On the DEWLine 2.0: Dwight Williams

Yeah, so I read this tonight from the professors Armstrong (yes, professors, plural):

https://www.thestar.com/opinion/contributors/2022/12/17/here-is-a-health-care-to-do-list-for-the-federal-government.html

The list of advice at the other end of that link makes sense to me. Given the current state of most of our provincial governments, I don't trust the people who run them with a single actual physical penny, no matter that our country no longer mints them as legal tender. Particular emphasis on point 4 as quoted below:

"Understand that health care is not a business like the rest. It is about people who need and people who provide care, doing so on the basis of their acquired skill and experience. Public services should not be organized on the principles of for-profit services but rather should recognize the specificity of care and of our shared responsibility as well as our shared benefits. This means, as a minimum, ensuring that funding does not go to profit, that we build surge capacity into the system and that we attend to the conditions of work which are the conditions of care."

I posted that drone footage link from CBC earlier today. In a related vein:

Re: farms and related firms still finding ways to get product to customers while maximizing safety. This is specific to Ottawa. I can't speak to the Gatineau situation across the river in Québec just yet. I can confirm Ottawa Valley Meats personally, because I've seen one of their vans delivering product in my own neighbourhood.

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/ottawa/covid-19-farm-gate-sales-booming-customers-looking-for-fresh-local-safe-1.5535723

Re: comics retailing. Diamond - up to now, the main distribution firm in North America for comic books and related product and serving a large chunk of the rest of the anglophone-comics-reading world as well - and DC Comics - the people who run the Superman, Batman, Wonder Woman, Justice League and related franchises for their new overlords at AT&T - have been making havoc-wreaking announcements in the last two days about the distribution process as they expect it to be from May onwards. Check Newsarama, Bleeding Cool, Comics Beat, Comic Book Resources (CBR) and other news sources for details on that as they come out.

Meanwhile, DC's published a Google Maps listing of shops they know or believe to still be finding ways to move product safely - for retailers, customers and other bystanders alike - in the Time of Pandemic. The relevant links below:

https://bleedingcool.com/comics/diamond-responds-dc-comics-new-distributors-batman-92/

https://www.google.com/maps/d/u/0/viewer?mid=1qzEG3OEmvCVEhfwC4OK3FP8e5o4eD-CK&ll=45.43705359598587%2C-75.52178979690291&z=10

If you know a shop that's also managing that feat, I expect DC - and many others - would like to know. Public Health authorities will likely be interested in ways of determining and promoting best practices in such matters. And to nail down any rule-breakers, too.