I always try to keep my blog happy and light. I am in a very sad place right now. One of my Red Hat sisters passed away during the heat last week. She lived in an apartment in Burnaby close to where my mom lived.
Two more friends lost senior friends who lived alone! One friend's dad lives alone and his daughter took him to her home with air conditioning. Her brother went to check his apartment to make sure everything was good and his bedroom was 101F! Good thing he went to his daughter's house.
Surrey didn't have a cooling center for seniors or homeless people. There is no excuse, they all knew it was coming. Ambulances can't keep up with the calls! Our Provincial and City governments are really failing us. The temperature at my home at 4 PM was 41C on the hottest day. It may have been higher earlier in the day but I just walked by and noticed how hot it was. My weather app said "feels like 49C"!
I don't want to argue any longer with people who don't believe in climate change. I'm done with them and the anti-vaxxers. They don't listen to what the scientists say, but read what they want to believe on the internet. CBC Marketplace did an excellent show explaining how people are cashing in on books and seminars selling misinformation. You can find whatever you want to believe on the internet.
Hopefully those anti-vaxxers don't get the delta variant. Look what's happening in Missouri and it could happen anywhere if people don't have protection. We all had the polio vaccine at school and polio has been eradicated. If people won't get vaccinated, we may never get rid of COVID-19.
From KanasCity.com:
After a surge in COVID-19 infections across southwest Missouri in recent days, some parts of the region had the highest rate of new cases in the state and were close to the highest rates in the country.
In Greene County, 33.8% have completed vaccination. The statewide rate is 39.4%.
Taney County sits at 25.3% while Joplin is at 42.2%.
Pulaski County has the lowest rate in Missouri at 11.8%.
In Missouri, meanwhile, the Springfield area has been hit so hard that one hospital had to borrow ventilators over the Fourth of July weekend and begged on social media for help from respiratory therapists, several of whom volunteered from other states. Members of a new federal “surge response team” also began arriving to help suppress the outbreak.
Missouri not only leads the nation in new cases relative to the population, it is also averaging 1,000 cases per day — about the same number as the entire Northeast, including the big cities in New York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania and Massachusetts.
