S2-0A- Bonus Song for Wiarton Willie - Carmen and the Whistle Pig singing Donovan's Changes 02/11/21

Carmen Hanna, from the Grand River Watershed, unites humanity with a rendition of Donovan's CHANGES. Many changes are happening as we experience the pandemy together. Sending positive thoughts to Wiarton 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 in 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 after the community worked for years to have it protected 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.

On today’s episode Dave talks trees, food security and the importance of community with urban orchardist Novella Carpenter. Novella shared how the pandemic has lead her back to the soil. She shares that she believes we have entered the era of pandemies. Can reforestation and habitat protection help? They discuss herd immunity through vaccination and infection. She encourages everyone to stay connected with plant communities. They agree that the world is ready for futuristic change.

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.

Rebecca talks to Dave about what it has been like living in Rural NorCal as a Bay Area transplant. We hear about what it’s like on the front lines as an essential worker. Balancing work and keeping one’s family safe is precarious balance. Especially in a pandemy plagued by wildfires, structural inequality, and the politicalization of the virus.

Dave’s talks to his favourite slide guitarist, Dan Walsh, about what may be the weirdest year in generations. Dan talks to us about what’s happened since the NBA postponed their season and shows started getting cancelled in March. They talk about the impact of the pandemy on society’s soul -- the music and hospitality industry. They discuss serious implications of the pandemic, like what if you can’t get your life saving medications and the bewilderment of being at home when you are used to life on the road. Dan doesn’t play for us, but Dave, along with a physically distanced fiddle player, take us out with their pandemy folk rock version of “Old Groundhog!”

Megs talks to Dave from Quarantine with her family of four having just moved from Ontario, Canada back to her country of origin. Megs shares the challenges and tribulations of the expensive move to during the start of a global pandemic! Like mandatory covid tests, mouth swap and a 3-4 second swoosh, the cost of travel and quarantine, Australian Covid-19 app, the rise in calls for poisonous snake removal and what the government is doing to combat wildfires. We peel back the many layers of the pandemy onion in this interview and are left wondering, will Megs get to see her Mother and will their dog in BC Canada ever get through?

Thomas talks to Dave from his family’s home in Hanoi about the importance of contact tracing, the power of collective action to address a public health issue, the bum gun’s roll in preventing toilet paper shortages, the role of government and industry during a global pandemic, politicization of the pandemy in the west, how Vietnam learned from SARS, having a 9 month old newborn, cyber security and economics. We are left wondering if the bum gun is something we should culturally appropriate in the west? Dave started off this episode with a poem, Antibodies With Our Love, inspired by Dr. Osterholm’s poem on the Ousterholm Update: Covid from Centre for Infectious Research and Policy IDRAP @ University of Minnesota, but was advised to end with poetry not lead.

Jamie is living in Phnom Penh at the confluence of the Basak, Sab, and Mekong River system. He shares how masks are normal wear in Southeast Asia, he identifies that our dependence on technology is changing our socialization, and how families in remote areas are using Scarecrows to ward of Covid 19. Dave is particularly long-winded in this interview, maybe as a result of the 6 am Canada 5 pm Cambodia time change.

Eric, in Aukland, NZ, talks to Dave about coming home from camping in the North Sudanese desert after March Break to a very different reality as a result of the Covid 19 pandemic. He started working remotely, making his way back to NZ with his wife and three children. New Zealand’s policy of eradication of the virus is widely supported by the population and successful.

Meredith, in Sheffield U.K. by the River Don, talks to Dave about having a Quarintino Bambino at the start of a global pandemic, raising a newborn without extended family, breast feeding, NHL bubble, covid curls & long hair, and pub culture.

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