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Re: COVID-19/corona virus mega thread/prepping thread
« Reply #7000 on: September 19, 2022, 05:19:50 PM »
Propaganda works. Our society must be forever altered because of that one magic disease that should change everything forever. forever

https://twitchy.com/samj-3930/2022/09/19/so-trumpian-in-case-you-were-wondering-how-the-lockdown-mask-up-crowd-is-taking-biden-saying-the-pandemic-is-over-yikes/
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Re: COVID-19/corona virus mega thread/prepping thread
« Reply #7001 on: September 19, 2022, 06:51:13 PM »
It's a matter of faith. Not statistics. Not SCIENCE.
 
I still have a lot of folks wearing masks, sometimes a lot more. Pretty even mix between hipster types, older black people who watch too much TV, and older white people who watch too much TV...
 
And then there's the bunch who probably have warrants, or who are planning on stealing something or scoping for a holdup.
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Re: COVID-19/corona virus mega thread/prepping thread
« Reply #7002 on: September 19, 2022, 07:44:18 PM »
@Bogie: You should stock some absolutely worthless and cheap crap that is *Really Shiny* as bait and put it near the door so the tweakers steal that and leave the good stuff alone.  Put it behind a glass door or something (unlocked, of course) so it looks like you're trying to protect it and put a moderately-high price on it.

Yeah, I know you shouldn't have to play those games because people shouldn't steal your stuff.  But people suck; maybe you can limit the damage.
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Re: COVID-19/corona virus mega thread/prepping thread
« Reply #7003 on: September 20, 2022, 01:14:44 PM »
Oh... We do that... And they gravitate to it.
 
They're irritating.
 
Some SOB stole the cat from one of my trucks last night... So it is down until we can get another one welded on... Second time it has happened in the past year.
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Re: COVID-19/corona virus mega thread/prepping thread
« Reply #7004 on: September 23, 2022, 01:14:25 PM »
"Inspector General Larry D. Turner, U.S. Department of Labor (DOL), announced that the Office of Inspector General’s (DOL-OIG) investigations have resulted in more than 1,000 individuals being charged with crimes involving Unemployment Insurance (UI) fraud since the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic in March 2020.1 The DOL-OIG also issued an Alert Memorandum identifying $45.6 billion in potentially fraudulent UI benefits paid to individuals with Social Security numbers: (1) filed in multiple states, (2) of deceased persons, (3) filed with suspicious email accounts, and (4) of federal prisoners," the Office of the Inspector General released this week.

45.6 billion
Yeah......

Scammers Stole an Insane Amount of Pandemic Unemployment Money
https://townhall.com/tipsheet/katiepavlich/2022/09/23/scammers-stole-an-insane-amount-of-pandemic-funding-n2613497
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Re: COVID-19/corona virus mega thread/prepping thread
« Reply #7005 on: September 25, 2022, 07:44:09 AM »
You know, for cold and flu season this year, I may ask my quack about a prescription for that horse dewormer stuff... Seems it may help now?
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Re: COVID-19/corona virus mega thread/prepping thread
« Reply #7006 on: September 25, 2022, 03:09:19 PM »
Not sure if it's more of a Covid issue, or more of a Bidenomics thing, but the price of an oil change seems to have doubled. I'm glad we'll be back in our house, soon, where I can do my own.
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Re: COVID-19/corona virus mega thread/prepping thread
« Reply #7007 on: September 25, 2022, 06:39:59 PM »
Stopped to pick up some milk & such on the way home tonight at the local grocery store.  DW asked how much the milk cost - I don't pay attention, we want/need it, put it in the basket - it's now $4.59 a gallon for local 2%.

Less than 2 years ago it was ~$2.50/gal.

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« Reply #7008 on: September 25, 2022, 06:44:20 PM »
$1.49 for a gallon of 2% here up from $1.29
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Re: COVID-19/corona virus mega thread/prepping thread
« Reply #7009 on: September 26, 2022, 07:20:32 AM »
I've not bought actual milk in years. I buy half and half for my coffee. If I buy it at my local grocery store its $5.69 a half gallon.

If I go several miles up the road to WalMart, it's $3.89 a half gallon.
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Re: COVID-19/corona virus mega thread/prepping thread
« Reply #7010 on: September 26, 2022, 08:45:30 AM »
Not sure if it's more of a Covid issue, or more of a Bidenomics thing, but the price of an oil change seems to have doubled. I'm glad we'll be back in our house, soon, where I can do my own.

Oil is way up, todays vehicles use more oil (my truck holds 8 quarts!), can’t find enough lube boobs to round off drain plugs and strip them out, and so on. COVID really threw a wrench in supply chains and labor force as well
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« Reply #7013 on: September 30, 2022, 11:45:48 AM »
C. Some people just read headlines before reposting.

D. The joke, it went whoosing over your head.  No doubt covered by luxuriant hair not affected by Covid.
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« Reply #7014 on: September 30, 2022, 03:52:38 PM »
D. The joke, it went whoosing over your head.  No doubt covered by luxuriant hair not affected by Covid.
I guess you had to be there.

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Re: COVID-19/corona virus mega thread/prepping thread
« Reply #7015 on: October 18, 2022, 09:27:19 AM »
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Re: COVID-19/corona virus mega thread/prepping thread
« Reply #7016 on: October 18, 2022, 09:31:51 AM »
Boston University - the new Wuhan:

https://www.foxnews.com/us/boston-university-lethal-covid-strain-lab

I am glad there is absolutely no chance that virus can get loose from the lab and wreak havoc in the world.   ;/
Stupid scientists doing stupid gain-of-function things just because they can.
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Re: COVID-19/corona virus mega thread/prepping thread
« Reply #7017 on: October 20, 2022, 05:04:45 PM »
Could someone who knows about the pharma industry comment on this? Is it YT BS?

Long story short according to the video a company that manufacturers a C19 vaccine bought another company that manufactures a drug for a rare condition that some are now connecting with the vaccine

Makes ya think?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SInzIUXfV1s
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Re: COVID-19/corona virus mega thread/prepping thread
« Reply #7018 on: October 20, 2022, 05:10:49 PM »
People are connecting everything with the vaccine...
 
If one were prone to conspiracy theories, one would think that the vastness of this would be used to cover up the actual adverse effects...
 
And Aldi eggs are at $1.99/dozen, and they don't have any half'n'half...
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« Reply #7019 on: October 22, 2022, 09:25:52 PM »
Observation: The Schnucks that all the whi... er... hipster folks go to is the one with the $4.00 eggs. Another one that isn't so worried about keeping up all those appearance things had $2.50 eggs (and $2.99 half'n'half) this evening, and I only got one Look of Death regarding my Ultra MAGA t-shirt.
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« Reply #7020 on: October 23, 2022, 05:17:25 PM »
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Re: COVID-19/corona virus mega thread/prepping thread
« Reply #7021 on: October 23, 2022, 07:10:27 PM »
Around here, the mask wearers are just as likely to also be wearing a man-bun and a pair of artisanal work boots with their skinny jeans as they ride a ride-share electric scooter to the vegan pizza joint...
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« Reply #7022 on: October 23, 2022, 07:18:05 PM »
Around here the few I see masking anymore are either elderly people, which, good for them as they should be doing that for flu season anyway, or else people wearing REI style clothes and sandals.
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Re: COVID-19/corona virus mega thread/prepping thread
« Reply #7023 on: October 23, 2022, 07:22:07 PM »
It's mostly about virtue signaling, and denigrating people who aren't following their lead.
 
I get confronted every so often.
 
I get horrorstricken... "You're not sick are you? If you'r sick that mask isn't going to protect me - look at how leaky it is! You need to go home and isolate if you're sick!"
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Re: COVID-19/corona virus mega thread/prepping thread
« Reply #7024 on: October 23, 2022, 08:14:40 PM »
Healthcare employees in Washington state still have to wear a mask at work.  It is the only place I wear a mask any more.
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