Well, I think it can be safe to drink if you put aside in the fridge for a few days, just to wait for the virus to die. Unfortunately your drink will be ruined taste wise.
Although personally, I don’t think the quantity of virus was enough to make you sick, but that is a risk to take.
So what happened, did you drink it?
Geeze, and here I’ve been feeling smug because I’d “stocked up” ~ 6 weeks ago, before people around here started hoarding, buying 2 x 12 packs when they went on sale, with an extra buy-2-get-$ off deal (and maybe even some loyalty card “bonus points” on top of that - it’s been so long I’ve forgotten…
) (And even using it as tissues, which I hadn’t stocked up on before those also disappeared from store shelves, I haven’t gotten through even the first of the 12-packs…)
We usually have a goodly amount because I’m cheap. Our Sam’s Club used to have Scott 1000 in 54 roll packs. My normal modus was to buy a pack when we got down to about 12 rolls. In the normal course of things we were about halfway through a cycle. I think we have a couple of dozen left. Hoping people will be over hoarding by the time we hit my usual threshold.
Spring hay fever has hit and I’m cycling through handkerchiefs to take pressure off our facial tissue supply.
Right place at the right time and scored paper towels so we’re good there for a month.
We are used to weekly grocery runs (now semiweekly) and monthly Sam’s Club shops. I don’t think we really appreciated how much fill-in shopping we did.
I may have mentioned this before - I keep empty Kleenex boxes and use them as convenient trash containers, mostly for used Kleenex.
That post was a spoof. I was just putting out a thought from my warped sense of humor to try and elicit a chuckle from others here. Our household is doing our best to protect one another from CoronaVirus exposure. Hand washing is our first line of defense.
My apology goes out to all, for being frivolous.
I got the joke 
Just my opinion. It’s the balance of good information and frivolous posts that makes me love HO so much.
We all need and appreciate the humor @RedJim - every day, but especially during the pandemic and QT. Thanks for some good laughs.
Yeah, I’m also cheap, but I don’t have space for Costco-quantities, so I just keep an eye out and (normally) re-stock when the cycle of regular sales hits its low point. Guess I just got lucky that that occurred a week or so before the Covid-19-related excrement hit the rotating ventilator (pun unavoidable?
), because - probably foolishly - it never occurred to me that the pandemic risk would be handled quite as badly here as it was and that we’d end up where we are, so and I didn’t actually “stock up” with that in mind… The supermarkets still can’t keep it on the shelves, but while it obviously won’t be going on sale any time in the foreseeable future, the smaller stores around here are getting enough that I won’t have any trouble getting my hands on it as needed, if at a price. (A price I find conceptually outrageous, but is realistically the least of my worries in absolute numbers…)The same is true for PT, but I’ve already gone into rationing mode with what I have left of that… (I don’t normally go through a lot of it anyway, and I really hate paying MSRP for that…)
I cultured my sense of humor on Mad Magazine, got my masters on Monty Python’s Flying Circus, and a PHD from National Lampoon Magazine, truly a sick periodical.
Yay! You are lucky that your CSA can start so early. Mid-June is the earliest start for my CSA up here in Massachusetts.
Maybe those radishes are Hakurei turnips? The variety is a darling of CSAs and small farmers. Check them out:
https://nesfp.org/world-peas-food-hub/world-peas-csa/produce-recipes/hakurei-turnips
I have a recurring mental image of people sitting in small places surrounded by stacks of toilet paper and paper towels. sigh
^^ This is one of our Zoom backgrounds.
You forgot the shotgun.
Brilliant! Thank you! I do think you’ve correctly ID’d them. They are crisp, faintly sweet, and have a nice mustardy bite.
So today my BIL stopped by for the first time since the shutdown. He’s great . . .brought us an apple cake and changed some light bulbs that we can’t reach without a ladder. He was wearing his cloth mask, we were wearing our paper ones (no hugs, kisses, etc.).
He works at a major university with a highly rated hospital and also at a local hospital. He asked if we wanted him to get us a couple of n95 masks. I hope the shock didn’t register on my face. Masks for a 91-y-o who I won’t let leave the house and a middle aged woman who leaves as little as possible? When med professionals are pleading for them? I love my BIL, he’s been part of the family for more than 1/2 my life and has always been kind and helpful. But really?? That is not something to stock up on right now. Now if he had offered one of his cute/washable dog masks . . .
He is showing care, don’t blame him too hard, you may need that if you have to visit a clinic or hospital. In France, and many countries, many masks went missing when the authorities looked at their “stocks”.
HEB in Houston no longer has toilet paper limits. We make it out of surplus oil, we’ve got lots. OK it’s real, actual, authentic toilet paper.
Interesting. In Annapolis MD paper goods still disappear immediately upon hitting the shelves. If you don’t happen to be there when they come off the truck you don’t get any.
We’ve just finalised this week’s home delivery order for the supermarket. Didnt look at toilet paper as we’ve plenty of stock. As for foodstuffs, pretty much everything seemed OK. A couple of things where one brand was out of stock but an acceptable substitute offered. Eggs were limited - both by brand and size. Flour remains difficult although I reckon supplies are probably returning to normal - there wasnt any self-raising available but that’s OK, we can always make our own adding baking powder to plain flour.
The major issue is still getting a delivery slot. We’re trying to keep to a schedule where we have three booked - so, this week and the next two weeks. We hadnt been able to get the third slot but, last night, Mrs H logged on to our 4th choice supermarket and got one. Our third choice chain, which is one we’ve been generally using, is promising more slots to be added to their system over the next couple of weeks, taking it to 1.2 million slots per week (not necessarily all that much from the UK’s largest supermarket business),
Here, too. And unlike countries with nationalized/single-payer healthcare systems, there is no system for the “redistribution” of supplies (even including non-consumables like respirators) from areas with low utilization to those with the really pressing need, like NYC, not even in dire circumstances like the current ones. It’s “free market” rules all the way…
And despite all the media attention about a “general” scarcity of PPE and other medical equipment here, many places in the US are actually not experiencing any sort of Covid-19-related healthcare “crisis” at all. In NYC especially, and some other places, it’s a nightmare, but in many places, hospital doctors are actually worried about precipitous drops in their billing, and nurses and other hourly staff about reduced hours and furloughs, due to the overall sharp downturn in patients due to the pandemic-related restrictions. (Which isn’t to suggest the restrictions aren’t necessary, but the overall healthcare situation is nowhere near as simple as many people have been lead to believe…)
Not that I’m advocating the widespread use of medical-grade PPE by any means. Just sayin’, you can’t take everything you read, especially in the “headlines”, at face value… If it weren’t so serious, the situation in NYC would actually be kind of hilarious in a macabre sort of way. Five or so weeks (and thousands of deaths) into our belated “lockdown” (with Covid-19 hospital admissions already starting to decline) , we were finally ordered to wear masks any time we’re closer than six feet to other people in public, and mirabile dictu!, the masks that are so scarce (though a little less so now than previously) in clinical settings are available everywhere from corner convenience stores to street hawkers, at prices varying from quite reasonable to seriously overpriced - everything from K95 masks to sterile “surgical” masks…<smh> And at least in my area, maybe 10-15% max of people on the street are wearing “mere” DIY or similar cloth masks…
