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Dave celebrates Groundhog Day lockdown style by zooming with Angela about how she has adapted to lockdown in Toronto. Angela shares how Queen Street is a ghost town with an increasing number of closed store fronts. Angela and her partner have navigated the pandemy caretaking for her Mother. They talk about how the province appears to be using the pandemic as cover for furthering their agenda of allowing development within sensitive areas of the Greenbelt, neutering conservation authorities power to protect nature, and moving forward with subsidizing nuclear power and fracked gas as part of the Ontario energy mix. 

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G’day and welcome to the Pandemy Show.  Stories of the pandemy, for the people of the pandemy.  Today’s episode is a musical snack from Carmen Hanna from Carmen and the Whistle Pigs as she sings Donovan’s, Changes.  The pandemy has brought many changes to our lives.  It’s also changed how we celebrate.  Groundhog Day 2021 was no exception. Lucy the Lobster cancelled her show in Nova Scotia. Sam, Phil, and their handlers predictions were online for the public to consume.  No one has seen Wiarton Willie, although a weather prediction was proclaimed.  This ones for Willie, hope you are alright. 

Thanks to Giant Value for letting us know everything is going to be alright.  Episode Art by Carmen.  

The Pandemy Show zooms to mainland Europe to talk with Gabriele in Baden-Wurttemberg Germany.  Dave and Gabriele discuss being under employed, missing traveling and attending film festivals, and the German Querdenker Movement. They  worry one of the costs of the pandemy may be reductions in funding for education, the arts, social justice issues and combating climate change.  She is hopeful the pandemy will help us learn to live together more peacefully.

Dave talks to Dave about the changes in his tech industry lifestyle as they celebrate talking on 01/21/21 during the 21 hour, the 21 minutes, and  the 21 second. Dave moved from an apartment to a small house as the pandemic marched on and although the pandemy hasn’t changed his workaholic lifestyle much he is loving backyard birding.  His techie background enlightens us to the great embrace of technology that started 20 years ago with the dot com bubble. People who have never zoomed, are zooming! Couch community technologies (hardware, streaming, etc.) are tracking up as new demographics use them to cope with the pandemy.  They end the interview by discussing Groundhog Day and the latest species to be predicting the arrival of Spring, Lucy the Lobster in Nova Scotia.

Dave talks to Barb, a fellow feather fancier about  how she misses travelling, attending shows, and is looking forward to getting her dog breed after the pandemy.   She shares how vaccines and antibiotics are one of the reasons humans can live in such large populations. While some people gained a lot of weight and drank more in the pandemy, not Barb. She has changed her diet and increased her physical activity and lost 55 pounds!  Barb, sadly, lives in an area where the pandemy has given local religious extremists a platform they don’t deserve.  Unmasked and aggressive Covid deniers roam the streets of her community making it feel unsafe. 

Dave talks with Sukh about how the pandemy triggered his PTSD from a near death experience with meningococcal meningitis. He identifies the pandemy of loneliness.  Sukh, a front line worker, discusses the importance of art and how he hopes we can collectively log off and seek human connection as we get through the pandemy and beyond. Sukh hopes opposing view points can listen to one another and be heard.  At the end of the show Dave read’s Pandemy Blossom. A new poem inspired by Sarah Harmer’s twitter post about Mount Nemo being back up for development consideration and a blossoming Christmas Cactus. Sukh than shares, “We became more connected disconnected when we replace sunshine with memes of sunsets.”  Dave and Sukh are inspired and the two agree to work on a dance hall anthem, a real banger.

Dave talks with Novella about how the pandemy lead her back to the land,  homesteading, and urban farming. They discuss how everyone has to draw their own boundaries to feel safe, the importance of making connections with plant communities, long lines at food banks, and basic income. They also discuss how low quality food leads to heart disease and  diabetes, and make us more susceptible to Covid. Novella shares that  the Capital Hill Insurrection may not have occurred if people hadn’t been driven mad by the pandemy. When asked what life will be like after Covid, Novella shares the theory that we may be entering the age of pandemies.

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Dave talks to James about getting off a plane in Toronto before it takes off for Los Angeles on March 17, 2020. He shares how LA’s toilet paper shortage foreshadowed Toronto’s 5 days later. James ended up going to LA in July and shares the stark differences between Canada and the US. She also shares his experience quarantining off-grid in the bush for 14 days. James shares an obvious observation of the pandemy, it’s easier to survive with money. Which makes us hope for and wonder about how marginalized people are doing?

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Magda shares with Dave what it's like raising baby Stefan in a pandemic. Physical distancing in parks with a young family is one thing, what will winter be like? We discuss working online, child care, bubbles, and looking forward to summer. Philly missed the July spike but numbers are trending upwards as the next wave comes in. The power of community and creating, shines hope during these dark pandemy times. Caught in the pandemy with the rest of us, Magda and her family find comfort in meal exchanges, writing and lullabies, and prison reform.

Mo doesn’t mince words, while talking with Dave about the many faces of the pandemy. She connects the dots between climate change, human exploitation of the natural world, inequality and covid 19 to illustrate the many faces of the pandemy. Mo and Dave debate the merits of his ethical meat project, Buttercup, and discuss the importance of protecting the wild places for future generations.