On Today’s Show

➢ Whether or not it is advisable to wear a mask has been a controversial topic throughout the COVID-19 outbreak, but it seems health officials and politicians may finally have a clear-cut answer for Canadians. Chief Public Health Officer Dr. Theresa Tam announced that health officials are now advising Canadians wear non-medical masks while out in the community. While she reiterated that wearing a non-medical, or even homemade mask won’t protect you from contracting COVID-19, she acknowledged that wearing masks may prevent asymptomatic people from spreading the virus.

Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau said that masks can help protect people from, quote, SPEAKING MOISTLY” . . . then instantly regretted it.  Quote, “Oh what a terrible image.”

➢ Now that at least one tiger at the Bronx Zoo has tested positive for COVID-19, The Canadian Veterinary Medical Association has officially advised those who are possibly sick with the virus  to stay away from their household pets and other animals. Though it appears that animals may be able to contract the disease from us, there is currently no evidence that the public should be worried about them being a risk to humans

➢ Many celebrities have donated hundreds of thousands to coronavirus relief . . . some have tossed in a million or two . . . Oprah offered up $10 million . . . and some billionaires have ear-marked $100 million.

But Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey is blowing them ALL out of the water, with a $1 BILLION donation.

He said, quote, “I’m moving $1 billion of my Square equity . . . [about] 28% of my wealth . . . to #StartSmall LLC to fund global COVID-19 relief.  After we disarm this pandemic, the focus will shift to girl’s health and education.

Jack is also the founder of Square . . . the company that does those mobile credit card readers for small businesses . . . so that’s what he means by Square equity.  He’s 43, and worth around $3.3 billion according to “Forbes”.

➢ At the beginning of the 2000s, the #1 rated prime-time show was “Who Wants to Be a Millionaire?”  It returns tonight, hosted by Jimmy Kimmel.  He was once a contestant, back in 2001, when they featured a week of comedy celebrities.  Jimmy hates that he bothered the host, Regis Philbin, with spitting out chewing gum.  (Back then, Jimmy was on “The Man Show”.  He’d also already been a game show host, on “Win Ben Stein’s Money”.)

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TODAY IS……………….

• “Zoo Lovers Day

A few zoo facts:
-The Vienna Zoo is the oldest existing zoo and was opened to the public in 1765.
-The United States’ first public zoo, Central Park Zoo, opened in 1874 in New York.
-There are over 2,400 zoos in the United States

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COUNTRY MUSIC NOTE

Shooting Straight In The Dark became the first Mary Chapin Carpenter album certified gold in 1992.

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COVID UPDATES……….

Around 100 people in Alabama organized a drive by birthday party for a woman who was turning 100 years old.  It was so big, the fire department offered to block off roads.

A seven-year-old piano prodigy in Greece wrote an original song about the lockdown called the “Isolation Waltz”.  And it’s now trending on YouTube.

A woman in Peoria, Illinois has been handing out toilet paper to people on the street while dressed in a Tyrannosaurus rex costume.

To express her appreciation for Healthcare workers Jennifer Aniston joined Jimmy Kimmel on his show to thank a nurse who has tested positive for COVID-19. Kimmel set up a video chat with Kimball Fairbanks, who is currently recuperating in isolation in Utah to protect her two small children. Kimmel said: “We wanted to cheer you up a little bit, so I’d like you to meet somebody. Her name is Jennifer.” After Kimmel asked Fairbanks how she has been feeding herself during her illness, the nurse said she’s been mainly ordering delivery. That’s when he told the nurse she was receiving a $10,000 gift card from the delivery company Postmates.” He also added that that each of the nurses on Fairbanks’ floor will also receive Postmates gift cards.

The Prime Minister of New Zealand announced yesterday that the Easter Bunny is considered an “essential worker.”  And yes, we’re pretty sure it also applies in Canada.

Canada may have figured out the MOST Canadian way to thank healthcare workers.  At 7:00 P.M. each night, they go outside and BANG HOCKEY STICKS on the ground.

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GOOD NEWS

Handmade vent hoods and 3D face masks are just some of the ways Chatham-Kent businesses are coming up with outside-the-box solutions to help with COVID-19.

Heating and cooling company Handy Bros. has begun constructing exhaust hoods for Chatham-Kent Health Alliance (CKHA). The company was contacted by a CKHA electrician last week who was looking to make negative air pressure rooms at the hospital’s Wallaceburg and Chatham sites to prepare and deal with the pandemic.

The rooms would require vent hoods, which were needed as soon as possible. Handy Bros would normally order the hoods from its supplier. However, according to Eric VanPuymbroeck, commercial manager, they knew there was no time to spare.

Instead, the company enlisted some of its most seasoned sheet metal workers to create a vent prototype, which was quickly approved.

The hoods are created in-house as needed and can be built and delivered within hours. So far, the company has made five.

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Meanwhile, denturist Vayia Dalios and the team at Dalios Denture and Hearing Clinic were looking for ways to help while the family-owned clinic was temporarily closed due to the pandemic.

Dalios said she wanted to be proactive and creative during the closure, which led her to a Facebook group filled with 3D printing ideas to help healthcare workers. The clinic uses 3D printing technology in its day-to-day operations and Dalios decided to use the technology to create personal protective equipment.

On the Facebook group, Dalios found 3D printing files that worked with their printer and tested out different mask prototypes before landing on one.

“This mask that I specifically ended up choosing to print is one of the masks that have been approved in the [United] States,” she explained. “It’s supposed to be pretty much a prototype to an N-95 mask, which is the mask that our frontline staff are using right now and that there’s a shortage of.”

Dalios got in touch with CKHA to see if they could use the 3D printed masks to help offset the shortage they are dealing with. The printed mask can be used up to six times.

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FOUR RANDOM FACTS

1. There were sheep in Central Park in New York until 1934, when the city had them moved so people wouldn’t EAT them during the Great Depression.

2. The two types of fish used in McDonald’s Filet-O-Fish are Alaskan cod and hoki.  Hoki is a bug-eyed fish that’s ugly to look at and comes from the coast of New Zealand.

3. The press briefing room in the White House used to be an indoor swimming pool.  It was installed in 1933, but Nixonhad it converted to the press room in 1970.

4. In the ’60s, McDonald’s considered changing their logo from the Golden Arches to something else. But they got talked out of it by a design consultant.

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BIRTHDAYS

[60] John Schneider, actor (“Dukes of Hazzard”)/country singer

[54] Robin Wright, actress (‘Claire Underwood’ on “House of Cards” 2013-18)/ (“Forrest Gump”)

[52] Patricia Arquette, actress (2015 Oscar-“Boyhood

[39] Taylor Kitsch, Kelowna BC, actor (“X-Men Origins: Wolverine”)/“Friday Night Lights” 

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THINKING OF ANY FOOD YOU HAVE BOUGHT IN THE LAST TWO WEEKS, HOW OFTEN HAVE YOU SANITIZED THE PACKAGING?
An online poll of an undisclosed number of people reveals how they answered the above question:

28% never

21% every time

16% most times

14% rarely

13% sometimes

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FACE PLAN:
You’ve heard it a million times. Wash wash your hands.

But there’s another thing you can so to help prevent the spread of the coronavirus – and to lessen the chance of your catching it:  Wash your face.

Especially when you return home from being out in public. COVID-19 is mainly spread through respiratory droplets that are expelled when an infected person coughs or sneezes, but it can also be spread after someone touches a surface that has the virus on it and then touches their mouth, nose, or eyes.

And now, experts are saying that when you’re in public, it’s possible to get droplets of the virus that causes COVID-19 on your hands or face, and if you touch your face with unwashed ands, those droplets could make their way into your mouth, nose or eyes and make you sick. But washing your face when you come in from being out in public can help lower this risk.

So some medical experts are now recommending that you wash your face as well as your hands every time you return home as a means of prevention, because you don’t know if you accidentally touched your face while you were out.

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WEDNESDAY APRIL 8^TH

TODAY’S BIRTHDAYS

[60] John Schneider, actor (“Dukes of Hazzard”)/country singer

[54] Robin Wright, actress (‘Claire Underwood’ on “House of Cards” 2013-18)/ (“Forrest Gump”) [52] Patricia Arquette, actress (2015 Oscar-“Boyhood

[39] Taylor Kitsch, Kelowna BC, actor (“X-Men Origins: Wolverine”)/“Friday Night Lights”

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1. Bill Gates believes there will be fewer deaths in the U.S. than the White House’s projection of 100,000 to 240,000.  He says, quote, “If we do the social distancing properly, we should be able to get out of this with a death number well short of that.”

2. Dr. Drew Pinsky is apologizing after continually downplaying the danger of coronavirus for months and claiming it was “press-induced panic.” At one point, he said that you’re more likely to die after being “hit by an asteroid” than the highly-contagious virus. On Saturday, he drastically changed his tune, saying: “My early comments about equating coronavirus with influenza were wrong. They were incorrect. I was part of a chorus that was saying that, and we were wrong. And I want to apologize for that.”
   
   3. Demetri Martin reads way too much into road signs.

4. The new show “Murder House Flip”, pandas get it on, and a front-yard Pink Floyd cover-band concert.  (From Jimmy Fallon, David Spade, Jimmy Kimmel, and Seth Meyers on Tuesday, April 7, 2020)

DID YOU KNOW?
Scientists say that “lockdown loneliness” can cause cravings in your brain which are similar to hunger. A new study by researchers at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology shows that both loneliness and hunger trigger deep centers of the human brain eliciting feelings of desire and craving. Their findings suggest that the need for social interaction is as primordial as the need to eat.

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COVID-19 Has Taken John Prine

JOHN PRINE passed away yesterday due to complications from COVID-19.  He was 73.  He was hospitalized in March and spent 12 days in intensive care.  He’s survived by his wife Fiona and their three children.

John started as a folk singer in the ’70s and was tight with the late Steve Goodman.  They co-wrote the David Allan Coe classic “You Never Even Called Me by My Name”, but John chose to be uncredited because he considered it a novelty song.

He had 15 albums on the Billboard 200 chart.  His most recent was “The Tree of Forgiveness”, which went to Number Five in 2018.  He was also an author, actor, record-label owner, and a member of the Songwriters Hall of Fame.

Some of his songs were recorded by Bonnie Raitt, Carly Simon, Johnny Cash, Don Williams, The Everly Brothers, Joan Baez, Bette Midler, Zac Brown Band, Miranda Lambert, and George Strait.

“Rolling Stone” has a great quote to describe his music:  “Prine explored a wide variety of musical styles, from hard country to rockabilly to bluegrass.  He liked to say that he tried to live in a space somewhere between his heroes Johnny Cash and Dylan.”

Luke Bryan Is Postponing His Tour, and the Release of His Album

LUKE BRYAN has decided to “keep everyone safe” by postponing his upcoming tour.  It was supposed to launch May 28th . . . but NOW it’ll kick off July 10th in Orange Beach, Alabama.  Here’s his statement

“What an incredibly confusing and scary time our world is facing right now, and it’s important we continue to follow the guidelines we have been given and do our part to keep everyone safe.  We are choosing to stay home at this time.”

He’s also pushing back the release of his new album, “Born Here, Live Here, Die Here”.  Instead of April 24th, that’s going to DROP August 7th.

Okay, in completely different Luke Bryan news.  He posted a video on Instagram of a prank he played on his wife.  She’s riding her bike on the driveway and he’s behind her in his car telling his passenger that “she’s about to get train horned.”

Then he lets loose with said horn and it’s so loud she loses control of the bike and tumbles to the grass.  He added the (hashtag) #quarantine, maybe hoping she’ll take it as joke instead of conking him on the head, which would be a fitting payback.

KANE BROWN STAYING BUSY WITH NETFLIX, X-BOX, FAMILY DURING QUARANTINE

Kane Brown is passing the time during the coronavirus quarantine at his Nashville area home with his family. He tells us: [“I’m just sitting in my house like everybody else hopefully. You know, just watching Netflix, playing X-Box, playing with my dogs, my baby… I got my wife and her mom here and, you know, we’re just hanging out, having family time. We’re playing board games, you know, just doing house stuff. I live in the woods so we like to be outdoorsy so I’ll ride 4-wheelers and things like that just staying isolated, but kind of, you know, getting some fresh air.”]

Kane and John Legend have released the official music video for their new collaboration “Last Time I Say Sorry.” It was filmed in quarantine and features footage shot on their respective iPhones while isolating at home with their families.

The two made their national TV performance debut with the song last night (Sunday, April 5th) on ACM Presents: Our Country, which aired on CBS in place of the originally scheduled ACM Awards.

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This post was written by Dave Palmer