Coronavirus, Covid 19 Discussion and How It Has Affected Your Daily Life Chat Thread

[ShrekDawg]

@Wee Farmer Sarah I meant to ask before but forgot but what was the grocery chain you mentioned that you liked? I don’t believe you said the name of it but I don’t think there are many here haha it sounded like a good one. Was it Stop & Shop? Market Basket?

 

[chickisoup]

I've read a lot about flattening the curve. It seems that some do not really understand how this works.
Flattening the curve is trying to spread the burden on the health service by trickle feeding the sick through the system rather than dumping the lot on the system in a short period of time.
The burden is an unknown quantity, a variable, while a health services capacity is fixed to a greater, or lesser extent.
Should the burden, the unknown quantity, exceed the capacity at any point the strategy fails.
It gets more complicated.
There is a regular burden; the normal sicknesses that a health system has to deal with under normal conditions. This doesn't seem to be factored into the current strategy. There isn't much extra capacity in most health systems so in times of high demand the system is bound to fail.

The time for a total lockdown is long past. The curve flattening isn't working because the system doesn't have the capacity.
China seemed to understand this from the outset. Most of the European countries haven't nor has the USA or UK.

Well said Shad, as always.

 

[FortCluck]

But I can bet Squatch doesn't cheat at cards!

Not sure

 

[FortCluck]

Please be patient... Roos need love too! ... My roo has me at spur point and made me say that!

She has too many I think

 

[chickisoup]

 

[Wee Farmer Sarah]

My neighbor started giving me vegetables to put in my compost/give to my chickens. I felt a little weird taking things out to eat myself... she gave me some broccoli and carrots and greens that looked like they could have come straight off the store shelf! They were maybe a little limp but nothing that sitting in water for 20 minutes didn't fix. I've heard that 30-40% of America's food supply is wasted. It's such a tragedy considering how many hungry people live in this country . I'm not judging anyone; I'm glad to have my compost pile and chickens now, as it feels less like I'm wasting things.

I do think we need some reeducation and maybe to lower our standards for what healthy food like produce should look like, and raise our standards for the other things we eat.

I think the Food Network and their “celebrity” chefs are partly to blame when they hold up their noses and tell us you must only use the freshest of ingredients. They tried to cover their butts by doing a special on making gourmet dishes with castaway food. Not too convincing and they still push for using “perfect” produce. JMHO.

 

[Miss Lydia]

I tried cards but caught Beetov-Hen, cheating, holding aces under her wing.

Pin the tail on the rooster!

 

[Miss Lydia]

Chickens playing poker

 

[ShrekDawg]

She has too many I think

Yeah, I have 6. I thought I had more time because they’ve stayed completely separate from each other until today. Need to make a bachelor pen I’m thinking. They’re too young to eat I think.

 

[Wee Farmer Sarah]

Be strong, WeeFarmerSarah. It won't go on forever though some of us -- I must be about the same age -- won't have the time to recover retirement income that younger people will.

What consoles me is that we're all in this together -- the country and the world -- things will have to change after this pandemic is over just to keep things functional. Meanwhile, we have our chickens and a steady supply of eggs. We're more fortunate than many.

If you have bleach 1 tablespoon in a quart of water is antiviral. For cleaning greasy things vinegar will do the job. Maybe we won't return to buying expensive cleaners that don't do better than the old fashioned things our grandmothers used.

I don’t buy expensive cleaners anyway. I was running out of vinegar but I caved and went to my regular grocery store and finished up my shopping. I found laundry detergent and Kleenex as well. And, RIBs! Oh happy day. I’m good for at 3 more weeks then I will be getting low on coffee creamer again.