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Thought of the Day - September 30 - Vitamin D Does Help
One of the first notes on the Blog was the speculation that Vitamin D may help in the fight against COVID-19 (2020/04/16/Cliff's Tip of...
Cliff Fraser
Sep 30, 20201 min read
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Thought of the Day - September 29 - COVID Killing Sharks
Well you learn something new every day. As some of you may have all ready seen the press is abuzz with a new story that "half a million...
Cliff Fraser
Sep 29, 20201 min read
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Thought of the Day - September 28 - COVID Alert App
Back in July I talked a little about a contact tracing apps, or lack thereof in Canada (Thought of the Day - July 17 - Contact Tracing...
Cliff Fraser
Sep 28, 20202 min read
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Thought of the Day - September 27 - By the Numbers
The Coronavirus continues to reach new milestones around the world. The official cases are now over 30 million, recoveries are...
Cliff Fraser
Sep 27, 20201 min read
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Thought of the Day - September 25 - Awning Business
With the inclement weather we experienced earlier this week, I realized that our current COVID practice of lining up outside of...
Cliff Fraser
Sep 26, 20201 min read
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Thought of the Day - September 24 - Shout Out for Africa
While western countries continue to be surprised and struggle with the dramatic loss of life due to COVID (the US for example now exceeds...
Cliff Fraser
Sep 24, 20202 min read
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Thought of the Day - September 23 - Election Fever Hitting BC
A BC provincial election has been called, so here we go. Horgan and the NDP are banking on their track record in handling the pandemic...
Cliff Fraser
Sep 23, 20202 min read
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Thought of the Day - September 22 - The Canadian Housing Boom
Moncton, Halifax, Ottawa and Montreal have joined Toronto and Vancouver in a boom in house prices brought on by the pandemic. While...
Cliff Fraser
Sep 22, 20202 min read
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Thought of the Day - September 21 - Testing
I thought today I would reflect a little on the state of testing. It was July when we last discussed the subject (Thought of the Day -...
Cliff Fraser
Sep 22, 20202 min read
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Thought of the Day - September 20 - By the Numbers
Canada's case rate continues to increase (and due to our limited outbreaks and testing, we cannot suggest that in Canada we have a...
Cliff Fraser
Sep 21, 20201 min read
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Thought of the Day - September 18 - Alberta Bound
Earlier this week I enjoyed the privilege of travelling to Alberta. Traffic was fairly light (there was almost no one in Banff), but the...
Cliff Fraser
Sep 18, 20201 min read
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Thought of the Day - September 17 - Eyeglasses
Over the past months there have been a number of observations made concerning those most likely to have severe symptoms from COVID-19. ...
Cliff Fraser
Sep 17, 20201 min read
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Thought of the Day - September 16 - Attractions Revisited
Less than a month ago, I suggested that you take the opportunity to visit your favourite attraction around town before the summer ended...
Cliff Fraser
Sep 16, 20201 min read
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Thought of the Day - September 15 - Neighbourhood Whistle-blowers
An interesting dynamic is starting to develop as countries experience their second major wave of COVID cases. Rather than wholesale...
Cliff Fraser
Sep 15, 20201 min read
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Thought of the Day - September 14 - COVID Symptoms
Back in March, I published one of the first lists of COVID symptoms on the Neighbourhood COVID site: Other Stuff Since then there have...
Cliff Fraser
Sep 14, 20201 min read
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Thought of the Day - September 13 - By the Numbers
This week I am going to have a little more of a look around the world. The key change that has been happening recently is that the...
Cliff Fraser
Sep 13, 20201 min read
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Thought of the Day - September 11 - Masks Re-Revisted
Most of the world now understands the benefit of masks. They lower the viral load (both sent and received) and thus decrease the chance...
Cliff Fraser
Sep 12, 20201 min read
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Thought of the Day - September 10 - BC's Economy
In these times it is difficult to comprehend how our economy is doing in absolute terms. As economies in all regions are affected it is...
Cliff Fraser
Sep 10, 20201 min read
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Thought of the Day - September 9 - Buy Canadian
One of the keys to getting our economy restarted is to increase demand for domestic products. While more than half of the products...
Cliff Fraser
Sep 10, 20203 min read
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Thought of the Day - September 8 - Border Still Closed
The Canadian/US border has been closed to non-commercial traffic since the end of March (Thought of the Day - June 4 - Border...
Cliff Fraser
Sep 8, 20201 min read
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