Later today am heading off sailing for a week along the south coast of Vancouver Island. After four months I will be not be doing a...

Following on from the economic downturn caused by COVID closures, people are finding it harder than ever to make ends meet; and in some...

Here is the chart from Gummi Bear, that went viral on Twitter last week; one that unfortunately you will not see discussed in the press...

As we know people have a wide variety of reactions to SARS-CoV-2. This seems to be based on factors like age, comorbidities, individual...

Without being too xenophobic, I, for one, was glad to hear that the Canada-US border restrictions were being extended to August 21st as...

Worldwide case numbers are now approaching 15 million. The rate of new case detection is still increasing, now by over 220,000 a day. ...

Well here we are: less than 1% infection, largely reopened, and with a small but slowly growing number of cases. Early on I talked about...

I was pleasantly surprised to see discussion on preliminary results from a new joint study from the University of British Columbia, the...

I have held off on this for a while, but figure what the heck. Standard disclaimer, do not use for investment planning, this is not...

The mind boggles. Three months ago I wrote that we should beware of folk taking advantage of the COVID scare (https://clifffraser0.wixsi...

If you have been down to Burnaby Lake in the past couple of months you have probably noticed the increase in Canada Geese this year. The...

Recent news has been dominated by significant "second wave" outbreaks across the USA. This has overshadowed the fact we still have...

I follow a couple of channels on Youtube, including Dr Yvette Lu, https://www.youtube.com/user/theYvetteLu/, one of which is an intrepid...

Maybe you thought I was going to talk about reports of a new strain of H1N1 (swine flu) but no, this is about locusts. This plague also...

As you now there are two main types of testing available for SARs-CoV2. Antigen Tests (Do You have COVID-19?) - (RT-PCR) Nasal swab test...

Now Phase 3 is well underway here in BC I was thinking a little about what might be happening in the workplace. Besides the obvious, new...

A couple of weeks I wrote a note about the mystery of the origin of SARS-CoV-2 (https://clifffraser0.wixsite.com/covid-19/post/thought-of...

Canada and BC look to have finished their downward trend in cases and deaths. Instead we are now seeing more of a sustained rate (the...

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Due to our limited testing, tracking and tracing practices here in BC, you may want to check the BC Public Health alerts page on a...