Reg Schofield
@rws63.bsky.social
Big Bruins fan, Charlie Brown,Lord of the Rings,Star Trek ,lover of music especially metal, husband to Kathy(37 years and counting ),2 great sons ,2 grandkids , guitar player, collector of Peanuts,LOTR figures, supporter of UBI , Anglican , Socialist etc..
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Canadian COVID Forecast Nov 8 - Nov 21, 2025
NOVA SCOTIA
VERY HIGH [no change]
About 1 of every 93 people is infected.
Compared to lowest point of pandemic in Canada:
-Infections: 8.0 x higher
-Long COVID: 6.3 x higher
-Hospitalizations: 13.3 x higher
-Deaths: 16.8 x higher
NOVA SCOTIA
VERY HIGH [no change]
About 1 of every 93 people is infected.
Compared to lowest point of pandemic in Canada:
-Infections: 8.0 x higher
-Long COVID: 6.3 x higher
-Hospitalizations: 13.3 x higher
-Deaths: 16.8 x higher
![This image describes the Canadian COVID Forecast for the fourteen-day period between Nov 8 - Nov 21, 2025, which is produced by COVID-19 Resources Canada. Nova Scotia's COVID Forecast outlook is VERY HIGH [no change] with a COVID INDEX SCORE of 12.7
About 1 of every 93 people is infected.
Estimated infections this week: 18,200-25,200
What these numbers mean: MODERATE 1-5, HIGH 5-10, VERY HIGH 10-15, SEVERE >15 COMPARED TO THE LOWEST POINT IN THE COVID PANDEMIC IN CANADA
How much higher are key indicators compared to the lowest point in the COVID pandemic in Canada?
Waste water, infections: HIGH; 8.0X higher
Long COVID: HIGH; 6.3X higher
Hospitalizations: VERY HIGH; 13.3X higher
Deaths: SEVERE; 16.8X higher
HOW TO HELP:
EVERYONE:
UPDATE vaccines every 6 months
WEAR N95-type masks
AVOID indoor social gatherings
AVOID crowded non-essential places
Who is HIGH RISK?
People 60 and older, babies < 1 year, pregnant
ALL AGES: immunocompromised OR medically at-risk OR no vaccine or infection in the last 6 months
Recommendations are based on the COVID-19 Risk Index from the Peterborough ON Public Health Unit
COVID-19 Resources Canada is a grassroots organization of volunteer scientists supporting Canadian COVID responses. Sources, data and methods for the COVID Index are available at www.Covid19Resources.ca](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:qbuobwdie7rzq4fburk63aft/bafkreifrud7vvzonmyb2ibvlm7vyy2h7dlvt3v2tnx3r5hxezx43zbyvqa@jpeg)
November 10, 2025 at 11:29 PM
Canadian COVID Forecast Nov 8 - Nov 21, 2025
NOVA SCOTIA
VERY HIGH [no change]
About 1 of every 93 people is infected.
Compared to lowest point of pandemic in Canada:
-Infections: 8.0 x higher
-Long COVID: 6.3 x higher
-Hospitalizations: 13.3 x higher
-Deaths: 16.8 x higher
NOVA SCOTIA
VERY HIGH [no change]
About 1 of every 93 people is infected.
Compared to lowest point of pandemic in Canada:
-Infections: 8.0 x higher
-Long COVID: 6.3 x higher
-Hospitalizations: 13.3 x higher
-Deaths: 16.8 x higher
Was asked again recently why I'm still masking? So basically I said two things. I've read enough about covid to know that it's still here, still causing problems and that I don't want it. 2nd, I'm the caregiver for my wife with Alzheimer's and I cannot afford to get sick or get disabled myself.
November 11, 2025 at 12:41 AM
Was asked again recently why I'm still masking? So basically I said two things. I've read enough about covid to know that it's still here, still causing problems and that I don't want it. 2nd, I'm the caregiver for my wife with Alzheimer's and I cannot afford to get sick or get disabled myself.
Poverty , food and rent insecurity, homelessness, the disabled in forced poverty are all policy choices between both federal and provincial governments. Canada is not performing well on those measurements in my opinion. We have a long way to go and frankly I'm sick of excuses.
November 10, 2025 at 10:57 PM
Poverty , food and rent insecurity, homelessness, the disabled in forced poverty are all policy choices between both federal and provincial governments. Canada is not performing well on those measurements in my opinion. We have a long way to go and frankly I'm sick of excuses.
If PM Carney is serious about his government not having all the good ideas and open to ideas then I have a suggestion. How about reforming the archaic social net into a functional UBI and truly investing in people and not leaving anyone behind.I think that would be a good start.That would be bold.
November 10, 2025 at 10:42 PM
If PM Carney is serious about his government not having all the good ideas and open to ideas then I have a suggestion. How about reforming the archaic social net into a functional UBI and truly investing in people and not leaving anyone behind.I think that would be a good start.That would be bold.
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This is abhorrent. We should not be harvesting old growth trees for biomass pellets.
Official data from government of British Columbia, along with satellite monitoring, backs claims that a Canadian subsidiary owned by Drax sourced 250-year-old trees to manufacture biomass pellets as recently as this year
www.theguardian.com/business/202...
www.theguardian.com/business/202...
Drax still burning 250-year-old trees sourced from forests in Canada, experts say
Exclusive: report by Stand.earth says subsidiary of power plant received truckloads of whole logs at biomass pellet sites
www.theguardian.com
November 10, 2025 at 6:50 PM
This is abhorrent. We should not be harvesting old growth trees for biomass pellets.
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Carney’s next book should be called “Value($): Building a better world for very rich people, burning it up for everyone else.” Or: “How I caved to the oil and gas industry, and did it with a smile on my face.”
November 10, 2025 at 12:52 AM
Carney’s next book should be called “Value($): Building a better world for very rich people, burning it up for everyone else.” Or: “How I caved to the oil and gas industry, and did it with a smile on my face.”
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What if we convince the elite to greenlight universal basic income by pointing out that we'll burn everything they have to the ground and salt it so nothing so evil grows n its place? 🤔
What if we convince the elite to greenlight universal basic income by pointing out that they’d get an extra thousand dollars a month too
(I know it wouldn’t be fair when they’re already so rich but something something sugar with medicine)
(I know it wouldn’t be fair when they’re already so rich but something something sugar with medicine)
November 9, 2025 at 10:14 PM
What if we convince the elite to greenlight universal basic income by pointing out that we'll burn everything they have to the ground and salt it so nothing so evil grows n its place? 🤔
Talking to old acquaintances online who still volunteers when he can at his church food Bank and he said he has never seen it so bad . The last few years have steadily gotten worse in terms of need.He is angry at all levels of government because he says they have done jack shit . I agree. The cons
November 9, 2025 at 9:58 PM
Talking to old acquaintances online who still volunteers when he can at his church food Bank and he said he has never seen it so bad . The last few years have steadily gotten worse in terms of need.He is angry at all levels of government because he says they have done jack shit . I agree. The cons
One thing you find out , not being able to afford a lawyer because frankly you can't afford it , getting the power of attorney for my wife's situation is hard. Dealing with the government is a bloody nightmare especially.Every layer is a bureaucratic nightmare.
November 9, 2025 at 8:28 PM
One thing you find out , not being able to afford a lawyer because frankly you can't afford it , getting the power of attorney for my wife's situation is hard. Dealing with the government is a bloody nightmare especially.Every layer is a bureaucratic nightmare.
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"We could end up with shortages." Our government is being run by people who are both immoral and incompetent. There is no reason for us to experience shortages. That would be a choice made. Make America Great Again? These people are destroying everything that ever made us great.
STEPHANOPOULOS: Are we starting to see a permanent impact on the economy from the shutdown?
BESSENT: It's getting worse and worse. We had a fantastic economy under Trump the last 2 Qs, and now there are estimates that growth this Q could be cut by as much as half. We could end up with shortages.
BESSENT: It's getting worse and worse. We had a fantastic economy under Trump the last 2 Qs, and now there are estimates that growth this Q could be cut by as much as half. We could end up with shortages.
November 9, 2025 at 3:24 PM
"We could end up with shortages." Our government is being run by people who are both immoral and incompetent. There is no reason for us to experience shortages. That would be a choice made. Make America Great Again? These people are destroying everything that ever made us great.
So a conservative with a leader who's completely tone deaf in changing his message , crosses the floor to join another conservative party more or less.Shocked lol it's too bad the NDP imploded and the Greens can't get any traction.If you're truly a progressive, you have no hope right now federally.
November 8, 2025 at 11:19 PM
So a conservative with a leader who's completely tone deaf in changing his message , crosses the floor to join another conservative party more or less.Shocked lol it's too bad the NDP imploded and the Greens can't get any traction.If you're truly a progressive, you have no hope right now federally.
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We should vote only for those who promise to make billionaires history.
We need a great levelling, through tax and redistribution.
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
We need a great levelling, through tax and redistribution.
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
I wish we could ignore Bill Gates on the climate crisis. But he’s a billionaire, so we can’t | George Monbiot
Money talks – and his essay denouncing ‘near-term emissions goals’ at Cop30 mostly argues the case for letting the ultra-rich off the hook
www.theguardian.com
November 8, 2025 at 4:19 PM
We should vote only for those who promise to make billionaires history.
We need a great levelling, through tax and redistribution.
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
We need a great levelling, through tax and redistribution.
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
NS Premiers anger at Poppies is a distraction from his utter incompetence and playing to the pickled brains that like his bs. Healthcare a mess,affordable housing/rent dreadful, child poverty bad, food insecurity, income assistance punitive and inadequate, need I go on.Worst premier in my lifetime.
November 8, 2025 at 8:29 PM
NS Premiers anger at Poppies is a distraction from his utter incompetence and playing to the pickled brains that like his bs. Healthcare a mess,affordable housing/rent dreadful, child poverty bad, food insecurity, income assistance punitive and inadequate, need I go on.Worst premier in my lifetime.
You know it's tough enough to watch your wife begin to lose herself to Alzheimer's dementia but the stress of the inadequate supports in place financially ,wears you out . It makes me extremely fucking angry how pathetic the disability amounts are , which I long advocated for changes for more
November 8, 2025 at 5:07 AM
You know it's tough enough to watch your wife begin to lose herself to Alzheimer's dementia but the stress of the inadequate supports in place financially ,wears you out . It makes me extremely fucking angry how pathetic the disability amounts are , which I long advocated for changes for more
Saw a post from former PM Trudeau getting his flu and COVID booster and encouraged others to do the same . Too bad he wasn't masked but I'll take a small victory just the fact he was willing to encourage others to do the same.
November 7, 2025 at 10:56 PM
Saw a post from former PM Trudeau getting his flu and COVID booster and encouraged others to do the same . Too bad he wasn't masked but I'll take a small victory just the fact he was willing to encourage others to do the same.
I'll never forget when a few politicians campaigning years ago came to my door . I always asked about the prices of groceries , average rent etc... and pretty much every time only the NDP candidate could answer that . The libs and con stumbled and that told me they had no clue the struggles.
November 7, 2025 at 10:49 PM
I'll never forget when a few politicians campaigning years ago came to my door . I always asked about the prices of groceries , average rent etc... and pretty much every time only the NDP candidate could answer that . The libs and con stumbled and that told me they had no clue the struggles.
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Coming climate inferno ignored in favour of war spending yvesengler.com/2025/11/06/c...
Coming climate inferno ignored in favour of war spending - Yves Engler
Mark Carney is fear mongering about faraway countries while downplaying a security threat driving an ever-greater number of Canadians from their homes. In the recently released federal budget “defence...
yvesengler.com
November 7, 2025 at 12:53 PM
Coming climate inferno ignored in favour of war spending yvesengler.com/2025/11/06/c...
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I think we need to stop calling it empathy and go back to calling it decency. It isn't a favour you're doing someone else, it's you proving that you aren't a fucking ghoul
November 7, 2025 at 2:09 PM
I think we need to stop calling it empathy and go back to calling it decency. It isn't a favour you're doing someone else, it's you proving that you aren't a fucking ghoul
How's anyone ever heard Carney say COVID or long COVID . I'm sure his Goldman Sachs and other corporate heads don't want him saying that . He has been as bad as any far right wing nut by ignoring the increasing impact of COVID creating disability . Maybe why they are pushing MAID more.
November 7, 2025 at 8:56 PM
How's anyone ever heard Carney say COVID or long COVID . I'm sure his Goldman Sachs and other corporate heads don't want him saying that . He has been as bad as any far right wing nut by ignoring the increasing impact of COVID creating disability . Maybe why they are pushing MAID more.
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Harry Truman: If it benefits all the people, they call it socialism.
November 7, 2025 at 8:37 PM
Harry Truman: If it benefits all the people, they call it socialism.
Canada needs a Zohran Mamdani to emerge to lead a new party or emerge inside the Greens or even NDP.The closest in Canada I would say is Web Kinew in Manitoba who could shake up the federal NDP one day if he so wishes. But both the Greens and NDP need new leaders . Not impressed by any NDP leader
November 7, 2025 at 7:02 PM
Canada needs a Zohran Mamdani to emerge to lead a new party or emerge inside the Greens or even NDP.The closest in Canada I would say is Web Kinew in Manitoba who could shake up the federal NDP one day if he so wishes. But both the Greens and NDP need new leaders . Not impressed by any NDP leader
Once again , libs did nothing to help the disabled live in dignity. The 200 dollar amount introduced back in July is a slap in the face . It's jack shit and a pain in the ass to get as well. We have a lite conservative government in charge . That's how far we have drifted to the right.
November 7, 2025 at 6:52 PM
Once again , libs did nothing to help the disabled live in dignity. The 200 dollar amount introduced back in July is a slap in the face . It's jack shit and a pain in the ass to get as well. We have a lite conservative government in charge . That's how far we have drifted to the right.
I will keep screaming, writing , pushing for a UBI and proper disability benefits that can give the disabled dignity . Governments can throw money around like it's Kool aid to corporations, tax breaks to the wealthy . But when you elect people who never had a clue how they are going to
November 7, 2025 at 5:11 PM
I will keep screaming, writing , pushing for a UBI and proper disability benefits that can give the disabled dignity . Governments can throw money around like it's Kool aid to corporations, tax breaks to the wealthy . But when you elect people who never had a clue how they are going to
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The foundation of a stable, mature, compassionate society is
Universal Unconditional
Basic Income
Education
Health Care
If your elected officials aren't advocating for those, demand to know why they think people deserve to live in poverty, sickness and ignorance.
Universal Unconditional
Basic Income
Education
Health Care
If your elected officials aren't advocating for those, demand to know why they think people deserve to live in poverty, sickness and ignorance.
November 7, 2025 at 7:37 AM
The foundation of a stable, mature, compassionate society is
Universal Unconditional
Basic Income
Education
Health Care
If your elected officials aren't advocating for those, demand to know why they think people deserve to live in poverty, sickness and ignorance.
Universal Unconditional
Basic Income
Education
Health Care
If your elected officials aren't advocating for those, demand to know why they think people deserve to live in poverty, sickness and ignorance.
I've said this in the past , but from now on if a UBI is not literally in a party's platform, I will tell you to take your policy, your party and..... well you get the picture. I voted against my gut last federal election, it's never going to happen again.
November 7, 2025 at 4:54 AM
I've said this in the past , but from now on if a UBI is not literally in a party's platform, I will tell you to take your policy, your party and..... well you get the picture. I voted against my gut last federal election, it's never going to happen again.