WEATHER/CLIMATE(?): A Quick Note

We're at 12ºC in Ottawa-Gatineau at the moment, per Environment Canada.

We're likely to spend the rest of this week in a mix of weather conditions, dancing back and forth across the freezing mark, but daylight hours will be mostly above-freezing, whatever else is going on. Normal for March around here, probably. But it still seems a bit early for my comfort.

HEALTH: So long as Trudeau doesn't get ousted...

...by the New Conservatives in the next year or so and if DT-45 doesn't get away with going Full Reich Mk. IV on the USA's population and Constitution, I suspect we'll be able to handle a lot of what COVID-19 (AKA SARS 2.0?) throws at Canada.

I'd really like to see Canada take on full EU membership, sign onto the Schengen Agreement and so on, though. I think that might make us a bit safer geo-politically, even in a pandemic scenario.

Yes, the "pipe dream" argument against EU membership's been deployed before.

Anyway, back to reading Charlie Stross' curated debate on COVID-19. Which may end up disabusing me of a few hopeful and nightmarish fantasies.

Further useful reading over at ProPublica: https://www.propublica.org/article/i-lived-through-sars-and-reported-on-ebola-these-are-the-questions-we-should-be-asking-about-coronavirus

USA: Stopped Clock Syndrome Leading to Good Anti-Terror News?

Just came across this on Politico:

https://www.politico.com/news/2020/03/09/state-department-white-supremacist-group-124500

Hoping it gets done. That particular gang of creeps deserves to have more of their days and nights made troublesome. "Very fine people", my near-sighted eye.