If you are overdosing on Covid-19 coverage, just stay away from TV and radio all news stations for a while. Still lots of regular programming on air. I noticed that Global had a few Covid-19 updates today on Magic 106 in Guelph, just 60-90 seconds,  All the updated info and a few local bits and then back into regular programming. Sounds like they are doing this across the country on their music FM stations. Don't know if you watch on cable or off air, but check out the channels offered on preview right now. And you can still go outside for a walk or jog.

Muffaraw Joe wrote:

I say enough is enough! 
 

Well I don't.
I'm sorry to hear you'd rather watch Cityline, but some of us like to be informed and reinformed a lot because maybe...just maybe something is open that fell through the cracks.
It would be good for Breakfast television to visit these stores and cover why they're still open.

Did you know that the Showcase store (aka the As seen on TV store) has many stores open daily simply because they managed to be known as a store with a medical licence?? 
Yes, you can buy many things there that have nothing to do with medical needs, but then they also point to their Dr. Ho products as a reminder that they also legally have something for sale that fits into the "Medical needs" category.

If you did not know this then you do now, so you now have another place to visit if you are just out and about getting some fresh air. 
I believe I've given an example of a store that not many think to go visit, but I could be wrong. 



 

Peter the K wrote:

Well, at least one good thing about all this COVID-19 talk is that it's pretty much shut up all the climate change zealots.  

 

Well there is actually a convergence between the two and that is DEATH. People in the fossil fuel industry have been operating forever  as if damn the torpedoes what's good for business and not our lungs.

Now a debate is emerging about the economic costs and some are saying never mind what the science and facts and doctors and evidence say it's all about Wall St and the economy. Social Distancing can go poof.

Short sighted.
 

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I am copying and pasting this article b/c it comes from the NYT and a pay site:


if you were watching some of the commentators on Fox News and Fox Business in the first 10 days of March, you wouldn’t have been too worried about the coronavirus — it would be no worse than the flu, and the real story was the “coronavirus impeachment scam.”Many of the networks’ elderly, pro-Trump viewers responded to the coverage and the president’s public statements by taking the virus less seriously than, a week later, everyone else had. Public health experts have said that some of them may die as a result, as I reported this week.But one elderly Fox News viewer, a crucial supporter of President Trump, took the threat seriously: The channel’s chairman, Rupert Murdoch, who was to celebrate his 89th birthday on March 11.On March 8, as the virus was spreading, the Murdoch family called off a planned party out of concern for the patriarch’s health, according to a person familiar with the cancellation. There were about 20 people on the guest list.The celebration was to be held at Moraga Vineyards, the sprawling estate in Bel Air, Calif., where the elder Murdoch has been spending most of his time with his wife, the model and actress Jerry Hall. Mr. Murdoch bought the property for $28.8 million in 2013.The person who told me about the canceled party did so to highlight the disconnect between the family’s prudent private conduct and the reckless words spoken on air at their media company.

 The canceled party is perhaps the most glaring instance of the gap I wrote about this week between the elite, globally minded family owners of Fox — who took the crisis seriously as reports emerged in January in their native Australia — and many of their nominal stars, who treated the virus as a political assault on Mr. Trump, before zigzagging, along with the president, toward a focus on the enormity of the public health risk.Mr. Murdoch is in good shape for an 89-year-old, people around him say. But he took a bad fall on a yacht in January 2018, an incident that rocked his empire, and he no longer regularly takes control of his newsrooms as he did a few years ago.His successor at Fox — which includes Fox News, Fox Business, the broadcast network and sports businesses — is his 48-year-old son, Lachlan, whom associates describe as unready for the challenge of steering a complex company and its powerful hosts through a public health crisis. The younger Murdoch has played little role in the recent coverage, people with knowledge of the company said.

Last edited by Fitz (March 24, 2020 4:52 pm)

Breakfast television now starts at 6:30 instead of 5:30 
I'm not happy about that.