This video isn’t as relevant tonight as I’d hoped it would be. But oh well, the Avs will hopefully add their own contribution to this montage on Sunday!
As the Stanley Cup Finals are coming to an end (Go Avs!), it makes me think how I have very tangential connections to a handful of NHLers.
Though he was a couple years older than me, my main “connection” was growing up on the same street as Dave Karpa (who regularly used my testicles for target practice during road hockey games!)
I’d seen a couple pre-season games when the Blues used to do their training camp in Regina but I think the first regular season NHL game I ever saw was in 1993 when my dad and I joined a bus tour from Indian Head to Winnipeg to watch the Jets play the Nordiques featuring our hometown boy (who even hopped on the bus for the ride home since it was the last game before the Christmas break!) Also got to see a Teemu Selanne hat trick – not too bad.
Another very loose NHL connection is Jarret Stoll whose family had a cottage a couple doors down from our family cottage and my dad even sold Jarret’s dad some land at one point.
In fact, when Jarett won the Stanley Cup we were hoping he’d bring it to his dad’s cottage and we might have a chance to drink from Lord Stanley. No luck though – he took it to his hometown instead (or if he brought it to the cottage, we either weren’t around or maybe just weren’t invited!) 😉
Even though “Covid Is Over”™ according to many, it’s not really. Far from it actually…
Britain is being swamped by yet another Covid wave — 2% in England are currently infected, 1 in 30 in Scotland: 1.4 million people in the UK, a stark 40% week-on-week rise in prevalence. Hospitalisations highest since April https://t.co/hFiriFHY3r
— Alfons López Tena ? (@alfonslopeztena) June 23, 2022
Additional waves increase the chances of people being reinfected and while there was some who believed that getting infected was actually good for you because it gave you better immunity, that’s actually far from the case…
New data: Reinfection was found to substantially increase the risk of death, hospitalization, and adverse health outcomes, making strategies preventing reinfection critical. Summary ? 1/9 pic.twitter.com/DUDpePgRce
The number and variety of variants also continues to be a concern…
Omicron had ushered in a pandemic within a pandemic. Each successive BA variant has expressed new selective advantages & yielded less to our hope for durable immunity. Risk mitigation cannot be stressed enough. Again. https://t.co/uSne9VwZ90
One newer theory I came across is that Covid may create an active, permanent viral reservoir in your body (which one person replies is similar to how the herpes virus functions.)
As to 63 patients with post-acute sequelae of COVID-19 (PASC), "Strikingly, we detect SARS-CoV-2 spike antigen in a majority of the PASC patients up to 12 months post-diagnosis, suggesting the presence of an active persistent SARSCoV-2 viral reservoir."https://t.co/zrD3h0yW0X
— Hiroshi Yasuda (????) (@Yash25571056) June 23, 2022
You never known when the next pandemic will hit so we’ve gotten smart and started buying twice as much toilet paper as we would normally during our Costco runs…just in case!
(I think the cut-off for public disclosure is amounts $250 or over. So if you’re a manager and want to donate to the NDP or a union member who wants to donate to the Sask Party, keep it to $249 or less!)
I have to admit I’m disappointed – but not surprised – to see the Sask Party is raking in more from Hammonds than the NDP are!
I’ve been fortunate to have all sorts of happy, sad, and memorable moments working in the library over the years.
One of the most unique was helping a couple family members of Metis Leader, Harry Daniels, who fought to have his people included in the Canadian Constitution, come into the library to print a proof of a stamp that was going to be released the following (eg. this) year.
That stamp is now officially released but at the time, they told me that outside of Canada Post employees, I was likely one of the first half dozen people in all of Canada to see that stamp (and quite possibly the first who was not a direct family member or friend of Mr. Daniels!)
Quite an honour and speaks to all the ways that libraries help people in so many amazingly varied ways.
