On the DEWLine 2.0: Dwight Williams

You may have heard in recent months of the Canadian COVID Society. They're looking out for the rights of people living with, or trying to avoid having to live with, COVID infections across Confederation.

They just announced a new resource for such people:

https://bsky.app/profile/cancovsoc.bsky.social/post/3lnnhco2wm52w
https://bsky.app/profile/cancovsoc.bsky.social/post/3lnnhcowr622t
https://bsky.app/profile/cancovsoc.bsky.social/post/3lnnhcpjyfk2t

https://covidsociety.ca/priorities/safer-health-care/accommodation-request/

So...the federal dental care programme continues to be brought into effect.

It's decades late. It's still needed. And I'm glad it's finally on its way.

The out-of-pocket costs have been dogging me ever since I aged out of my parents' work-derived medical coverage, I've never been able to hold a job long enough to get similar benefits of my own, and by this time next year, that financial-medical pain is going to finally end.

Good.

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."

1. The danger of recruiting outside your political party's "flock" as described by Rebecca Solnit.

2. New additions to and promotions within the Order of Canada.

3. Connected to the Epstein/Maxwell cases: BBC News calls itself out over an interview with Alan Dershowitz.

4. Queensway-Carleton Hospital cuts back on services due to COVID-19-induced staffing shortages.

5. DIY radio astronomy is setting up a new home in Ottawa-Gatineau.

6. From Reuters Graphics: Anatomy of a Death Threat - Trump supporters have waged a campaign of intimidation against the state and local officials who administer U.S. elections. This visual analysis explores hundreds of menacing messages - and explains why they’re difficult to counter. CW: records/transcripts of death threats as well as militant racism, misogyny, and antisemitism.

I just got home from walking exercise, which I needed to have. The weather is grey, unseasonably warm and wet, hereabouts this afternoon.

A few days ago, George Pérez broke the news of his inoperable stage 3 pancreatic cancer diagnosis, as I noted here.

Right now, I'm listening to an episode of White Coat, Black Art via CBC's On Demand radio services devoted to consequences of the Pandemic as regards cancer diagnoses in general across Canada...and the effects on the cancer-fighting sector of the medical professions, particularly morale and mental health.

So there's me, connecting dots, right? Dots that I'm not sure need connecting, because what's the point of it beyond blame-casting?

Looking at this right now:

https://twitter.com/bloggerheads/status/1422536917380440065

Blood work this morning at one of the local labs. Routine stuff, postponed because Pandemic.

Five jobs applied for this afternoon, and three video tutorial courses completed as well.

And I now have 300 "Clippy Points" thanks to a Celsys promotion. Not sure what to do with them yet.

More tomorrow to report, I expect.

There are ways around this for several countries, but this is the nightmare we've been afraid of outside the States.

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2020/jun/30/us-buys-up-world-stock-of-key-covid-19-drug

So, Transplant is getting picked up by NBC for US broadcast.

https://variety.com/2020/tv/news/nbc-transplant-ctv-1234606881/

And Coroner is getting picked up by the CW Network.

https://www.tv-eh.com/2020/05/12/cineflix-rights-sells-coroner-to-the-cw-network/

Both of those...they're both medical dramas of different kinds. Coroner also doubles as mystery/crime fiction. I'm not sure how they'll fit onto US broadcast schedules. Transplant, which started up on CTV, with its pro-refugee/immigration perspective. That, I'm sure, will enrage the reich-wingers in the US once the word gets out. Coroner started out on CBC, our Crown-owned public broadcaster, and is a woman's-perspective show, and it does not shy away from showing broken people being broken and trying to heal themselves and one another.

And both series depict life in different aspects of Toronto as itself, as its own place. Not pretending to be anywhere else.

If you're looking for different things from your TV-watching than you've had up to now, then do consider these two series.