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Thought of the Day - December 31 - Getting Stranded
I chuckled when the Cruise Line International Association cited "restrictions that change on a country-by-county basis" as one of the...
Cliff Fraser
Dec 31, 20202 min read
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Thought of the Day - December 30 - COVID Free Locales
Back in May, after the first wave subsided in many countries, we discussed which countries & territories who had had cases were now...
Cliff Fraser
Dec 31, 20201 min read
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Thought of the Day - December 29 - Inspiration on a Sunny Day
Yesterday Gail and I decided to take advantage of the good weather and go for a stroll along the shores of English Bay. It has been six...
Cliff Fraser
Dec 30, 20202 min read
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Thought of the Day - December 28 - Small Town Housing
When I talked about the COVID-19-driven housing boom back in September I focused on the Canadian cities ( Thought of the Day - September...
Cliff Fraser
Dec 28, 20202 min read
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Thought of the Day - December 27 - By the Numbers
The world is now over 80M cases and Canada over 550k. Staggering numbers. As mentioned, hospitalizations are becoming a more effective...
Cliff Fraser
Dec 27, 20202 min read
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Thought of the Day - December 25 - Antarctica
It has been over a month since Vanuatu and Samoa became some of the last places on earth to get their first cases of COVID-19 ( Thought...
Cliff Fraser
Dec 25, 20202 min read
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Thought of the Day - December 24 - Is Santa Contagious?
Great news! Studies have just come in concerning Santa to say the answer is no! Earlier, when there were suspicions that the coronavirus...
Cliff Fraser
Dec 24, 20201 min read
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Thought of the Day - December 23 - Viral Mutation
As we have talked about it before - viruses mutate all the time ( Thought of the Day - June 26 -Worrying Signs Concerning Immunity ) but...
Cliff Fraser
Dec 23, 20202 min read
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Thought of the Day - December 22 - Vaccine War Snippets Redux
Now the latest in the vaccine wars (last week's instalment: Thought of the Day - December 14 - Vaccine War Snippets ): 1) Mass...
Cliff Fraser
Dec 22, 20202 min read
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Thought of the Day - December 21 - Masked Walmartians
I know, I know, but I could not resist. Come on in and see a few choice examples of how the patrons of Walmart have been masking-up this...
Cliff Fraser
Dec 21, 20201 min read
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Thought of the Day - December 20 - By the Numbers
This week I am changing it up. Instead of COVID itself, let's have a look at the Canadian economic data. While I have no background in...
Cliff Fraser
Dec 20, 20204 min read
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Thought of the Day - December 18 - One More Time
Given the much appreciated feedback from last week's post ( Thought of the Day - December 11 - An Xmas Ditty ) and the fact that...
Cliff Fraser
Dec 18, 20202 min read
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Thought of the Day - December 17 - COVID Pastimes
With most leisure activities now on hold, folk are looking for distraction thought novel hobbies and adventures. In fact as the...
Cliff Fraser
Dec 17, 20202 min read
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Thought of the Day - December 16 - Surprise, Surprise
Guess what? Another Cruise Ship in trouble ( Thought of the Day - November 17 - Test Accuracy ): A Royal Caribbean cruise liner has...
Cliff Fraser
Dec 16, 20201 min read
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Thought of the Day - December 15 - The Story of Max Woosey
At the same time as we started our blog back in March, a ten year-old in the UK started to sleep in a tent. It was a tent that his...
Cliff Fraser
Dec 15, 20201 min read
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Thought of the Day - December 14 - Vaccine War Snippets
The press announcements, approvals, distribution plans, and prognosis of upcoming vaccine candidates are well publicized. Here are six...
Cliff Fraser
Dec 14, 20202 min read
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Thought of the Day - December 13 - By the Numbers
As you are probably well aware, the world now has over 70M official cases and 1.6M deaths. With improvements happening in Western Europe,...
Cliff Fraser
Dec 13, 20201 min read
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Thought of the Day - December 11 - An Xmas Ditty
T'was the month before Christmas, And all through the town, People wore masks, That covered their frown. The frown had begun Way back in...
Cliff Fraser
Dec 11, 20202 min read
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Thought of the Day - December 10 - COVID and Pregnancy
Was going to do a Thought of the Day concerning the latest in the Vaccine Wars, but Bonnie Henry did an admirable job in her address...
Cliff Fraser
Dec 10, 20202 min read
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Thought of the Day - December 9 - Great News
At the end of last month there was some really great news in the pursuit of treatment of COVID-19. No, not the latest announcements in...
Cliff Fraser
Dec 9, 20202 min read
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