Opinion

British Columbia researchers are going to be looking at people’s susceptibility to COVID-19, the transmission routes the virus takes and also searching for a vaccine. But they’re also researching the “infodemic” that’s accompanying the pandemic.

For many people whose lives have been turned topsy-turvy in recent weeks, the current COVID-19 crisis reveals all too clearly the long-recommended wisdom of having enough savings stashed away to live on for at least six months.

As COVID-19 continues to wreak havoc across the globe, the way people go about their business is evolving in an ever-changing manner. Everyone’s world is becoming smaller.

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Now is the time for complete compassion [“ Stay or Go? ” March 13, 2020]. We are a resilient species under extreme pressure. If you're an employer and had to temporarily shutter operations, continue to pay your employees.

VCH deputy chief medical health officer Dr. Mark Lysyshyn delivered a little bit of good news last week during a briefing on the COVID-19 situation.

Well, here we are in the midst of a pandemic and the world is in turmoil with the human race pulling out all of the stops to deal with it. Mankind is in full survival mode and the sky's the limit when it comes to survival.

You don’t have to ask the introverted, homebody-type people among us to “self- isolate” twice. We’ve got this. I was practicing “social distancing” way before a global pandemic inserted it into the language and behaviour of daily life.

I was shocked and horrified to read about the disturbing incidents re: people shooting and killing birds [" PROWLS ," March 8]. The photo of the young, dead gosling, beaten to death by an adult man, was heart-wrenching to say the least.

A detailed plan was explained last week about how the entire hospital system is being reorganized on the fly to cope if a surge of pandemic cases arrives. It’s a sharp contrast to the B.C.