This group of followers constantly restores my faith in humanity. This morning a large donation from Isagenix was dropped off. Great stuff. I am dropping that off to our warriors at the COVID Clinic this week.
This afternoon a paper back was left at the 'Back Door' and in it was a pink card with a carrot painted on it. Inside were three little baggies with three types of carrot seeds from Susan and Tia and the Guelph Seed Library. You made me cry again!
I brought them home tonight and proudly showed them to my husband. He had asked me to buy some carrot seeds on the way home. I did not have to do that. Right after dinner he was in the garden planting these seeds. An hour later I looked out the window and saw the sign. It's an orange traffic warning sign. I belly laughed. It is sitting in front of the new rows of carrots along with sticks up and down the side of each row. Ha Ha. He's a funny guy.
This morning, I ran into the Tim's on Eramosa. It is my usual morning trip. There was a lovely older man in front of me. He did not have a mask on. I called out to him from 6 feet back and asked him if I could lend him a mask. I have several in the car. He looked back at me and chuckled. He said, "Oops, left mine in the car!". And off he went, back to his car to get his mask. I think we need a team of volunteer bylaw officers to walk around the city politely offering masks to people who aren't wearing them. Less than half of Canadians are wearing them now but there is a huge push to make mask wearing mandatory across the country.
Recent evidence shows that wearing a mask in public can decrease the rate of transmission of COVID 19 by 40 %. That is huge but computer simulation studies show that more than 70 per cent of the population needs to wear masks in public to significantly reduce transmission. There is a national group of health-care professionals and epidemiologists called Masks4Canada and another group in Quebec that are calling for laws to make masks mandatory.
Masks4Canada has written an open letter to federal health officials asking them to recommend such laws to governments at all provincial and municipal levels. Our medical office of health, Dr. Nicola Mercer, was way ahead of the curve when she issued the order to wear masks in our region under the Health Protection and Promotion Act last week. It looks like Waterloo Region is headed in that direction too. We are in good hands.
Our numbers continue to show us the progress we have made. Ontario reported 190 new cases of COVID-19, marking the fourth day in a row with under 200 new cases. But, compared to all the other provinces, Ontario still has the furthest to go to be completely on the other side of the COVID surge that started in Canada in March.
The number of people hospitalized, in intensive care, and on a ventilator all dropped coming in at 383, 92, and 65, respectively.
Today and yesterday marked the first time ICU admissions have been below 100 in the province since March 29. Thank you for that. Our emergency rooms and ICU's can breath a bit and our operator rooms are starting to move some of those postponed surgeries through. We are opening up our health care system along with our economy. Slow but sure and very, very carefully.
The province has been seeing more resolved cases than new cases on a daily basis for a week now, with 1,400 fewer active cases in the province compared to last Tuesday. That is awesome!
Heads up. Be hopeful. We are in this for the long haul but with numbers like this and many mandatory masks, we will see the other side soon enough.
I am heading out to hoe some potatoes. Avoiding the carrots all together for a bit.
A lovely evening to all of you.
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