so, here we have it - 02/2014 done for the near future:

1) https://dsdfghghfsdflgkfgkja.blogspot.com/2014/02/
2) http://musicofjessicamurray.blogspot.com/2014/02/
3) https://deathtokoalas.blogspot.com/2014/02/
4) https://jessicamurraytravelblog.blogspot.com/2014/02/

don't expect me to touch that again for years.

so, i've got the posting for 02/2014 done and am about to finish a final read through the blogs. and that will be it, for a while.

this is a sudden shift and something i wanted to avoid, but i have to put this aside for a while.

so, that means that each of the four february blogs is in a state of stasis that could last years. i'll post when i'm finished, but almost. i haven't added extra photos, email communications, discussions with family or landlord or etc and a lot of the other stuff i was putting into the blogs when i was preparing them for journal downloads, and i'm not going to for a long time. but i do have all of the posts in my master document reposted, for that month, and that's all you're getting for the foreseeable future.

when i eventually pick back up at this, the rebuild portion should at least be minimal and that might speed me up (given the work already done).

so, that's what i'm doing, and it's going to pick up, soon.

so, now ford is launching a war against covid in migrant workers, to prove he's not ignoring the problem. "look", he's saying, "we've found a problem and we're addressing it.'. well, bravo.

but, the reality is that if you pulled out just about any random subdivision of people in most places south of sudbury, you'd be likely to find rates just as high. this is really the only place they've gone looking for it like this (besides the geriatric facilities).

so, will he launch mandatory testing in, say, subsidized housing in toronto? in off-campus student residences in windsor?

not unless there's a problem to dramatically stamp out. and, nobody wants that.

just keep it away from the old people and we'll probably be fine. that's what the focus should have been from the start. if we've learned anything, right? surely? let's not get our hopes up...

https://windsorstar.com/news/local-news/premier-pledges-full-out-onslaught-in-response-to-surge-in-local-covid-19-farm-cases

i have now thoroughly sorted through the 2014 archives of this blog to reuse segments for the deathtokoalas and travel blog, but as i was finishing it up i realized that it wouldn't be fair to just leave that sitting for who knows how long, maybe even forever. if i'm going to fill in the deathtokoalas blog, i need to include the comments on music videos, which i was saving until i did the formal write-up.

i'm not doing those formal write-ups. i do have several liner notes for january, 2014 to finish, but i'm stopping there. so, when i get through this posting blitz that will mostly affect the deathtokoalas blog, these will not be final journals for this period. they will not include personal life correspondences, or any of the nerdier stuff related to filekeeping, on my end. they will just be the sum totals of the blogs, as they were.

i hope that straight posting out of a file can be done fairly efficiently, but i expect google to accuse me of being a robot and force me to slow down a bit.

i'm starting soon with feb, 2014. let's hope i can get through this quickly.

these are the other five candidates, and what a lark. it's not clear whether that guy with the top hat intends to be taken seriously or not.

i know dimitri lascaris from his work with the real news, and have a rough understanding of where he's coming from as a result of it. he's a bit of a hard-ass, actually; he does not like corruption. i have to say that he performed well here, even if his opponents were weak.

the fact that there's ten candidates is reflective of the place where the green party is, right now. if they make the right choice here, they could give the ndp (who continue to be uninspiring) a serious run for third party in the next election.

there's only five in the first part of this discussion, which could hardly be called a debate of any sort, and which mostly featured softball questions. it's kind of a shame that they didn't talk much about anything substantive...

i am not familiar with any of the three women on the council. the two males are both former liberals, and i am familiar with both of them. david merner is the kind of liberal i'd prefer to tend to avoid, but glen murray is actually the kind of liberal that i wish there were more of.

on paper, glen murray ought to be the front-runner here, by a good margin. as useful or knowledgeable as the other people may be, none of them has run a major ministry before. when or if these debates get going, he could potentially outwonk these people rather terribly.

but, the greens are a protest party, and glen's experience may actually be seen as baggage by a lot of voters that want to vote against the establishment, whether that's fair to glen or not.

for right now, all i can say is that this discussion didn't help much and i hope that the next round is more enlightening.