Cautious Not Crazy

Like the majority of the population in this country dear reader, we are able to grocery shop. I had this pleasure yesterday. While keeping my distance according to the measured out stickers on the floor that lead to item checkout, I noticed, the large plexiglass fixutures protecting the cashiers from customers, or is it the other way around? In any case, I am loving all grocery store staff as they remain non-plussed in what we are being warned will kill all of us if we are not very careful. No one wants to be labelled murderer and so, we must respect the rules: all this to say, that once it was my turn to pay, all caution was thrown to the wind as I inserted my payment card, into the very same machine the ungloved people just seconds before used, and I tapped ok to the dollar amount owing, or perhaps I was saying: I am ok to possibly die? now that they, whoever those would be killers are, have unconsciously threatened me, my family, my neighbours and the whole world, by using an un-sanitized metal keypad touched by how many dirty potentially virus ridden buggers? before me.

Embarrassing statistics

Use of equipment denied

Yes, I am being caustic, only because of this dear reader. While walking through the park, the image that greeted my eyes caused me some irritation and I have to admit, a bit of a chuckle at the ridiculousness. I will give you some statistics and you can judge for yourself what is crazy about the current situation we all find ourselves in. Find below embarrassing statistics based on the most recent Canadian findings:

• 16% of Canadians get the recommended amount of physical activity weekly
• 84% of our population is not active enough
• 26.8% of Canadians 18 and older are obese
• 2.4 million Canadians aged 20 and older live with heart disease

From the World Health Organization (WHO)

• In 2016, an estimated 1.6 million deaths were directly caused by diabetes
• 2.2 million deaths were attributable to high blood glucose in 2012
• Healthy diet, regular physical activity, maintaining a normal body weight and avoiding tobacco use are ways to prevent or delay the onset of type 2 diabetes
• The world mortality rate for diabetics for the year 2019 is estimated to be 9.3% or 463 million people

Listen dear reader, to sound reason here. We all have to eat, and pay for food: this is a given and right now, we must line up, with patience for the process, as we all navigate this strange new world. I pay you pay, we all pay, at the keypad: and I don’t see anyone cleaning off the equipment between uses. Don’t you find this a little comical as you read it? Taking our money is clean and necessary but where there is no line up and virtually no use of outdoor fitness equipment, there is caution tape everywhere? What the fudge brownie is going on? You tell me?

I will say the horrible stuff