Flow-Rider
Burner
I'm blaming Trump the dirty prick for Bestiality.
COVID-19: who’s going full doomsday prep on this?
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gippyz
Likes Dirt
The butcher down the road said all meat prices are up by $5/kg. At the time of need like these days (yeah thanks to those stupid toss on the street selfishly stock pilling and leave nothing for others) you would think that's immoral, but then if demand increase, price generally follows.
Went to Aldi this morning to get couple of milks, to find only a few left and the meat and tin food shelves are cleaned up. Checkouts are confiscating instant noodles, pasta, and rice.
Well the dog will have to be satisfied with just normal biscuits for now and I will have to go vegan soon.
Went to Aldi this morning to get couple of milks, to find only a few left and the meat and tin food shelves are cleaned up. Checkouts are confiscating instant noodles, pasta, and rice.
Well the dog will have to be satisfied with just normal biscuits for now and I will have to go vegan soon.
Nerf Herder
Wheel size expert
Saw a stat today that commodities ... Iron, coal, aluminium et al ... are actually doing pretty go both price and shipped volume wise.
silentbutdeadly
has some good things to say
Lamb and beef prices are going up but Covid-19 has nothing to do with it.
You may remember there was this drought. That meant that, for a while, meat has been cheaper because feeding it when it was breathing was really expensive. But now, in some places, it has rained. So now, farmers are trying to get stock from those who could afford to hang on to get something to eat the grass that is mysteriously growing...but they haven't got the coin either.
And now there's not enough paper to go around and make sure those cow arses are clean...
Hyperbole meter going off the scale.I made an argument last week or so that the virus may not have originally transferred to humans in Wuhan. It was soundly rejected by the peanut gallery. Popular opinion is it happened in the wet markets of Wuhan .... so who should we blame for the virus that is apparently the result of an abhorrent and retarded cultural practice?
Oh that's right, the US President .....
By calling it the Chinese virus, the President is creating a new argument to divert attention away from the gross mishandling of the outbreak in the US (it's a hoax, it will disappear in Summer, etc.)
The reason why calling it the Chinese virus is damaging is because cases of racism against American Chinese are skyrocketing in the US. Further division is not a great idea during a global health crisis, a leader creates solutions, not more problems - see first sentence of this post.
FigBo0T
Puts verniers on his headtube
I hadn't heard that they'd been ruled out. Intradasting. I'm sure the vital organs were distributed at a fair price though.
FigBo0T
Puts verniers on his headtube
You apparently missed the tongue-in-cheek element of the hyperbole. It was directed at PP after all.
_______
Is an alien from 2007
you basing that sweeping generalisation on this one preprint in bioRxiv (i.e., not even peer reviewed)?
Reinfection could not occur in SARS-CoV-2 infected rhesus macaques
An outbreak of the Corona Virus Disease 2019 (COVID-19), caused by the severe acute respiratory syndrome CoV-2 (SARS-CoV-2), began in Wuhan and spread globally. Recently, it has been reported that discharged patients in China and elsewhere were testing positive after recovering. However, it...
www.biorxiv.org
I'm not a macaque so I'll keep waiting for more evidence.
I think something that starts at 30x average flu mortality with room for improvement if your government only thinks in single digit case growth is either more than one rung above the common cold or your ladder is missing some serious rungs. I get that you might be just answering "is it that bad" for the average person but that's a bit like saying "oh yodelling is just a mildly irritating form of singing" when the rate at which people are doing it until they take an ICU bed for 3 weeks is increasing by tens of thousands per day. The scale totally matters, even if most people are not aware that we're innately shit at comprehending the difference, and that in density waves the effect of throughput and reestablishing equilibrium disappear extremely quickly outside a certain range. Ever seen a stupidly slow jam persist in heavy traffic for ages after an accident has been cleared? That, but the stopped cars are preventable deaths.
I'm not trying to shout you or anyone else down, if you disagree with my reasoning good on you, fine. If you're arguing a point like above from a pretty narrow evidence base but making it sound authoritative then yes, sorry, I'll take you to task for it because that sort of "she'llberightism" (+ a little of their standard racism) is what got Europe where they are now, is still unduly influencing policy here, and at the end of the day helps no one, just supports this lament:
"Oh we're fucking the economy for no reason"
Well, you had 4 dry runs to warm you up since 2003, you knew about this one 3 months ago, and had a good idea how it compared to your practice tests by mid Jan, your economy has a slowdown every year (meeting on 29/12 anyone? no? why? oh! Special Days!) which you somehow seem to navigate without going bonkers or making ScoMo do ConcernFace and this sort of "oh it's a beat up" BS is why none of that mattered, and the wheels came off.
I grade you 2/10 for forward planning, 3/10 for adaptability to large scale threat, 1/10 for team work, for an average Global Crisis Score of 2/10. For comparison you did better this round than sauropods long-term average by 1.8/10, but I expected more, and it's not looking good for you guys once netflix goes tits up in May.
FigBo0T
Puts verniers on his headtube
Litenbror
Eats Squid
You recon he is using metal or sintered pads? Either way they should last ages.
tobbogonist
a registered member
The sentiment has always been there but folks now seem to be happy to just say it out in the open now.
Yep apparently the Chinese are chartering buses to small country towns and buying all the produce to send back home to China.
safreek
*******
HEY, not all of us are dirty
SummitFever
Eats Squid
As things get worse we will unfortunately get to see how truly ugly some people are. This sort of racism is a classic way to blame others for your own mistakes.
franco cozzo
Likes Dirt
think i might put in a wiggle order this morning before they adjust prices to the new au...
still gonna be riding this autumn/winter ....even if it is bloody indoors
still gonna be riding this autumn/winter ....even if it is bloody indoors
hifiandmtb
Sphincter beanie
gippyz
Likes Dirt
True, but this butcher specifically said the price up is due to the virus. In fact it only went up yesterday, the first time I saw massive queue in the butcher and empty trays on display.
Butcher (the small guys) wholesale prices may well have been jacked up because the supermarket companies have bought / contracted more stock at a higher price. I doubt the butcher would advertise that their prices have gone up because of COVID if they had done it for no reason other than to increase their profits, they’re not idiots.