Meanwhile, Ottawa's Mayor and Police Chief for the past week, dealing with the "trucker" protest, er occupation, in the nation's capital city.
With a Lego lag, it's getting hard to keep up with all the ridiculous stuff going on this week:
"Police are escorting this structure to the parking lot on Coventry Road beside the baseball stadium. It was built by convoy supporters..in Confederate Park.."
Children need freedom from being used as 1) human shields by parents, and 2) excuses to not act by police and politicians.
Mayor of Ottawa negotiates with representative of seditionists, laying out welcome mat and hands over key to city.
GiveSendGo, the Freedom Convoy's crowdfunding website, was hacked to play a "Frozen" video along a manifesto condemning the website and the Freedom Convoy.
In other news, Happy Valentine's Day from Ontario's Minister of Education, upping his selfie game by starring in Vaughan’s version of The Bachelor with seniors.
Retweet if you're in as much awe as I am of Canada's Minister of Finance, Chrystia Freeland @cafreeland: "If your truck is at the blockades, your corporate accounts will be frozen, your insurance will suspended. Send your rigs home." #IStandWithTrudeau
Introducing Candice (not Murphy Brown) Bergen, the interim leader of the Conservative Party of Canada and the leader of the Opposition, currently trending on twitter as entertainment.
Heroes of Ottawa: Zexi Li and lawyer Paul Champ, for filing class action with Ontario Superior Court of Justice to silence incessant honking during occupation. cbc.ca/news/canada/ot…
Memories of Ottawa Occupation: Pot-banging guy on street corner disturbs occupants of nearby trucks.
As I continue to use expired/about-to-expire rapid tests (RATs) to test my poop, it is with mixed feelings that I report:
I have NOT lost my sense of smell.
And, definitely wash your hands when working with poop.
A short thread on a few other things I've learned follows.
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I found best – expired (2023-05-06) BNTX dark-green-and-white box (with short swabs+one-piece pre-filled buffer tubes).
I'm generally not militant re expiration dates, and definitely not on this.
Presciently, it's the only kit that had little biohazard-marked Ziploc bags.
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Minutes before running the poop tests (right), I swabbed for separate set of tests (left) between back gums/cheek, as back-of-tongue as I could get, and both nostrils as far up as I could get.
Shown also are SD Biosensor Standard Q (magenta+white box/tests)–expires 2024-01.
Imagine you're in a sudden disaster like a burning building, sinking ship, airplane crash, where your goal is to get out quickly before you die.
Now, you would think that everyone around you would have the same goal, right?
Researchers in disaster behavior know otherwise.
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The most cited proportions (reference in final tweet) are:
1) 10-15% will have their wits about them, understand the danger of staying put, devise a plan to escape, and act on that plan.
Covid-aware folks are in this small minority, but may be doubting their sanity.
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2) "The second group, comprising approximately 75% of the population, will be stunned and bewildered, showing impaired reasoning and sluggish thinking. They will behave in a reflexive, almost automatic manner."
This is the maskless majority of folks living their 2019 lives.
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