As the coronapanic shows no signs of slowing down, I think it’s a good time to take stock of the collective supplies Glibs have. I mean, after all, you’d share with the community. Right?
So, please answer with how much you have on hand in the following categories:
Alcohol
Ammunition
Guns
Gasoline and/or other fuel
TP
Hand sanitizer
Knives
Siege weaponry
Bleach
Gas masks
Water
First Aid/trauma kits
Dried and canned foods/MREs
Feel free to add more categories of things you’d like to share with your fellow Glibs! (Winston’s Mom…not you.)
Umm…like I’d tell anyone.
This guy gets it.
This guy gets HM getting it.
/eww…
I’d tell people I’d actually share with.
Lol.
Nice try.
I do hope all is well with you, though.
Well, I have…
Oh no…I almost fell for that trick! You’re a sneaky one!
I did do some mild panic alcohol buying, though. Once I started seeing stories about booze stores being shut down, I thought it prudent.
If it comes to that, I’m just gonna do one of my periodic no-booze phases. Nice to see the abs again, really 😉
Gay
I plan to do alcohol panic buying tomorrow
I’m kind of realizing that I probably can’t stock up as much as I would like and am just crossing my fingers that the liquor stores will stay open.
Yeah. At lunch today, I finally understood the ramifications of this bullshit. Tomorrow I’m going to buy at least three handles of bourbon and three handles of vodka. Plus some wine, and some other “sipping” booze. I need 3 months of booze stockpiled.
That’s a fine strategy. Several years ago I stocked up on a bit of fairly good booze (Courvoisier, Appleton Estate Rum, B&B, etc.), as well as several cases of wine as I’m in a wine club. Also have at the very least four months of food (dry/can goods, Thai, Indian, Cajun, Basque, Italian, etc.) and if need be, I have a dog, two cats, in addition lots of squirrels and rabbits in my yard. Possums too. So I’m thinking I’m good.
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I plead the fifth.
I'm not worried about anything. Except maybe getting that one wheel straightened. A little vibration around 90.
::contemplating that Sean’s emoji is a nekkid, 50’s-type cone-tiddy lady, swaying back and forth…::
None. I have none of those prepper things.
*goes to basement to check on gas masks and consumables*
Plenty of everything.
Especially claymore mines.
+ Front Towards Enemy
I am a little short on tannerite… ?
Bring bacon and booze 😉
(About twenty miles from the Tannerite outlet store)
I have plenty of…..I hear you can buy all the ingredients on Amazon.
Alcohol – Same as always, something like 10 liters drinkable, one liter isopropyl
Ammunition – That’s classified.
Guns – I’m afraid the Hudson swallowed them all up.
Gasoline and/or other fuel – One tank. I haven’t had to drive much since I last filled up.
TP – Six rolls. I don’t go through it that fast.
Hand sanitizer – I think I have a bottle I’ve had for a few months.
Knives – I collect them.
Siege weaponry – I gave away the trebuchet a few years back, so I’ve only got the cannon.
Bleach – donno, gallon maybe.
Gas masks – Like I’m going to give that away.
Water – Tap. I don’t really expect the infrastructure to collapse by the time this blows over.
First Aid/trauma kits – I have a bunch of stuff for little injuries. I’d have a hard time treated myself for a major injury.
Dried and canned foods/MREs – This dried fruit sucks, I need better dried fruit.
That surprises me. I thought you very rarely drank. Or is that the bottles you tried and didn’t care for? If I’m getting too personal, tough shit…answer the question!
I very rarely drink – which is why I have so much on hand.
Also, some of it is stuff I didn’t care for.
So what you’re saying is, I was correct twice in a row.
Congratulations! your memory exceeds that of the common carp.
But what about the
unincommon carp?Don’t be koi, say what you mean.
I feel like you’re judging me on an unfair scale.
I’m not a sucker, not falling for that crappie question
I finally poured out that pumpkin pie flavored vodka. I needed the space.
That doesn’t even sound appetizing.
It was worse than you imagine.
My god. I can’t even think of some mixed drink to cover the pumpkin spice.
*shivers*
That is bad.
I dunno, I can imagine an awful lot.
Mix with ginger ale. Hold nose. Drink quickly.
Drinking the stuff sounds like a great way to make every bodily orifice pucker simultaneously.
UCS: if you don’t like the dried fruit, macerate it in rum, vodka, or Brandy. Kicks it up a notch.
I was thinking of making fruitcake – just drench it in spiced rum to start with…
Good idea. I’ve used the macerated fruit in banana and zucchini bread with great success.
LOFUCKINGL.
You guys are great. SP/OMWC, I’ll hopefully have a dual-sport bike soon and I can just cut across the desert and avoid the zombies in Phoenix if you need supplies. (Would definitely shorten my current drive via I-10). We’ll have Glib Outposts across the desert, oases for the roaming Glibs who might pass across the post-COVID19 hellscape that was once the American southwest….
I’m not looking forward to navigating the Holland Tunnel on my way to
VegasBoulder.You magnificent son of a bitch. I’ve read that book.
Hear Him!
I’ll watch your back on the ride back. I won’t be of any use in an attack, but hey, I could tweet about it.
Feel free to add more categories of things you’d like
Porn?
Lube?
How would one go about not hoarding porn?
Are you contemplating sharing porn?? This isn’t the early 90’s, and I’m not Armin.
Binoculars.
And?
https://www.cnn.com/2020/03/17/health/cannabis-psychiatric-symptoms-wellness/index.html
I have made statements that I would share #2 & #3 with Glibs in the event of an apocalypse. Bring bacon & bourbon.
Is Rye OK?
Welcomed. As is scotch, if you want to be fancy.
Excellent. Now I just need to shore up my bacon stocks.
All you need is Love and a .45.
I browse gas masks every few years but have never bought. Same with armour. Actually I have a whole list of that sort of stuff I will probably never buy on one of my Amazon wish lists.
I was kicking around buying some armor and ready to blame it on the CV. I’m putting that back on the shelf right now. After the liquor stockup, 5.45×39, and tires this week has been a lil spendy.
I used to have an M-17 gas mask with a set of new filters in the wrap – as well as one CS grenade.
Not sure where that went.
I still have atropine and 2-PAM Chloride autoinjectors. I imagine they’re useless by now.
This will probably get my glib card revoled but
Alcohol
2 cans of craft beer
Ammunition
0
Guns
0 I have a big block of wood under the bed
Gasoline and/or other fuel
Half a lawn mower sized canister
TP
a shit ton. The rental company recommended we switch to septic safe TP just after I bought a costco brand TP. This was months ago.
Hand sanitizer
1.5 bottles
Knives
1 camping knife plus the usual kitchen get up
Siege weaponry
?
Bleach
1 costco size refill
Gas masks
1 czech issue cold war era mask (seriously)
Water
In the pipes
First Aid/trauma kits
1 Finding dory bandaid
Dried and canned foods/MREs
2 spaghetti freeze dried camping packages
A ton of frozen veggies
You can refill bleach at Costco?
One of those big jugs that is meant to be used to refill a bleach spray bottle
Alcohol- enough for a couple months
Ammunition- enough
Guns- enough, until the boating accident
Gasoline and/or other fuel- 5g + more on hand, empty 2g/5g if needed, 20g mobile tank
TP- plenty + washlet. We were running low and asked the wife to order our usual stock up about 2 weeks prior.
Hand sanitizer- enough to supply needs at work and in the car, dunno how long it will be until stocks are replenished
Knives- enough
Siege weaponry- defensive or offensive?
Bleach- 2g
Gas masks- no pro masks
Water- ~50g on hand, our well water is acidic so use 5g bottled water for drinking
First Aid/trauma kits- used FSA leftover one year to get a couple of trauma kits
Dried and canned foods/MREs- enough for 2 weeks without stretching
Water- even though it’s acidic, it’s still drinkable. On a well, so as long as have power, either mains or generator, have water. 80g pressure tank, 50g hot water heater.
Alcohol- enough for a couple months
You have a warehouse of bourbon?
Not that much of a drinker really. And the wife is even less
Those ‘self-reliance’ can dispenser storage units in the ultimate picture look very inefficient storage-wise for a prepper.
Aha! So that’s what was in your garage!
FYI I ran it by my full-on Chinese wife if “kung flu” is racist. She said she thinks it’s a tad racist, but much more clever so she’ll allow it.
You all now have Official POC Permission.
Kung Flu was definitely an early favorite of mine, but I gotta admit; Tom Hanks Disease is growing on me.
/no euphamism
Both of those sound terrible.
I’m sticking with Wuhan Virus.
Ask her about “Slant Sicks”.
Spawn 1’s girlfriend thought it was funny. (After I explained what a slant-six motor was).
The ones Dodge/Plymouth made bitd were near indestructible.
The first vehicle I owned/worked on was a ’66 Dodge van with a slant-6. The engine was just behind the front seats – to pull it out you wheeled the cherry picker in through the side bay door.
I’m partial to Flu Manchu myself, but like Suthen said, the young’uns probably won’t get the reference.
I was voting for Pooh Flu but I guess it didn’t take.
I do like that one. It puts the scorn on the individual it belongs on.
True, but too obscure.
Only works when written as well.
If you say it out loud people will just think you’re scatological.
Like there isn’t enough of a run on toilet paper already.
Awesome! Tell her XieXie (I think I romanized properly).
I have about a month worth of home made freezer meals, maybe more.
Sorta depends on how much we eat really but each frozen meal tends to get us two to four meal times.
Really didn’t prepare them all for quarantine, but rather laziness.
Every couple weeks I buy in bulk (chicken sale) , dump, freeze, crock pot, instant pot, or oven cook depending on recipe.
Just happened to have a lot of them on hand at the right time.
I love that gun sales are soaring right now. I mean, I don’t like ammo being out of stock…but, meh. We’ve all had plenty of time to stock up.
You want your competition to be well armed?
Having arms isn’t proficient or necessarily well armed. More battlefield pick ups, or more likely to vote against gun control. Take your pick as a plus.
If there ever was an event that should wake some people up to the value of an armed society this is it right here. Any realer than this I don’t ever want to see.
Soon as I get my Trumpcash I’m buying a shotgun, and shoot every whitey I see.
Seriously though you are correct I’m considering panic buying a shotgun, I think you gun nuts have recommended Mossbergs in the past, but at this point it may come down to whatever’s in stock.
Can’t go wrong with a Remington 870 either.
Mossberg 590 or Remmington 870 are the shotgun equivalents of Glocks/Honda Accords/Toyota Camrys.
Is that a good or bad thing? I’m not a gear head either.
It means they’re very popular and not bad quality.
Mosberg and Remmington are the types i always hear recommended fora good Home Defense Shotgun. So i think he means it in a good way.
Yes. Runs forever with minimal maintenance, low learning curve.
Thanks Tejicano and leon.
Highly recommend. I
havehad one of each before the boating accidentIf you’re a lefty, you may prefer the Mossberg for the ambi safety,
“Mosberg: The Shotgun of Socialists”
I’m proficient with either hand.
ambi safety, a condom and a dental dam
Remington 11-97 semi auto.
11-87
Whatever it takes.
1100 semi auto guy myself.
Trust the semi auto over my pumping the action in a crisis.
I’ve been extremely happy with my CZ 1012 semi-auto. And its <$600.
I’d say consider a Mossberg 500.
There are also some inexpensive Turkish shotguns.
Winchesters are good too.
The Remington 870 has the one flaw in that it can lock up if you don’t cycle it fully.
I recommend, whichever you get, to affix a sidesaddle – good to have an extra 6 to 8 rounds with it whenever you pick it up.
I’ll plug the Mossberg 590. It has a 9 round capacity. It’s the first gun I bought. Very easy to operate and reliable. I know next to nothing about guns and I love it.
I won’t answer any of those questions, but I divulge my true weakness. (I think I’ve already done this joke on here before, but I’ll do it again) When I see myself in my head I look like this. Everyone else sees this.
Honestly, if it reaches the point of no return, I have no idea what I will do.
I hope I won’t be shooting my neighbors for their stuff…
I’ll probably just head north, find a place to camp out and live out what’s left.
But I will definitely visit my pothead buddy first!
Mr Splosives can hook ya up if you decide to while away the end in a mini paradise.
Also past the point of no return
You are welcome at my place. When you come to the end of Interstate 35 shout “Wolverines!”. I’ll find you.
Thanks, man.
I’ll be the one in the kilt.
Weirdo, maybe I change my mind.
PUT SOME UNDERWEAR ON, DAMN IT, YOU’RE STAINING THE COUCHES!
I’ll be the one running around yelling avenge me in my underwear.
Dibs on your Triumph!
Lol!
How the hell do you think I’ll get out after the gov disables all the ECUs?
Look, it doesn’t have any air bags or crumple zones or even collapsible steering columns. For your own safety, you should just leave it for me.
No no, I couldn’t live with myself if I put you in that kind of danger.
Let me go back there and face the peril.
LOL.
I knew you would get it.
Been working on yours at all?
I’ve been sidelined by a complete transmission kablooey in the race car, but I did manage to get the front left corner put back together. I don’t seem to have any photos though. I’ll take one tomorrow.
Cool! Email when you can.
The weather is warming up so I’m gonna tackle some minor body work and possibly some more interior stuff.
Who do you typically order parts from? Moss Motors is just a few towns over, so they get me things quickly. I like Victoria British, but I really have to wait after I order for things to arrive.
Yep. Moss is the biggest, for sure.
I’ve also had good luck with these guys:
https://www.bpnorthwest.com/triumph/spitfire.html
Since a lot of cars were made by the same company, there are times that
Fucking phone.
As I was trying to say, you may have to go to other marques to find certain parts.
For instance, I had a bad light rheostat that I finally found at MiniMania.
It truly is part of the fun for me!
I’m light on .38 but that’s ok since it was lost in a boating accident.
I have more booze than I’ll ever need since quitting.
TP 2-3 weeks?
Hand sanitizer: nuff
Knives: nuff
Siege weaponry: whistles
Bleach: lots
Gas masks: none
Water: about a week, but it’s raining so could collect.
First Aid/trauma kits: I could do major surgery with the one I made myself.
Dried and canned foods/MREs: 3-4 weeks
Plastic zip ties, lime, pencil and paper for the journal, water filter,
Running out of my anti seizure medicine would be the suck though. No substitute for that.
Lime to bury the bodies?
Lime to put in the coconut.
I’m afraid Count Spud is closer on this one.
Ah, soil amendment for acidic soil. Have that too.
Well, the lime you use for soil treatment and for burying bodies are different.
(Unless you are conditioning clay soils.)
Am, but it is agricultural lime not quicklime.
We keep a little bottle of hand sanitizer in the van console. I was joking with the kids about it the other day, saying we should hide it, so nobody sees it and breaks into the vehicle. Now that’s starting to sound like good sense.
Also, it’s obviously past time for the United States to convert Fort Knox into a facility for storing the nation’s strategic reserve of toilet paper.
We have two bags of grass, seventy-five pellets of mescaline, five sheets of high-powered blotter acid, a salt shaker half full of cocaine, and a whole galaxy of multi-colored uppers, downers, screamers, laughers and also a quart of tequila, a quart of rum, a case of Budweiser, a pint of raw ether and two dozen amyls. We should be set for the next several weeks.
But seriously Glibs, I’m noting a distinct lack of rectal thermometers ? among the commentariat.
Shit, I’m bugging out to your house.
But what are you going to do about the G**amn bats man!?
Whatever we do, we won’t eat them. Hopefully that lesson will make it through this shitshow.
First time I’ve considered bugging out instead of hunkering down.
Great quote.
Having drugs and no money are better than times of money and no drugs, right Fat Freddy?
That was Freewheelin’ Franklin.
The line was supposed to be taken as Franklin saying it to Fat Freddy (and his cat)
But thanks for pointing that out, very Phineas of you….
I’ve been indoors for days. Should I venture forth and see if the grocery store has burned down?
Question is, do you have your venturing gloves ready?
No, but I don’t have a party to collect first either.
I have checked the street. There is actually a completely empty parking spot behind my car, so there’s a good chance I’ll be able to return to my spot if I wander.
I am going to venture forth. Wish me luck.
We’re all counting on you.
It’s dangerous to go alone.
It wasn’t completely devoid of humans. closer to 3am rather than 9pm in terms of number of active people about.
The TP aisle was still empty.
I picked up more corned beef because the stuff I made today is vanishing fast.
“never leave the house w/o a fire extinguisher and a handgun”
-Suthen
(truer words were never spoken)
Godspeed.
I may or may not have some of the items listed. If someone has a need post it and I may volunteer to assist.
I need people to stop panicking. But I don’t think that’s the sort of need you’re talking about.
Alcohol – nothing drinkable
Ammunition – nothing powder-based
Guns – *flexes*
Gasoline and/or other fuel – I guess some in the tank, maybe a little old gas in a jerry can, too
TP – a few rolls; 4 or 5 maybe?
Hand sanitizer – nada
Knives – I haven’t seen my pocket knife in about 4 months; I hope it’s still around here somewhere
Siege weaponry – I’d have to get creative in such an instance (assuming I’m the one under siege, not laying siege)
Bleach – about a quart
Gas masks – I got a gas filter mask
Water – carbonated
First Aid/trauma kits – mostly
Dried and canned foods/MREs – a coupoe days’ worth
Apparently I’m not a prepper.
I’m not a prepper either, although I considered getting ready for the meltdown in Nov….
I think I have some packaged salmon in the basement that is not supposed to expire until 2024 though. Plus a box of Gardetto Rye Chips. And coffee, lots of coffee.
We’re all preppers and home schoolers now.
Pantry is stocked
Freezer is full
Plenty of deer in the back yard
Occasional bear
20 gallons of propane at any time (rotating tanks)
If worse comes to worse, my backyard neighbor is a quadriplegic. What!? He’s going to be tender and certainly can’t run away!
We are seriously deficient on toilet paper. Kid #1 is back home from college and I swear she makes puppets and does a puppet show while she is pooping. How does she go through that much toilet paper?
If worse comes to worse, my backyard neighbor is a quadriplegic. What!? He’s going to be tender and certainly can’t run away!
You should start offering to give him massages. And bring a 6-pack along.
Alcohol: 30-something liters, mostly brown
Ammunition – a little more than a thousand rounds of .22LR with which to harvest the local wildlife, 125 rounds #8 birdshot for same, <5000 rounds centerfire cartridges
Guns – I actually can wear all of my centerfire pistols holstered at the same time, that's how few I have. A couple shotguns. I have more uppers than lowers, and one of my lowers is 9mm dedicated.
Gasoline and or other fuel <5 gal, not including what's in the car and snowblower (which I need to run dry here pretty soon)
TP – a few dozen rolls
Hand sanitizer – none. I hate the stuff.
Knives – Many, many, many. I worked for a knifemaker for the better part of a decade.
Siege weaponry – none
Bleach – none, but I have Everclear.
Gas masks – North half-mask respirator, but no non-expired cartridges. With some forewarning I could liberate some SCBA.
Water – I need to resupply. I drink tap but use distilled for coffee.
First Aid/trauma kits – three, but some are pretty rinkydink
Dried and canned foods/MREs – no MREs, dried grains and canned food yes.
NA wearing all his guns
I was gonna tease you based on the handgun thing, but 30L of brown liquor, you’re pre-approved. Don’t forget the bacon.
At least I have holsters for all of them.
Seriously. That is hard-core.
Not really.
I buy handles of utility bourbons. And then I’ve been buying ryes to write up for here, and then I’ve been collecting scotches.
What happens is, I love trying new things. If I love it, I always keep it in the cabinet. If I don’t love it, but think company might, or might be impressed by it, I leave it in the cabinet but don’t drink it. I like giving guests options. The only bottles I empty are those I consider disposable or ones that I have a resupply available. So right now I’ve stopped drinking my Taliskers since the local liqour stores aren’t carrying it and their special order prices are stupid in part thanks to Trump.
My guess is this week, possibly next, is peak quarantine compliance. Soon after, people will be stir crazy and kind of over the “It’s HAPPENING” adrenaline, and they will revert to normalcy. Whether they clamor until the states make it legal to relax, or the black market and speakeasy access to services will commence.
My fervent hope is that people realize how foolishly close they were to turning over their rights and freedoms to a bunch of knuckleheads.
Shit, I hope you are right.
Well, it will have to be black market, because I don’t think the various gubment officials will give up so quickly. They’re having far too much fun.
This. Their authoritay boners are rock-hard.
Swift kick to the nads will clear that right up!
You’re more optimistic than me.
I admire your optimism.
I wish I was as optimistic.
I’m giving it at least two more weeks. The number of cases is skyrocketing where I am.
*Not that I derive any particular conclusion out of this. Could just be more test results coming back, for example.
I agree. People will put up with a lot of shit – *if* they can see the bodies. If they can’t, they vote with their wallets. So unless the corpses start piling up soon, people (even the work-from-home types) are going to lose patience… at which point the authorities can either relax the restrictions, or face mass civil disobedience.
*insert Remain Calm, All is Well [gif]*
I have nothing.
Now on a seperate poll, could some of you that have something give me your address and times you plan to be out?
You know, we’re generally a helpful lot. If you asked nicely and found a useful commodoty to contribute, you could probably get a spot in a bunker.
Also has nothing
If you have no goods to offer, you will need to provide useful services.
On the curb outside 123 Sesame Street. I’m usually never gone, but I retreat into the sewers after 4pm for my evening constitutional.
Alcohol – not enough
Ammunition – not enough
Guns – not enough
Gasoline and/or other fuel – Not counting the car, I know I have some in a gas can but I honestly cannot remember how much.
TP – plenty for now
Hand sanitizer – none
Knives – not enough
Siege weaponry – none. Sad.
Bleach – a gallon or so
Gas masks – none
Water – I need a stash. I’m a little too reliant on the tap.
First Aid/trauma kits – just some bandages
Dried and canned foods/MREs – no MREs. Dried grains.
This x6.22E23
I’ve got most of the stuff on SP’s list but about a month after my blood pressure meds run out I’m on my way to a stroke.
Buddy has this for sale for $550. Mmmm.
Same here with the blood pressure meds. I’m wondering now if my doctor will allow me to set up my prescriptions so I always have a 3-6 month supply on hand.
For blood pressure meds getting 3 months should be easy.
I’m thinking if I run out of Keppra and start having breakthrough seizures, I have to set myself up in the new tribal order as a shaman who occasionally has a trance and a vision.
+1 aura
I got stuff…………
You might appreciate this
I haven’t had brandy for more than a decade. I’d forgotten how good it is.
This from the previous thread worries me 🙁
“If you stay in a room with an infected person for an hour or so, you will get infected. Prior to showing symptoms, people start producing record breaking numbers of virii that coat their nasal passages, throats, and mouths. Those large numbers guarantee that the moisture droplets people exhale normally are carrying a significant number of virii which will float around until someone inhales it.”
GET OUT!
Huh?
I think the above is quite hyperbolic… “Those large numbers guarantee that the moisture droplets people exhale normally are carrying a significant number of virii which will float around until someone inhales it.”–> This is just wrong according to Stoke’s Law. My experience there are no guarantees in biological science.
I just hope it means I couldn’t have caught it just walking around a supermarket.
It’s fucking Osterholm.
The guy mixes good science with TOTALFREAKOUT.
He’s a douche, so I have no idea what’s gonna happen.
I was saying the other day that Osterholm made my bullshit meter twitch badly.
I didn’t trust anything he said.
I’m just worried because I have to take care of my mom who is in a very high risk group. So I keep wondering if I’m carrying it.
Yes, I totally understand.
My MIL is 82 and frail as shit. I take care of her house, garbage, car, etc. I told her to get the garbage in the cans, but otherwise I’m not coming into the house.
It cracks me up that she thinks I’m being ridiculous.
I think Osterholm is a panic-porn freak, but I’m not gonna take chances.
Well..when you go out and come back assume that you are carrying.
So take off your coat and bouffant (hat), and wash your hands and face, and brush your teeth before you come in close contact to her…it is all you can do.
Thanks, I hadn’t thought of washing my face and brushing my teeth.
The above makes it sound like I’m infecting the house every time I breath (if I have it).
I asked about getting tested, but apparently I need to have a high fever to get the test.
May I suggest a re-google of Stoke’s Law?
Reynolds’s may also like a word, vis-à-vis transmission
(the law, not the foil on my head)
All just dead, white, men, so who cares??
Yeah, there were instances on the Diamond Princess where the spouse didn’t pick it up. And that’s in the same relatively small cabin.
The best option is to destroy the economy, have massive social unrest, turn to strong man government and finally end up with more dead than if you hadn’t done anything. Our leaders are wise.
Can’t have a pandemic if everyone is dead from the civil war….
If you would only stay home and die quietly, we wouldn’t have to do this.
I thought everyone was dead from the end of net neutrality.
Food for at least a month
Fuel for my portable stove
Lots of ready light charcoal
Tons of cleaners and sanitizers
Cases of water
1/2 oz. of weed
Fifth of Bourbon for trade goods
3/4 tank of gas
Cash
And tons of Medical supplies, Doc Rowe would have loved me….
Hmm, adds charcoal to my list
I have fifty pounds of real coal, and nothing to burn it in.
@TPTB: I have submitted an article re Man Yells at
CloudsCoronavirus. Feel free to schedule it for whatever time slot you need to fillWhat is Lyrica used for? I know a guy with a bunch that he doesn’t know what to do with……
Drug.com says:
Lyrica (pregabalin) was originally FDA approved as an anti-epileptic drug, also called an anticonvulsant. It works by slowing down impulses in the brain that cause seizures. Pregabalin also affects chemicals in the brain that send pain signals across the nervous system.
Lyrica is used to treat pain caused by fibromyalgia, or nerve pain in people with diabetes (diabetic neuropathy), herpes zoster (post-herpetic neuralgia), or spinal cord injury.
I used to take it. It’s used for a number of different neurological things — seizures, headaches, etc. It can also work as an an anxiolytic.
Thanks to both of you, it makes sense now, Good SHTF drugs
Alcohol: Plenty, and I can make more.
No guns/ammo. Plenty of knives (mostly for cooking).
Water: Not much saved, but I can make water potable with the same equipment used to make alcohol.
First Aid/Trauma kits: Quite a bit, and have a greater then average knowledge of first aid.
Dried/Canned food: Enough to last me for a bit, and a chest freezer full of meat. If we lose power, I may have to convert quite a few roasts into jerky. With all the panic buying, I decided to start up a sourdough starter again, and will be making some bread this weekend with it. I have a feeling the deer in the area would be getting skittish around people pretty damned quickly if SHTF.
Does Sourdough keep better than regular bread? I love it, and of course no one is buying it, so stocks are full
Not to speak for Neph but I believe the purpose of the sourdough starter is that you always have a source of yeast for your bread making, not that the bread made has a longer shelf life.
You got it Hyperbole. I enjoy sourdough, and it’s pretty easy to make a starter. It takes three ingredients: flour, water, and time. One downside is it needs to be used (or discarded) on a regular basis. You can also use the sourdough starter to make other bread products, one that I made regularly last time I had a sourdough starter going were these English Muffins.
Right on, my wife has a seven year mother of sourdough going on that we use to make bread and pancakes. Plenty of flour as well.
Hell. No where to go, I need something to do to keep myself busy at home. I’ve got four (maybe five) different kinds of flour already, and I’m planning on making some spent grain flour from the grain I make beer with this weekend (16 lbs of grain being used in the beer).
When I went to the store last week, the yeast was sold out. So, I’m making a sourdough starter. (I have some yeast). *looks around*
I’ve got yeast on hand, and brewing yeast can be used to make bread (and bread yeast can make alcohol). And if you’ve got bottle conditioned beer on hand (or non-filtered beer), you’ve probably got brewers yeast. It’s just a matter of capturing it, and stepping it up into a viable amount.
I make bread often enough that I started this today, and it already looks a little bubbly
My kid built a model trebuchet, I don’t think it’ll be terrible useful in a Mad Max dystopia, but if movies have taught me anything it’s that exotic weapons always have the Element of Surprise, so we’ll be okay.
Luckily I hit costco before the freakout so we’re good supply wise, but no, I’m not a prepper, except for the inordinate amount of snacks in the pantry. And they’re all half-open, too, no matter how I try to get the kid to finish one before moving on to the next one. I’m gonna have to venture out for eggs tomorrow, before I get my hair cut wearing my flapper dress and sliding in the back of the salon to indulge in the black market business.
I also have bio weapons, since the kiddo just got over influenza. I can probably infect some neighbors if I move quickly to take them out with used tissues before the garbage pickup.
12 Monkeys!!!!
/Good luck,
Pretty much everyone infected has a bio weapon now. It’s like having a gun at grandma’s head. “One move and I’ll sneeze on the old lady!”
Trump had a presser where he said something along the lines of, “If every American follows these procedures, we will [something, something overcome this soon]”. The goofs at CDC said something similar. Good luck getting every American to do anything. These guys haven’t met Florida man.
Our plan is simple. It just requires 300 million people to follow instructions to the T.
I have a potato cannon, if ever I feel a need to hurl tubers at advancing forces.
Spawn #3 has an arsenal of nerf guns.
Won’t go with me to the range to shoot real guns. /where have I gone wrong in raising him?
I guess I dodged that bullet (hah!). All of my progeny love to shoot. Been giving the grandkids .22 rifles for their 12th birthday.
In my family it was graduation from 8th grade, since that was a big deal back when the ancestors started doing it.
You are a great Grandpa.
Seconded.
Alcohol — Maybe 2,000 bottles wine, mead, beer, and cider. Maybe 15 to 20 kegs mead, beer, cider.
Ammunition — not enough
Guns — not enough
Gasoline and/or other fuel — what’s in the truck and the snow blower. Several 20 lb propane tanks.
TP — one big pack from Sam’s
Hand sanitizer — no idea, ask the wife
Knives — a couple
Siege weaponry — none, but I can find plans
Bleach — none
Gas masks — none
Water — all I can draw from the well until the electric goes out
First Aid/trauma kits — I think there is one in the truck.
Dried and canned foods/MREs — maybe 250 lbs of barley, wheat, and oats
“Alcohol — Maybe 2,000 bottles wine, mead, beer, and cider. Maybe 15 to 20 kegs mead, beer, cider.”
Wow. You win.
For your PCC question:
Step 1: Do you already own a 9mm pistol with several magazines?
1a. If it’s a Glock congratulations! You have eleventy billion options made by every gun company you’ve heard of and most that you haven’t. Palmetto State Armory is the value leader in this regard.
1b. If it’s not a Glock, but is an insanely popular modern pistol, there is an adapter that will let you run your mags in an AR platform. You will need to buy an 8oz buffer and a 9mm upper. Here’s ones for M&P, Sig P320, CZ75 and of course Glock.
Step 2: If not, buy a Ruger PC9. Unless you’re rich, in which case buy a CMMG. I am a CZ fanboi, and the CMMG is better in every way than the Skorpion.
1911 guy. Between my wife and I, we have two each of Springfield 1911 EMP 4, Springfield 1911 EMP, and Sig Sauer p938. At least half a dozen magazines for each pistol.
The Ruger PC Carbine is on the list of options (I just ordered a Ruger Mini-14 from Buds).
I have no experience with this whatsoever
https://torkmag.com/product/magdapt-1911-45acp-w-16-upper/
I should have clarified. All pistols are 9 mm.
1911 guy too – just not exclusive to them. I’ve got three standard pattern (5″ barrel, 7-8 round), three hi-cap (5″ barrel/14 round), and one 3″ barrel/6-round.
But I also have HK, FN, Glock, Walther, and Springfield Armory hi-cap, poly-framed – all in major calibers.
The CMMG in 10mm looks sweet.
Alcohol — Maybe 2,000 bottles wine, mead, beer, and cider. Maybe 15 to 20 kegs mead, beer, cider.
Beautiful.
One of the rare times when have an obsessive hobby pays off.
My house has a full basement w/ garage under the main floor. The back corner of the garage will be a wine cellar one day – I just have to wall it off and do the racks. With two walls already below grade it won’t take much insulation to have a very nice cellar.
Travel trailer is well maintained and we can be hitched up and out of here in about an hour if we have to. As close to the DC area as I am, my first instinct will always be bug out if things go crazy. But honestly, apart from my children reverting to total savagery because they canceled school through mid-April, I’m not worried. I’ve been working from home for more than a decade and my company is doing unexpectedly well in the face of mass panic. As long as supply lines don’t completely collapse, I’ll keep on as usual.
Luckily there have been some great meat sales the past few weeks so we went into this with three freezers full of keto food. Mrs TOK has been shopping a few times this week so we have about double the normal stock of TP, bleach, and cleaning supplies.
Booze – 7 -10 gallons, at a guess. Could be more. Running two 5 liter barrels (wait – three) runs up the score.
Guns – adequate.
Ammo – need MOAR.
3 weeks of food, give or take.
I do need to get a serious first aid kit.
I do need to get a serious first aid kit.
Wife being an EMT (and as obsessive with kit as kinnath is with booze), we are well set.
Can you recommend a pre-made kit?
Does a bear shit in the woods?
No, he does not.
Our long-term food supply is based upon a 50lb sack of pinto beans. All the way back to college days I heeded the Mormon dictate of 1 year of food. It might get pretty boring after a while but beans will feed the Mrs. and me for a long time.
And they’re good for your heart!
Obligatory
I knew that was coming!
At one point I had the year supply of food. A ginormous pile of #10 cans that I hauled around a couple places and stashed everywhere, before ditching everything but my car shipped to the mainland, a couple suitcases full of stuff, and a crazy Vietnamese GF/future-ex GF who I ignored the “don’t stick your dick in crazy” advice about because I didn’t see the crazy right fucking in front of me.
I am seriously, seriously disappointed by the apparent lack of siege weaponry among Glibs.
You mean the lack of seige weaponry that we will admit to, right?
Plenty of siege weaponry. Lakes full of it.
Well, I did qualify it with “apparent” lack.
My trebuchet is in the shop and the mechanics are saying it is hard to get parts.
The “Shit Shack” logistics are classified but I will cop to a gladius, scutum and a pilum on hand. The scutum is not to standard (actually pretty sucky) but the gladius has the start of a really nice edge. It would do the job.
A guy near me built a trebuchet. My plan is to ply him with weed and booze.
I am seriously, seriously disappointed by the apparent lack of siege weaponry among Glibs.
Did I mention my potato cannon?
But after you’ve fired Spudalicious and Count Potato, we’re out of ammo.
You’re going to waste perfectly good potatoes during a crisis of this magnitude???
You know what, you can make concrete slugs of the right diameter using a shorter length of pipe as a mold, with a release agent to get it out.
Alternatively, you could make brick slugs with fewer materials.
Your husband has assured us numerous times that Spud is not perfectly good.
Does your potato cannon use hair spray as the fuel? ‘Cause I have a full can of Aqua Net I won at an ’80s themed office party.
Former cow-orker made a trebuchet that would chuck a 12″ diameter piece of wood 1/4 mile onto the lake.
It’s probably rotten by now.
I asked for clarification in my response!
Maybe three months of food, if careful. Counting extra bags of dog food in the total. And the dog.
Guns / ammo – a series of unfortunate boating accidents. In central Texas, a 5 hour drive from the beach.
Water / TP – plenty. Arguably on the edge of wretched excess.
Cleaning supplies – wife has OCD, so definitely wretched excess.
Product recommendation to anyone afflicted with a stupid ban on stores giving out plastic bags.
The Uline Deluxe tshirt bags are really strong. I’ve loaded them up with far more than a normal bag could take with no fear that it was going to fail. Back in the 80s they made trash bags of the thickness these things use (not anymore though). It almost makes up for them being $0.20/bag. But with their durability, they can easily be used more than once.
Interesting. I’ve already lost one of the five-pack of reusable bags I bought. Apparently the nylon material can’t withstand the rigors of a plastic vodka-bottle cap lying on its side and chewing a hole in the bottom of it.
I don’t know of any bag that would survive that. Stand your vodka bottles up. Standing bottles cause less bag damage.
Enh, they were standing up when I left the liquor store. The bags are so damn big that stuff flops around in them as I’m walking home.
1.5mil ?
When I read the title, I thought, “If anyone should know, it’d be you,” but then it turned out to be about something else entirely.
Sheesh, not that penis inches thing again today…we don’t measure time in dog years.
LOLOL
In dog years, I’m like 460. I look pretty good for that.
we don’t measure time in dog years
“I’m not drunk. I’ve only had two in dog beers” (burp)
I’d roll my eyes so far back I could see China, but I don’t want to catch anything.
Someone once said”If you know how many guns/ammo you have you don’t have enough”
I could use a generator to pump water with, if necessary. I do have a friend with one, however, and he may be short something that I have in abundance.
At the combo liquor/grocery store I asked if the smokers were stocking up. The clerk said not too much, ciggies are relatively expensive but they were selling the makings at a greater rate. She did say the generic booze was in greater demand than the quality merchandise.
We’re not preppers by definition but live quite a ways from the big box stores so we tend to buy in quantity.
Sweet, I guess I have enough guns and ammo.
Don’t worry. If the shit hits the fan, you send me a list and we will be there in a few hours.
I hope your wife likes me.
We’re not preppers by definition but live quite a ways from the big box stores so we tend to buy in quantity.
Same here. Easier to make a trip every couple of months for shelf goods or just have Walmart send it since we’ve got the room for it.
I’m pretty well stocked for normal life – about a month’s worth of food in the freezer, Costco-size supplies of TP, soap, laundry detergent, food for the dog, etc. We have several huge bottles of hand sanitizer because I bought them in bulk two years ago and only ever used them as a last resort if I couldn’t wash my hands for some reason.
I’m not at all prepared for any serious SHTF scenario. For example, I have very little food that doesn’t need refrigeration.
I had a fender bender today in the grocery store parking lot, which I shouldn’t have even bothered trying to go to because they still don’t have eggs. So now I need to go get the car fixed and hope Allstate doesn’t total it (the damage isn’t bad, but the car is 14 years old).
No one is laughing at the preppers now, are they?
Taking the long view – Just heard Tom Cotton talking about a bill to ban imports of pharmaceuticals from China and had this thought: The reason so much outsourcing is done in China is because it is cheap and it cheap because China uses slave labor. We have ended slavery here in the US but we still outsource our slave labor.
If China proves to be so much of a problem that we end our outsourcing to them prices will go up yet it may(?) put an end or reduction of slavery in China. The country currently has millions of people in Slavery, possibly more than existed in the world only a couple of hundred years ago. Silver lining?
Any thoughts?
Most of the Active Pharma Ingredients made in China are off-patent and/or require chemistry that is highly regulated due to waste by-products disposal which is cheaper or free in China. For instance, penicillin production must be done in a dedicated facilities forever.
Have you seen how fast they can build a hospital there and when done or not …how fast it can fall down.
FYI there are probably more drug products made in India than China for some of the same reasons.
Fuck Aurobindo.
I would like to see fewer imports from slave wages/conditions countries, even though out prices would increase. Perhaps wages would need fewer artificial supports like min wage.
I am torn because money wise, I want the made in China cheap stuff, but morally it’s bad. It will take a lot of collective willpower or a national law,, which generally worries me.
Main reason I want more US made goods, esp in certain sectors, is for national and personal security. Chinese knock off integrated circuits (chips), impure materials, backdoor paths into pc and phone—-Chinese are up to no good.
DoD needs to open multiple chip factories in the US, American owned. I see no way around it.
China is asshole
There’s good reason that Musk is putting in place the pieces to build his own batteries in the future. He’s not interested in being beholden to Eastasia for batteries any more.
I need proof of this “slave” labor people keep mentioning before I can comment on that. Like, actual bondage or just “wages we would consider low”?
The PRC, because it’s a totalitarian Maoist shithole, uses a corrections system known as laojiao, where our chain gangs would break up rocks in farmland or clean litter on the side of the highway, their prisoners work in factories making Christmas decorations or knock-off Star Wars toys.
Fascism with Chinese characteristics.
Sad thing is that if you look at what Sun Yat-Sen and Chiang Kai-Shek believed, that is exactly it. The 3 Principles of the People is, quite literally, Chinese National Socialism. That’s why Chiang was allied with the Germans until they threw him under the bus to ally with the Japanese prior to the 2nd Sino-Japanese War. Further adding to insult, Chiang’s Wehrmacht-trained troops were just about eliminated to a man during the Battle of Nanking.
Yes, and we supported the KMT dictatorship for years afterwards because they opposed the chicoms.
China does use slave labor, but so do we. And we have a greater percentage of our population incarcerated per capita than China does as well to be used for that slave labor as well.
The primary reason Chinese labor is cheap is because China has a lot of labor. 1.5 billion people, and a good portion of those adults need to work.
Yeah, ours make license plates and hand sanitizer.
Bloomberg passed a law a while back that will have them dig mass graves on Riker’s Island if Tom Hanks Disease turns deadly.
Slavery and bullshit regs.
We can make as much of whatever we need. It’s easy.
Like most things it’s complicated. Most of the cost of drugs is in the final drug product and packaging. Those ops are automated. Next is testing. Slave laborers doing biochemistry is rare. There is just not that much labor in drug product manufacture.
To me it is the regulations and the opportunity costs that domestic manufacturing facilities want to employ on more profitable products (new, on patent drugs and devices).
I admit I’ll need a gas or diesel generator to keep the car charged. Tough call on Tesla vs Ford.
Probably would go Ford Escape, tbh.
Ford Escape
The piña colada car.
Well, they had to ditch the Bronco. After that whole OJ Simpson thing….
I have about 1 month of food. I have cash, booze and some bacon (plan to get more.)
Waves at Sean.
YOU FUCKING HOMOS STAY THE FUCK AWAY FROM ME! DON’T TOUCH MY SHIT CANT YOU SEE I’M TRYING TO THINK HERE! GODDAMIT! EVERY. DAMN. TIME. …
I’m so sorry about that, Glibs. It’s stress from the pandemic and you can’t blame me for blowing off a little steam, can you? You know I love you and would never hurt you. Remember that time I took you to the beach? OH GREAT! HERE COME THE WATERWORKS! BOO HOO. I JUST FUCKING APOLOGIZED AND NOW YU START CRYING?! THIS IS BULLSHIT> IM OUTTA HERE!
LOOK WHAT YOU MADE ME DO!!
Just call him Francis
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mUtHkSw9nEY
My boss called this evening at about 5:30, so after regular work hours. He said the new company covid 19 guidance is “work from home if you can” instead of “work from home if you want or need to.”
Your choice?
Any Glibs fleeing the SHTF toward northern NM are welcome. Just show up in the open and know the password (hint: password is “Zardoz”)
The weird lady crying on the lawn of the house she grew up at is me.
Change it to FUCK OFF SLAVER
I’d likely end up in northern New Mexico, but closer to Abiquiu.
If the world does fall apart during my upcoming trip back to the US I may come looking for a place to ally with. Just keep a good place open on your perimeter for a medium belt-fed MG. Hopefully you will have some good neighbors who can handle firearms who I can arm. You’ll get first pick on long arms.
“a good place open on your perimeter for a medium belt-fed MG”
I have just the spot. Covered by a good overwatch position, even.
If SHTF, I might** be able to assemble (2x) 1919, (1x) MG-42, (1x) PKM and (2x) BREN in their original configurations.
** Dear ATF, these are only theoretical
Class-3 M1919A4 already covered. Built, running and 3k rounds on links on hand.
I’ve also got the leftover full-auto parts from some AK builds which would drop right in to the RPK-style AK I have set up with 75 round drums.
Here we go… I just learned that one of our large customers is pushing out by months, as well as outright canceling some, orders with us and their other suppliers due to Tom Hanks Disease. This isn’t a GM or John Deere sized company, but it’s not small potatoes either. In my 20 years in manufacturing, I’ve seen that we can usually see the ups and downs coming about 6 months before the rest of the economy. Obviously we don’t have 6 months this time. I fear the economy is about to come screeching to a (near) halt.
Are short-sellers somehow “laundering” their losses/gains through virus panic, using it as an excuse to cut their own losses where they can?
See Bill Ackman.
It could be with this company. I hope that’s the case. Hard to say for certain, yet. There is a bigger player we do a lot of work for, and if we get the same letter from them, then things are really bad.
We just need our Top Men to step in and start micromanaging supply chains. This goes here, that goes there type thing.
I need a gun, any ideas? I’m pretty broke, but AZ, so someting should be cheap,
Handgun, rifle, or shotgun?
Shotgun probably, cheap and easy and Big
I’m partial to the Remington 870, which I have. Old Reliable, there are a million of them out there so you can almost certainly find a cheap one. I paid $250 for mine.
Here, there are over 1300 of them for sale on Gunbroker.
Holy Shit! i can afford one of those, thanks!
This also tells me i can walk into one of the Dozen Gun shops in town and find Something,
Also pawn shops.
I prefer a good side by side double barrel shotgun to a pump gun. You can pick up a nice 12 gauge for a good price in any of the suggested venues. Plus once the THD panic dies you can enjoy many a good day hunting quail this fall. AZ has some great quail hunting.
Springfield XD-M or XD-S; Smith and Wesson M&P or M&P Shield.
Get a cheap Mossberg 500. It comes with the 28 and 18.5 inch barrel and pistol grip so you can hunt with it, shoot skeet and defend with it.
I’ll just get a sword, I can’t afford a gun…..
Swords cost as much as guns these days.
But a sword doesn’t require the additional expense of ammo.
I had both stolen from me, by my son, nice eh….
It has the disadvantage of only being melee range.
I was always dual wield,
Dwarf Warrior
Fuck the sword, get a machete and spring another eight bucks and get a sweet ass belt sheath,.
https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B0001WBIEY/ref=ppx_yo_dt_b_search_asin_title?ie=UTF8&psc=1
Just a knoife.
We’ll throw another shrimp on the barbie for you.
I’m in the same boat. Even swords are regulated here, though.
You’re no samurai, no sword for you.
Tuna knife?
Leave my wife out of this.
The regulations are not too difficult to deal with but they are freaking pricey for anything worth having.
For actual effectiveness a nice tomahawk with a 20″ haft is a good weapon. A baseball bat gives you a bit more reach if not the same effect. But at least the bat won’t get you in the level of trouble that any blade will if the law gets involved.
What @K said. Mossberg 500 combos were so cheap at one point that pretty much every one of my friends bought one.
Be wary of the pistol grip, however. It felt like it had broken my wrist.
…hand on the top
Well, we have a fair bit of meat in the freezer – a whole turkey, a couple of bags of chicken breast and thighs, a brisket, about ten pounds of ground beef, some various cuts of venison, a corned beef. Other than that, our nonperishables are the same as most people.
The one thing I did stock up on before things got out of hand was hand sanitizer, got a dozen or so bottle of it so we have plenty in each car as well as the house.
TP, well, we have maybe 8 rolls in the house but my parents have one of those giant cubes from Costco in their garage, so no worries there.
Guns….a Remington 870, an SKS (Yugo! Not that virus-carrying Norinco!), a Marlin .22, and a Taurus .38. One of these days I’m gonna get another pistol. I used to have an EAA/Tanfoglio Witness .40 S&W (CZ75 clone) and liked it, but sold it when I needed a few extra bucks.
Just so Q has a well stocked gallery of FLBP and NSFW photos to cheer us up.
NSFWFH. I’d still click.
Pulls out conch shell and blows…
OK, so, I, for one, am concerned that our government is going to use the current situation to seriously restrict our rights. There is talk that Trudeau is considering restricting the movements of citizens within our borders. Which I wouldn’t be worried about except for the very first clause of the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms:
The standard under which this should happen should be extraordinarily high, which the current situation is not. Unfortunately Trudeau does not have the capacity to understand this.
Back to a comment that I had last week: this has the potential to be an experiment to determine to what extent world governments can control the masses. /tinfoilhat
They have the power to violate human rights and no matter how hard they try to weigh rights and safety, they will always veer towards violating rights. The government gets to use the excuse that your behavior not only hurts you but can hurt others. Dictators have used that excuse forever.
Should I buy a m1 variant with my coming Trump cash? Or better off with an AR frame? Serious question.
Honestly, probably the AR. more option, support, ammo(?). Love my M1A, but honestly a good AR is probably a better SHTF gun.
Yes, more AR parts and magazines in circulation. More likely to be able to resupply off the bodies of your adversaries.
AR.
or a 9mm carbine. Fight me.
I’d be grabbing my folding stock FAL first but I still have AR’s around for if I have to rely on the smaller caliber ammo I can scrounge. (But I would still probably running with my 5.56 Galil as long as the magazines are working right)
I love my L1A1 and AR in 7.62×39. But in the end, the AR in .223 is the winner because I’m pretty sure it has the greatest availability of ammo, mags and spare parts.
I’ve got about 70 magazines for the FAL and 5 more FAL’s to cannibalize for parts. I have a couple AR’s in 5.56 but prefer the Galil for simplicity and reliability if that’s the only ammo I can get.
No need to fight, an AR 9mm carbine
I talked to my gun shop owner today. I was in there on sat and he had cleaned out Most of his low cost ar14’s, and glocks. Today he has nothing left but $1k pistols, grandpa’s old hunting rifles, and benelli shotguns.
The place was stocked relatively well on Sat, even with the Glock and low end AR-14’s being snatched up. Everyone he met this week was a new customer.
Ammo is also getting dear.
Very glad to hear that a lot of people are getting off their collective butz and becoming gun owners. Especially this close to a major election. People on the fence or who bought something years ago might not think much about it but people who saw a big, real world reason to buy now will be hearing Biden’s gun-grabber noise as more of a direct threat than they might have two months ago.
Keep in mind that there a likely a lot of people buying, that resent “having to do” so, and would likely still push for GC (maybe even more stringent). Just to do away with this whole icky boom-stick mess.
I have come to presume that there is a sizable contingent of people who, when they exercise their Rights/liberty, become even more enamored of being taken care of by government, and hate what they just did, or, experienced.
I guess I’m hoping/expecting that once they have crossed that line and actually have a gun around the house the feeling gets a bit more comfortable. Mt step-brother went that way a few years ago. Before that he was ambivalent about guns – not negative but not interested. Then he found a reason to get his CCW and first handgun. Now he picks my brain all the time about the next rifle, shotgun, or pistol he’s getting.
Oh, I hope this happens, too. And, I’m sure it will for some. I am just pessimistic about anything overly positive happening (i.e. large number of minds changed).
Then again, any little bit helps.
Just went and did a quick booze check. Around 70 litres, about 80% of which is 80 proof or higher.
Ammo: won’t say. Enough to get the job done if necessary.
Guns: won’t say. Enough to get the job done if necessary.
Gasoline and/or other fuel: enough for a couple of weeks of 1 hot meal/day
TP: 58 double rolls (what? It was time to replenish just before the SHTF…)
Hand sanitizer: it’s called “soap,” and there’s lots of it.
Knives: boatloads
Siege weaponry: tragic boating accident, I’m afraid
Bleach: 4 litres
Gas masks: nope
Water: yep.
First Aid/trauma kits: indeed.
Dried and canned foods/MREs: three months’ worth, approx.; (MREs are poor value for the money)
Seriously, the local Safeway had everything I needed/wanted today, including stupid amounts of fresh food. I’m pretty sure this ain’t the Apocalypse.
On the other hand, my Federal government is doing its level best to make the situation much worse. Assholes.
The apocalypse won’t be biological. It will be the worldwide economic depression that will occur afterwards.
Like I said, “my Federal government.”
Assholes.
Reaction to the depression that follows it.
I’m pissed off because it’s 3 years ahead of schedule according to my plan.
It’ll take a little longer to destroy this ethno state. According to the average Taro I’ve talked to, the virus is under control here because Japanese genes are STRONG. SoI asked him, “Compared to who?” Conversation got uncomfortable after that.
Must be all the radiation that gives them resistance.
Atom Boy got Wuflu, too.
The Sun Rises in the East, tell me something new HM,
Agreed. The government is destroying the economy. Just in time for my upcoming retirement too.
It will be the worldwide economic depression that will occur afterwards.
Yup. 1929, here we go again.
It’s so bizarre. We came out of the chute stronger than any of the last 10 years. Now I’m wondering if we will make it until summer.
Ugh.
“We came out of the chute stronger”
lol
Which will lead to outbreaks of various ‘normal’ diseases. TB, cholera, typhoid, plain old every day flu all get more dangerous when people are malnourished and sanitation systems break down.
This is what worries me, even if the most dire models of the current virus are correct.
” Ammo: won’t say. Enough to get the job done if necessary.”
All you need is one to end the suffering…
MUH LIBERTARIAN MOMENT!!!!!!! *itshappening.gif*
Afraid to ask, but how exactly do you get this permit?
Be in good with someone at TABC.
Good ol’ boys…
He’s only* referring to AlcBev permits, for restaurants/pubs/etc…not some new kind of permit.
*just for clarification–fuck the licensing system
10 in the stink, 4 in the pink?
::looks down list::
Suffice it to say, we are ready because yes, we did go through That Phase a while back. I was a little skeptical, but went along with it. Now I’m glad we did.
Except alcohol – Mr. GT is “allergic” (“I break out in handcuffs.”) I’d be happy with a stash of wine just for myself…which I don’t have right now. (Note to self: go to favorite winery & get a mixed case of all the favorites. They could use the business.)
We also have two generators – the big noisy one we were lucky to find after Hurricane Ike (dry hurricane) came through, and a smaller, not so noisy one. That one got used after last springs tornado.
As I said the other day, “Expect everything, and the unexpected never happens.”
Good job, Mr GT. All that camping gear we’ve accumulated over the years will double nicely as emergency gear. Stoves, gas, lamps, etc. Food prep was done after getting burned by the Earthquake in 2011. Only problem is not standing out like a sore 6’3” thumb.
Ok which one of you guys is linking Glibs in Michael Z. Williamson’s facebook?
As MZW once commented for a while on HnR, it could be him, himself.
No, the person who posted it used their account so I know the RL name, and can guess within a couple of tries who they are here from the clues in their public profile, but that would be unfair.
I had to Google the dude, so … it was not I.
Check out this one trying to throw us off the scent.
???
I dont FB, so not it
So, hypothetically, after all the public infrastructure goes to shit and people start eating their in-laws, where’s the best place for a bunch of libertarians to (ugh) get together and start over?
South Dakota.
Too cold.
Not at all.
The house on the backside of Mt. Rushmore.
Hell yes, gotta see NBNW again, that house was insane (even if it wasn’t exactly behind Mt Rushmore).
North Dakota. 40 below keeps the riff raff out.
Too hot.
WAY too cold.
Maybe.
Idaho
Sally, of Sally’s Baking Addiction (https://sallysbakingaddiction.com) has a baking show on Prime called Sprinkles. I will binge watch it
At least the apocalypse still has takeout, thank god, I don’t feel like cooking at all tonite.
Who the hell creates a bio weapon that doesn’t solely attack fat, ugly people?
To hell with that; I’d create one that wiped out young attractive males to shift my place on the curve!
Yeah, yeah, that’s what I meant! Get rid of the men. Of course.
Why do you hate me?
As long as you aren’t short or a Gemini, we’re fine. *Rolls dice*
I’m both, *sobs*
Fucking hell. Really? ??♂️
Yes. *cries*
Not gonna work on me. I cry in public everyday.
I’m sure that Straf’s japanese wife is well over 6′.
Right. Tulip, you have to keep in mind Straff’s context for short. You’d have to be a midget.
There is a certain “short” this is just the right height. You can guess my gesture right now.
Yeah; up yours too, Buddy!!!
I seem to remember an old joke about the perfect woman being 3′ tall, with a flat head and big ears… but I wouldn’t dream of bringing it up in mixed company.
No gyms, have to stay inside – we are all going be fat!
You cof take a walk…
Could. Jesus I guess my phone has a cold too.
Throw your phone away! It has the Corona!
I have open space with trails and hawks and eagles and coyotes and cute little plague bearing prairie dogs literally a stone’s throw from my balcony.
You could also ride your bike through empty city streets, or just go throw things off the overpass.
Threading. Stupid threading. Anywhoos I may actually have the Wuflu. I suspect that I caught the cold from my GF, who works at a music teaching studio which just switched to skyping lessons because one of the instructor’s roommates has been hospitalized with Wuflu.
Everybody thinks they’ve had/ has it.
Well, they might. And that’d be a good thing. Everybody is eventually going to come into contact with it, and then we can all sheepishly realize what a bunch of… sheep we’ve been, and get back to normalcy. Only half the country is now bankrupt and all your favorite restaurants have gone under.
Fuck that, walk the dog, at the Park, Play 18 holes, at the Park, say Hi to all the locals, at the Park,
Try the Park, it’s safe….
THE PARK IS FULL OF RAPISTS AND BEARS PLUS I DONT HAVE ACCESS TO A CLOSE GOOD PARK WHERE I FEEL SAFE
Well that sucks, maybe Move to AZ where it’s safer….
More like Arid Boner, am I right?
No, Pussy abounds if you want it….
We kill the Homeless, Rapists and Bears and throw them in the River for Havasu to clean up…..
I have open space with trails and hawks and eagles and coyotes and cute little plague bearing prairie dogs literally a stone’s throw from my balcony.
You could also ride your bike through empty city streets, or just go throw things off the overpass.
I don’t have a bike! I am too poor!
Also not a gaymo gay boy!
Dude, steal a bike during the coming riots.
We got that stuff, except our Rabies infected critters are Squirrels, and the streets are amazingly quiet here, something I’m not used to…..
Yeah the traffic has been wonderful. Interesting fact: prairie dogs are, in fact, a species of ground squirell, and not canines at all.
Wow, it posted both places in the threading. Definitely, the Wuflu has now mutated into a computer virus, too. We are all doomed. DOOMED
Pretty cool eh?
DOOOOMED!!!!
Rush for you Stoners out there,
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fMoHes_BChQ
I was expecting this.
I think I have the WuFlu, Because I’m really fucking bored,
Eets ze ennui, mon amis.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=EO7cD6qmydo
Me too. I was chronically bored before all this, though.
No, that was Mono,
/Wayne
??????
http://archive.li/n64FQ/4b7488d7275856ab036bbfe3b71da6284c8cb3fc.jpg
NSFW.
http://archive.li/shIIC/7376e675590e7675c094931310a44426cc459ef3.jpg
NSFW.
http://archive.li/HbHWG/cefd551f40e870c8782adf37be0470d5a3ae8e4d.jpg
NSFW.
I like Pineapple
Name your favorite euphemism for passing gas.
Shootin’ Indians
Anal spew
Crop dusting.
Trouser cough.
Or, Trowserkov, if you want it to be Slavicly exotic.
California Barking Spider
Being Lone Star, I’ve not heard ‘California’ applied to it, prior to your posting it here.
I’m not unamused.
For you? Blowing Cum bubbles.
“Bombing the britches”, if you want a WW II flair.
Barking spiders?
Ghost from the wishing well? (for you Gordon Lightfoot fans)
Below-the-belt belch?
Blue-flame Brantley? (such a great story)
Nature’s comedy show?
“Ghost from the wishing well? (for you Gordon Lightfoot fans)”
We appreciate it.
Yes, we do.
“What a tale my farts could tell”
Should we ever meet– when chow time comes around, I’ll bring you an extra Hot Pocket, and regale you with my embarrassing Lightfoot crooning story.
“Should we ever meet– when chow time comes around, I’ll bring you an extra Hot Pocket”
Oh my God he wants to behead me and rape my still pulsating neck!
Help!
Well, with all those fluids, why wou–
I mean, eww, you sicko!
“(name of person sitting closest to me)?, Really!!?!!”
This is, of course, the ‘correct’ answer.
Yup
I actually worked today – doing manual labor like the peons I employ!!!!!!!!!!! – and let me tell you my wrist and forearm strength is garbage.
I am half the man I used to be.
my wrist and forearm strength is garbage.
Masturbate more.
#Neverfap 4 eva!
#ohnoonan
Disc, Golf is your friend, and it’s fun
I am sure but also I have no idea where to start. We don’t have fun times like that here.
We hike. We are hikers.
Man, two weeks ago I started a side job to install a ceiling fan. No electricity, I’d have to run it. “No problem”, I said to myself, and I stupidly listened to myself.
Figured I drill a hole into the crawlspace, then another by the wall, fish some wire and viola! But, there was no crawlspace, just the ceiling, then the joists at 12″ intervals, then the roof.
It took me hours of working over my head to run the wires. My shoulders and arms are just now recovering, two weeks later.
Sigh. Threading.
Yeah, actually working sucks.
HAHA!
THE WORST THING COVID19 HAS DONE IS FORCE ME TO GET OUT OF THE OFFICE AND GET DIRTY!
I AM IMPORTANT!
Cherry Blossom festivals are gonna suck this year.
Yeah, about that,,,
https://www.therisingwasabi.com/blossoming-of-cherry-blossoms-cancelled-due-to-coronavirus/
So I had the help today of a Samoan buddy who is really good with electronics and we set up a little gate system. We were talking about the THD and it looks like at the same time in early January both of our families had respiratory flu that was severe with fever and body aches. He said it took three weeks to get back to normal, I was about ten days or so and my wife almost two weeks. I know I’ve mentioned it here already, but I am pretty sure that this thing has been in SF for a couple months now’ which is only logical. Anything that is contagious in China would be here in a week or two. It was one of the worst respiratory illnesses I have ever had, I imagine if I was elderly it would have been fucked up¡ the kids were all good in a few days,
That’d be good news for you.
He still has shortness of breath. But then again he is pushing 350 and doing physical labor.
I don’t think THD is going to stick. It appears he has a mild case and won’t be our beloved celebrity to die from the disease created by the Two Scoop bio-weapons lab.
I like THD, serves them all right…
THD is funny for this site, I think HM was the inventor of that. I am particular to Wuhan Lung AIDS. I saw a clip recently of Oprah Winfrey predicting that a large percentage of Americans would be HIV + by the early 1990’s so that kind of hysteria seems appropriate for this thing.
I just introduced it, like a China-man at Washington State.
Norm Macdonald coined the term.
Tom Hanks does deserve some blame.
Same thing went through my Daughters Company in November, they shut down for a week, now people are thinking CV blew through the area late last year, and that’s why we are inoculated,
Contagious viruses move quickly, especially in our interconnected world. I haven’t heard a good explanation as to why it would take months to go from Wuhan to the US. Much more likely that it has been here the whole time.
Let me be naive. Why wouldn’t health officials or even a private citizen have be able to prove that? Serious question.
Private, how?
GOV, why spread panic? /oh, nevermind….
The spread wouldn’t make sense statistically for their models if it had already come through.
No test for it. Still no test anywhere in the world as far as I know for antibodies. My sister in law regularly frequents the doctor for any and all reasons. When her son got it she had him tested for flu and strep and neither showed positive.
I’m not saying it’s impossible. It’d be interesting to see if the infection rates jive with the official line. They are saying it has popped up in various places without anyone having been to a hotspot. Could be they couldn’t backtrack it or it was already there. Beyond my math skills to do an analysis of the numbers.
I would bet heavy yuan that it was already there, just undiagnosed.
I read an article on Medium that provided data from the Pac NW of a spike in “Flu-like” illnesses back in Nov-Dec of 2019 going through the hospitals.
I agree that it is highly likely that it was here for a while.
To get an idea of my neighborhood, we have characters like this rolling through trying to sell you turtles they just found in the middle of a virus scare.
https://imgur.com/a/UqLbQPh
While there isn’t an serology test for sars-cov-2, there is still analysis available including modeling of mutations based on it and other coronaviruses. Based on that, the origin/crossover to humans was earliest in mid November.
https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2020.03.05.976167v1.full.pdf (this is a preprint so YMMV)
It has a higher R0 than flu but not like measles so it still takes time to spread. Also, can take samples of current strains and use phylogenetic analysis to show the relationship between them. Not saying it isn’t possible particularly for onesie/twosie, but if it had been widespread before, it should show up now in samples and show more divergence from known origins.
https://nextstrain.org/ncov
You would need a serology test. The US doesn’t have one yet.
Jeez, us Pot smokers sharing bowls can’t help….
Please, Simulation Gods. I don’t ask for much.
https://mobile.twitter.com/michaelmalice/status/1240381078961115138
Wherever 2 or more of us are gathered….
pleaseohplease let this happen.
Viewing Alone
Why, as a libertarian, would I care about what you do?
I’m listening…
Get ready for Phase 5!
Marvel comics became hardcore porn so gradually, I hardly noticed.
Yeah, pretty much this.
Best intentions
I’m not getting what them being black has to do with anything.
Revealing the power of institutional racism?
All mimsy were the borogoves, and the mome raths outgrabe.
I plan on shunning the frumious bandersnatch.
/I won prose recital awards 3 years in a row in jhs with Jabberwocky
All mimsy were the borogoves, and the mome raths outgrabe.
Like reading Playboy for the articles (which I totally did) I savor the moments of true literary elegance at the Glibs.
Really?!? You don’t get how representation lifts everyone….and…optics….institutional….
It’s–well, it’s obvious! Black Power. Taking on The Man….
This has to be a joke. The writer is keeping a straight face but he knows what he’s doing.
That was my thought too.
??
Interesting post.
Malaria and THD
JFC I hope that’s right.
BTW-Sorry for the lateness on my reply, Chafed.
No apology needed.
That seems like decidedly good news
CoronaCovidNoFoodorTP worsens, and we are all doomed.
You have one week to live free and easy.
What do you do?
Punch a bee’s nest.
Drive 200
Get drunk and Golf, eat well,walk my pooch, smoke fine weed, the usual,
Invent a rocket that drops wiener-shaped flyers on everyone saying “the world isn’t ending.”
Do they have Mustard? Onions? if not the GTFO,
/unless Chili Cheese
flying Chili dogs, mmmmm
Mr. Wongburger??
While cleaning a Spaniard’s foreskin, I will place some hornets underneath and tape it shut.
Good God Man! at least use one of (((Them))
Thank G-d we won’t have to live through the horror that is global warming.
*hic*
On The Beach scenario?
Try to gather as much of my family together. After that, who knows? Gunpowder and alcohol? Fireworks?
By the way, if you can avoid it, do not read On The Beach. It might be the most depressing prose that I’ve ever encountered.
Sub question: Do you go out drunk/high or straight?
On the Beach has been one of my favorite books since I was little. I don’t want to live it.
Miss my Wendy, smoke too many Cigarettes,
I thought you were vaping. ?
Unrelated, some good news for you maybe?
https://ny.eater.com/2020/3/17/21182052/new-york-state-liquor-authority-restaurant-laws-coronavirus
OK, you have booze to go…but, you better eat something first!!
Also: “Liquor Authority”. Heh.
I want my self serve gas here dammit. It’s a safety issue now.
Boy, you are just lining up for the Fight for 15 crowd to hit the gas jockeys, aren’t ya?
Why do you hate the make-ready jobs crowd, Gustave?
When the depression hits, the dig ditches and fill them in gangs can pause in between to throw the bodies in.
Also: Gustave’s dream
Self service of gas?! Are you crazy man! That can’t happen ever.
They loosen the rules while making it difficult to comply.
Like clothing, rules are best when they’re tight. For others. Who happen to be hotties.
Sorry–where was I going with that…? Oh, right–rules are no damned good, if they can’t be enforced. No teeth = “gummers”. Crusty knows what I’m talking about.
High Five!
I don’t understand any of that. I just want to buy booze from the booze store. I don’t eat out.
Sorry son. You’re living in Cuomo’s NY.
Isn’t booze delivery a rather normal thing in NYC (and, for some time)?
I have no idea. I’m not a shut-in and there are a half-dozen liquor stores within a ten-minute walk.
Per the article, would you like fries with that?
CChunk really needs the spotlight.
https://twitchy.com/brads-313037/2020/03/18/cenk-uyger-attempts-to-use-his-children-to-dunk-on-president-trump-but-laughably-the-details-defy-belief/
It’s not the only thing he needs…
A full-on body slam/BJJ take-down of his buffoon ass would probably be very satisfying to see. Hell, watching Seagal Aikido him would probably suffice.
Seagal in his prime was fun to watch.
Yes, there is the occasional asshole making international news for some reason by, you know, being an asshole, but there’s no there there; and I’m getting pretty fucking sick and tired of the media pushing this shit.
Never ever read a Twitchy post.
The emperor is most definitely fat and nude.
Go on…
Mentioned in an earlier thread but just bought this
Gotta keep the economy going
If someone is needing a good AR and a small bug-out kit in one purchase, I highly recommend:
https://www.cabelas.com/product/DPMS-T-E-K-Tactical-Emergency-Kit-Rem-mm-Nato-Semiautomatic-Rifle-Package/1336701.uts
/If you can find one for sale
I’m looking for a CA compliant P226 and can’t find one anywhere.
Not even CCDN? Have you found any CA Sigs? If so, are they ‘off the table’ for you for any particular reason? The 229 is really just a shorter barrel version of the 226, if that’s available.
Sorry–CDNN
Bud’s is supposed to be reputable, and seems to be one of the lowest prices:
https://www.budsgunshop.com/product_info.php/products_id/76379
I’ve bought from Buds before. But it’s been a couple years and I seem to remember some vitriol on the gun boards over something they pulled in the past.
Huh….Well, good to know. Maybe their pricing…
::puts on sunglasses::
Comes at a cost.
YYYYYEEEEEA-wait, are we still doing that? Is it just me?
I watched The Wire. This isn’t going to work.
https://dailycaller.com/2020/03/18/baltimore-mayor-urges-residents-shooting-each-other-coronavirus/
Tsk tsk tsk: He didn’t say ‘please’.
The Wire, with bonus bug-out coordinates.
This is a nice little new green deal preview we have going. The real thing would have much less energy powering it.
My fear is that plenty of power-grabbers agree, and see only good things when applying it to a NGD scenario.
This is a dream scenario for a power grab and it will definitely happen. The real question is, will it last along to make a fair bit of it permanent? I’m hoping it backfires on them. Right now all the incentives are for precautionary principle, it has run amok. But there is a cost, and it will come due. Let’s hope it turns sooner than later.
Well, everyone needs to keep their powder dry, their stick on the ice, and, get ready to rumble.
That’s Right,
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uCt1dhNEKpU
Our Doggie song,
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eZcPu5p2uxg
Pipeline, acoustic,
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MFZjmDnGT1c
I can bring it,
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Au9p24L2BLc
this is dreamy
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5UVRFCIMG8A&t=179s
No one has a job, where is everyone?
Well, I has job, but, I’m just catching up on my online readin’.
You’re supposed to augment, my Reality with Clever witticisms,
C’mon man,
Heheheh….”clever”. You appear to have comedy chops, too!
I will say, too bad I’m not anywhere near you; I’d be hitting you up for gee-tar lessons.
40 years, I better knowwhatI’m doing,
and I play a mean Guitar……
/YARG!
I’m going to job deux in an hour. Feels like I got a poltergeist in my zeitgeist. Life is normal here for the most part, then I go online at its mayhem.
Well, that’s what you get for being a Glibs member. That’ll learn ya.
/Polt-zeist. I like it.
I’ve changed my mind recently. I thought this whole thing would last into summer. Now I’m thinking something will happen and this thing will stop rather suddenly within a couple weeks. That “something” may be a cure/treatment breakthrough, it may mutate, aliens. Whatever it is, I got a feeling it’s going to end soon. Gut feeling. Whatever that’s worth, it’s my prediction.
I think people will get bored and forget about it, 2 weeks tops,
Amnesia is known cure for Munchausen’s.
Just don’t forget that a lot of businesses and institutions are changing how they do things, planning on this being ‘the long haul’. I have a feeling a lot of these situations won’t be so easily reversible, and may be problematic for whole swaths of people.
It takes a long time to get the Titanic turned around. Even more so to turn it again. Hope I’m wrong about all of this–it can be done relatively quickly, if/when people have the desire.
I believe we are well and truly fucked for a while, no matter what, this is a mess,
Sure, the effects will last a long time thanks to gubmint doing shit it has no business doing. A weird side effect will be people who actually miss the virus. There will be this giant hole left in there psyches. PTSD type stuff. Life will seem mundane.
If it ain’t a mess, it’ll do ’til the mess gets here.
Come to Bullhead for the weather, stay for the Rain, WTF?
I can’t believe that this https://youtu.be/68LAbJtd4uk has not been posted here yet. Much disappoint, very sorrow.
Early morning realization- I’ve always felt something was off with the “There are only X number of cases/deaths, so these measures are stupid” argument that’s ever present lately. It’s not outrage at the apparent callousness or a bleeding heart “if it saves one life” concern but something else just didn’t seem right about it. I finally figured out that it’s the tacit admission that these measures would be okay if X was a big enough number. I would think most of us libertarians (well me and you liberty-minded republicans) would think that forcibly closing businesses and curfews and such wouldn’t ever be justified. If the “X” got big enough, if the threat was great enough that we might concede that they were, people would be doing it anyway, businesses wouldn’t open because patron and workers wouldn’t risk going out. People would stay indoors and wash their hands all day long if the threat was big enough, sure you’d have a handful of idiots that would try and ‘not let the virus win’ but they’d most likely die off pretty quick. As with most things government does, it’s intervention, if justified, would be trailing behind what people are already doing. Thank you for listening to my Ted Talk.
The Government is curtailing Freedom of Assembly “For our own good”. How can you not give this panicky nonsense a bit of the old side-eye?
Cowering in your home is inappropriate for the current value of X.
The government commanding you to cower in your home is inappropriate for any value of X
How is this not clear and consistant?
I guess it’s not clear because most people don’t state it that way. They usually say – the government shouldn’t do this because the value is only X. If they put it your way I wouldn’t have an issue with it.
Well said. Provide information and let free people decide. I’m actually pretty risk averse but hey if someone wants to do a bungie jump set up by a weekend carnie have at it! If your at risk or live with someone at risk of dying from a respiratory illness, then stay away from crowds right now, if not orgy away!
Most people don’t understand the ins and outs of virology and disease transmission and the government experts and the experts that have the government’s ear do. I don’t like the restrictions either but you go into a crisis with the system you have and people have largely been conditioned to look for governmental guidance on things like this. Hopefully that’ll change one day but I wouldn’t hold my breath.
Update on Daughter #3’s self-quarantine – she’s happy as a pig in shit because she gets to work from home for the next while and she’s the only one of her family that is not ill. She’s not my blood but Goddamn that girl may as well be. She told her Mom when she got married that she’d have preferred me to walk her down the aisle but didn’t want to hurt her Dad. Not so great for her hubby who is a contractor and the kids that are climbing the walls. Luckily, Hubby dotes on those kids above all else. He is a great Father.
Wouldn’t be too shocked with a December surprise come to think of it.
Little Corona?
Lol. I was just thinking that last night. Who’s going to name their baby Corona in December.
Well, seeing as that he and I both drink the local swill it would probably be “Cariboo”! j/k They named their children Lucas and Sienna so every time that I get to visit it’s finger vee swords at “Look” and pointing back at my eyes with the same digits at the girl, “See!” Grandpa joke but it never gets old, at least for me. Can’t believe Katie never cottoned to that when she was naming her spawn…
Someone’s about to go from hero to zero
https://www.foxnews.com/politics/ilhan-omar-praises-trumps-incredible-response-to-coronavirus-pandemic
They like the authoritarian undercurrent of the various measures so this is no surprise and I’m sure they’ll be back to criticizing him for calling it the Chinese virus in no time.
We learned late yesterday afternoon that one of the other local financial institutions is closing its lobbies today except by appointment.
I’m getting a little tired of waiting for shoes to drop.
Start throwing shoes.
Another one of my well-stocked arsenals…
For a straight, white middle aged male, I’ll cop to owning too many damn pairs of shoes. I’ve always been a believer in the right foot wear for the right circumstances but why do I even own half of them? Costco pricing probably. I’ve got five pairs of running shoes that I’ve never worn, cleats that haven’t seen the light of day for decades, bowling shoes, two pairs of golf shoes, at least three pairs of caulks, rubber boots, insulated rubber boots, hiking boots, hiking shoes, flip-flops, leather sandles, foam sandles, swimming shoes, fly fishing boots, ski boots and much more. One pair of dress shoes that I polish up for weddings and funerals. I’m sure there are more. Wifey likes to buy me stuff even when I don’t want it or need it…
I have four pairs. One pair of dress shoes. One Pair of everyday sneakers. One pair of snow boots. One pair of mud boots.
I probably do, too. A couple of pairs I’ve never worn, but, that’s a whole ‘nother story.
I will probably acquire more in the future.
Almost time for the brown on white saddles.
Damn. I was forced to wear that style as dress shoes back in the 70’s. Went well with my brown corduroy suit. No bullshit.
So far it looks like only another 300 or so phones to configure today.
I think I may be past the hump of getting people configured for WFH. Now to start catching up on the backlog of tickets that have come in the past week.
Yesterday, my boss asked me to make sure I could access our web-based timekeeping and payroll processing sites from home. Timekeeping side – no problem. (We’ve confirmed staff can’t clock in or out except from work ISP addys, but they can get on to put in time off requests.) I can apparently do my admin stuff there. On the dollars & cents site, I just have to change the e-mail address that receives the security code to log in.
I wanted to fill in my timecard on time, but our timecard site isn’t working this morning.
At least one group I support has an issue were they have two different systems that they need to access. These two systems are on different companies networks. Things can work in the office, but they can only be connected to one VPN while WFH. So…
The worst were the people who were requesting new call flows and the like be built out for them to go live this week. Yeah… that’s not going to happen.
How dare you not pull that out of your ass!!
We don’t have VPN. All the new stuff, including my profiles, are on clouds. But the guy I support refuses to use anything but an old system that on an old server I can’t see from the house. Not getting bent out of shape by stupid shit at work is pretty much my brand, but I would recommend rethinking sending any kids to Vandy.
Ditto here with my credit union.
Because everybody touching the buttons of the ATMs is so much more sterile.
https://news.yahoo.com/woman-flew-u-china-coronavirus-054926417.html
“A woman who flew last week from Massachusetts to Los Angeles — then to Beijing, where she tested positive for coronavirus — is under investigation on allegations of concealing her symptoms and putting fellow travelers at risk of infection.
The woman took fever-reducing medication before boarding a plane and lied to flight attendants, according to Beijing’s disease control center and an Air China representative, who held a news conference on Monday.
The woman, who was hospitalized and is receiving treatment, is under investigation for the crime of “impeding prevention of infectious diseases.” According to Chinese law, she could face up to three years of imprisonment or detention with possible forced labor, or up to seven years of prison if there are “serious consequences.”
Of all the places to go to and get caught that one was a particularly dumb choice, all other ethics aside.
Yeah, no forced labor over here.
Having personally known a Chinese woman who defected to the US during a ping pong tournament, and who had here 2nd pregnancy forcibly terminated, herself sterilized while still under, I wouldn’t trust my govt either.
*wake up*
*checks news and email on phone*
Awww crap, it’s still going on
What is?
The Democratic primary
Hasn’t that swung to Biden yet?
Not that he knows that….
Ooooh–the “Biden Swing”…
/blech
I always miss the poll posts
Poll posts > Pol Pot
Europe’s illness and death numbers are just about passing China’s now, which tells me that China’s numbers were always bullshit.
I’ve been saying that all along.
Wife is already annoyed with the kids this morning. This is gonna be a long Spring.
back in the day you could smack the lot of em
Bake that . . . . . . tee shirt ?
(Legislator) Byrd hosted a “Senior Day on the Hill” for high school seniors in October 2018. A voice message was sent to families telling students to get shirts promoting Byrd and change before boarding school buses.
But Greta Rallies are exempt, presumably. Stop using kids, Cuntes.
Media pushing “this government action isn’t enough” stories.
Fuck them.
Fucking is too pleasurable. Wood-chippers, feet first.
They need to be reminded, in the most forceful ways possible, that no one is stopping them from taking their own
livesmeasures.Their croc tears over others being sick is not gonna work.
Is/are…not
Day#5 of the sanitation station. Sadly, still just a potato.