Lockdowns and the Covid class battle

 When walking through the streets of Ottawa’s ByWard Market, it’s easy to see the carnage that Covid-19 has inflicted upon local business. Empty restaurants and shop windows are commonplace. Institutions like Tuckers Marketplace and The Fish Market are gone. Both symbols of the ByWard Market are now gone forever, driven

Another coulda shoulda woulda . . . but it is not too late.

 According to the World Health Organization (WHO), as of today (11 February 2021), there have been 106,797,721 confirmed cases of COVID-19 and 2,341,145 deaths since COVID-19 began its devastating spread in January 2020. A year ago at this time, large parts of China were in full COVID-19 lockdown and soon

Reopening Ontario — is it too soon?

 With the stay at home order set to expire on February 9th, discussion began as to what Doug Ford’s next step will be. Much of the talk seems to center with Ford taking a regional approach to reopening businesses. Areas of Ontario where Covid-19 case numbers are decreasing would slowly

To whom it may concern — An open letter to the restless ones

 Above: I'm asking Ottawans to stay home in order to keep everyone safe. To whom it may concern: Hello, my name is Ryan Lythall, and I’m a person with a physical disability. Being physically disabled, I’m susceptible to getting COVID, more so than most because a large part of my disability

Covid-19: Reflections on the end game

 Part 1: The Time Before a Vaccine Now half way through 2020, having spent a few months with the drawbridge raised, most of us are becoming deeply curious about how the Covid-19 crisis ends. There have been flocks of somewhat superficial articles about how the world will be different after,

Coronavirus: Two nations, two systems, one pattern

 To no-one’s very great surprise the United States of America handled the first few stages of the Covid-19 pandemic badly. After a period of dithering, denial, and poor attention to expertise, the various levels of government began to act, but unevenly, with poor messaging, fulminating partisanship, and the disadvantage of

Heart to Heart with Adele: Lockdown, emotions and your kids

 QUESTION: Dear Adele, Covid-19 is hijacking our family’s positivity, general contentment and happiness with life. We have been isolating and social distancing ourselves, and to tell you the truth its beginning to suck! Cabin fever has never been so contagious, all-encompassing or so overwhelming before! We need a mental health