crimsonlonghorn

I typically don't think "price gouging" is a real thing, but canceling existing orders is a whole other level of bullshit. That's terrible.

It is funny how that old man (disclaimer: no idea if he is actually old) has been saying in his emails forever how "price are low, buy now before there's another shortage they go up!" and now there is a shortage and prices have gone up. Good on him.

Mrs CL is PISSED that HEB curbside does not have all of the organic gourmet ingredients that she wants to cook with. Because, you know, it's not like supply chains are stressed or anything. You'd think the unavailability of frozen puff pastry, canned organic tomatoes, and ham hocks would be something we could easily deal with. But of course not. And somehow it's my fault. As usual. Also she doesn't understand that the last minute 'add-ons' they allow count multiple quantities of the same thing separately. If I only get 10 items to add on, asking for 6 cans of cream of mushroom soup counts as 6 separate items. Also my fault.

The meanest rooster I have right now is a barred rock. No damn raccoons going to ever get any of his girls unless he dies first.

Received my latest hoarding purchase today, made just under a month ago right before all of this panic buying started up. 1000 x 9mm 115gr, 1000 x 45 ACP 230gr, 1500 x .223 V-Max 55gr Strangely enough, they called and said the .308 A-Max 168gr was on backorder but should be shipped this week. There really is a run on ammo. Mrs CL was joking over the weekend that she used to think my ammo habit was "kooky" but now she "understands it better". I'll take that. Also, Academy is still limiting online purchases to 3 boxes, so my 20 ga #9 AA skeet ammo source is still out of commission, but the slightly more expensive 4 cases I ordered from Grabagun showed up in just 2 days last week (sales tax + $12.99 flat shipping) and I learned today that Cabelas has a similar free shipping offer to Academy so I ordered 4 more cases. Still ~50 cents more per box, but even with sales tax the free shipping makes a huge difference compared to other places where the shipping adds another 40-80% to the cost of the ammo itself. (I have not tried just making multiple orders individual boxes from Academy. Probably should.)

Frankly, I think it's a ways away, at least on a wide scale. In the past this wouldn't have mattered as much because we wouldn't have shut down the world over a new virus. A lot more people would have died and the virus would have burned through the population a lot faster, but the flip side is that people would have just adapted and society would have just moved on despite the deaths and illnesses. Then a few years later the antibody test comes out - along with a vaccine - and our public health incrementally would have improved in the long run at about the same rate it's eventually going to learn and improve from this. The difference being now, instead of adapting to risk and accepting risk and getting on with life at the expense of a large death toll, our society tries to minimize risk and contain it, so the "need" for antibody medicine seems a lot more acute since we are all sitting around with our thumbs in or asses waiting to be told its safe to go outside.

I am personally inclined to agree with you on that but had I said that originally there would have been criticism of that part and my main point - that some population of people getting rejected from testing right now still have it - would have been ignored.

I think a lot of "at risk" people will be surprised when antibody tests finally start to become available. I think many folks who can't get a test right now will be vindicated when antibody tests finally become available. The positive rate on the current tests is low and I'm sure not having contact reduces that number even further (probably by a lot), but there have got to be some people who do have it and aren't getting tests.

https://www.tmz.com/2020/03/27/kirk-herbstreit-nfl-football-college/

I've wondered this myself lately. Pretty much given up any hope of our Little League having a 2020 season and I think HS and CFB and NFL are next on the chopping block. I hope I'm wrong. That said, I think this illness is going to be with us for a long time, perhaps forever, and society is just going to eventually have to accept it and adapt. It might not be in 2020 but at some point there will be enough immune individuals that it's going to be like Chicken Pox used to be before there was a vaccine. Easier on the kids than the adults and something that everyone has to go through as part of growing up with occasional flareups in different places like locker rooms and colleges. Eventually we will get a vaccine and then it will become just another serious virus that we are aware of but not that worried about, but that's a long way away.

I've noticed that people are much more wiling to open up and participate in this thread than they are in the "I think I have ED thread".

Best of luck to her. I had really nasty strep infection in January that lasted almost two weeks and required two increases in antibiotic strength to knock it completely out and it was miserable. Funny how that's considered good news by today's standards.

Just learned that someone I know got diagnosed today. Also after visiting Colorado.

I'll do it for you. Fuck those vicious little bastards.

Define "in trouble" and "soon" and "shit hits" and then I'll happily discuss some kind of wager or scoreboard to keep track of these dire predictions.

At least. It's something of an investment since you have to care for them for several months before you ever start seeing anything in return. The chicks I picked up in August after our raccoon invasion just started laying in February. And I have a dozen BC marans that I got at the start of the year and I expect them to start laying sometime in May/June. They are halfway there. But, all that said, it's still a fun hobby.

Agreed, but why not just tell everyone who is sick to quarantine, regardless of what the illness is? If we had an unlimited number of tests, then sure. That's a good use for an individual test. But if the number is limited, which appears to be the case, then I think we would benefit more from getting a population-level estimate of the prevalence rather than confirming the need for quarantine on an individual level.

I just posted about testing in the other thread. I don't understand at all what the utility of testing already sick people is and just publishing the positives since that doesn't provide any sort of statistical information about the actual prevalence of spread in the general population. If and when we have an antibody test, that DEFINITELY needs to be deployed randomly to get an idea of the distribution of the disease. The way we are doing tests right now just makes no sense at all to me, especially since the treatment is more or less the same no matter what the underlying cause may be.

Then don't buy from them? If only grocery stores would raise the price of toilet paper right now.

There won’t be any mass shootings, that’s for sure.

Saint is a nice gun. I'm personally interested in their .308 AR10 but can't justify the $$$ compared to just buying another one from PSA. That said, a cheap 12 gauge pump gun usually sn't a bad choice.

With HEB running short, this here Chinese Virus has been great for the egg business. My hens are laying 3-4 dozen every day and we are selling every single one. Quite a few people have come by and asked to buy the actual chickens. Not happening dude.