Today’s journey starts with waking a little after 2 am (after seven hours of sleep, I’ll need nine before the day ends) and thinking to myself that I don’t know whether I’m going to get Alex today. I want to stay outside with him all day if the weather is good, but I’m probably just getting him at Katie’s place before and after school. So that’s okay. Some outdoors.
I think if anybody runs the math, keeping the daycares open and letting young parents stay home with their kids may help slow this monster’s roll somewhat. It’s still going to be dreadful, and way worse in Canada that we’re emotionally ready for.
There’s a new bird flu being detected in India and the Philippines, apparently originating in the Philippines. I don’t know too much else about it but hopefully they’ll shut down passenger traffic except for people with required skills to fight all this shit. Watching other countries handle this shit in real time is terrible and Trudeau is being reassuring which sucks ass, he should be encouraging people to do what epidemiologists and recent experience teach us will slow the spread to manageable before we squash it as a species, as we inevitably must.
Of course it will be politicized. The Chinese will start manufacturing and distributing effective vaccines first, I’d bet money on it if it wasn’t against the Quran.
