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So when do they shut transit down or scale it way the fuck back? BC Ferries?

More importantly will they be shutting down the BC Liquor Stores?

Driving around Vancouver today was like Vancouver 1983, until I tried getting to Standard Building on Still Creek Road, a few blocks from the idiot mob trying to get in the Costco parking lot

Can anyone tell me why we have shut our boarders to everyone but Americans? Over half of our new cases are coming from Americans? Is this Trump appeasement? Trump hinting he may close Northern boarder so are we just letting him do it first?

Ive had enough. Wake me up when it's over. Day 5of quarantine. By the time my 14 days are up the world will be over.

But there is great news in all of this. Air and water quality is improving all over the world.

Chef Boi RD wrote: ↑Mon Mar 16, 2020 6:26 pm Driving around Vancouver today was like Vancouver 1983, until I tried getting to Standard Building on Still Creek Road, a few blocks from the idiot mob trying to get in the Costco parking lot

I guess you can get hummers cheaper these days eh Boss? Did you spend most of the morning at Oppenheimer Park?

Doyle Hargraves wrote: ↑Mon Mar 16, 2020 6:51 pm

Chef Boi RD wrote: ↑Mon Mar 16, 2020 6:26 pm Driving around Vancouver today was like Vancouver 1983, until I tried getting to Standard Building on Still Creek Road, a few blocks from the idiot mob trying to get in the Costco parking lot

I guess you can get hummers cheaper these days eh Boss? Did you spend most of the morning at Oppenheimer Park?

Doyle, ole Victor there...well, he hates you real good. Real good

This is heartwarming:

Canada announces it will exclusively import COVID-19 from US

https://www.thebeaverton.com/2020/03/ca ... 9-from-us/

OTTAWA – Prime Minister Justin Trudeau announced today that all forms of coronavirus coming from outside from the country must come from American citizens.

“Today, we are announcing that any person infected with COVID-19 not exhibiting symptoms must be a Canadian, a permanent resident of Canada, or a citizen of the United States,” said Trudeau in a press conference held outside his house. “Trading with the United States, whether it’s steel, lumber, or deadly diseases, is critical to Canada. We need to maintain this important free-trade relationship.”

With the rising levels of cases and evidence of community-acquired infections, the government of Canada is protecting its citizens by relying on its neighbour whose President appears to be living in a different universe.


“The borders are closed to everyone, unless they’re citizens of a country with no functioning healthcare system for anyone who isn’t a millionaire,” said Trudeau.

Canada and the US are still working on whether a fever will be defined as either 38 C or 101.5 F.

Lol. That made my day

rats19 wrote: ↑Mon Mar 16, 2020 5:03 pm https://pbs.twimg.com/media/ETQdF8YXgAE ... name=large

Here is a theory not sure where it originated but saw it on Twitter

”Welcome to the Geat Awakening” - is this a Beowulf reference?

Sweden is now recommending that all high schools, colleges and universities switch to on-line teaching. These students do not require parental supervision, so it should have no negative effect on people's ability to show up at work.
All cinemas are also shut down now. Previously it was just events with more than 500 participants.

Meanwhile people in Stockholm are advised to work from home, if they can.

Normally we only get paid sick leave from day two, and only for a week unless you see a doctor who writes a medical cerificate confirming illness.
Now we get paid from day one, and only need to see a doctor after two weeks.

The govt has also announced a number of measures to protect businesses.
First of all, they will be responsible for paying for the sick leave, rather than the employer.
Also, they allow companies a full year's reprieve of certain taxes. This includes VAT, employer fees and the source taxing of salaries.
Thirdly, if they send employees home with pay rather than terminmating their employment, the govt will pay half the salary of those workers.

Hopefully these measures will help prevent bankrupcies and major layoffs.

Back to the Geats of Beowulf. Amazingly, no one knows for sure who they were.

Traditionally most have argued that they were the Götar of the Swedish west and south. Their name is remembered in names like Göteborg (Gothenburg), Västergötland, Östergötland, Götene and Götaland.

Vowel changes in Sweden and among Anglo-Saxons have produced the word pairs bröd/bread, söm/seam, sjö/sea, so götar/geats makes total sense.

Others have argued that since most of it takes part in Denmark, it could be the Jutes, the people of Jutland, which today is an incorporated part of Denmark.

Yet the geography of the story makes little sense. For instance, Svear (from the Swedish east coast) and "Geats" were constantly at war, and would cross the sea to attack eachother. But Svear and Götar had a land border... Why take a boat anc circumnavigate half of Sweden to attack the other party? Makes little or no sense.

Likewise, if the Geats inhabited Jutland, they would not have to sail for days to reach the Danes, and they would also be approaching from the wrong direction.

But now an archeologist has jumped into the fray and claims all the evidence points to Gotland! An island just off the Swedish east coast. We know the Gutar (or Gutes) who live their had several wars with the Svear back in the 5th and 6th century, and they are conveniently located across the water at a close distance from eachother, while a journey from Gotland to Denmark would take roughly the time described in Beowulf.

It all makes sense. Also, we get an interesting and plausible explanation to why the poem frequently calls the Geats "Weather-Geats", which no one ever has made much sense of. The island of Gotland has a ram as it's symbol, and a ram can also be referred to as a wether in English. Like in bellwether. So they are the Geats of the Ram, the Ram-Geats.

Keep in mind that Beowulf was written down in Britain, by Anglo-Saxons, several hundred years after the events of the story, and people probably had problems differentiating between Geats, Gutes and Jutes, and so over time they started saying Geats about the Gutes as well, but to avoid confusion, pointed out that they were Wether-Geats, not the ones from the Gothenburg area, but the other ones. The ram ones.

https://www.medieval.eu/beowulf-dated-to-ad-550/

Banks and credit card companies should waive all interest on all loans until May 1st as a way to spread the economic risk around.

Hockey Widow wrote: ↑Tue Mar 17, 2020 8:54 am Banks and credit card companies should waive all interest on all loans until May 1st as a way to spread the economic risk around.

Or maybe just give people the option to skip a payment penalty free and add it to the end of the loan.

Cornuck wrote: ↑Tue Mar 17, 2020 9:03 am

Hockey Widow wrote: ↑Tue Mar 17, 2020 8:54 am Banks and credit card companies should waive all interest on all loans until May 1st as a way to spread the economic risk around.

Or maybe just give people the option to skip a payment penalty free and add it to the end of the loan.

Something will be forthcoming. 70-80 % of people are paycheque to paycheque

Doyle Hargraves wrote: ↑Tue Mar 17, 2020 9:14 am

Cornuck wrote: ↑Tue Mar 17, 2020 9:03 am

Hockey Widow wrote: ↑Tue Mar 17, 2020 8:54 am Banks and credit card companies should waive all interest on all loans until May 1st as a way to spread the economic risk around.

Or maybe just give people the option to skip a payment penalty free and add it to the end of the loan.

Something will be forthcoming. 70-80 % of people are paycheque to paycheque

You have more faith in the government than I do, but I hope you're right.