I can't leave the blog without making another mention of Max. Remember Max Woosey who, about the same time as the blog started, began...

Globally, the number of official cases is approaching half a billion, with over 6 million deaths. Over the last week, hospitalizations in...

As mentioned in earlier blogs it has been two years since we were in the Cancun tourist resorts of Mexico ( Thought of the Day - February...

Over in the UK, the remaining COVID-19 restrictions will be scrapped in England over the next week (note Monday's announcement applies...

Death rates in North America continue to decline and are now converging with Europe where they continue to see an increase, especially in...

Russia has confirmed over thirteen million cases of coronavirus and 340 thousand official deaths, according to their national coronavirus...

As we have mentioned previously on the blog, due to its unique geographic location and underdeveloped tourist industry (188th in the...

I have been following two fascinating stories concerning the effect of the pandemic on business. The story of Crocs: The Crocs company,...

As you know, I was surprised, like many, when Japan decided to proceed with the Olympic Games this summer. I was thinking, like...

Our daughter is the GM of one of the local McDonald's restaurants. She mentioned back in November, when we had the heavy rains and...

Cases, cases, cases. Around the world reported case rates are going up markedly (over 50% in the last week) - well except in Africa and...

So here we are, the last day of 2021. What an amazing COVID journey! We started off the year well into our second national wave. That...

As you know Canada started allowing cruise ships back into Canadian ports last month, however, as it is not really the northern cruising...

Today we are going to take a look at Omicron. World cases are up close to 20% this past week (in Canada by close to 150%), due to the...

As you know at the beginning of 2021 Canada procured more vaccine per capita than any other country in the world. Luckily we did manage...

It has been interesting observing how different parts of the world react to the Omicron wave. I watched Biden's speech on Tuesday and...

Well, it has been quite the week. Worldwide case numbers are going up, courtesy of Omicron. That said, the good news continues...

World cases and deaths have once again plateaued. Why? Because Europe has also plateaued. That said, other than the US, which is now...

I guess these graphs kind of say it all. Right now the pandemic is still all about Europe. While the rest of the world meanders along,...

I have held off talking about the B.1.1.529 variant for a few days as, to be honest, there is not a lot of concrete information released...