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John Tory, Mayor of Toronto, and Dr. Eileen deVilla, Medical Officer for Health for the City of Toronto.

I may no longer be based there, but I do make it a point to catch the news conferences given by my sister, Dr. Eileen deVilla, who’s Medical Officer of Health for the City of Toronto. She’s the leader of the public health effort to bring COVID-19 under control in Canada’s largest city and economic capital.

As I write this, the news conference is about to begin.

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The Social Distancing Sing-Alongs have been great fun. The first one, being a last-minute thing, was limited to mostly people from our corner, with everyone staying on their lawns and reasonably distant from each other.

However, I noticed that at the following Sunday’s event, people who very clearly weren’t from the same household were congregating together rather closely, which is the exact opposite of what social distancing is all about. Yes, we all want to get together and hang out — doubly so in tightly-knit communities like the one we have here in Seminole Heights — but the last thing I want to do is cause people to spread the disease we’re trying to contain.

I’ve got my hand full racing to revise a book, so I’m postponing the next sing-along to Sunday, April 12th, which is after the book deadline. Want to watch it? It’ll be on Facebook Live on my page — facebook.com/joeydevilla — on Sunday, April 12 at 7 p.m. EDT.

If you watch only one YouTube video today, watch Heroes of the Pandumbic, The Daily Show’s fantastic supercut of Republicans and their propaganda wing Fox News downplaying or outright dismissing the coronavirus threat earlier this year.

Canadian readers for whom the YouTube version is blocked can watch it below:

Then you might want to watch Pandumbic (the trailer), which was released on March 10…

…followed by Pandumbic 2, a March 12 follow-up:

Also worth checking out

“Exponential Threat”: The COVID-19-themed ad that the Trump/Pence campaign doesn’t want you to see:

See how quickly Fox News pivoted once Trump took COVID-19 seriously.

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I’m now half-expecting a story about Carole Baskin’s missing ex-husband’s body being found beneath a private cache of ventilators, N95 masks, and toilet paper. This is yet another bit of evidence for my theory that we’re living in a simulation whose player got bored and set all the controls to “maximum”.

Thanks to Chris McGinnis for the find!

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If I can find out where you can get one of these, I’ll let you know.

Thanks to Ryan Rossman for the find!