Tag Archives: Pandemic
Canceling Easter
Sometimes you have to fight back. Sometimes you have to say “enough is enough.” The virus that just won’t go away has stymied politicians as they attempt to deal with a public health “crisis” that just doesn’t seem that urgent after a year. We’ve gotten used to COVID-19 and government interference in our lives, both […]
A Year Later
One year ago today I shared these words and pictures. So much has happened (and not happened) since then I’m not sure where to begin. In 2020 I was saying life still goes on. Yet, I just realized that the Easter bunny was not in the Sulzburg town square this year – unless they put […]
An Unexpected Crowd
My wife had had enough. Me too. We just had to so somewhere different. Freiburg was the logical choice. I have been avoiding that city since last September, when it was announced that masks mist be worn at all times in the inner city. I don’t like masks, so I just didn’t travel to Freiburg. […]
Mank
Maybe I need to watch it again. After all, it has ten Oscar nominations. When Mahttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manknk first came out on Netflix just before Christmas I watched it with my wife. I didn’t think the movie was worthy of a review here. However, given the accolades it is now receiving, I thought perhaps I should give […]
Your 2021 Travel Guide
Where are you planning not to go in 2021? Will you plan a vacation for 2022 instead? The never-ending pandemic has changed the way we look at so many things. I expect it will take years for the travel industry to recover. If it ever does. It feels like we are trapped in a dystopian […]
Remember When?
I took these pictures a year ago today, when everyone was panicking and there was no toilet paper and almost no pasta left in the stores. Those days seem so long ago. We seem to have adjusted to so much over the past twelve months and accepted so many infringements on our freedom. I can’t […]
Happy Anniversary!
It has been a year since the world locked down, or so the news media has been telling me. Responses varied from country to country of course, with some having introduced strict restrictions before March. When I searched for images commemorating the pandemic anniversary, these came up. Well, others too, but these ones made me […]
A Sad Anniversary
The big topic here, as everywhere else in the past year, has been COVID-19. I’ve probably dedicated 20 posts to the pandemic, though manty of them were humorous. Despite vaccination programs, the end doesn’t seem that close. It was one year ago today that I gave an entire post to COVID. I had mentioned the […]
Quarantine Nightmares
Was having an email discussion with a friend yesterday about COVID-19, pandemics, lockdowns, restrictions on rights and the necessity for quarantine. His idea was that quarantines help prevent the spread of COVID-19. I won’t reproduce our discussion, except to note that at one point he mentioned Typhoid Mary the American woman who infected dozens of […]
Thursday’s COVID Smiles
These days we all need something to laugh at – or with. But if we, did people would complain about our leaders jumping the queue. Though during a pandemic, wouldn’t we want to make sure the people in charge could do their job?
random thoughts from lorne 
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