Category Archives: Diary

There isn’t a lot to report today, but some news that has come in is that the Federal NDP have joined their voices with Premier Horgan in demanding that Canada institute a national sick leave policy. More info on this can be found here. For any fans of the CW shows in the Arrowverse (Flash,Continue reading “COVID-19 Diary – Day 61”

Today BC Public Health announced our lowest number of new COVID-19 infections for a single day in a long time, only 8. This comes after an announcement of 23 for the two days prior. I hope this trend continues. We had much bigger news today for Canada though, which was the approval of the LiaisonContinue reading “COVID-19 Diary – Day 59”

Monday is new chart day! As you can see our weekly totals have been mostly declining week to week for 8 weeks now. This is a very good sign of how our processes have been working. Despite this good news, Dr. Bonnie Henry had some important words for us today, “COVID-19 has not gone away.”Continue reading “COVID-19 Diary – Day 58”

Today I would like to share 2 useful links worth following for COVID-19 information. They’re both from the Financial Times. The first link is the answer to the under-reporting of COVID-19 related deaths, both those directly and indirectly caused by the virus. It tracks the “excess mortality rate” of various countries, compared to their averageContinue reading “COVID-19 Diary – Day 56”

Yesterday I reported that Unifor, the union that represents a majority of the people that work for Translink, had called upon Translink to scrap their plans to temporarily layoff about 1,500 workers this coming May 18th. Today I am happy to share that Translink has done exactly that. All service reductions are being reversed, andContinue reading “COVID-19 Diary – Day 54”

Back in Mid-Late April, Translink announced plans to layoff about 1,500 workers due to reduced ridership and demand for public transit. However, after yesterday’s announcement of BC’s plans to restart and re-open businesses that had been shut down, the union that represents the majority of those transit workers is calling for halt to those plannedContinue reading “COVID-19 Diary – Day 53”

Today we were given the plan for how BC will relax the current restrictions, and what to expect from our new normal for the foreseeable future. I was a little surprised that everything is happening mid-May and not waiting for the beginning of June, but overall I the decisions make sense. BC has had oneContinue reading “COVID-19 Diary – Day 52”

Today let’s talk about COVID-19 and immunity. With many viruses, once your body fights it off, you’ve beaten it and it doesn’t come back. But that isn’t always a forgone conclusion with all viruses. And with COVID-19 we have been quickly learning to not take such things for granted… Now scientists in South Korea believeContinue reading “COVID-19 Diary – Day 47”

I want to give a special shout out to an upcoming event: Free Comic Book Day 2020 – the Home Edition! (It’s for this Saturday). Every year Free Comic Book Day is a pretty big deal for comic book stores, it’s kind of like their black Friday or boxing day. It’s a day to attractContinue reading “COVID-19 Diary – Day 45”

There are now 2 outbreaks at chicken packaging plants here in BC, the United Poultry in East Vancouver and Superior Poultry in Coquitlam. There have been 80 cases confirmed between them over the last few days, leading to notable spikes in our daily reports from public health. We are once again reminded that it isContinue reading “COVID-19 Diary – Day 44”