Covid-19

Polar Bear said:
You have any idea how many pounds of bacon I have cooked in 3 weeks? About 15lbs and I got 3 lbs in the fridge to cook later
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Nice! You ever make you own? Last year I was doing the keto thing and realized how pricey bacon was getting. So during the fall I got my hands on some pork loins, prague powder, and made British rasher and Canadian Maple bacon.

If you have fridge space and a vacuum sealer it might be a fun little project. There are plenty of recipes online and by the end of quarantine you'll end up with some homemade bacon. If pork prices are falling, I'd try to jump on that situation and maybe even learn how to make sausage and other swine products.

Quarantine and social distancing sucks, but hey maybe more Americans will transition to making more food at home.

@Devildoc It's awesome that pork is well priced over there. I noticed that grocery prices were always higher on the coasts.
 
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R.Caerbannog said:
Nice! You ever make you own? Last year I was doing the keto thing and realized how pricey bacon was getting. So during the fall I got my hands on some pork loins, prague powder, and made British rasher and Canadian Maple bacon.

If you have fridge space and a vacuum sealer it might be a fun little project. There are plenty of recipes online and by the end of quarantine you'll end up with some homemade bacon. If pork prices are falling, I'd try to jump on that situation and maybe even learn how to make sausage and other swine products.

Quarantine and social distancing sucks, but hey maybe more Americans will transition to making more food at home.

@Devildoc It's awesome that pork is well priced over there. I noticed that grocery prices were always higher on the coasts.
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I usually buy from the butcher
 
Well it's only been a matter of time. The Emergencies Act is our version of Martial Law, replaced the War Measures Act.

The Emergencies Act — which came into effect in 1988 — gives the federal government sweeping powers to regulate or prohibit travel, requisition and use property, order qualified people to provide essential services, regulate the distribution of goods, resources and services and establish emergency shelters and hospitals.
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https://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/emergencies-act-province-letter-1.5526496
 
Democrats, again, delay opportunity for additional funds to help small businesses until they can add pork to the spending.

Senate adjourns until Monday after Democrats block McConnell's bid to add $250 billion in small business aid

This is ridiculous. The USG issued “guidance“ which State governors followed and NOW a business owner has to suck up to politicians in order to get funds to keep their business afloat.

@Ooh-Rah , Madam Speaker says your friends don’t need the money.

Nancy Pelosi Claims There’s ‘No Data’ To Prove Small Businesses Need More Emergency Funds
 
RackMaster said:
Well it's only been a matter of time. The Emergencies Act is our version of Martial Law, replaced the War Measures Act.



https://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/emergencies-act-province-letter-1.5526496
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We have the same here, The Biosecurity Act 2017. I don't think we'll get there as our courts are still designated an essential service. The basis of these Acts is to use any means to mitigate the threat (whatever it is) & really I'm not that concerned with the measures. IMO it's not about the Left restricting freedom of choice etc., but rather getting over the crisis. More of a concern is our Reserve Bank initiated Quantitative Easing about a week ago.
 
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RackMaster said:
America was hit with COVID-19 from two continents, studies suggest
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I'm having a hard time finding the link, but a couple weeks ago I found something showing the mutation/strains of Corona/COVID-19 and even then there were already 8 distinct strains IIRC.

Slate Star Codex, which I've written about before in my erisology thread, has probably the best info, data, and takes on Corona available on the internet.

Check a few of these posts out to get a sense, then keep an eye on the site - there's a new corona update just about every week:

March 2: CORONAVIRUS: LINKS, SPECULATION, OPEN THREAD
March 19: CORONALINKS 3/19/20
March 23: FACE MASKS: MUCH MORE THAN YOU WANTED TO KNOW
March 27: CORONALINKS 3/27/20: WE’RE NUMBER ONE
April 10: CORONALINKS 4/10: SECOND DERIVATIVE

This is a site where it's definitely worth looking through the comments. You'll find thoughts on and links to all kinds of stats, data visualizations, and studies (on any topic, but on these posts it's pretty much all corona, all the time).
 

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