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

[Molpet]

I love Bob's Red Mill too but all oats are gluten free.

Yes and no
Lots of cross contamination with oats processed in the same Line as wheat

 

[ShrekDawg]

I love Bob's Red Mill too but all oats are gluten free.

Actually, believe it or not, most are not. The actual oats themselves are gluten free but most companies do not bother to prevent cross contamination from other gluten containing grains so they can’t label them as such.

 

[ChickenCanoe]

Here in Billings, MT a lot of people SAY everyone is overreacting and this will blow over, its a hoax... but I am having trouble buying flour, sugar, cat littler, almost all paper goods, pasta, dried foods, canned foods, cat food (dried only, or the cheap canned

So either Billings people are lying to themselves, or we have a lot of outsiders buying up all our stock.

Billings is a hub for Wyoming people to come get their shopping done at Costco, so it is possible... but I doubt it can all be blamed on Northern Wyoming.

My line of work in environmental remediation keeps me away from people other than my four coworkers, so my circle is small. However we are all practicing social distancing and disinfecting shared equipment on top of the usual hand washing.

Right and I doubt, anyone is driving from afar to the middle of MT to buy paper goods.

 

[ShrekDawg]

Yes and no
Lots of cross contamination with oats processed in the same Line as wheat

Yeah, exactly. I only learned that a few years ago and found it really interesting. I can’t eat regular oats anymore. Used to be able to but they make me sick now. The gluten free ones don’t do that.

 

[SnapdragonQ]

I love Bob's Red Mill too but all oats are gluten free.

Not true.
Oats are gluten fee in and of themselves. The problem is wind and agriculture practices blow wheat and other gluten containing grains into the growing fields.
Then, most regular store oats are contaminated in the processing equipment...either the harvesting equipment or the factory processing or packaging equipment.

True gluten free labeled oats are grown in special fields, harvested and processed seperately and cleanly, then gluten tested for quality assurance. True celiacs like my kiddo can be sicked greatly with even a hint of gluten in a canister of oats.

 

[SnapdragonQ]

Have you noticed that in this new format when you're quoted -- or anybody really -- there's a little up arrow after your name. If you click on that it takes you back to the original post being quoted.

Took me a while to catch on to that but I find it a really useful feature.

Yes, now I do. Took me a while too....

 

[ShrekDawg]

Not true.
Oats are gluten fee in and of themselves. The problem is wind and agriculture practices blow wheat and other gluten containing grains into the growing fields.
Then, most regular store oats are contaminated in the processing equipment...either the harvesting equipment or the factory processing or packaging equipment.

True gluten free labeled oats are grown in special fields, harvested and processed seperately and cleanly, then gluten tested for quality assurance. True celiacs like my kiddo can be sicked greatly with even a hint of gluten in a canister of oats.

Thanks for all the info and details! I find it very interesting. I never knew the exact details or exactly WHY regular store oats weren’t gluten free, just had heard cross contamination mentioned briefly before.

And it’s interesting you mentioned your kid gets sick from regular oats because I do too although it’s weird because I can eat bread and other things containing gluten so

 

[ChickenCanoe]

I've read this thread sporadically, it travels fast.
But I thought I would share a couple websites I found today. The first is the spread throughout the world. As of today, it is in all 195 countries in the world.
The first has a great chart as it shows the cases per 1M population in each country, total cases, new cases in 24 hours, total deaths and new deaths in 24 hours, total recovered and critical cases.
https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/The other is more alarming and quotes many of the covid 19 deniers and those calling it a hoax.
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/coronavirus-trump-news-deniers-us-a9414086.html
It may not be as deadly as the bubonic plague, plague of Justinian or ebola (thanks to rapid response and containment in the latter case), it is very contagious and rest assured people, this will be one of the most pervasive, deadly and economically devastating of our lifetime.
https://www.visualcapitalist.com/history-of-pandemics-deadliest/

 

[rosemarythyme]

I lot of people have tasted some of these "not so main stream" vegetables but perhaps they weren't prepared well.

Brussel Sprouts.....evil little balls of

I think that's a big part of it. First time I tried a brussel sprout (my father-in-law boiled some), I had to stop myself from instantly spitting it out. It was NASTY - bitter and pungent. But I kept seeing them in recipes, on tv cooking shows, so I decided... I'd buy some. I bought all of 3 sprouts. And... they weren't as terrible as I remembered? Even hubby didn't spit them out. Then I tried them roasted with bacon and it was like the heavens parted and angels began singing. Now I eat them roasted, pan fried, baked in a dip, raw in a slaw... lesson learned, NEVER boil brussel sprouts!

I saw a report today that 1 person who goes to the bathroom 4 times per day will use 2 rolls in 7 days. I can't believe we have that statistic but can't get much solid info about the bug.

I go more than 4x and I can't see how you'd use a roll every 3 1/2 days. I mean that is an INSANE amount of paper, and I'm on septic. No way am I flushing that amount of stuff into the system. We've (2 people) still have only used up one roll since the beginning of March when we've been cooped up in here.

(Maybe those are unusually tiny rolls this this statistic?)

 

[IamRainey]

Yes and no
Lots of cross contamination with oats processed in the same Line as wheat

Well, that's an important consideration I didn't know about because I don't depend on having a gluten-free diet.

Thanks, all of you, for making that clear.