Posted on 03/02/2020 9:32:16 AM PST by Kaslin
This one works, also.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soylent_Green
You forgot Y2K
The boy down the street was very good in school and his dream job was to work for the CDC. After finishing college he got his dream job at the CDC and moved to Atlanta. The following summer, I was driving by his parents house and he was cutting the grass. I stopped and said, “Peter, I though you were in Atlanta at the CDC.”
He answered, “I was, but people get sick and die there too often, so I quit before it was me.”
I asked him what he does now. He works for a local company that makes Mentholatum.
Honestly,I am not worried about it. My husband and I are both senior citizens. He’ll be 83 in April, are staying at home, and our son takes me twice a month grocery shopping.
One other nit to pick; your choice of wines.
For the “elite class,” (Hillary, ValJar, any of the Kennedy clan, etc.) I might go with the Chianti.
For ordinary deplorables, (you, me, most FReepers, etc) I would serve Boone’s Farm Blue Hawaiian.
I take two medications. I have a 15 month supply of the most essential and a 5 month supply of the other. Which is all I can have because it has a short shelf life.
Skip a night at the bar, a night out to eat, or a couple of family trips to McDonalds...and buy some pasta, sauce, rice, soup, and frozen fruit juice. Budget adjusted.
Of course we know a lot of people’s lack of savings has nothing to do with income, and they won’t even do that.
“The average person out there will be out of household supplies and food in less than a week. Particularly paycheck-to-paycheck apartment dwellers.”
A challenge in a situation like this if it occurs is getting people to self-quarantine.
And yeah, you can do better, but it hits ‘good enough’ to keep things from getting dire - unless you absolutely need that kale smoothie.
If you’ve got good nutrition to begin with, and mix in your normal diet with the ‘supplies’ most everyone’s body can handle even a month or two with no side effects. A few might require laxatives.
Some are more interested in getting the newest Apple phone and purchasing all the available apps it supports, also all the video streaming services, which cost beaucoup dollars monthly. Getting food and medical supplies (the necessities of life) isn’t high on the priority list for those of this ilk. But if shortages and inconveniences occur, these individuals will scream and moan (and loot) the most.
So how are bills going to be paid if your quarantined for a month of more?
Vaseline or any like substance.
Got prepared. Have plenty of Corona and lime on tap. Ready to party!
This is a fairly balanced column.
“I was, but people get sick and died there too often, so I quit before it was me.”
I worked for a shipping company that had a number of chemical carriers. Too many young healthy chief mates dying of cancer. I declined the transfer to one of them when offered, before it was me.
And during the Ebola controversy when ever you went to the Pharmacy at Fort Campbell, Kentucky to pick up medicine you were asked if you had been out of the country and especially in Africa. Of course we hadn't been anywhere.
Use Bacardi Lemon instead of a lime in your Corona. It takes the Mexican out of the beer, and you don’t look totally poofy with a lime in your bottle. :-)
FEAR MONGERING
Do we have quarantines for the common cold?
Do we have quarantines for pneumonia? 50,000 deaths per year, 5% death rate of infected people.
“CDC: 80,000 people died of flu last winter in U.S., highest death toll in 40 years”
Don’t be fooled by stats. This number probably INCLUDES the 50,000 deaths from plain old pneumonia.
CDC.gov was not helpful.
CDC does not count how many people die from flu each year.
This system tracks the proportion of death certificates processed that list PNEUMONIA OR influenza
(CDC) does not provide an exact number of how many people died from flu
https://www.statnews.com/2018/09/26/cdc-us-flu-deaths-winter/
“CDC does not count how many people die from flu each year. Unlike flu deaths in children, flu deaths in adults are not nationally reportable. However, CDC uses mortality data collected by the National Center for Health Statistics to monitor relative levels of flu-associated deaths. This system tracks the proportion of death certificates processed that list pneumonia or influenza as the underlying or contributing cause of death of the total deaths reported. This system provides an overall indication of whether flu-associated deaths are elevated, but does not provide an exact number of how many people died from flu.”
https://www.statnews.com/2018/09/26/cdc-us-flu-deaths-winter/
Don’t get caught up in the HYPE!
Haha! They may look at me funny in the supermarket if I ask for a Bacardi Lemon.
So how are bills going to be paid if your quarantined for a month of more?
Online via our bank which we have been doing for about 3 decades going back to Check Free.
We basically charge everything to two credit cards. We pay them monthly via the bank online.
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