In this episode, I discuss stories and why they are so important to us as human beings - perhaps they are what makes us human.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e80BbX05D7Y

https://jamesaltucher.com/podcast/yuval-noah-harari/

https://play.acast.com/s/akimbo/cheapplacebos

Tonya and I talk about, faceshields, Ed Yong, and bylaw officers in Toronto going too far.

Tonya and I talk about how there are still so many questions regarding COVID-19, how silly banning window visits at long-term care facilities seems and how there is evidence that regularly processing our feelings in journals at difficult times leads to better outcomes for people in the longrun and how there are groups that are interested in archiving these entries: https://www.cbc.ca/radio/thecurrent/the-current-for-april-23-2020-1.5542275/we-want-it-all-keeping-a-covid-19-diary-it-could-help-future-historians-and-your-mental-health-1.5542907 

Tonight I talk about the news that a vaccine could be out by September (?), a handwash prompting device for home idea, and Apple/Google are working together on an API that could help with contact tracing. 

Tonya and I did a short chat tonight. Among the topics of discussion were the fact that TD bank wasn't allowing healthcare workers in to their banks and what happens to those that slip through the cracks in our society.

Tonight we talked about Ontario's plans for loosening the lockdown along with a comparison of plans from a few other provinces.

We discuss how well does COVID spread outdoors and whether things might be back to normal by Christmas.

On my own tonight - just a quick thought on art and why I think it's important.

Tonight Tonya and I talked about my trip back to the bank, antibody testing show that the numbers of people getting COVID-19 are 5-50 times higher than the numbers reported in the media and a number of jurisdictions are now starting to talk about planning to end the lockdown.

Tonya and I talk about serum testing for antibodies and the first signs that jurisdictions are starting to think about opening things up again.