debianlinux
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What a time to be vegetarian, amirite?
Neverending Covid-19 Coronavirus
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I know quite a few people from work in their 20's who don't cook. They Grubhub everything.
I got a laugh out of one being forced to buy food and stock up his fridge and figure out how to cook because Grubhub is now hit or miss with availability to deliver food now that it has been pushed over capacity by COVID-19 stay at home orders.
Hollywood
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We are Skipping the Dishes tonight because my wife and I are both feeling lazy AF.
Texas governor will allow state's stay-at-home order to end on Thursday and open businesses Friday
Texas Gov. Greg Abbott said Monday he will allow his stay-at-home order for the Lone Star State to expire on Thursday, commencing a phased exit from the social distancing measures meant to mitigate the novel coronavirus pandemic.
Edit: This reopening order overrides all County and City orders and supersedes them. Harder hit blue cities like Houston or Dallas must re open, they can't choose to extend their stay at home order like Colorado allowed.
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William Barr orders legal action against governors whose COVID-19 actions infringe on civil rights
Attorney General William P. Barr on Monday ordered federal prosecutors across the country to consider legal action against governors if their efforts to stop the spread of the new coronavirus infringe on Americans’ civil rights.
www.washingtontimes.com
Looks like we are heading down the road of now legally challenging states orders to slow/stop the spread.
Basically, they want to get the economy up and running again and now saying enough is enough. States do not have the power to order such 'draconian' restrictions.
California has had enough of the shutdown it seems.
www.nbcbayarea.com
Broadcom is manding that all workers report back into the office Monday to continue on as business as usual defining the stay at home order. Most of these jobs can be done from home, and employees have been working remotely. Broadcom has decided to no longer allow these employees to work remotely and want them back into the office.
There are reports of many other business opening up clearly defying their county's orders. In the North Bay area barber shops and hair salons opened back up. Their owners stated that they would be in financial ruin and forced to closed to good if they continued to stay closed. They cannot afford the stay at home order to last any longer.
Broadcom Employees Return to Work During Stay-at-Home Order
Defying the stay-at-home order. That’s what non-essential employees at a prominent Silicon Valley tech company said their bosses are telling them to do. Workers at Broadcom in San Jose said they were ordered to return to work Monday to perform jobs they believe can be done from home. Broadcom as...
www.nbcbayarea.com
Broadcom is manding that all workers report back into the office Monday to continue on as business as usual defining the stay at home order. Most of these jobs can be done from home, and employees have been working remotely. Broadcom has decided to no longer allow these employees to work remotely and want them back into the office.
There are reports of many other business opening up clearly defying their county's orders. In the North Bay area barber shops and hair salons opened back up. Their owners stated that they would be in financial ruin and forced to closed to good if they continued to stay closed. They cannot afford the stay at home order to last any longer.
Kudlow: Businesses shouldn't be held liable for employees and customers getting coronavirus
The White House economic adviser said May will be a “transition month" for the reopening of the economy.
www.politico.com
Almost a week old now, but starting to make its rounds and become known now.
But it appears to indicate the White House wants to limit the liability to businesses so they can open back up and not have to worry about lawsuits if employees or customers get sick.
Coronavirus could be tied to a rare but serious illness in children, UK doctors say
A small but rising number of children are becoming ill with a rare syndrome that could be linked to coronavirus, with reported cases showing symptoms of abdominal pain, gastrointestinal symptoms and cardiac inflammation, UK health care bosses and pediatrics specialists have warned.
www.cnn.com
wokeupnew
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Tyson Foods chairman warns 'food supply chain is breaking' as coronavirus forces plant closures
Tyson Foods expects that millions of pounds of meat will disappear from the food supply as the company temporarily shutters beef, pork and chicken plants due to local coronavirus outbreaks.www.cnbc.com
For real, I am not a vegetarian but my girlfriend is so I eat vegetarian 95% of the time, only if we eat out/take out, I may get something with meat in it.
One thing I've noticed while in quarantine is how many people don't know how to make a meal without meat in it. Or they only make or eat food that's mainly meat, like burgers/fried chicken/pizza/chicken wings and that's it. I'm in a local take out food group on facebook where people share meals, ask "is xyz place is good?", etc. And so many people just order meat as their only meal, like they'll eat only chicken wings as their dinner. It's baffling that so many people just never eat vegetables. Maybe just try eating vegetarian for a couple of meals a week and see how it goes. It'll also help cut down on methane emissions because animal farms are terrible for the atmosphere.
Wow, I always try to keep the meat to 1/3 of my meal. I need vegetables with it. Usually cook up some rice or farro as well.
I couldn't imagine only eating meat and nothing else with it.
There is a guy at work who is on a meat only diet though. I wonder if that is more common than I thought.
debianlinux
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Yeah, meat only is a thing for multiple reasons. Eating a ketogenic diet is one and it has a lot of potential benefits especially for diabetics.
There’s pretty big issues with monoculture farming as well. The world is structured today to allow maximum damage from pretty much any relatively easy choice to make.
Essentially, it seems if you’re not producing your own food in a sustainable way and bartering with your neighbors doing the same to fill the gaps you’re just as much a part of the problem as the next guy regardless if one party is eating meat and the other is vegan.
Ugh. Do we just want to hasten the second wave of infection and death? Guess so. Let's see how awesome our economy is when a bunch more people get sick because we can't seem to follow simple stay at home orders. This makes me sick. We did a great job mitigating morbidity and mortality and we are going to throw all of that away because people can't seem to grasp that when conditions change so does our model and thus our infection rates.William Barr orders legal action against governors whose COVID-19 actions infringe on civil rights
Attorney General William P. Barr on Monday ordered federal prosecutors across the country to consider legal action against governors if their efforts to stop the spread of the new coronavirus infringe on Americans’ civil rights.
Looks like we are heading down the road of now legally challenging states orders to slow/stop the spread.
Basically, they want to get the economy up and running again and now saying enough is enough. States do not have the power to order such 'draconian' restrictions.
Turbo
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In Race for a Coronavirus Vaccine, an Oxford Group Leaps Ahead (Published 2020)
As scientists at the Jenner Institute prepare for mass clinical trials, new tests show their vaccine to be effective in monkeys.
This group is apparently well ahead of others because they actually showed safety in humans for their vaccine against another coronavirus last year. They can actually skip right ahead to start efficacy trials in humans with the same vaccine but modified for SARS-CoV-2 this month. As the article shows, they already showed the SARS-CoV-2 version works and provides immunity in monkeys.
They are publishing a peer-reviewed article next week.
On another forum I'm seeping people from Texas posting about being required to come into the office starting Friday when the State reopens.
One such person is from Houston, and feels it is way too soon and not save. Their office in Houston is opening up the moment the state lifts restrictions, and not giving employees the option to continue to work from home.
What is it about businesses where they are so big on "must be in the office" and will return to normal as soon as legally allowed.
One such person is from Houston, and feels it is way too soon and not save. Their office in Houston is opening up the moment the state lifts restrictions, and not giving employees the option to continue to work from home.
What is it about businesses where they are so big on "must be in the office" and will return to normal as soon as legally allowed.
Smansmith
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My head office is in Houston and they are now pressuring us to go back to the office (here in Canada, which they have a hard time realizing is another country)...literally telling us they 'feel safe' so then, so should we. Ugh.
debianlinux
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Our office started a visitation log in case someone got sick we could see who they may have been in contact with at work. I had to go in one day a few weeks ago and took a look at the log. The top 3 suits were there every single day. No one else was there on any kind of regular basis and often it was just those 3 on any given day. I don’t know what this really means but the attitude is definitely top down and is practiced by the higher ups.
Trump tells governors to 'seriously consider and maybe get going' on opening schools
President Donald Trump on Monday urged the nation's governors to "seriously consider" reopening schools as part of his push to restart the economy, though many states have already recommended against resuming the school year.
www.cnn.com
oldschoolkirby
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Same here - thankful my company is not pressuring us to get back into the office and setting their own schedule, regardless of what individual states are doing where we have offices.