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Pennywise the Frown posted:Yeah that should be interesting to see how Trump forces people back to work. If they're really so hosed with all of their workers out sick, then like.... wtf are they supposed to do? Exactly what they did do. Make an announcement that the supply chain is breaking and to be ready to not eat McDonald burgs anytime soon.
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r u ready to WALK posted:Americans gonna start eating their pets before they give up that bacon If the end result of this pandemic is that Americans start buying wild-caught animals from illicit wet markets like it's a goddamn meat prohibition I'm going to be amused but also angry
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Rolo posted:Do any projected shortages affect milk and eggs? There's already hiccups in the milk supply chain. They've been throwing out milk because they couldn't ship it.
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Apr 29, 2020 18:08
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Chomp8645 posted:"No meat" is not even a forecasted problem. It's just "less meat". Finally, Americans can once again ask "where's the beef?"
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Apr 29, 2020 18:09
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Snowglobe of Doom posted:If the end result of this pandemic is that Americans start buying wild-caught animals from illicit wet markets like it's a goddamn meat prohibition I'm going to be amused but also angry Huh, you know this bat tastes pretty drat good if you stew it long enough
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Apr 29, 2020 18:11
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Pennywise the Frown posted:Yeah that should be interesting to see how Trump forces people back to work. If they're really so hosed with all of their workers out sick, then like.... wtf are they supposed to do? Slavery probably lmao
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Colonel Cancer posted:Slavery probably lmao I was thinking legalized scabs but yeah prison labour could work too
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Snowglobe of Doom posted:If the end result of this pandemic is that Americans start buying wild-caught animals from illicit wet markets like it's a goddamn meat prohibition I'm going to be amused but also angry I'm pretty sure people eating roadkill has been a thing in many places in America for a while now.
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I’ve been low key thinking of quitting all red meat for the last few months. Outside of the occasional burger or burrito I don’t really eat it or keep it at home anyways. Chicken is so easy and tuna is like right there ready to go.
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Apr 29, 2020 18:13
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Rolo posted:I’ve been low key thinking of quitting all red meat for the last few months. Outside of the occasional burger or burrito I don’t really eat it or keep it at home anyways. Tuna is pretty high in heavy metals. Sardines or sprats are a pretty good alternative.
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Apr 29, 2020 18:14
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Why is it so much worse in the US? No European country had shortages beyond short term shocks caused by hoarding. And deaths per million are 50-400% higher in several European countries.
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Apr 29, 2020 18:14
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NihilismNow posted:Why is it so much worse in the US? No European country had shortages beyond short term shocks caused by hoarding. And deaths per million are 50-400% higher in several European countries. Incompetent leadership who have mismanaged every aspect of the crisis.
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Apr 29, 2020 18:16
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Less people more meat for all. Meat is destructive towards the planet but I’m selfish and do not wish to eat less meat.
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COVID-420 posted:Incompetent leadership who have mismanaged every aspect of the crisis. but also, way more extensive and lengthy supply chains.
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Apr 29, 2020 18:19
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NihilismNow posted:Why is it so much worse in the US? No European country had shortages beyond short term shocks caused by hoarding. And deaths per million are 50-400% higher in several European countries. It's because we're literally all idiots who are all so greedy, shortsighted, and indolent, that we just assume that everything will be fine and that the disease will miraculously just go away.
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i have to work with p much 50/50 american and european vendors at work and the americans are always like borderline mentally challenged and working by the hour and the europeans always show up on salary or paid by the job with their own beautiful tools, do the thing in 2 hours, leave and go on to the next job, and are just like 500x smarter and also generally about half the price bc they use fewer, better people. northern europeans anyway
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Inept posted:shovelbum reminding us that we haven't talked about killing cats in a while https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I47floRRAFs
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Famethrowa posted:but also, way more extensive and lengthy supply chains. Yeah the us is uh kinda big. That said not hearing of the same problems yet in Canada which is even bigger and with a more diffuse population so I guess we have that to look forward to.
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NihilismNow posted:Why is it so much worse in the US? No European country had shortages beyond short term shocks caused by hoarding. And deaths per million are 50-400% higher in several European countries. -Every state is doing something different
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Famethrowa posted:but also, way more extensive and lengthy supply chains. Almost forgot that America was exceptional, thank you.
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FlamingLiberal posted:-Zero federal leadership. If anything they have been actually hurting things. Yeah. Even a half-competent upper echelon could have enacted some sweeping measures. Instead we get our big wet boy talking about how many tests there are, screaming at reporters asking the softest of softballs, and general whining about how everyone is so unfair.
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COVID-420 posted:Almost forgot that America was exceptional, thank you. please buy a map someday you'll learn some neat stuff like "the US is a stupidly gigantic country"
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13Pandora13 posted:The cool thing about, for example, the Smithfield class action suit https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/smithfield-foods-sued-over-working-conditions-missouri-during-coronavirus-n1191796 is that very little media is reporting the fact that the suit isn't seeking money... Smithfield Foods is one of the most cartoonishly evil megacorps in the US. Their hog farms/toxic waste pits/poo poo ponds cover pretty much the entire eastern half of North Carolina from I95 to the coast and are primarily responsible for the biohazard dumping and resulting algal blooms that occasionally wipe out all marine life on the NC coast. And despite the massive loss of coastal income and livelihoods nobody gives a poo poo because they're so well paid-up with GOP politicians in the legislature. gently caress them forever. There's a great article out there about some investigative journalist visiting their poisoned hellscape and struggling to breathe even while flying overhead in a helicopter. It's some real Upton Sinclair poo poo.
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NihilismNow posted:Why is it so much worse in the US? No European country had shortages beyond short term shocks caused by hoarding. And deaths per million are 50-400% higher in several European countries.  and this Time_pants posted:It's because we're literally all idiots who are all so greedy, shortsighted, and indolent, that we just assume that everything will be fine and that the disease will miraculously just go away.
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Did a bunch of Irish actually die from a potato famine or is that just an exaggeration? Just wondering how America will fare with a chicken nugget famine.
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Duck and Cover posted:Less people more meat for all. Meat is destructive towards the planet but I’m selfish and do not wish to eat less meat. 
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Who's ready to party on May 1 when the US opens back up!?
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Iron Crowned posted:Who's ready to party on May 1 when the US opens back up!? Oh boy its a weekend too
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Iron Crowned posted:Who's ready to party on May 1 when the US opens back up!? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H5bRJ9BaTF8
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The UK just changed the way they're reporting COVID-19 deaths, previously they were only counting verified hospital deaths reported by the NHS but they just decided to include all the deaths that weren't in NHS hospitals so their official count suddenly leapt from 21,678 COVID-19 deaths to 26,097. https://coronavirus.data.gov.uk/ https://coronavirus.data.gov.uk/about  https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/#countries That's ...... a bit of a surge
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shovelbum posted:i have to work with p much 50/50 american and european vendors at work and the americans are always like borderline mentally challenged and working by the hour and the europeans always show up on salary or paid by the job with their own beautiful tools, do the thing in 2 hours, leave and go on to the next job, and are just like 500x smarter and also generally about half the price bc they use fewer, better people. northern europeans anyway There's a fun story about Toyota choosing Canada over the US for a new plant, partly because of universal healthcare, partly because American workers were borderline illiterate. Scaramouche posted:Yeah the us is uh kinda big. The biggest outbreaks in Alberta are coming from 2 meat packing plants so that's cool.
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Snowglobe of Doom posted:The UK just changed the way they're reporting COVID-19 deaths, previously they were only counting verified hospital deaths reported by the NHS but they just decided to include all the deaths that weren't in NHS hospitals so their official count suddenly leapt from 21,678 COVID-19 deaths to 26,097. Lmao limey fucks think they can just try and catch up by changing the rules 
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My friend who was stuck on a ventilator due to lung blood clotting was able to have surgery and survived. Still have not heard for sure if it was COVID. If I had it like I thought it was a mild case and only lasted two and a half days. I am in Texas and we are gearing up to open up. My job fell under essential services (one of our divisions makes ventilators and PPE) but fortunately the company is acting sanely. The few people who have to be in the office are vital to keeping things going and no one wants to risk an infection in that group. They also gave us two weeks of coronavirus PTO time if your immediate family or anyone you care for got sick. I think they will have me keep working from home. Part of me wants to go back. All the fun parts of my job are troubleshooting problems with equipment in the office but I should probably stay home. Downside they finally hired someone to take over about two-thirds of my job that was supposed to move to another part of the state so I have to try to transfer almost a decade's worth of knowledge to some poor sap in a series of Skype sessions. This will be fun. In local coronavirus news the mayors of Fort Worth and Dallas are trying one-up each other in their press briefings, we picked a fight with Colorado. Cases are on the rise and we open in two days. A judge and a bunch of other people are urging people to still stay home as much as possible. The governor appears to believe we can start extensive contact tracing in two days to stamp this thing out despite our still limited testing capability. Uh-huh, sure.
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I had a dream last night I was at a beach party with all my old post college apartment complex neighbors and old friends. 
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Devian666 posted:I think the trick is to get every meat worker sick so the meat processing plants shut down for months. Then with collapse of the food supply throughout the US this becomes the fastest path to revolution. All the second amendment freaks better show up to the revolution rather than pussy out. If the second amendment freaks show up it will be to force meat plant workers back to work at gunpoint so that they can have barbecued pork at the kegger they’re planning to celebrate the purchase of a new diesel pickup truck.
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Hazo posted:Lmao limey fucks think they can just try and catch up by changing the rules Don't worry the US just passed 60,000 deaths, there's no way the UK will ever close the gap now  
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