A Day Late
Apr. 3rd, 2020 06:14 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
fuzzyredThis should have gone up yesterday, but I ran out of time.
My pillow is finally done, all sewn together, and it is comfy as well as pretty. :D I got some weeding done these past two days, which I'm glad for, and hope to do a little more on the weekend.
I would really like for things to improve soon, and for the news to stop fear mongering. Seriously, how the hell did you find the numbers to say that by the end of April, Ontario (which currently has roughly 2500 cases) will have 800,000 cases. Our national total is about 11,000 for crying out aloud, and our total population is 37.5 million, while Ontario's is 14.57 million. Sometimes I hate the media. >_<
ETA: I have made an error in my facts. The projection was for 80,000 cases by the end of April, not 800,000. However, my point still stands about the fear mongering and the fact that such a huge increase seems very unlikely.
My pillow is finally done, all sewn together, and it is comfy as well as pretty. :D I got some weeding done these past two days, which I'm glad for, and hope to do a little more on the weekend.
I would really like for things to improve soon, and for the news to stop fear mongering. Seriously, how the hell did you find the numbers to say that by the end of April, Ontario (which currently has roughly 2500 cases) will have 800,000 cases. Our national total is about 11,000 for crying out aloud, and our total population is 37.5 million, while Ontario's is 14.57 million. Sometimes I hate the media. >_<
ETA: I have made an error in my facts. The projection was for 80,000 cases by the end of April, not 800,000. However, my point still stands about the fear mongering and the fact that such a huge increase seems very unlikely.
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Date: 2020-04-04 02:58 pm (UTC)OTOH, I don't know what the quarantine situation is up there; this thing is, in fact, exponential, so if people are still crowding into bars, churches, whathaveyou it will get loose, and the results will be disastrous, as New York is finding out just about now. But still. Scaremongering *is* a thing, and it's not good for anybody but the fat cats selling it. Grrr.
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Date: 2020-04-04 04:47 pm (UTC)A lot of businesses are closed or working from home, and travel is severely limited. And yes, the exponential increase is a problem, if people are very close together, and we should all work together to mitigate it. However, panicing everyone is an awful idea, especially since their numbers don't make sense to me, based on what we've seen so far.