Wuhan Coronavirus: Megathread - Got too big

[Spasticus Autisticus]

how long until they start putting up jersey barriers or dumping gravel on the roads and block Seattle off from the outside world?

As long as we can leave it like that after this outbreak is over, that sounds good to me.

 

[Linako 2.0]

The issue is complex. But based on my own personal experiences with this issue, I have my suspicions that these folks lack some basic life skills.

For example, like 10 years ago, my husband and I were in line at the grocery store, on a Friday night, buying our weekly beans, bread, cheese, rice, onion and ground beef. In front of us were two women with 20 bucks worth of frozen TGI Fridays appetizers.

Just take a wild guess, as to who had EBT?

Another anecdote: the people across the street went into foreclosure. In California you can redeem recycled booze and cola bottles and cans, for a small refund. So hey, wanting to collect free cash, I bagged up all the recycling in their back yard.

What was back there? Jaw-dropping premium cocktails and beers ... stuff that sells for like $10 for a six-pack.

That is what they were getting drunk on, every night . ..

So I hope I answered your question.

Some of this is knowledge that is passed down from grandmother to aunts and mothers to their children ...

How to turn sausage and canned beans and an onion, into bean soup; how to eat a potato with your meat rather than eat more meat; how to bulk up a soup with rice and toasted stale bread; how to convert slightly old vegetables into a vegetable stock; etc. etc.

Instead, this morning in some parts of LA, you had lines in the supermarkets going out to the street.


Damn I wish I could go thru your checkout line. You are probably one of the entertaining ones.

Truly, Corona is a etst. those that learn to ration and make do will live, while the wasters and dependants on EBT must fall.

 

[TurdFondler]

Plus snack foods. SNAP benefits go a hell of a lot further when one uses them for staple foods. Get some rice and beans, some soup mix, make a big pot of beans and season it how you like and you could probably eat that for two or three days. Instead of getting a Digiorno's pizza and some Pringles. That's subsistence food to me, anyway, shit like that. Sure you'll get bored of it and you won't have a great varied diet, but it'll get you through and give you enough sustenance and energy to go about doing what needs done.

The absolute state of people who can't subsist on rice and beans. That combo built South America, the Middle east (more rice and pulses here but I'm generalizing) and of course Asia. You can make an entire varied spread with rice and various iterations of soybean.

 

[Guts Gets Some]

As is typical of my horrible timing, I have something in transit from China.

But I found this, so hopefully this angle has been covered too.



Still going to spray it with bleach when it arrives though.

 

[Aqua Panda]

The job market has effectively evaporated for thousands, if not millions, in areas that are doing near full shutdown.

We are going to see massive unemployment numbers which will lead to default on loans in a cascading cycle. Most states doing this are pausing evictions but god help people who can't make rent/mortgage and get permanently scarred by having to default down the line.

We are seriously looking at a repeat of the 2008 financial crash, just sourced from a different area than housing. Massive unemployment and banks hours to days away from becoming insolvent.

 

[FatalTater]

Re food stamps - Potential for civil unrest if, after waiting for their food money to arrive, the shops have bare shelves.

 

[DoodleBerry]

I just read that people are doing runs on guns and ammo now. Time to haul out the old rifle I guess. If someone come looting my damn house for toilet paper and frozen pizza, they are going to get shot in the nuts.

As the coronavirus pandemic grows, gun sales are surging in many states

Some first-time gun buyers fear a social order breakdown and some gun owners worry about potential firearms restrictions amid the coronavirus pandemic.

www.latimes.com

 

[Blop]

Inslee’s measures in Washington may seem extreme but King County is a mess.


Public Health – Seattle & King County is reporting the following confirmed cases and deaths due to COVID-19 through 11:59 p.m. on 3/15/20.

• 488 confirmed cases (up 68 from yesterday)
• 43 confirmed deaths (up 6 from yesterday)

Update for March 16, 2020: New state and local Orders issued to protect residents’ health from COVID-19 - King County

www.kingcounty.gov

 

[Glad I couldn't help]

Apparently, the Dutch are aiming for herd immunity, no lockdown.

 

[TheClappening]

The issue is complex. But based on my own personal experiences with this issue, I have my suspicions that these folks lack some basic life skills.

For example, like 10 years ago, my husband and I were in line at the grocery store, on a Friday night, buying our weekly beans, bread, cheese, rice, onion and ground beef. In front of us were two women with 20 bucks worth of frozen TGI Fridays appetizers.

Just take a wild guess, as to who had EBT?

Another anecdote: the people across the street went into foreclosure. In California you can redeem recycled booze and cola bottles and cans, for a small refund. So hey, wanting to collect free cash, I bagged up all the recycling in their back yard.

What was back there? Jaw-dropping premium cocktails and beers ... stuff that sells for like $10 for a six-pack.

That is what they were getting drunk on, every night . ..

So I hope I answered your question.

Some of this is knowledge that is passed down from grandmother to aunts and mothers to their children ...

How to turn sausage and canned beans and an onion, into bean soup; how to eat a potato with your meat rather than eat more meat; how to bulk up a soup with rice and toasted stale bread; how to convert slightly old vegetables into a vegetable stock; etc. etc.

Instead, this morning in some parts of LA, you had lines in the supermarkets going out to the street.


Damn I wish I could go thru your checkout line. You are probably one of the entertaining ones.

It never ceases to amaze me how people younger than 40 don't know how to cook. They can burn water if given a chance.

As for anecdotes, was going to the local Lucky's to get something from the deli for my lunch. Saw the massive lines of people and noped right out of there.

And yes, I can see the irony about me going to somewhere to get food made for me.

 

[Honka Honka Burning Love]

It never ceases to amaze me how people younger than 40 don't know how to cook. They can burn water if given a chance.

Our Schools are failures, Absolute Failures.

I learned to cook from Good Eats, no really..Alton Brown taught me to cook when my school didn't.

 

[Jet Fuel Johnny]

Apparently, the Dutch are aiming for herd immunity, no lockdown.

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Well, at least humanitarian aid flights can land on the huge fucking twelve-head that motherfucker has.

 

[Feline Supremacist]

Re food stamps - Potential for civil unrest if, after waiting for their food money to arrive, the shops have bare shelves.

Trump declared a National Emergency which allows FEMA to access the Disaster Relief Fund. I'm assuming at some point people could get grants/loans and Mitt Romney would be SOL

 

[No. 7 cat]

As is typical of my horrible timing, I have something in transit from China.

But I found this, so hopefully this angle has been covered too.

Spoiler

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Still going to spray it with bleach when it arrives though.

Not to be too obvious, but when I see re-assurance from the whores of Ching-Chong, the WHO, I get worried. Bleach, bleach, bleach.

 

[TheClappening]

Our Schools are failures, Absolute Failures.

I learned to cook from Good Eats, no really..Alton Brown taught me to cook when my school didn't.

And it's not even Gorden Ramsey levels of cooking. Just knowing how to turn some flour, shortening, sugar, and salt into biscuits is a good knowledge to have.

 

[teriyakiburns]

Our Schools are failures, Absolute Failures.

I learned to cook from Good Eats, no really..Alton Brown taught me to cook when my school didn't.

I learned from Keith Floyd, so my cooking is mostly bizarre stews, any recipe that involves wine, and faggots, and I rarely eat sober. Bliss.

e. and my da. he was a line chef at the grosvenor in london, though mostly what I learned from him was how not to get shanked by the head and how to throw knives at people without killing them.

 

[Feline Supremacist]

So de Blasio, the inept, treadmill addicted bumbling mayor of NYC, is ecstatic at the prospect of larping as FDR during The Depression/WWII. Or maybe he wants to emulate Stalin/Mao/Castro and force us to use ration cuopons (when I suggested that I meant for essential products like bleach, TP/tissues, hand sanitizer and alcohol/hydrogen peroxide which scalpers were hoarding but that would require the city to enforce price gouging statues by law enforcement)

Bill de Blasio says the coronavirus pandemic is 'one part the Great Recession, one part the Great Depression, one part the 1918 flu epidemic'

"We have to understand this as a pure war footing, right down to rationing if you need it," the mayor told MSNBC on Monday morning.

www.businessinsider.com

"The Great Depression and the New Deal are very instructive here," the mayor told MSNBC. "I'm not saying bread lines, but let's be clear, we're getting close to a reality where the government has to ensure that the food supply is not only available, but that it's equitably distributed."

I'm doomed. The Commies have won.

 

[mindlessobserver]

Our Schools are failures, Absolute Failures.

I learned to cook from Good Eats, no really..Alton Brown taught me to cook when my school didn't.

What's amazing to me though is that people cant seem to take advantage of the hoard of recipes online for stuff. Most of them tend to be straight foreword. Obviously you need some knowledge. Making bread comes to mind. Bread is so finicky that to do it correctly requires a near ritualized process. With every baking different. Still.

I think the most shocking thing is how many people don't know how to make basic bitch rice. Gently wash the rice first to get the dust and excess husk off, throw in pot. 2 part water to 1 part rice. Bring to boil in covered pot and slowly reduce temperature at a simmer until the water has completely evaporated, opening every few minutes to stir.

Easy. Takes 15 minutes. Shocking to me how I seem to be the only person in my social circle who can do it. And in times like this people say "buy 20 pounds of rice". Which is not bad advice provided you know what to do with it.

 

[teriyakiburns]

opening every few minutes to stir.

DO NOT

Though this rant depends on the rice.

 

[mindlessobserver]

DO NOT

Though this rant depends on the rice.

Really? I've found if I dont do that I end up with rice porridge instead of loose grains. I am usually cooking with basic long grain or basmati though