\u27a2\u00a0Whether 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\u2019t protect you from contracting COVID-19, she acknowledged that wearing masks may prevent asymptomatic people from spreading the virus.<\/p>\n
Canadian\u00a0Prime Minister Justin Trudeau<\/strong>\u00a0said that masks can help protect people from, quote, SPEAKING MOISTLY” . . . then instantly regretted it.\u00a0 Quote, “Oh what a terrible image.”<\/p>\n \u27a2 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 \u00a0to 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<\/p>\n <\/p>\n \u27a2 Many celebrities have donated hundreds of thousands to coronavirus relief . . . some have tossed in a million or two . . .\u00a0Oprah<\/strong>\u00a0offered up $10 million . . . and some billionaires have ear-marked $100 million.<\/p>\n But Twitter CEO\u00a0Jack Dorsey<\/strong>\u00a0is blowing them ALL out of the water, with a $1 BILLION donation.<\/p>\n He\u00a0said, quote, “I’m moving $1 billion of my Square equity . . . [about] 28% of my wealth . . . to #StartSmall LLC to fund global COVID-19 relief. \u00a0After we disarm this pandemic, the focus will shift to girl’s health and education.<\/p>\n 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. \u00a0He’s 43, and worth around $3.3 billion according to\u00a0“Forbes”<\/strong><\/em>.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n \u27a2 At the beginning of the 2000s, the #1 rated prime-time show was “Who Wants to Be a Millionaire?”\u00a0 It returns tonight, hosted by Jimmy Kimmel.\u00a0 He was once a contestant, back in 2001, when they featured a week of comedy celebrities.\u00a0 Jimmy hates that he bothered the host, Regis Philbin, with spitting out chewing gum.\u00a0 (Back then, Jimmy was on “The Man Show”.\u00a0 He’d also already been a game show host, on “Win Ben Stein’s Money”.)<\/p>\n ________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________<\/p>\n TODAY IS\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026.<\/u><\/strong><\/p>\n A few zoo facts: _____________________________________________________________________________<\/strong><\/p>\n \u00a0<\/u><\/strong><\/p>\n COUNTRY MUSIC NOTE<\/u><\/strong><\/p>\n Shooting Straight In The Dark\u00a0became the first\u00a0Mary Chapin Carpenter<\/strong>\u00a0album certified gold in 1992.<\/p>\n _____________________________________________________________________________<\/strong><\/p>\n \u00a0<\/u><\/strong><\/p>\n COVID UPDATES\u2026\u2026\u2026.<\/u><\/strong><\/p>\n Around 100 people in Alabama organized a drive by birthday party\u00a0for a woman who was turning 100 years old.\u00a0 It was so big, the fire department offered to block off roads.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n A seven-year-old\u00a0piano prodigy\u00a0in Greece wrote an original song about the lockdown called the\u00a0“Isolation Waltz”<\/strong><\/em>.\u00a0 And it’s now trending on YouTube.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n A woman in Peoria, Illinois has been\u00a0handing out toilet paper to people on the street while dressed in a Tyrannosaurus rex costume.<\/p>\n \u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n 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: \u201cWe wanted to cheer you up a little bit, so I\u2019d like you to meet somebody. Her name is Jennifer.\u201d After Kimmel asked Fairbanks how she has been feeding herself during her illness, the nurse said she\u2019s been mainly ordering delivery. That\u2019s when he told the nurse she was receiving a $10,000 gift card from the delivery company Postmates.\u201d He also added that that each of the nurses on Fairbanks\u2019 floor will also receive Postmates gift cards.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n The Prime Minister of New Zealand announced yesterday that the\u00a0Easter Bunny\u00a0is considered an “essential worker.”\u00a0 And yes, we’re pretty sure it also applies in Canada.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Canada may have figured out the MOST Canadian way to thank healthcare workers.\u00a0 At 7:00 P.M. each night, they go outside and\u00a0BANG HOCKEY STICKS\u00a0on the ground.<\/p>\n _____________________________________________________________________________________________________________<\/p>\n GOOD NEWS <\/u><\/strong><\/p>\n 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.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n 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\u2019s Wallaceburg and Chatham sites to prepare and deal with the pandemic.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n 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.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Instead, the company enlisted some of its most seasoned sheet metal workers to create a vent prototype, which was quickly approved.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n The hoods are created in-house as needed and can be built and delivered within hours. So far, the company has made five.<\/p>\n —————————————————————————————–<\/p>\n Meanwhile, denturist Vayia Dalios and the team at\u00a0Dalios Denture and Hearing Clinic were looking for ways to help while the family-owned clinic was temporarily closed due to the pandemic.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n 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.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n On the Facebook group, Dalios found 3D printing files that worked with their printer and tested out different mask prototypes before landing on one.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n \u201cThis mask that I specifically ended up choosing to print is one of the masks that have been approved in the [United] States,\u201d she explained. \u201cIt\u2019s 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\u2019s a shortage of.\u201d<\/p>\n <\/p>\n 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.<\/p>\n \u00a0_______________________________________________________________________________________________________<\/u><\/strong>\u00a0<\/u><\/strong><\/p>\n \u00a0<\/u><\/strong><\/p>\n FOUR RANDOM FACTS <\/u><\/strong><\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n \u00a0<\/u><\/strong>______________________________________________________________________________<\/strong><\/p>\n \u00a0<\/u><\/strong><\/p>\n BIRTHDAYS <\/u><\/strong><\/p>\n [60] John Schneider, actor (\u201cDukes of Hazzard\u201d)\/country singer<\/p>\n <\/p>\n [54] Robin Wright, actress (\u2018Claire Underwood\u2019 on \u201cHouse of Cards\u201d 2013-18)\/ (\u201cForrest Gump\u201d)<\/p>\n <\/p>\n [52] Patricia Arquette, actress (2015 Oscar-\u201cBoyhood<\/p>\n <\/p>\n [39] Taylor Kitsch, Kelowna BC, actor (\u201cX-Men Origins: Wolverine\u201d)\/\u201cFriday Night Lights\u201d\u00a0<\/u><\/strong><\/u><\/u><\/p>\n ____________________________________________________________________________<\/strong><\/p>\n \u00a0<\/u><\/strong><\/p>\n THINKING OF ANY FOOD YOU HAVE BOUGHT IN THE LAST TWO WEEKS, HOW OFTEN HAVE YOU SANITIZED THE PACKAGING?<\/strong> <\/p>\n 28% never<\/p>\n 21% every time<\/p>\n 16% most times<\/p>\n 14% rarely<\/p>\n 13% sometimes<\/p>\n \u00a0__________________________________________________________________________________________<\/u><\/strong><\/p>\n FACE PLAN:<\/u><\/strong> <\/p>\n But there\u2019s another thing you can so to help prevent the spread of the coronavirus \u2013 and to lessen the chance of your catching it:\u00a0 Wash your face.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n 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.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n And now, experts are saying that when you\u2019re in public, it\u2019s 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.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n 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\u2019t know if you accidentally touched your face while you were out.<\/p>\n \u00a0________________________________________________________________________________________<\/u><\/strong>\u00a0<\/u><\/strong><\/p>\n WEDNESDAY APRIL 8TH<\/sup> <\/u><\/strong><\/p>\n \u00a0<\/u><\/strong><\/p>\n TODAY\u2019S BIRTHDAYS <\/u><\/strong><\/p>\n [60] John Schneider, actor (\u201cDukes of Hazzard\u201d)\/country singer<\/p>\n [54] Robin Wright, actress (\u2018Claire Underwood\u2019 on \u201cHouse of Cards\u201d 2013-18)\/ (\u201cForrest Gump\u201d) [52] Patricia Arquette, actress (2015 Oscar-\u201cBoyhood<\/p>\n [39] Taylor Kitsch, Kelowna BC, actor (\u201cX-Men Origins: Wolverine\u201d)\/\u201cFriday Night Lights\u201d<\/p>\n ——————————————————————————————————————————-<\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n \u00a0<\/u><\/strong><\/p>\n <\/p>\n DID YOU KNOW?<\/u><\/strong> \u00a0__________________________________________________________________________________________<\/strong><\/p>\n COVID-19 Has Taken John Prine<\/u><\/strong><\/p>\n JOHN PRINE\u00a0<\/strong>passed away yesterday due to complications from COVID-19.\u00a0 He was 73. \u00a0He was hospitalized\u00a0in March and spent 12 days in intensive care.\u00a0 He’s survived\u00a0by his wife Fiona and their three children.<\/p>\n John started as a folk singer in the ’70s and was tight with the late\u00a0Steve Goodman<\/strong>.\u00a0 They co-wrote the\u00a0David Allan Coe<\/strong>\u00a0classic\u00a0“You Never Even Called Me by My Name”<\/strong><\/em>, but John chose to be uncredited because he considered it a novelty song.<\/p>\n He had 15 albums on the Billboard 200 chart.\u00a0 His most recent was\u00a0“The Tree of Forgiveness”<\/strong><\/em>, which went to Number Five in 2018. \u00a0He was also an author, actor, record-label owner, and a member of the Songwriters Hall of Fame.<\/p>\n Some of his songs were recorded by\u00a0Bonnie Raitt<\/strong>,\u00a0Carly Simon<\/strong>,\u00a0Johnny Cash<\/strong>,\u00a0Don Williams<\/strong>,\u00a0The Everly Brothers<\/strong>,\u00a0Joan Baez<\/strong>,\u00a0Bette Midler<\/strong>,\u00a0Zac Brown Band<\/strong>,\u00a0Miranda Lambert<\/strong>, and\u00a0George Strait<\/strong>.<\/p>\n “Rolling Stone”\u00a0<\/strong><\/em>has a great quote\u00a0to describe his music:\u00a0 “Prine explored a wide variety of musical styles, from hard country to rockabilly to bluegrass.\u00a0 He liked to say that he tried to live in a space somewhere between his heroes Johnny Cash and\u00a0Dylan<\/strong>.”<\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n Luke Bryan Is Postponing His Tour, and the Release of His Album<\/u><\/strong><\/p>\n LUKE BRYAN<\/strong>\u00a0has decided to “keep everyone safe” by postponing his upcoming tour.\u00a0 It was supposed to launch May 28th . . . but NOW it’ll kick off July 10th in Orange Beach, Alabama.\u00a0 Here’s his statement<\/p>\n “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. \u00a0We are choosing to stay home at this time.”<\/p>\n He’s also pushing back the release of his new album,\u00a0“Born Here, Live Here, Die Here”<\/strong><\/em>. \u00a0Instead of April 24th, that’s going to DROP August 7th.<\/p>\n Okay, in completely different Luke Bryan news.\u00a0 He posted a video on\u00a0Instagram\u00a0of a prank he played on his wife. \u00a0She’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.”<\/p>\n Then he lets loose with said horn and it’s so loud she loses control of the bike and tumbles to the grass.\u00a0 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.<\/p>\n \u00a0<\/u><\/strong><\/p>\n \u00a0<\/u><\/strong><\/p>\n KANE BROWN STAYING BUSY WITH NETFLIX, X-BOX, FAMILY DURING QUARANTINE <\/u><\/strong><\/p>\n Kane Brown<\/strong>\u00a0is passing the time during the coronavirus quarantine at his Nashville area home with his family. He tells us:\u00a0[“I\u2019m just sitting in my house like everybody else hopefully. You know, just watching Netflix, playing X-Box, playing with my dogs, my baby\u2026 I got my wife and her mom here and, you know, we\u2019re just hanging out, having family time. We\u2019re playing board games, you know, just doing house stuff. I live in the woods so we like to be outdoorsy so I\u2019ll ride 4-wheelers and things like that just staying isolated, but kind of, you know, getting some fresh air.”]<\/p>\n Kane and\u00a0John Legend<\/strong>\u00a0have released the official music video for their new collaboration \u201cLast Time I Say Sorry.\u201d It was filmed in quarantine and features footage shot on their respective iPhones while isolating at home with their families.<\/p>\n The two made their national TV performance debut with the song last night (Sunday, April 5th) on\u00a0ACM Presents: Our Country<\/em>, which aired on CBS in place of the originally scheduled ACM Awards.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"April 8th ","protected":false},"author":15,"featured_media":13677,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"featured_img_display":"Yes","footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14301","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-mornings"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-04-19 15:51:41","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"react_link":"https:\/\/country929.com\/blogs\/mornings\/2020\/04\/on-todays-show-372\/","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cfcofm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14301","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cfcofm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cfcofm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cfcofm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/15"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cfcofm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14301"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cfcofm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14301\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14305,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cfcofm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14301\/revisions\/14305"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cfcofm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/13677"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cfcofm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14301"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cfcofm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14301"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cfcofm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14301"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}\n
\n-The Vienna Zoo is the oldest existing zoo and was opened to the public in 1765.
\n-The United States\u2019 first public zoo, Central Park Zoo, opened in 1874 in New York.
\n-There are over 2,400 zoos in the United States<\/p>\n\n
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\nAn online poll of an undisclosed number of people reveals how they answered the above question:<\/p>\n
\n<\/u>You\u2019ve heard it a million times. Wash wash your hands.<\/p>\n\n
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\n<\/strong>3. Demetri Martin reads way too much into road signs.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n\n
\n<\/u>Scientists say that \u201clockdown loneliness\u201d 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.<\/p>\n