. It seemed the same as in other underprivileged areas, Mom and kids living in the Grandmothers home. My friends Mom was very anti alcohol, and seeing the higher level of crazy it brought out in her son and nieces, I get it. Though we did exactly what every other American teens do, got drunk and high.

I know we did plenty of stuff that my Caucasian self was able to speak to police about with just a small threat of being locked up, though they never bothered. But I know damn well my multicultural friends got a whole other kind of treatment.

The tribe whose land I stayed on opened a casino that eventually went bankrupt because it was just a little farther than all the others. They attempted to do an online casino that the Feds shut down while shaking down other tribes casinos for a cut.


Anyone that claims they never did a damn thing wrong and all these multicultural people got what they deserved have zero self awareness and an inability to recognize cultural bias or read the statistics that reflect reality.

I had a white American History professor in college who only taught us about Native American studies. I can’t say that I retained enough of that information. It was great though, he had all these portraits and would bring his guitar and I guess sing us Native American songs. He’d stamp some tests with a buffalo head or something and if you got a marked one you’d get a full size Kit Kat bar. Random.





Just emailed Mr. Moore this morning about something. I have a family connection to a personal associate of his and whatever people may think of his work, putting his name in the mix elicits a mega response. It surely does.

I loved Roger & Me, Bowling for Columbine and Sicko. Who else was even broaching these subjects (on such a large scale) before him? The scene in Sicko where the man who’d had an accident with his hand and the surgeon or whoever asks him to pick one finger to save. OMG.

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Meanwhile, our "Liberal" government is still fighting paying reparations (court-ordered compensation) for children & families who were caught in Klanada's genocidal schemes.

Ha, Justin's not exactly the man he'd like us to believe then...at least not how he's regarded here abroad.

So yeah, i guess the theme of these last few posts is don't believe all the hype from Michael Moore & John Oliver etc when they compare the USA to us... I mean, obviously we're better, but that's a pretty low fucking bar.

I surely got the picture there!

[Low D]

Ha, Justin's not exactly the man he'd like us to believe then...at least not how he's regarded here abroad.

At the end of the day, he's just not very smart. I think he thinks he's for real - like, i think he thought it was actually possible to balance the interests of the oil industry with those of First Nations and somehow also meet our climate commitments. Which is preposterous and the result was everybody hates / has been disappointed by him - Indigenous peoples, middle-of-the-road environmentalists, oil field workers etc. His O.K. handling of COVID is saving him, quite frankly, and all he's doing now is taking good advice from experts (something Trump & Bolsonoro could learn from).

Just emailed Mr. Moore this morning about something. I have a family connection to a personal associate of his and whatever people may think of his work, putting his name in the mix elicits a mega response. It surely does.

Don't get me wrong, we love Mr. Moore in this household! Followed him since Roger & Me. But i - and others - feel that the smug attitude some Canadians have - and Michael feeds - that we are so much better than Americans, allows us to be quite complacent. But again, THE BAR IS PRETTY FUCKING LOW and complacency is NOT called for! It's the similarities & following trends that keeps me up at night...

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