corona pandemic~

[roony]

Went grocery shopping today, the bleach lysol,  and syringes were flying off the shelves after Trump recommended we shoot up with disinfectants!

[LPS]

Oh no!

[mike89]

oh my!!!   

[delcecchi]

Well Roony, looks like you are close to a limit.   Hooked two anyway.

[LPS]

 

[roony]

Catch and Release!

[delcecchi]

Catch and Release!

That's good, gotta preserve the brood stock.

[LPS]

 

[Leech~~]

Went grocery shopping today, the bleach lysol,  and syringes were flying off the shelves after Trump recommended we shoot up with disinfectants!

So, were you drinking watching the news or grocery shopping?  Or Both?      

[roony]

Went grocery shopping today, the bleach lysol,  and syringes were flying off the shelves after Trump recommended we shoot up with disinfectants!

So, were you drinking watching the news or grocery shopping?  Or Both?      

Having a drink in each hand is the only way I can comply with not touching my face.

[delcecchi]

Lucky for me that scratching my nutz isn't prohibited.

[Leech~~]

Lucky for me that scratching my nutz isn't prohibited.

Why, are they on your face? 

[Reinhard]

  good luck.

[Dotch]

 

[mike89]

 

[corny13]

Hey guys I know a lot of you like pork to grill    and I noticed that some have mentioned the prob in packing houses and one mention of the piglets.   It’s true, the piglet farms I’m involved in Nodak, there will be NO isoweiners (piglets)in the near future.. So stockup your freezers and vacupac some Ribs... or You will just be smoking walleye!

[LPS]

That is what I was thinking of doing Corny.  Waiting for todays paper with the weekly specials.  Supposed to be ribs on sale. 

[glenn57]

I ran this past my wife about ordering a half a hog, she didn't seem to interested??

[Dotch]

I sure wouldn't mind getting a half a hog but the wife probably isn't game. She gets migraines from the nitrates in cured meats and isn't real keen on pork in general when I buy it. We've got three lambs in the freezer now, one of which we're not sure will get delivered to the Twin Cities (long story). And that's OK. It'll all get used up. We'll make more.

[roony]

Baaaaa
Too bad my mom isn't still home, I'd try to work out a trade for some lamb, she just loves it.

[Dotch]

Latest casualty

  https://msrabacktothe50s.com/ 

No surprise here. Putting 12,000 collector and modified automobiles June 19th - 21st into the State Fair grounds and more people than that wasn't in the cards this time around. MSRA will be applying our $35 entry fee for this year's event to next year's. Was hoping that was how they'd handle that. In the meantime, nothing saying we can't get 'em out and drive 'em around or there damn well better not be...

[glenn57]

just got an email from our shop in Sioux Falls. They have there first reported case of COVID, and the ones with close contact are now quarentened.

[mike89]

https://www.chicagotribune.com/coronavirus/ct-nw-coronavirus-slaughterhouse-meat-inspectors-20200427-pqz4wsv77jagneesyhzfeo3pya-story.html

I just got this from another retired food inspector...  the head of the agency that is talking in the artical I know him, that's all I'm sayin too...  the management can hide at home, the on line inspectors can't     

[mike89]

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/trump-plans-to-order-meat-processing-plants-to-stay-open-during-coronavirus/ar-BB13kBRq?li=BBnb7Kz

here's an interesting one I just read..

[glenn57]

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/trump-plans-to-order-meat-processing-plants-to-stay-open-during-coronavirus/ar-BB13kBRq?li=BBnb7Kz

here's an interesting one I just read..

Yea I just read that to. Wowzer, courts are going  to be busy wether he says employees are able to sue if not

[glenn57]

https://www.chicagotribune.com/coronavirus/ct-nw-coronavirus-slaughterhouse-meat-inspectors-20200427-pqz4wsv77jagneesyhzfeo3pya-story.html

I just got this from another retired food inspector...  the head of the agency that is talking in the artical I know him, that's all I'm sayin too...  the management can hide at home, the on line inspectors can't   

so he was a HH buddy!

[delcecchi]

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/trump-plans-to-order-meat-processing-plants-to-stay-open-during-coronavirus/ar-BB13kBRq?li=BBnb7Kz

here's an interesting one I just read..

If minnesota can indeed do 20k tests per day as claimed (yesterday they did 2.4k) then workers could be tested and if negative go to work.   Temperature screening as a add on might also help. 

[glenn57]

I've been temp screened 3 times already. Expect it again Thursday when I give blood.

[mike89]

https://www.chicagotribune.com/coronavirus/ct-nw-coronavirus-slaughterhouse-meat-inspectors-20200427-pqz4wsv77jagneesyhzfeo3pya-story.html

I just got this from another retired food inspector...  the head of the agency that is talking in the artical I know him, that's all I'm sayin too...  the management can hide at home, the on line inspectors can't   

so he was a HH buddy!

when he first started we worked side by side on the lines...  then he left that life to go into management..  so yes back in the day we did do HH... 

[Steve-o]

So when did the narrative change from

"we need to slow the rate of spread to build up the capacity to treat those infected"
(flatten the curve)

to

"we need to keep people from being exposed to save lives"
(if all the stuff we do saves just one life - then everything is worth it).   


Still no easy answers, but it seems to me we aren't heading in the right direction yet.

Yes, we already know it is dangerous to be old and in-firmed in a care facility, but what we really need to know is how safe it is for otherwise healthy people to continue working critical jobs in areas where the virus is actively spreading.

If you are not using your limited testing resources to find out betters answers to this critical question, then - in my opinion - you are not using the limited capacity as wisely as you could.