Posted on 03/18/2020 10:36:37 AM PDT by Mariner
“Boston Still Strong: Acts Of Kindness During COVID-19”
- see https://wbznewsradio.iheart.com/content/boston-still-strong-acts-of-kindness-during-covid-19/
“I had huge credit card bills through a couple of weeks ago, but now I’m spending next to nothing - although I would like re-fill my freezers when the FluBros are done with their panic-buying.”
Yeah, we ran up the cards early to be ready and then paid them off next pay period. Now we don’t have high balances or much to shop for. Just ordering stuff for delivery. Aside from perishables we’re set for months.
The FluBros are all out infecting each other and getting trampled in stampedes, no doubt.
On DM I saw a woman say it was like glass her lungs when she breathed.
Just wait until that dude gets it.
Bread freezes you know.
She said it was Sam’s (that had the line) but that her Albertson’s had the bread she was looking for. No meats, in meat counter.
This was yesterday.
Thanks!
Any moment, the scene will pan back as our main characters are knifed to death by some Wu Flu-vulnerable crinimal released by De Blasio, as Kevin Conway's voice intones a moral shibboleth about how we should have had more foresight or some such happy horsecrap. Camera pans back to show a crumbling, burning city in ruins.
Yes, bread freezes.
Hubby has a couple of loaves, of some strange bread he likes, in ours.
But...it only lasts so long before it gets freezer taste, right?
Rae:
I am spoiled—never even thought of doing that.
The point is that bread has to be restocked often, is produced domestically.
Panicking over bread just makes no sense imho.
(Of course, I never understood why people bought out the bread before snowstorms, either—the last time the roads were inpassable for more than two days around here was the Great Blizzard of 1978!)
“I think they are spoon feeding us a little at time so we do not panic.”
Agreed. And as long as we don’t panic, we can get more effective measures accomplished.
If we panicked the Chinese would be able to do what ever they liked for who knows how long. Now they are stuck because we are watching them closely.
But stupid doesn’t know its limits, so it’s anybody’s guess if they will do anything.
Still in the accidental release of a bioweapon camp.
This is the summary:
“Two fundamental strategies are possible: (a) mitigation, which focuses on slowing but not necessarily stopping epidemic spread – reducing peak healthcare demand while protecting those most at risk of severe disease from infection, and (b) suppression, which aims to reverse epidemic growth, reducing case numbers to low levels and maintaining that situation indefinitely. Each policy has major challenges. We find that that optimal mitigation policies (combining home isolation of suspect cases, home quarantine of those living in the same household as suspect cases, and social distancing of the elderly and others at most risk of severe disease) might reduce peak healthcare demand by 2/3 and deaths by half. However, the resulting mitigated epidemic would still likely result in hundreds of thousands of deaths and health systems (most notably intensive care units) being overwhelmed many times over. For countries able to achieve it, this leaves suppression as the preferred policy option.“
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So, staying home and waiting your turn to get sick seems like the winner.
I was going to make bread today but my son said save the flour for pizza dough lol
fireman15, maybe?
Gonna go upon up that fine K-bar my boss gave to me (well, I paid him for it) in a much better time. Sadly, I suspect even in fine Mt. Airy, MD, I could end up having to use it. I’m not sure I’m ready to stab somebody, even if he’s going after my food.
So I’d better make myself ready.
The problem is not enough trucks to get all the good to Food Lion and Albertsons. Good problem to have. God bless those truckers.
Gonna pay at least most of the remainder of my mortgage off when my next paycheck land. I want to have little or no mortgage debt as I’m facing this increasingly awful situation. Debt-free is worry-free.
I was in 5 different stores today starting at 6:30 on the way to a Drs appointment
I saw nothing of what you claim. ,
Although, I did manage to snag 5 Hand Sanitizers (limit 5) at 6:45 and promptly shipped them out to family.I got them because I got there at the right time. I asked an old man who looked in his 80s if he wanted some hand sanitizer. He had one little thing in his cart...but he said no
So just because your store was like that doesn’t mean they all are.
Plenty of first hand account everywhere...including pictures
I have started trying to make sure the idiots in my family who did not prepare..and did not take this seriously..at least have hand sanitizer.
They cant find toilet paper.
Too bad.
I am not shipping it.
Yep, that’s beginning to look more plausible to me too.
Too funny—my wife “substituted” today and bought a frozen pizza—there were plenty of them...
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