text: Also the lockdowns are lowering all manner of testing rates from breast screening to melanoma out of lack of access and overburdened labs.
  Add that to increased alcohol use, unemployment stresses, anxiety and depression ( many already had pre exiting conditions) Economic depressions and unemployment spikes have always seen a myriad of negative health effects causing death.
  John, on the “border Nazis” I have written to my local member Kate Jones, and to Steven Miles saying that what is happening is unethical, cruel and probably illegal. I’ve asked them to do something about it.
  John, on sniffer dogs, sure, I agree with all that. However, I suspect that rather than finding excuses for not doing anything, many have not yet heard about dogs.
  My point is that we can’t use dogs before we have them, and they may not be useful in all areas. So we have to smarten up what we are doing. As I said, Toole has set some markers for doing the job properly.
  I was in the city today, seeing my dentist. I walked through the Wintergarden Mall from Queen Street to Elizabeth Street, where you go down a bit of an escalator and walk through eateries, which are largely closed. However, it would have gladdened your heart to see big blocky yellow arrows painted on the floor pointing “One way” on the left and “One way” the opposite way on the right.