On 2021-02-18 12:39 p.m., BryanGSimmons wrote:
> I found out today that I guy I'd worked with for a few years died of
> Covid last month.Â* He was only 43 years old.
>

Sorry to hear that. Sadly, there are people who just don't take this
virus seriously. I only know one person who died of it and that wasa
early in the pandemic. My wife knew several people who died of it, all
retired teachers who were living in retirement homes.

People around here are starting to get ****ed off with the situation. We
had been in lock down last spring. Things started to loosen up, and new
infections remained in Niagara were down to 35-40 but in the fall the
numbers of infections started rising. It got up to about 150 and then we
went back into lockdown on Boxing Day, followed by a Stay At Home order
There was some residual infections over the next couple weeks and then
the rates started to drop. Over the last two weeks they plummeted down
to 20-25, then 14 for a couple days and yesterday we had only three.

Toronto and adjacent regions remained in lock down while the rest of the
province had some restrictions lifted, but Niagara remains in lock down.
People are ****ed because one of the reasons given for the
continuation of the lock down is that if we open up people from the
Toronto area will drive down here to chop and to dine. It is like being
back in school and getting a class detention because someone was
misbehaving.