April 10, 2020
By Beatrice Britneff
Any person (click here) who applies for the Canada Emergency Response Benefit (CERB) (click here) will be automatically approved for COVID-19 financial relief, regardless of whether they qualify for the funding or not, the federal employment minister confirmed on Friday.
As first reported by the Toronto Star, the government isn’t asking people to provide documents proving their income as part of the claims process but it will review the applications’ veracity down the road, Carla Qualtrough said during a daily news conference with federal officials.
“We will, whether it be in the upcoming weeks or at tax time next year, reconcile accounts and make sure people didn’t game the system,” Qualtrough said....
The Canadian government does not pass judgment on it's citizens in need due to COVID-19. Canada TRUSTS it's citizens to make an honest claim. Canada is not diverting monies to the financial sector with any of the funding specifically set aside for the citizens of Canada.
Who is eligible?
The benefit will be available to workers:
-Residing in Canada, who are at least 15 years old;
-Who have stopped working because of COVID-19 and have not voluntarily quit their job or are eligible for EI regular or sickness benefits;
-Who had income of at least $5,000 in 2019 or in the 12 months prior to the date of their application; and
-Who are or expect to be without employment or self-employment income for at least 14 consecutive days in the initial four-week period. For subsequent benefit periods, they expect to have no employment or self-employment income.
Changing the subject. This is a video by a nurse in Australia. He praises Tesla for it's ventilator design and makes helpful comments that he hopes Tesla will listen to which it can include in it's manufacture FREE OF CHARGE to hospitals. I really like the way he talks about lungs, lung processors and the application to a ventilator made primarily from car parts.
Saturday, April 11, 2020
The real "back to work" is determinant by the hospitals.
The reason Americans are home and practicing social distancing is that if everyone became ill at the same time the hospitals would be overwhelmed and vast amounts of people would die.
When it comes to the end of the stay at home orders, or better said, gradually rescinded aspects of the stay at home orders; the real MEASURE of success will be realized in understanding the capacity, staffing and PPE stocked for at least a week's use in local hospitals. The PPE stocked at hospitals has to be restocked daily to maintain functional status.
This level of awareness of hospitals' capacity to care for people infected with COVID-19 is NEW and can be viewed as intrusive. But, local health officers can easily ask for daily accounting of all aspects required to protect lives. A hospital management employee could collect information about OPEN BEDS (both general floors, and unit beds), the number of patients infected with COVID-19, staff-patient ratio and the stock of PPE on hand. This information can be published daily to the community through a website and in newspapers. It would provide an understanding of the success of the roll-out when lifting of stay at home orders. At no point should Americans be in danger of death. Illness should not guarantee a poor outcome, but, one well handled by the local hospital.
Of course, the real safety is in testing, but, if testing isn't forthcoming there needs to be plenty of information so Americans can decide their path forward. While that is a horrible idea, people will risk their lives to provide for their families. If testing isn't going to happen then information about the hospitals' ability to take care of them is vital.
A color code of preparedness issued daily by hospitals can be a good visual to allow Americans to know the status of DANGER to their health because of a stressed health care system.
The color code could resemble the color code used for terrorist threats.
When it comes to the end of the stay at home orders, or better said, gradually rescinded aspects of the stay at home orders; the real MEASURE of success will be realized in understanding the capacity, staffing and PPE stocked for at least a week's use in local hospitals. The PPE stocked at hospitals has to be restocked daily to maintain functional status.
This level of awareness of hospitals' capacity to care for people infected with COVID-19 is NEW and can be viewed as intrusive. But, local health officers can easily ask for daily accounting of all aspects required to protect lives. A hospital management employee could collect information about OPEN BEDS (both general floors, and unit beds), the number of patients infected with COVID-19, staff-patient ratio and the stock of PPE on hand. This information can be published daily to the community through a website and in newspapers. It would provide an understanding of the success of the roll-out when lifting of stay at home orders. At no point should Americans be in danger of death. Illness should not guarantee a poor outcome, but, one well handled by the local hospital.
Of course, the real safety is in testing, but, if testing isn't forthcoming there needs to be plenty of information so Americans can decide their path forward. While that is a horrible idea, people will risk their lives to provide for their families. If testing isn't going to happen then information about the hospitals' ability to take care of them is vital.A color code of preparedness issued daily by hospitals can be a good visual to allow Americans to know the status of DANGER to their health because of a stressed health care system.
The color code could resemble the color code used for terrorist threats.
Don't make it illegal to shop when the merchant has done everything to prevent transmission of the virus.
Shop online and pick-up at the curbside.
People are going to need what appears to be frivolous items, such as batteries and plugs for their phones. Most everything today is done with data. Even getting government announcements about the virus to people is done with data. I find guidance by the state government to merchants can facilitate such needs.
Currently, "Best Buy" is taking orders online and fulfilling those orders at the nearby store with staff positioned at the front door curbside. The driver provides a name for the order and the staff brings it to the curbside on a trolley whereby the driver can place it in the vehicle. The staff then returns the trolley into the store for the next customer. The staff is keeping safe six feet distance from each other and customers. The trolley, of course, has to be wiped with a sanitizing wipe for any place customers may have touched, like the handle.
Merchants like Best Buy can report any failure OF THE METHOD in providing this service, but, it appears to be working. Many merchants can use that model including home improvement supplies such as Home Depot. I think that governors and their staff can provide that guidance to merchants in this regard.
People are going to need what appears to be frivolous items, such as batteries and plugs for their phones. Most everything today is done with data. Even getting government announcements about the virus to people is done with data. I find guidance by the state government to merchants can facilitate such needs.
Currently, "Best Buy" is taking orders online and fulfilling those orders at the nearby store with staff positioned at the front door curbside. The driver provides a name for the order and the staff brings it to the curbside on a trolley whereby the driver can place it in the vehicle. The staff then returns the trolley into the store for the next customer. The staff is keeping safe six feet distance from each other and customers. The trolley, of course, has to be wiped with a sanitizing wipe for any place customers may have touched, like the handle.
Merchants like Best Buy can report any failure OF THE METHOD in providing this service, but, it appears to be working. Many merchants can use that model including home improvement supplies such as Home Depot. I think that governors and their staff can provide that guidance to merchants in this regard.
Contact tracing isn't that difficult if people simply turn on their Facebook page.
April 10, 2020
By Lena H. Sun, William Wan and Yasmeen Abutaleb
A national plan to fight the coronavirus pandemic (click here) in the United States and return Americans to jobs and classrooms is emerging — but not from the White House.
Instead, a collection of governors, former government officials, disease specialists and nonprofits are pursuing a strategy that relies on the three pillars of disease control: Ramp up testing to identify people who are infected. Find everyone they interact with by deploying contact tracing on a scale America has never attempted before. And focus restrictions more narrowly on the infected and their contacts so the rest of society doesn’t have to stay in permanent lockdown.
But there is no evidence yet the White House will pursue such a strategy.
Instead, the president and his top advisers have fixated almost exclusively on plans to reopen the U.S. economy by the end of the month, though they haven’t detailed how they will do so without triggering another outbreak. President Trump has been especially focused on creating a second coronavirus task force aimed at combating the economic ramifications of the virus....
It is an invasion of privacy, but, if Americans really want to stop this virus in it's tracks, then having a record of where one traveled is important. For anyone with a smartphone, just leave the tracking settings on and the phone can record exactly where the owner traveled within a timeline that is important to test others for COVID-19.
It would be really great if there was a free app designed specifically for this purpose. The app could be appropriately named and it would remain confidential on a continuous record without necessarily posting it to the owner's Facebook page.
Hospitals would have to have the ability to connect with a person's phone to download travels within a time frame most appropriate in diagnosing potential carriers and/or exposure to the illness. The data would be invaluable.
January 8, 2020
By Geoffrey A. Fowler
The new ‘Off-Facebook Activity’ (click here) tool reminds us we’re living in a reality TV program where the cameras are always on. Here are the privacy settings to change right now.
Ever suspect the Facebook app is listening to you? What we now know is even creepier.
Facebook is giving us a new way to glimpse just how much it knows about us: On Tuesday, the social network made a long-delayed “Off-Facebook Activity” tracker available to its 2 billion members. It shows Facebook and sister apps Instagram and Messenger don’t need a microphone to target you with those eerily specific ads and posts — they’re all up in your business countless other ways.
Even with Facebook closed on my phone, the social network gets notified when I use the Peet’s Coffee app. It knows when I read the website of presidential candidate Pete Buttigieg or view articles from The Atlantic. Facebook knows when I click on my Home Depot shopping cart and when I open the Ring app to answer my video doorbell. It uses all this information from my not-on-Facebook, real-world life to shape the messages I see from businesses and politicians alike....
By Lena H. Sun, William Wan and Yasmeen Abutaleb
A national plan to fight the coronavirus pandemic (click here) in the United States and return Americans to jobs and classrooms is emerging — but not from the White House.
Instead, a collection of governors, former government officials, disease specialists and nonprofits are pursuing a strategy that relies on the three pillars of disease control: Ramp up testing to identify people who are infected. Find everyone they interact with by deploying contact tracing on a scale America has never attempted before. And focus restrictions more narrowly on the infected and their contacts so the rest of society doesn’t have to stay in permanent lockdown.
But there is no evidence yet the White House will pursue such a strategy.
Instead, the president and his top advisers have fixated almost exclusively on plans to reopen the U.S. economy by the end of the month, though they haven’t detailed how they will do so without triggering another outbreak. President Trump has been especially focused on creating a second coronavirus task force aimed at combating the economic ramifications of the virus....
It is an invasion of privacy, but, if Americans really want to stop this virus in it's tracks, then having a record of where one traveled is important. For anyone with a smartphone, just leave the tracking settings on and the phone can record exactly where the owner traveled within a timeline that is important to test others for COVID-19.
It would be really great if there was a free app designed specifically for this purpose. The app could be appropriately named and it would remain confidential on a continuous record without necessarily posting it to the owner's Facebook page.
Hospitals would have to have the ability to connect with a person's phone to download travels within a time frame most appropriate in diagnosing potential carriers and/or exposure to the illness. The data would be invaluable.
January 8, 2020
By Geoffrey A. Fowler
The new ‘Off-Facebook Activity’ (click here) tool reminds us we’re living in a reality TV program where the cameras are always on. Here are the privacy settings to change right now.
Ever suspect the Facebook app is listening to you? What we now know is even creepier.
Facebook is giving us a new way to glimpse just how much it knows about us: On Tuesday, the social network made a long-delayed “Off-Facebook Activity” tracker available to its 2 billion members. It shows Facebook and sister apps Instagram and Messenger don’t need a microphone to target you with those eerily specific ads and posts — they’re all up in your business countless other ways.
Even with Facebook closed on my phone, the social network gets notified when I use the Peet’s Coffee app. It knows when I read the website of presidential candidate Pete Buttigieg or view articles from The Atlantic. Facebook knows when I click on my Home Depot shopping cart and when I open the Ring app to answer my video doorbell. It uses all this information from my not-on-Facebook, real-world life to shape the messages I see from businesses and politicians alike....
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