Coronavirus Thread

However, this milk isn't "ready for the consumer" by any stretch of the imagination
You can just boil it yourself... we used to drink it when i was little after buying it straight from the cowherds when they where bringing it down from "mountain-farming-place" (no idea what you'd call that in englilsh) and we never got sick.

Of course, i guess it doesn't last that way, which is the real issue.
 
We get our milk delivered by the local dairy, which actually had to contract out to other farms to keep up with demand, so I guess I'm doing my part to help the dairy industry? :p
 
You can just boil it yourself... we used to drink it when i was little after buying it straight from the cowherds when they where bringing it down from "mountain-farming-place" (no idea what you'd call that in englilsh) and we never got sick.

Of course, i guess it doesn't last that way, which is the real issue.
The average American can just barely figure out how to competently wash their own hands; boiling milk successfully may well be out of their skill set!

In reality, the bigger issue is how to ensure food safety on the national scale. I know people who keep chickens/goats/dairy and beef cows, and I typically plant a vegetable garden, so in theory I personally could get my hands on a lot of perishable foods, but I also know how to handle/treat these supplies to protect myself, and I don't live in a city. People with passing familiarity to farming practices already know how to do these things (even if they may need specific guidance, e.g. that milk should be heated to a minimum of 145F for 30 minutes to pasteurize), but a large swath of people have no such basis for knowledge. There's no way that the US government would promote sales of raw milk or other products on a national scale, trusting that average Americans would be able/willing/understand how to process it to consume it safely. Some poll that is periodically trotted out indicated that some non-zero percentage of adult Americans believe that chocolate milk comes from brown cows, and while that is likely in part due to people choosing that as a funny answer, the average non-science-affiliated person I speak to truly has little to no understanding about where milk comes from (other than "the grocery store,") much less the food safety issues that arise due to pathogens potentially present in said milk.

And all that also ignores the larger issue of still getting (potentially less stable/untreated) goods to locations that require it, as major cities with higher consumption demands tend to be rather far removed from agricultural properties!
 
the average non-science-affiliated person I speak to truly has little to no understanding about where milk comes from (other than "the grocery store,") much less the food safety issues that arise due to pathogens potentially present in said milk.
Yeah let's not forget about:

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--Patrick
 
I saw a similar thing with toilet paper that consumer and commercial toilet paper are basically two different industries and the latter has basically shit down while the former has a major increase in demand, hence the shortages.
Wonders why there are so many "pun" ratings

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well, shit
 
Due to the negotiated contract structure that only allows for 3 taped shows per year per network, the State of Florida has ruled that the WWE (professional wrestling) is an essential service.
 
Not gonna lie, I already knew who 6 of them were, but not Lighthizer, but just by being in that group I assumed he was a moron/awful/both.
 
I read through it, too.
It's like a Who's Who of cronyism, and gives being White a bad name.

--Patrick
 
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She posted the roster, but neither of us posted the critique of the members.
TIL, freakin' Flava Flav has a degree in business and radio communications...

IgG or IgM? (thanks to c-19, i finally know what these thinks i've been buying for years are)
 
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I'm continually thankful at how lucky my wife and I are. Although she lost her job my two jobs are more than enough to make up for it and my son is now working as well. I'm worried about him because his job is at a Menards so he's constantly exposed to morons.

But we have money in savings for a potential emergency and income. Which is more than a whole lot of people can say. Frankly, with this stimulus, we're in better shape now than we were before the virus.
Out of curiousity, Dave, if he was honourably discharged has he seen about signing up for the VA system?
 

Dave

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Out of curiousity, Dave, if he was honourably discharged has he seen about signing up for the VA system?
He could go to the VA any time he wants. And the VA in Omaha is actually one of the best rated in the country.

But I'd rather him not have to. :)
 

Dave

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Well as long as you can cover him under your insurance, just poke him when he hits 25 if he is still working crap jobs and such.
He's 28. He HAS no insurance as far as I'm aware. I don't know if he has any yet at his new job. So it's the VA or nothing. Which is why I'm afraid for him.
 
He should for sure apply now before anything no happens health wise to him. I’m uninsurable most likely outside my job. My bank refused to insure me and I’m rated for private life insurance.
 
He's 28. He HAS no insurance as far as I'm aware. I don't know if he has any yet at his new job. So it's the VA or nothing. Which is why I'm afraid for him.
Signing up for the VA would be a helluva lot better than no insurance, and wouldn't preclude him from getting insurance if he ever gets a job w/insurance that doesn't suck.
 
#$&$*#*#& #&#$*# #*#*#*$*$ @¥×*×&& #&$£ that orange impotent blob.

Blames the WHO for his failings and cuts their funding.
 
#$&$*#*#& #&#$*# #*#*#*$*$ @¥×*×&& #&$£ that orange impotent blob.

Blames the WHO for his failings and cuts their funding.
The WHO has been getting attacked by more than just Trump. Japan blasted it for the same general reasons Trump did (being China-biased and covering China's ass on clearly doctored data) and there's the atrocious way the WHO dealt with Taiwan.
 
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