Posted on 03/23/2020 9:51:15 AM PDT by Mariner
Yesterday's thread here:
http://freerepublic.com/focus/chat/3827099/posts?page=1
Before things got serious we ordered a new Lenovo laptop computer. It will arrive Thursday. It shipped from Hefei, China last week, passing through Shanghai. Hefei is near Wuhan.
Does anyone have any thoughts on whether we should handle or open the package?
Why Basmati instead of regular white rice?
Lol,
You don't have to worry about a calcium expiration. I have one I used to take, made from coral, that is millions of years old! :)
Mike Adams has a primer on growing potatoes in buckets. He says if you want to eat next year, you better be growing this year.
I would wear mask and gloves. Open it outside were you get good sun light. Remove outer wrapping and leave it the wrapping outside in the sun light.
Debating if you need to worry about he inner box since the virus does not live that many day.
If there is virus it is on the outer side of the packing.
Based on the amazon link above, I’d make a solution of clorox in a spray bottle, spray down the box on the driveway/sidewalk. Let that sit for an hour (keep that outside ‘wet’ for 10 minutes to start, will have to respray). Turn it over gently with a shoe or something. Spray the bottom like you did the top/sides. Wait again.
Then take the box and put it somewhere in your garage for a week at least (or somewhere in your house, unopened) and let it ‘age’. before you open it.
We’ve operated on the assumption that not only were the packers infected, the shippers and delivery person were too. And that the box itself likely sat next to other boxes that were also infected.
Way overkill i’m sure. but my hubby is in a high risk group that would live but with a million dollar icu bill.
“Mike Adams has a primer on growing potatoes in buckets”
Link please pretty please
Just play some Beethoven.
What grows in the Black Forest?
FL should have imposed fines for spring break partiers. The state would have raked in more $$$ than hotel taxes made off them.
https://www.allrecipes.com/recipe/8095/black-forest-cake-i/
I’m looking for recipes I can ‘low carb’. And would like to save the pits from the frozen cherries to plant. Not that it’s a critical thing.
I have cravings now that I can’t just run to the bakery and get something ‘bad’. LOL.
They are in the process of moving my old hospital system over from Meditech.
I wanted to get in on the ground floor of that—knowing epic is a good way to punch your own ticket these days. But there are no “classes” for people not registered with a hospital. I figured it would be a good “third” career.
I envy you.
“Werent we all concerned about the items we need for our supply chain that came from China not coming over anymore and what shortages that would cause?”
Good point. I think all will realize just how reliant we had been on products from China. Not sure how hopeful I am that exec’s will see that and return home however for manufacturing.
I hope our companies realize how this hurt the citizens but fear the higher ups, who don’t get affected other than by profits, will be blindly seeking out production in other countries if not still in China. We need our companies back home.
The cost of treating the sick will dwarf anything they made from spring break.
Ditto the cost of not closing disney earlier.
Lookner back to reporting data instead of editorializing:
174 cases in US military, up from 131 yesterday
https://twitter.com/lookner/status/1242459033157730311
I am in Georgia, North of Atlanta. To be fair it was the first day that they offered seniors early shopping hours. They did take advantage of that, and good for them. Keep them at the lowest possible risk level.
India’s prime minister decrees lockdown of country of 1.3 billion for 21 days.
https://twitter.com/MikeDelMoro/status/1242462622827626498
I have a system that works wonderfully for me. I use sections of fencing and make a circle. I place seed potatoes in the bottom, and keep adding dirt when the stalks reach 6 inches, just to the leaves. I use dirt, straw and old hay from the stalls. Not from the coop as it is too hot.
At harvest time, I unhook the fence and all the dirt spills out full of potatoes. This has worked better for me than any other method. Also keeps potatoes from getting too wet.
I’d be a bit happier if they would stop using a pneumatic drill outside my windows. I got a break over the weekend; now they are back.
Before, I would just dash out the door to Starbucks when that happened.
I’m making a note of your method. That sounds really neat.
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