@Flash wrote:
The bureaucracy around testing--perhaps because of the shortage of test kits?--means that we had a local death from COVID-19 before the test results came back to 'officially' announce there was a local case. The deceased 'travelled abroad' but no information given of where or when or what they had been doing over the past several weeks. Do our bureaucrats think they are preventing public concern when they don't recognize our need to know to protect our own health and the health of others? What a way to run a pandemic!
@walesmaven wrote:
In anticipation of local self-quarantine possibilities, I bought some extra staples. NO not TP or bottled water. Canned tomatoes, canned pinto and black beans, all purpose flour, ground beef, lentils, onions, celery, chicken; canned tuna, corn bread mix, baking soda; those sorts of things. I have plenty of noodles and pasta on hand and will add a small supply of packaged, long shelf life milk when I am out tomorrow
@KathyG wrote:
Our pantry has plenty of dried beans and lentils. I shop for fresh produce three times a week, but if push came to shove I could do without. However, a blog I read earlier today reminded me that I should stock up on cat food. We typically have about a week's worth in the house.
@walesmaven wrote:
In anticipation of local self-quarantine possibilities, I bought some extra staples. NO not TP or bottled water. Canned tomatoes, canned pinto and black beans, all purpose flour, ground beef, lentils, onions, celery, chicken; canned tuna, corn bread mix, baking soda; those sorts of things. I have plenty of noodles and pasta on hand and will add a small supply of packaged, long shelf life milk when I am out tomorrow
@SoCalMama wrote:
@KathyG wrote:
Our pantry has plenty of dried beans and lentils. I shop for fresh produce three times a week, but if push came to shove I could do without. However, a blog I read earlier today reminded me that I should stock up on cat food. We typically have about a week's worth in the house.
@walesmaven wrote:
In anticipation of local self-quarantine possibilities, I bought some extra staples. NO not TP or bottled water. Canned tomatoes, canned pinto and black beans, all purpose flour, ground beef, lentils, onions, celery, chicken; canned tuna, corn bread mix, baking soda; those sorts of things. I have plenty of noodles and pasta on hand and will add a small supply of packaged, long shelf life milk when I am out tomorrow
I thought about cat food too, but we have about 20 pounds of fresh caught tuna in the freezer for the cat.![]()
He'd have to deal with it if push came to shove. Usually, we only grill it for him in the summertime with some EVOO.
Cat litter, I guess I'd need. We only have indoor cats in my area. The rest are coyote food.
@Insight wrote:
I wish I had only lost $1200 in the market these few weeks. You only lose it if you seel it. It will come back. Just takes time.
@SoCalMama wrote:
@KathyG wrote:
Our pantry has plenty of dried beans and lentils. I shop for fresh produce three times a week, but if push came to shove I could do without. However, a blog I read earlier today reminded me that I should stock up on cat food. We typically have about a week's worth in the house.
@walesmaven wrote:
In anticipation of local self-quarantine possibilities, I bought some extra staples. NO not TP or bottled water. Canned tomatoes, canned pinto and black beans, all purpose flour, ground beef, lentils, onions, celery, chicken; canned tuna, corn bread mix, baking soda; those sorts of things. I have plenty of noodles and pasta on hand and will add a small supply of packaged, long shelf life milk when I am out tomorrow
I thought about cat food too, but we have about 20 pounds of fresh caught tuna in the freezer for the cat.![]()
He'd have to deal with it if push came to shove. Usually, we only grill it for him in the summertime with some EVOO.
Cat litter, I guess I'd need. We only have indoor cats in my area. The rest are coyote food.
@2stepps wrote:
Maybe all of those preppers were right yo need to have a couple of weeks food stashed away. Better if it is a couple of months. Bet the people in China wished they had of thought of that.
@Niner wrote:
Your cats agree to use that litter? Was there any transition phase?
@Niner wrote:
I don't think I can "hand pick" those..hah
The scooper is bad enough
@Niner wrote:
My school district is near the epicenter of the outbreak.
@SteveSoCal wrote:
@Texans wrote:
There is a biological weapons lab located in Wuhan. Several major news agencies have confirmed that the virus escaped from this lab. Fox News was the first.
This has been debunked and starts to fall under a politically based post when you start quoting Fox news:
[www.nytimes.com]
Please do a little research before making statements like that.....
@SteveSoCal wrote:
@iShop123 wrote:
Johns Hopkins has a breakdown of the virus (for which there is evidence that it may indeed have originated in a lab, but whose purposes we can only speculate - one source is Al-Jazeera), and very few young people have died. It's mostly the over-60 crowd, with a high concentration of 80+. If you're healthy and/or young, you likely don't need to worry. eta: Can't find the JH link right now
The JH link to mapping the virus is here:
[systems.jhu.edu]
There is no mention of it originating in a lab...because that's a completely debunked conspiracy theory, and it would be great if forum members could please stop posting conspiracy theories that serve no productive purpose.
If you simply do a search for 2019-nCoV originating in a lab you will see plenty of articles debunking said theories...like this one from factcheck.org:
[www.factcheck.org]
First posting guideline: Be honest.
If you can post baseless theories to a forum, you have all the tools need to find articles from trustworthy sources...