Kyle Shaw

The past few months of Covid have actually been pretty good in Nova Scotia. We’ve had some COVID-19 scares, but also got to relax. There have been cases in schools, but for the most part the school system has been open, a feat that’s rare in North America. Lockdowns have come, lockdowns have gone. The […]

“Nova Scotians have made changes to their daily lives to limit the spread of COVID-19 and it’s no different for St. Patrick’s Day,” says premier Iain Rankin in today’s provincial pandemic press release. “We have been fortunate to have little to no new cases recently, but we know that the virus can quickly find its […]

The province is reporting two new COVID-19 infections today. “The cases are in Central Zone,” says the daily pandemic press release. “One of the cases is a close contact of a previously reported case. The other case is under investigation.” As our handy table of case activity at the bottom of this update reveals, both […]

Yesterdays’ chaos didn’t end yesterday. The province is announcing one new COVID-19 case in the official update today, and it’s deleting one of the cases announced Saturday because somebody typed the wrong thing. If only this latest Saturday mistake could be blamed on losing an hour of sleep because daylight savings time’s return caused clocks […]

UPDATE March 13: The Saturday, March 13 case report includes the remarkable news that the new case announced Friday doesn’t count as a Nova Scotian case, because the patient had previously gotten a C19 diagnosis in another province. We’ve updated the map and headline associated with this piece, which used to be “1 case in […]

Nova Scotia delivers a simple message for the coronavirus today: You suck! 🖕 The daily COVID-19 status report to media shows zero new cases of the disease, five people recovering from it so their cases are closed, one patient getting out of hospital and just one C19 patient sick enough to be in the hospital […]

The humans beat the virus today, with Nova Scotia reporting three recoveries and a trifling one new COVID-19 case. That fresh infection is connected to “travel outside Atlantic Canada” in the reassuring phrasing of the provincial press release, and the patient “is self-isolating, as required.” “Again, our case count is remaining low—no cases Monday, five […]

Nova Scotia’s legislature is finally sitting today under new premier Iain Rankin, after former premier Stephen McNeil couldn’t be bothered getting the house back to work for the entirety of the pandemic. (McNeil’s bullshit one-day opening in December absolutely doesn’t count as democracy in action.) Unfortunately the coronavirus is back to work, too, after taking […]

Zero new cases in Nova Scotia today, according to the province’s daily COVID-19 report. None, not one. But five people with C19 recovered since the last report, making this a very good Monday for the humans. The disease, on the other hand, can suck it. The last zero day was Friday, February 12. Between then […]

The province is reporting two new cases of COVID-19, both in the Central health zone, on a straightforward Sunday. “One is related to travel outside Atlantic Canada. The person is self-isolating, as required,” says the province’s report to media. “The other case is a close contact of a previously reported case.” With two patients recovering […]