May 6, 2021

May 6th is the 126th day of 2021. There are 239 days remaining until the end of the year.

Five new positive COVID-19 cases reported Wednesday by Chatham-Kent Public Health.

There were 5 recoveries, the total active cases stays at 34.

There were 2,941 positive cases reported Wednesday across the province. It’s the second straight day cases have been below 3,000.

As of 8am this morning, anyone 50 or older (born in 1971) can book a vaccination appointment.

Book at GetYourShotCK.ca or by calling 519-351-1010 and leaving a message.

The following groups can also begin booking appointments at any of the listed clinic dates in Chatham, Blenheim, and Wallaceburg scheduled over the coming weeks:

• Individuals age 50+ (Born in 1971 or earlier)
• People who cannot work from home in one of the following job categories:
  – Remaining elementary and secondary school workers (including educators, custodial staff, school bus drivers, administrative staff)
  – Workers responding to critical events (including police, fire, special constables, children’s aid society workers, emergency management, critical infrastructure restoration workers)
  – Enforcement, inspection and compliance roles (including bylaw enforcement, building inspectors, food inspectors, animal welfare inspectors, border inspection officers, labour inspectors, WSIB field workers)
  – Remaining individuals working in licensed childcare settings (including all licensees, employees and students on educational placements who interact directly with children in licensed childcare centres and in authorized recreation and skill building programs, licensed home child care and in-home service providers, employees of home child care agencies
  – Foster care workers (including customary care providers
  – Food manufacturing and distribution workers
  – Agriculture and farm workers
  – Funeral, crematorium and cemetery workers

The Toronto Blue Jays are returning to Buffalo’s Sahlen Field for their home games starting June 1st.

The Blue Jays have played their home games to date this season in Dunedin, Florida.

Unable to play in Toronto due to border restrictions, the Blue Jays played all their home games in Buffalo last season. The team hopes to return to Toronto’s Rogers Centre at some point in 2021.

The team will open their new stint in Buffalo with a five-game homestand against the Miami Marlins and Houston Astros. Jays fans will be limited to just 24% capacity of Sahlen Field.

A large Chinese rocket that is out of control and set to re-enter Earth’s atmosphere this weekend.

The Chinese Long March 5B rocket is expected to enter Earth’s atmosphere “around May 8th” The U.S. Space Command is tracking the rocket’s trajectory. The rocket’s “exact entry point into the Earth’s atmosphere” can’t be pinpointed until within hours of re-entry.

The rocket was used by the Chinese to launch part of their space station last week. While most space debris objects burn up in the atmosphere, the rocket’s size — 22 tons — may allow it to re-enter the earth’s atmosphere.

An astrophysicist said, “The risk that there will be some damage or that it would hit someone is pretty small — not negligible, it could happen — but the risk that it will hit you is incredibly tiny. And so I would not lose one second of sleep over this on a personal threat basis.”

The ocean remains the safest bet for where the debris will land, he said, just because it takes up most of the Earth’s surface.

A Chinese rocket that launched part of a space station is hurtling back towards Earth, and there is no way to predict exactly where or when it will land https://t.co/GE7BReyscD pic.twitter.com/sGl3UpsiJO

— New Scientist (@newscientist) May 5, 2021

One of the rarest lobsters in the world made it to Red Lobster, but has lived to tell his story.

The animal, which has been nicknamed Freckles due to its appearance is a calico lobster. These sorts of lobsters are named for the spotted design that appears on their shell and only occurs in about “one in every 30 million” lobsters.

Somehow Freckles found his way to an aquarium at the front of a Virginia restaurant. Employees recognized the unique lobster and called the local zoo. He will now live out his days at the Virginia Living Museum.

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This post was written by Chris McLeod