Pretend this is one of those Facebook quizzes and put a checkmark besides any words/phrases you didn’t know (or think about regularly) *before* a month ago when the Coronavirus began to expand and grow our language… Asymptomatic Carole Fuckin’ Baskin CERB Community Spread Contact Free Delivery Contact Tracing Contagion (movie) Coronavirus COVID Covidiot Coworker (in […]
Lots of “C’mon Eileen” parodies out there right now for some reason… “COVID-19” (“C’mon Eileen” Parody)
There are so many examples in this pandemic of how we’re still operating (or trying to operate) based on our old systems, as if they are the only and the ultimate way to do things, rather than realising that we’ve also been given a huge opportunity to review these systems and even try to do […]
There’s a challenge on social media to post the last picture on your camera roll before you entered quarantine. I thought I’d take that challenge but go a step further to post a few photos and significant dates from my own personal COVID timeline… My Personal COVID Timeline Late November – early December 2019 COVID […]
Lots of ones I hadn’t heard of before on this list!
During the current pandemic, RN doesn’t just stand for “Registered Nurse” – it stand for *Required* Nurse and our frontline healthcare workers are going above and beyond in the battle against COVID-19 in hospitals, testing sites and other locations around the world. I’m so proud to be married to a nurse who fills this vital […]
(Stolen from a FB friend…) This was published in The Guardian – UK -, but also in France, Germany ….. The acclaimed Italian novelist Francesca Melandri, who has been under lockdown in Rome for almost three weeks due to the Covid-19 outbreak, has written a letter to fellow Europeans and all of us “from your […]
These are ordered roughly in the order that I find them useful but I’d encourage anyone reading this to open them all and find which ones you prefer for yourself. Also, feel free to post a comment if there are sites I haven’t listed that you prefer. COVID-19 Canada Tracker – designed by a […]
It’s amazing how the hospital can be both the location for some of the happiest moments of people’s lives (births of children, news about diseases being beaten and bones being healed) and some of the worst (a loved one doesn’t make it after an accident, grandma’s last breaths on the palliative care ward, the diagnosis […]
Yes, the *next* mass pandemic. We dodged the bullet a few times with recent outbreaks like SARS, H1N1, Ebola, etc. But some very smart people foresaw that a devastating worldwide pandemic was inevitable due to the increasing number of viruses that were reaching humans. This is the result of a combination of humans aggressively moving […]
