I just noticed how almond butter is more expensive now. I guess its the inflation.
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I just noticed how almond butter is more expensive now. I guess its the inflation.
Yppej, the employees may be choosing to wear masks. My Dil works in a casino and most are wearing masks because they are choosing too because our mandate is gone.
That's not what they tell me. Some have quit over the issue.Quote:
Originally Posted by Teacher Terry
My grocery store also has many employees AND most of the patrons still wearing masks - mandate or not. And, while I don't shop much, when I am out, I still see a lot of folks masking. I don't think masks will be going away any time soon and I'm not sorry. LOL.Quote:
Originally Posted by Teacher Terry
Went to my library the other day and EVERYONE inside was masked. Yay!!
I still mask up when out and when the situation calls for it indoors - regardless of mandates.
Our mask mandate is also
Over and most but not all grocery employees are still masked. On the other hand we went out to dinner last night since case counts are down to pre-omicron levels and only about 10% of the staff were masked. Given how unusual that is here I assume that the restaurant had a massive outbreak of omicron so they don’t see the point.
Or they accept California's plan on recognizing covid is endemic aka like the flu, not the end of the world.Quote:
Originally Posted by jp1
only 4 to 5 times more deadly than a bad year of the flu at minimum, that's the prediction.
Sounds like pre-vax statistics to me. I don't know a single vaccinated person who has died of it, but several unvaxxed. There is Colin Powell in such rough shape the flu or something else could have done him before the cancer did, but I didn't know him personally.Quote:
Originally Posted by ApatheticNoMore
The vast majority of Americans are willing to accept that death rate in order to go back to pre-pandemic lifestyles -- but they don't revel in it or pathologically deny it. I think most folks are just fatigued. They probably mostly did a good job of masking during the frist 12 to 18 months of the pandemic.Quote:
Originally Posted by ApatheticNoMore
It is really just the loudmouth sociopath anti-mask nutjobs that are acting like covid is no big deal.
It is like, how many ppl have died a day since Omicron became the dominant strain? In the last 7 days almost 2,500 people died from Covid in the US.
Yet we got some idiots out there saying this is a non-issue. LOL
Ultralight, you don’t understand. Everyone that dies of covid was on death’s doorstep, so their deaths don’t actually count. That 2500/day dead people? They would’ve been dead in the next few years anyway. All covid is doing is making it happen a little quicker. Sure, some might think that a bummer but others are shouting ‘a few early deaths is a small price to pay for muh freedumb! Yay ‘Merica! Eff yeah!’
The Herman Caine Award is sweet! Google it if you haven't.Quote:
Originally Posted by jp1
Lol. Your obsession with hating masks is adorable. You could be in the next Sixth Sense movie sequel. Instead of ‘I see dead people’ you could be ‘I see soon to be dead people’. And audiences will find you as creepy as that little kid.Quote:
Originally Posted by Yppej
I just finished Scott Gottlieb's Uncontrolled Spread. One thing he says is that you can expect strong compliance with public health restrictions for two weeks. You all can plan your lives around cowering in fear and avoiding other people the rest of your lives if you want and you'll still get covid. Look at Vivek Murthy so astounded his whole family caught the 'vid because "we were so careful". It's a virus. It doesn't care about your posturing. Get real.
jp1 zingin' like a champ, baby!Quote:
Originally Posted by jp1
My adventure in grocery shopping today: two bags of groceries = $72. Coffee is very expensive, as is a bag of frozen mixed berries. The rest is just stuff that we needed to fill in the corners for the next week or so...
It's interesting how different things seem to be unavailable in different parts of the country or are available but significantly more expensive in some places. For instance I also went to the grocery store today and and the two pound bag of coffee that I always get was the same as it's been since before the pandemic. But SiouzQ found coffee very expensive.
Despite the high prices I was happy to go to the grocery store today because the employees are no longer forced to wear masks. I hated the double standards where the servant class - or children - or others without power had to wear masks but elites did not. I don't see the Democrats getting the working class back. Maybe if they'd gotten $15 minimum wage in, but nope, not happening.
I got hummus on sale, which is unusual for me as I have pretty much given up prepared food. Got some produce from quick sale for the first time in years. Passed on several items due to outrageous prices. Got iceberg lettuce instead of Little Leaf. Worked around what I have in the house - for instance, I have part of a jar of peanut butter so I got some celery.
At the store entrance I signed papers to get four different Republicans on the ballot.
I am now spending $300 a month on gas, so discretionary spending like food takes the hit.
Ye Gods. Must every. single. discussion. have to devolve into a mask debate? Wednesday our local sports page featured a story about our most low-income high school beginning a fledgling baseball team of mostly freshmen who have never played ball in their lives. The school hasn't fielded a team in years for various reasons, economics and kids having to work to help their families for one. It was a lovely story, full of hope, will, and determination.
The only comments on the online story were about the accompanying photo; it showed kids in a gym in masks. "Free our kids! Schools are abusive! blah blah blah..." Crap, I doubt they even read the story.
It is definitely a bit of an obsession for some folks.Quote:
Originally Posted by KayLR
Bananas are next to impossible to get through Amazon Fresh. I’ve just stopped eating them then. Grocery delivery is just too damned nice plus it really cuts down on impulse shopping.
Have you ever played sports wearing a mask? I am thinking in particular of sports that involve running and other exertion, not things like golf.Quote:
Originally Posted by KayLR
No, but number one, I'm not a 14-yr old, and number two, I didn't say anything about them running or anything. I think you miss my point.
At one BOH meeting parents asked officials, "Have you ever tried to play basketball in a mask? You wouldn't last three minutes."
In the recent Olympics, the Canadian women's team--all masked up--beat Russia 6-1. The Russian team wore masks for the first three quarters, until their COVID tests came back negative.
I personally believe many such commenters, who revel in one topic no matter the basis, have incredibly limited lives, both emotionally and intellectually. I wish there was an ignore function across the internet.
Yeah, those pesky people who keep harping about Ukraine. What's up with that? Freedom isn't important is it? So what if their lives are micromanaged by unelected people from outside their community? Maybe they should just surrender. Freedom is overrated - right?Quote:
Originally Posted by sweetana3
My Amazon Fresh seems flush with both regular and organic bananas. Here, it's Freschetta pizzas that are elusive.Quote:
Originally Posted by Tradd
Yeah shortages are just so local!
Ram into a weird random shortage this weekend. So’s mom and sister are visiting so we went up to sonoma for a couple of nights and stayed at one of the midrange hotel properties that SO can get his employee discount at. The little bottles of shampoo and lotion and stuff were all different brands. I asked SO and apparently the manufacturers can’t get the little bottles with any reliability so all the hotels are just buying whatever is available when they need more.
Went for a little shopping trip for necessities upon returning home. Ended up $66 for that little bit of miscellaneous! Missing was lettuce! Ended up buying a 6 pack of skinny romaines for $8.
It's getting bad out there!
Not first hand/personal information, but my next door neighbor told me today that the "dollar store" is now the "$1.25" store.
Something has GOT to give soon!!!
I've got first hand knowledge of this, all Dollar Tree stores are transitioning to $1.25 per item. My wife, being a long time Dollar Tree aficionado is incensed.Quote:
Originally Posted by happystuff
Oh, man. It seems the week I was gone, everything has just escalated! Gas, food, oil, etc. I was actually optimistic about adding more money to savings at the beginning of the year, but those hopes are slowing dissolving. And I consider myself as someone who is "doing okay". I can't imagine how some people are managing!Quote:
Originally Posted by Alan
Edited to add: I just turned the heat down 4 more degrees. (February oil bill was MORE than a paycheck!)
Luckily, I think we'll manage just fine too. She says the store's biggest appeal for her is that you never know what you'll find, especially if you visit stores outside your home market. Unfortunately for me, that means when we're roaming the country over the summer and on her winter break, she makes me stop at every highly recognizable green sign she sees.Quote:
Originally Posted by happystuff
I'm hoping inflation of cheap products means I won't spend as much time visiting them going forward.
My dollar store was actually the best source for beans, rice and a few other basic foods on which the grocery store prices were getting high. I'll now have to watch prices carefully between the Dollar Store, Aldi's and my local grocery store.
It’s going to hit families harder because they have more mouths to feed. Being single I will be fine.
If oil keeps going up prices will keep going up. Everything has energy costs associated. Factories use energy, food processing uses energy. Transportation uses energy. As long as putin's war keeps driving up oil those follow on price increases will keep happening.
Thankfully none of us are extremely poor people in Africa. I was reading today that a lot of folks in Africa depend on wheat from Russia/Ukraine for survival. Aside from the war, various weather issues around the world have also resulted in lower yields/higher prices in the past couple of years. Hunger there will be going up. Keeping that in mind makes the $40ish I spent to buy half a tank of gas the other day seem so unimportant that it probably wasn't worth the electrons I used to mention it on the other thread.
Reports of stone fruits and nuts hit hard by climate chaos in California this year (too hot then too cold), many farms crops failed entirely. Now I know neither nuts or stone fruits are absolute necessities, but expect them to be even less affordable this coming season.
Now you're concerned but when I wrote about covid lockdowns leading to starvation in Africa and an increase in the sale of child brides in India because their families couldn't feed them you weren't too concerned.Quote:
Originally Posted by jp1
I saw a tweet the other day that it's sad it took a war in Ukraine to get the government off people's backs regarding covid (for the most part - toddlers must still wear masks in NYC for instance). We now have a new crisis the government can use to try to scare and control us with.