PANDEMIC/BIZNEWS: Impact on Airlines?

They're actually going in for fleet reductions at the airlines, aren't they?

Ranging from the optimistic - from airlines' management and investors' POV - to the drastic:

https://www.forbes.com/sites/willhorton1/2020/04/14/airlines-retire-aircraft-but-its-not-as-bad-as-you-think--covid-19-perspective/#33b829b71f6f

https://thepointsguy.com/news/american-airlines-accelerates-boeing-757-767-retirements-due-to-coronavirus/

https://www.cnbc.com/2020/03/15/american-airlines-cuts-international-capacity-by-75percent-as-demand-collapses.html

https://business.financialpost.com/transportation/airlines/air-canada-posts-adjusted-quarterly-loss-on-pandemic-woes

QUOTES: Rick Mercer on Life in Time of Pandemic

"What I've learned about myself is that there is no amount of time that can pass, there is no break that can happen. I just will never clean up the basement." - Mercer during an interview with Tom Power on Q, date currently unknown to me. Source: Sunday Edition essay by Michael Enright.

CBC: Change at the Sunday Edition

Michael Enright just announced that he's stepping down as host of The Sunday Edition to close out this week's edition. Resignation to take effect in five weeks. The series will continue with a new host - as it should, since Enright is not the first host the series ever had - and Enright will continue in other work with and for CBC Radio.

I am still surprised. And, yet, not surprised. Pandemic or not, this change would have happened eventually anyway.

Twenty years...

PANDEMIC: International Vaccination Issues

Here's a headache:

https://www.cbc.ca/news/theweekly/vaccine-makers-covid-weekly-1.5581689

Milestone of American Pain

One.

Hundred.

Thousand.

https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2020/05/24/us/us-coronavirus-deaths-100000.html