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  1. We are now down to 5 known Covid-19 cases on Vancouver Island...one person in hospital....none in ICU. 870,000 population on an island 280 miles or 400km long. I have been following things closely in T.O. as I have a daughter living there and a close friend in Ottawa. My daughter is working from home and keeping safe. My friend is 70 years old and staying home. It seems the bulk of the cases in Quebec and Ontario are in nursing homes. BC had the same problem in nursing homes but made changes and nailed that down pretty quickly. Some people in my city don't seem t
  2. That is a really good story.
  3. Thankfully in my area we have freedom to do most stuff if it doesn't involve a crowd. My wife has launched a new youtube channel....about her fixing cars. She was out filming herself today figuring out why a Honda Del Sol has no spark...seems the coil is dead. She did well and should have it running tomorrow. Doing videos really slows down repairs, but she enjoys fixing stuff.
  4. I noticed that....he seems to be testing the defences....
  5. Yup....this year has gone sideways really fast. I usually work 2 fulltime jobs and one of my jobs driving a tour bus from cruise ship passengers has shut down until at least next year giving me a huge drop in income. On the positive side I have cut back my 6 nights a week at my remaining job to 4 nights a week. I get 3 days off a week and I'm putting aside time to exercise and restore a project car that has been on the back burner for 5 years. I'm quite enjoying the slower more relaxed pace. I'm also able to spend more time working on ARC so the rebuilding of the Walkaround se
  6. Sorry guys...time to put a padlock on this thread. My apologies to Darren Roberts for locking his thread. I miss seeing the Blue Angles and T-Birds. And here are the current stats by country.. https://wuflu.live/ Spain 47 million 24,275 deaths 516 deaths/million citizens Italy 60 million 27,682 deaths 461 deaths/million citizens UK 66 million 26,000 deaths 393 deaths/million citizens Sweden 10 million 2,462 deaths 246 deaths/million citizens USA 327 million 60,984 deaths 186 death
  7. It was a good movie. Seeing the F-14's going after the Zero from the perspective of the yacht helped me imagine seeing the F-14 from 1941 perspective. The wooden yacht was a beauty.
  8. Loss of taste and smell is also common in older folks. My Mom's sense of taste was almost nil by the time she hit 70. But is is also symptoms for Covid-19.
  9. The numbers will go down as people begin to fight back against the virus....then people will relax and the numbers will flare up.....there will be a second wave and a third wave. The true death rate if the hospital system is not overloaded is about 1.36% and if we achieve herd immunity at 70% of the US population then you are looking at over 3 million dead....which is difficult to believe. China should be held responsible for this pandemic and there should be serious consequences for China.
  10. Quite true...good point. Testing for the virus is good but I think testing to the antibodies is better. I eagerly await a cheap test checking for antibodies that people can take home and do themselves.
  11. Yup...sometimes it is painful watching this train wreck with everyone so busy pointing fingers. I'm thankful for the most part people in my city are doing a good job with social distancing and the spread of the virus has been almost brought to a standstill. My island is 280 miles long with 1 million people and 93 known cases and half of them have healed and released from hospital. The vast bulk of Covid-19 patients in Canada seem to be from longterm care homes. Ferry traffic to and from my island is down 95% and I suspect the remaining traffic is mostly truck traffic bringing f
  12. Georgia will be interesting to watch. The results should be predictable, but who knows. What baffles me is people that wear gloves and no mask. They are terrified to touch anything with bare skin for fear they might get the virus on their skin. This is a lung infection, so stopping it from getting into your lungs is the goal. N95 mask does this. This virus can not infect you through a cut in your skin, so gloves is a very secondary form of protection.. The government could open up the economy if everyone had access to N95 masks. People should not be forced to wear
  13. Yup....this has to be voluntary. Certain people think this virus is a hoax etc and I wish them all the best. Certain people know they are at risk. Underlying health conditions, age.....suppressed immune system (cancer patients etc). My Step Mom in the UK is staying home and not having physical contact with anyone. The situation in the UK is quite bad and she is 80. She gets her groceries delivered etc. I have 2 grown daughters and I told them I will see them in a year or so. I don't want to risk giving them the virus and they don't want to risk giving me the virus
  14. People that are at risk really need to stay home and if they do go out....use an N95 mask. What we really need is a rock solid cheap and easy to do anti-body test. We need to know who has immunity and get them back to work. Everyone else should be careful and use a mask. My province of British Columbia is doing quite well. Canada, Australia and New Zealand are doing much better than the USA and there is a lesson to be learned there. Acting early is the key to dealing with this. Lock down early....reduce the numbers and then open things up. Then lock down fast whe
  15. I do feel that since this is the 3 event from China in the past 17 years that there needs to be thought put into restricting China's ability to spread such viruses. Perhaps by restricting the ability of citizens of China to travel to other countries. There was a much, much worse flu pandemic in 1918 - 1919 and after it was over....we had the Roaring 20's and the flu pandemic quickly went into the history books. I feel we will move on from this and thankfully the loss of life will not be 50 to 100 million world wide like the pandemic 100 years ago.
  16. Just a quick note asking that everyone remember this is ARC....try to be more civil.....we are ALL on the same team here. It saddens me when I see how this place has changed over the years.
  17. Currently the Covid-19 numbers in the 5 main english speaking countries. https://wuflu.live/ USA 327 million 39,022 dead UK 66 million 15,506 dead Canada 38 million 1,521 dead Australia 25 million 70 dead New Zealand 5 million 12 dead Sorry guys...but the USA and UK are doing horribly.
  18. To anyone with the Virus. It seems that sleeping on your front helps reduce the prospect of pneumonia setting in so if you have the virus, try to avoid sleeping on your back.
  19. We need video of your lady using it so we can accurately judge how good it is. For scientific purposes you understand.
  20. While the idiots are buying toilet paper and confirming Darwin's theory of evolution....the smart people are buying bidet toilet seats and chucking all the way to the bank.
  21. The mounting hole set-up is very forgiving. The one I bought seems focused on the North American toilets. Mine doesn't fit the shape of our toilet perfectly, but it is very close and good enough for us.
  22. I am not the only one to think of this idea.....these bidet toilet seats are a hot seller these days....which is why the one I bought is out of stock until June. I have seen them go for crazy high $'s...but I didn't want to spend much or get one that plays music or sprays warm water etc. Mine is a well thought out unit for a crazy reasonable price. And best part...my wife loves it for the extra feature for the lady areas.
  23. This is a bidet toilet seat that replaces the existing toilet seat and plumbs into the supply water line for the toilet. This is the toilet seat I bought...price is CDN$115.00 As I say it installs on existing toilets. 20 minute install and the kit includes all the fittings. This one has 2 sprayers....one for the rear and a more gentle spray for the lady areas. It works surprisingly well and does leave you much cleaner and uses much less toilet paper. https://www.living.ca/p-375542-lb-tl-bsv01-bidet-seat-self-cleaning-dual-nozzles-rear-feminine-cleaning-no-wiring-re
  24. I installed our new $80 bidet toilet seat the other day and our TP usage has dropped dramatically. It was well worth the $80.
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