Vernal Equinox

British Columbia

The minimum wage in B.C. will further rise to $14.60 on June 1st, 2020 and to at least $15.20 on June 1st, 2021. Private corporations and private companies are doing their efforts in providing at least $17/hour depends on the level of  skills of their workers.

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Officially, it is the beginning of SPRING and there are hundreds to thousands of work at this time of the year.  However, due to coronavirus and COVID-19 some hundreds to thousands of workers are out of job. Unemployment is halt for the time being and for the most part only the health workers (doctors, surgeons, nurses, paramedics, wardmen and janitorials) are busy with their jobs at the hospitals and clinics, including the many people doing the cleaning and disinfecting of many private and public buildings, offices, transportation, stations, subways, surrounding and good for the environmentalists they are also very busy with the control of the virus. The work of the managers attending to their tenants is a non-stop workload. Government officials also have their duties and responsibilities no matter what the situation is. Firefighters, rescue workers, the military and police force also have their oath and duty to defend the land of any unforeseen calamities, epidemic, pandemic and God knows what could be out there.

KEEP CALM. DON'T PANIC. Isolate yourself if you think you are weak and sick or vulnerable to any kind of flu because of pre-existing medical diagnosis. Save your life and help save others by staying at home. 

There are too many things to do at home. Start your spring cleaning. Do your laundry. Cook  and clean the kitchen. Wash the dishes. They are also WORK. Household chores are work. Although you are not paid but you can make your experience worthy of appraise and you can use that experience working for the pub and restaurants. You can work as a cook, dishwasher, busboy, server, and into janitorials if you know how to clean and disinfect. You can also work in hotels and motels as chambermaids. 

SPRING CLEANING includes not only at home but outside of your homes. There are several works worth mentioning such as: pressure washing outdoors (walls and posts + walkways), cutting grass or lawnmowing, gardening: plant vegetables, tree planting, planting of annuals and perennials + pruning of trees, shrubs and bushes if you're not done yet. Cleaning of the drainage, make sure no barriers that will clog the sewers and canals to prevent flood during the "meltdown process." 

At springtime the water flows. The iceberg, the snow from the mountains and hills will melt eventually and hope it wont be such a big rush not to cause flash flood. We're all in this together at Springtime & Summer. Don't throw your cigarette butts in the forest or bushes. Make sure you watch the campfire or better yet not to get out or camp. NO CAMPFIRE allowed. STAY AT YOUR HOME during LOCKDOWN and during the spray of DDT, a fight against malaria, typhus and dengue.

HAPPY VERNAL  EQUINOX. Keep safe!