On January 25th, 2020, a Toronto man returning from Wuhan, China was the first presumptive COVID-19 case in Canada. By March, with the disease raging across Canada, the World Health Organization had declared COVID a pandemic, the NBA, NHL and most other sport leagues had suspended their seasons, while the Olympics were officially postponed to 2021, the Juno Awards were cancelled, Parliament went on break, and schools began to close from coast to coast.
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I’m only half kidding when I say that I’m pretty sure we’ve been living in an alternate reality since 2008, created by firing up the Large Hadron Collider. What else could explain this bizarre branch of a timeline we’re currently experiencing?
It’s been one of those weeks. It started out promisingly, with great plans for every day of the week. I was sure that by today, I’d have a clean house, an empty inbox, and even maybe lose ten pounds.
Can I just say that being sick is the worst! It’s such a time suck. I spent this weekend, unlike most weekends, confined to my apartment. I was too tired and worn out to do anything else but laze around, read Game of Thrones on my Playbook, and watch tv. I was flipping channels and came upon a formerly much talked about film, comedian Chris Rock’s documentary Good Hair. Being a new father to two adorable little girls, Rock began to notice that black women have an intense focus on hair, their own or otherwise. Hair extensions are a staple to black women, hell, to most women, and being the good dad that he is, Rock decides that if his daughters are going to grow up to want “good hair”, he needs to learn everything about it.
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