Posted on 04/17/2020 8:39:57 PM PDT by RaceBannon
Corona Virus Daily Thread #45 COVID-19
We’ve got extra space in our garage that could easily be a ‘canning kitchen’. Keep the heat out of the house in the summertime! Need to have the extra electrical stuff done for a stove there though. Between the cost of an ‘extra stove’ and that it’s a ‘wait for a while’ project right now. But definitely something on our minds.
I just looked at all american canners on amazon. Everything from the 21.5qt on down is sold out, delivery expected may 18. The big ones delivery is may 12.
So, the panic hoarders have also discovered canning.
Dehydrators sold out early at our hardware stores.
I buy freeze dried vegetables, but have everything we need if our freezers go out or we lose electricity for an extended period of time and need to can everything.
Our last power outage lasted for 5 days due to a F3 tornado that missed us by less than 400 yards. I ran my generator for a solid five days without stopping - fueled it hot.
Ya, we’ll be the slow spenders until we see if tech is being imported regularly again. If not, long term prospects for paychecks are poor.
LYING CONNIVING CHINA
China may be keeping coronavirus data for commercial gain -Trump adviser
WASHINGTON, April 20 - White House adviser Peter Navarro charged on Monday that China may be withholding data about early coronavirus infections because it wants to win the commercial race to create a vaccine.
The United States, which has been the country worst affected by coronavirus pandemic according to official statistics, has repeatedly calling on Beijing to share early data on the outbreak, which began in China.
“One of the reasons that they may not have let us in and given us the data on this virus early, is they’re racing to get a vaccine and they think this is just a competitive business race, it’s a business proposition so that they can sell the vaccines to the world,” Navarro told Fox Business Network.
Reuters 4 hrs ago
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/china-may-be-keeping-coronavirus-data-for-commercial-gain-trump-adviser/ar-BB12Wl2c?ocid=spartanntp
Losing power is one thing I am nervous about.
We live in the stix and storms are a real thing.
If I could downsize to one freezer it would be a good thing :)
LOL...yes...the water bath canners hold a LOT of water!
Mine has the gauge.....which, you’re supposed to get inspected by the county extention office, every year.
Well, ours was closed, when I was ready to can....so I rolled the dice, went ahead with my canning, and....thankfully, all was well.
Now, I’m praying that the freezers hang in there, or, I’ll be rolling it out, again, fast.
May do some more meat canning, regardless, in a few weeks. Luckily, I have plenty of jars/seals. Those things are nearly impossible to find, now.
:(
Get yourself a generator. Especially if you have NG at your residence. A generator will get you through most power outages, except for a SHTF event.
That dude has it. I’ve thought that for a couple weeks now, gut feeling. All of a sudden he just disappeared.
RUSSIA
Russia quarantines thousands of troops after calling off Red Square parade
MOSCOW (Reuters) - Russia’s ministry of defence said on Monday it had ordered thousands of troops into a two-week quarantine after a vast Red Square military parade in Moscow they had been rehearsing for was called off because of the novel coronavirus pandemic...
...Up to 15,000 troops were due to parade alongside military hardware on May 9 to mark the 75th anniversary of the Soviet Union’s World War Two victory, an event the Kremlin hoped would showcase Russia’s military and diplomatic clout. ..
That’s a near miss....and, that’s a long stretch on the generator.
Thank the Lord, for both.
The longest our generator ran was after Harvey.
Almost two weeks. :- /
We were thankful to have it.
We started using the reusable ones Glenn Beck used to advertise. They work well.
Katy Tur (FakeNewsNBC) deleted a tweet saying he was brain dead.
Hmmm...does he have any little fat sons to succeed him?
That’s something else on a ‘do list’. LOL.
I need to win the lottery.
Not that I play mind you.
Maybe I’ll find a lottery ticket in a parking lot somewhere.
Gee, yours likely needed an oil change. Mine was coming up for one when I shut it down.
This compound, and those like them, will be a first targets when people get hungry - and in France, they’re getting hungry:
A billionaires’ compound with its own coronavirus testing center stokes anger on the French Riviera
Set in the director’s office of the 270-acre Les Parcs de Saint-Tropez — where LVMH luxury group chairman Bernard Arnault, Ritz Paris owner Mohamed Al-Fayed and Indian steel magnate Lakshmi Mittal have palatial villas — the medical unit is staffed with a doctor and lab technician to take and process samples from residents and their friends. Details were leaked to the regional newspaper, the Var-Matin, which reported that the effort was organized by Les Parcs’s association president, Jean-Louis Oger. The wealthy pharmacist-turned-entrepreneur owns several clinics and laboratories in the south of France. ..
...Across France, which already counts more than 19,700 deaths in the pandemic, most public hospitals are overwhelmed with covid-19 patients. Tests are in short supply or are completely inaccessible. Outside the compound’s walls, the situation is not much different at the Pôle de Santé du Golfe de Saint-Tropez hospital.
Medical personnel are “scandalized,” according to one hospital doctor, who spoke on the condition of anonymity because of the sensitivity of the issue on the peninsula. “It’s not normal that we have nothing — no tests — and that it is a nightmare for us to get a hold of one.”
It’s just the flu bro...tell those fearbros the parade must go on...
Yes!! It did. We kept praying that it would hang in there, and it did.
As soon as things were more back to normal (roads cleared, power on, etc.) we had it serviced.
We do before every hurricane season, but....that year...it had extra service.
Our area used to have a lot of power outages, in addition to storms/hurricanes, so it’s paid for itself...in reassurance, time and again.
Take your stimulus check to Harborfreight...and they’ll fix you up with one...:)
I bought a case of the rings and lids on sale at the end of the summer 2018. So far I’ve only opened 2 of those. I also have a nice stash of the lids. I just have one freezer left to go through and will can a lot of that stuff to make way for another load of meat and veggies later on.
We ordered a new dehydrator, so we’ll be using those quite a bit too. I didn’t want to take a chance on the old dehydrator going out. It didn’t have a temperature adjustment, timer, fruit leather trays and the new one does.
When we bought our pressure canner, we ordered extra seal rings and stuff right away, so we’d have those when needed.
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