Covid19

[Clean39T]

Well, had some moderate resolution to my situation after posting on r/bend (Reddit). Turns out others have pointed out the same face-shield frustrations to management and the owners at Natural Grocer and have been given the "get stuffed" response - so I don't hold out much hope there. BUT - I did get some great resources for getting my needs met more locally and directly anyway - some CSAs that deliver, a produce company that also does local/organic/pastured products, and a smaller, more local market that does curbside pickup and has a great reputation for taking care of their employees and customers in this crisis. So, gonna vote with those dollars and not set foot in Natural Grocers again until I hear that they have made some significant reforms (and even then, if I'm happy with the other options, no reason to go back..).

[beeatnik]

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Sadly, the most facile image/meme of the Pandemic. Plenty (hundreds of thousands) getting saturated (aerosolized) while everyone is masked up.

[Mark Kelly]

Its simplicity is its strength.

[vertical_doug]

Its simplicity is its strength.

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/art...r-arrests.html

The English love to pee on each other while drinking.
It may be a protest that SantaCon was cancelled.

[Mark Kelly]

Fifty years ago in Oz we had six o'clock closing in the pubs so many would congregate at the bar to see how much beer they could down between knocking off work and the pub shutting at six. This was known as the six o'clock swill and losing your place at the bar to go to the heads put a serious dent in the effort.

When I worked in the trade in Sydney in the '80s many pubs still had galvanised iron troughs as the front of the bar as a consequence of this.

[vertical_doug]

Fifty years ago in Oz we had six o'clock closing in the pubs so many would congregate at the bar to see how much beer they could down between knocking off work and the pub shutting at six. This was known as the six o'clock swill and losing your place at the bar to go to the heads put a serious dent in the effort.

When I worked in the trade in Sydney in the '80s many pubs still had galvanised iron troughs as the front of the bar as a consequence of this.

And if you were drinking those big oil can sizes of Foster's, Victoria and Toohey's, the galvanized iron corroded and disintegrated in short order.

[darkmother]

When I worked in the trade in Sydney in the '80s many pubs still had galvanised iron troughs as the front of the bar as a consequence of this.

Can you elaborate on this statement? If I understand you, the pubs had a makeshift urinal out in the open?

[monadnocky]

Well, my 104 year old great aunt, who lost her mother to the 1918 epidemic (and who herself survived it as an infant, or so we think) just tested positive. I suspect that most in the nursing home in which she is a resident will test positive as well.
So within a week I've gone from not knowing anyone with it, to having acquaintances and friends with it, to having family with it.

Life comes at you fast, I guess.

Well, she recovered.
Can you believe it?

[davids]

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Too complicated.

This:

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[Mark Kelly]

Can you elaborate on this statement? If I understand you, the pubs had a makeshift urinal out in the open?

Yep, only in the public bar which was always men only. You were supposed to stand so the barmaid couldn't see below the waist.

[Too Tall]

Fifty years ago in Oz we had six o'clock closing in the pubs so many would congregate at the bar to see how much beer they could down between knocking off work and the pub shutting at six. This was known as the six o'clock swill and losing your place at the bar to go to the heads put a serious dent in the effort.

When I worked in the trade in Sydney in the '80s many pubs still had galvanised iron troughs as the front of the bar as a consequence of this.

That's hardcore. We could trade stories about living on the edge. S. Wyoming in the early 80's....not so different ;)

[darkmother]

Yep, only in the public bar which was always men only. You were supposed to stand so the barmaid couldn't see below the waist.

An efficient solution!

Thanks for that. I had no idea pubs were sex segregated in somewhat recent times.

[gregl]

I had no idea pubs were sex segregated in somewhat recent times.

Heck, bars in Manhattan were closed to women into the 1970s. McSorley's still didn't have a women's restroom the first time I was there in the early 1980s. At least the beer was cheap!

Greg

[AngryScientist]

Heck, bars in Manhattan were closed to women into the 1970s. McSorley's still didn't have a women's restroom the first time I was there in the early 1980s. At least the beer was cheap!

Greg

bartender there punched me in the kidneys so hard he took my breadth away one crowded friday night, i wasnt ordering fast enough: "You're in the drinkin section now fucko!". Haha, the whole place had a good laugh at that one. Good times. I miss bars.

[gregl]

bartender there punched me in the kidneys so hard he took my breadth away one crowded friday night, i wasnt ordering fast enough: "You're in the drinkin section now fucko!". Haha, the whole place had a good laugh at that one. Good times. I miss bars.

Yup, sounds like McSorley's. My former boss loved the place, so we always dropped in if we were staying overnight in Manhattan. Great life experiences for a 22-23 year-old, fresh-out-of-college youngster!

Greg

[thollandpe]

...punched me in the kidneys so hard he took my breadth away...

You know you've been punched hard when it changes you, dimensionally.

[ldamelio]

You know you've been punched hard when it changes you, dimensionally.

I won't argue width you on that!

[blitespeed]

bartender there punched me in the kidneys so hard he took my breadth away one crowded friday night, i wasnt ordering fast enough: "You're in the drinkin section now fucko!".

30 years ago, or so, I, and 2 equally enthusiastic, dedicated and well practiced friends were kicked out of McSorley's on St. Patrick's Day for slowing down. At 9 a.m. !

[takashi]

https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/...-capacity.html

Hospitals serving more than 100 million Americans reported having fewer than 15 percent of intensive care beds still available as of last week, according to a Times analysis of data reported by hospitals and released by the Department of Health and Human Services.

Many areas are even worse off: One in 10 Americans — across a large swath of the Midwest, South and Southwest — lives in an area where intensive care beds are either completely full, or fewer than 5 percent of beds are available. At these levels, experts say maintaining existing standards of care for the sickest patients may be difficult or impossible.

[Paul Jacobs]

Covid: Genes hold clues to why some people get severely ill

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-54832563