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If it is true that the actual increase overall is 1.5%, that's not "skyrocketing". It's 75 cents on a $50 grocery bill.And yes, I was at the grocery store a few days ago. And I buy all of my meat at a local butcher who seems to have plenty of supply.
This is scary stuff. Stalinist stuff. Putinish stuff. Name a murderous despot, and this is the kind of stuff he pulled.I guess President Pandemic has little choice but to charge his predecessor with unnamed crimes now, though. He is one of the most disapproved-of presidents since approval polls were born 70+ years ago, and his inaction and lies contributed to a crisis that will result in the deaths of 100K+ Americans.He spent 8 years trying (and failing) to prove that his predecessor was a Kenyan Muslim, so he might as well take another crack at him here. As he liked to say before pushing a deadly, unvetted drug on COVID-19 patients (but a drug he no longer mentions because somebody finally was able to convince him that it was deadly and unvetted): What does he have to lose?
Transparency used to matter, why doesn't it now?
Agreed. Let’s see POTUS’ tax returns.
According to the Department of Labor and Statistics, meat and poultry prices were up 4.3% in April. Baked goods, cereals, were up 3%...etc....prices have been up significantly.
I am not arguing whether or not grocery prices are up are not. My point was that this news show began a story declaring that grocery prices had skyrocketed, and then went on to say that the actual increase was 1.5%.
That's not quite true.The head of IDPH discussed this yesterday.“There are also some additional deaths that happen in someone who happened to be COVID positive, but where the COVID infection had nothing to do with the deaths,” she said. “So we are at IDPH trying to remove those obvious cases where the COVID diagnosis was not the reason for the death. If there was a gunshot wound, if there was a motor vehicle accident, we know that that was not related to the COVID positive status.“We are trying to make sure that things that aren’t related at all to the COVID diagnosis are removed, but if someone has another illness, like heart disease, and then had a stroke or other event, it’s not as easy to separate that and say COVID didn’t exacerbate that existing illness. That would not be removed from the count,” she added. https://www.nbcchicago.com/news/coronavirus/dr-ngozi-ezike-refutes-notion-that-illinois-is-over-counting-covid-19-deaths/2270810/
Have we every quarantined the healthy before? A few more doctors asking that question again. Doesn't that hurt our immunity? It feels backwards.
went to HyVee today, first time hitting a full grocery shop since shut down. It was weird some of the things that were out of stock (frozen pizzas, cream cheese, goldfish). Milk and eggs were fully stocked. But TP was still hammered. They were selling individual rolls out of an industrial box for a buck.Plus, damn near everything was on sale.GMA was breathless with their reporting on the increase in grocery prices too, FWIW.
As someone who has been to the grocery stores in the area and has dealings with them on an every day basis, the things that are out of stock are on trucks headed to the store, they'll be there in a day or so if you go. People are just overbuying and going to the store less often. When this is all said and done, I wonder how much food with end up in the trash instead of mouths.
FYI, generic response, not directed at you HardsThis is one of the artifacts of the sensationalism from media. The supply chain has some kinks and things to work out but it's not on the verge of collapse that some in media would have you believe.Great resource for solid reporting and understanding of some of the different areas in the economy is the Freakonomics podcast by Stephen Dubner(one of the authors of Freakonomics)
I say that everytime someone walks past me with a cart filled higher that they can see. A lot of food will get wasted over the next few months
It's hard though, right? You want to limit trips to the store so you stock up on more food. But that means you are probably buying things you don't normally buy. Or you're buying more shelf stable foods. I think in a year or two there will be some sort of Facebook or Twitter challenge where people show off their food that they horded in the time of the 'rona. Expiration dates and volume will be some strange badge of honor.
Maybe good news?https://twitter.com/ScottGottliebMD/status/1260672217710501904