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Post by NomoreDramaQ1015 on Apr 13, 2020 13:43:43 GMT -5
What are we defining as public? I am considered essential and can't do my job from home so I am still at work 5 days a week. Then I help my dad out once a week on Saturdays.
Other than that not much at all. I did go to Walgreens yesterday because I needed floss, unfortunately that is something I cannot go without especially when dental care is limited.
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Post by lynnerself on Apr 13, 2020 14:04:59 GMT -5
About every 10 days to the grocery store. And once a week to get take out from a restaurant we are trying to support.
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Post by teen persuasion on Apr 13, 2020 14:13:14 GMT -5
Just realized DS5 has not left our property in one month. Last day of school was March 13.
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Post by dondub on Apr 13, 2020 14:26:36 GMT -5
Our main smart tv had a backlight flickering issue. So I took to the LG repair. Gloves and mask on. Went back 2 days later same drill. On the way home picked up 2 cases of wine. Purchased over the phone and he put them in the trunk as I stayed in the car.
Three-4 weeks ago I went twice to buy organic soil. In and out with my Cc and outside loading.
In early March went 2 times to the grocery store wearing gloves. Now Donnadub goes. We are well stocked with additional chest freezer and large walk-in pantry.
But the best news is Donnadub wrangling a FML from her oncology job. Full pay and bennies using her 300+ hours of sick leave. At almost 66 they accepted she was high risk. Can lay low until end of June.
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Post by Value Buy on Apr 13, 2020 14:46:42 GMT -5
All da Peeps in YM and More Land are kicking this thing right in the TEETH!!! Could not agree more. I am impressed as in capital IMPRESSED! Keep it up people! Saturday was fairly nice out, so worked on cleaning up the lot from all the winter debris......felt some personal accomplishment! Today, not so much. Low 40's and windy, so housebound. You can only watch so many old Law and Order programs in a row.....
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Post by msventoux on Apr 13, 2020 23:31:21 GMT -5
I am out 5 days a week for work as I am considered essential. Our office is closed to the public, but I work in a small office and see my few coworkers on those days. I could potentially work from home, but in the past when I have tried it just isn’t efficient.
It has probably been over a month since I’ve been in a store and about three weeks since I did grocery pickup. Cases are starting to ramp up a bit in my area as testing increases. I figure I can go a month without another grocery pickup. If I get the virus it will likely be from one of my coworkers. But we’re pretty good about maintaining distance from each other and sanitizing our workspaces and common areas.
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Post by countrygirl2 on Apr 14, 2020 0:31:23 GMT -5
I don't want to let food get low after hearing about all the shutdowns. We have done a good job clearing out a section of the freezer. I told hubs we need to keep our stash up, as we don't know what is going to happen with production and distribution.
I was out Saturday and only came in contact at drive up at DQ. I had on a mask, washed the cups down with sanitizer before I would let DD have any, even brought a spoon from home for her blizzard, then washed my hands. I had interaction at the convenience store, she had sanitizer and a shield noone else in. I dropped off donations also, touched nothing.
I would say once or twice a week though its getting less frequent.
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Post by Value Buy on Apr 14, 2020 7:31:23 GMT -5
What are we defining as public? I am considered essential and can't do my job from home so I am still at work 5 days a week. Then I help my dad out once a week on Saturdays. Other than that not much at all. I did go to Walgreens yesterday because I needed floss, unfortunately that is something I cannot go without especially when dental care is limited. defining public, outside of work trips. If someone is stopping somewhere every time at work, I would say combine trips, and cut down from five times a week. When working I too would have been essential. By this point after a month of this, not sure I would continue doing it, but then I am a lot older now so not sure how I would handle this mess emotionally while still working.
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Post by NomoreDramaQ1015 on Apr 14, 2020 7:36:58 GMT -5
What are we defining as public? I am considered essential and can't do my job from home so I am still at work 5 days a week. Then I help my dad out once a week on Saturdays. Other than that not much at all. I did go to Walgreens yesterday because I needed floss, unfortunately that is something I cannot go without especially when dental care is limited. defining public, outside of work trips. If someone is stopping somewhere every time at work, I would say combine trips, and cut down from five times a week. When working I too would have been essential. By this point after a month of this, not sure I would continue doing it, but then I am a lot older now so not sure how I would handle this mess emotionally while still working. It's not going so well for me. I am getting pretty bitter about it. The problem is you can play six degrees of separation for pretty much any business in Omaha in regards to the food/supply chain and get yourself exempt. The thing is we aren't really essential, herds are insured and there are traditional treatments that can be used till we reopen just fine. A stay at home order would be useless in Omaha because so many business have managed to get themselves granted essential status. But don't worry the office people are safe they get to work from home. It's only us and the production people who are to be sacrificed in the name of corporate profit. I'm exhausted anymore. If we didn't need my income and I didn't carry our health insurance I'd be seriously debating quitting and becoming a SAHM. This shit ain't worth it.
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Post by countrygirl2 on Apr 14, 2020 7:45:54 GMT -5
I'm so sorry for anyone forced to work right now. I'm not happy being old but at this time its good to be retired. Doesn't make me feel any better for others.
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Post by Value Buy on Apr 14, 2020 7:46:04 GMT -5
defining public, outside of work trips. If someone is stopping somewhere every time at work, I would say combine trips, and cut down from five times a week. When working I too would have been essential. By this point after a month of this, not sure I would continue doing it, but then I am a lot older now so not sure how I would handle this mess emotionally while still working. It's not going so well for me. I am getting pretty bitter about it. The problem is you can play six degrees of separation for pretty much any business in Omaha in regards to the food/supply chain and get yourself exempt. The thing is we aren't really essential, herds are insured and there are traditional treatments that can be used till we reopen just fine. A stay at home order would be useless in Omaha because so many business have managed to get themselves granted essential status. But don't worry the office people are safe they get to work from home. It's only us and the production people who are to be sacrificed in the name of corporate profit. I'm exhausted anymore. If we didn't need my income and I didn't carry our health insurance I'd be seriously debating quitting and becoming a SAHM. This shit ain't worth it. I thought you worked in a lab. It is not safe there as far as distancing? I do understand the frustration........
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Post by Miss Tequila on Apr 14, 2020 7:48:30 GMT -5
defining public, outside of work trips. If someone is stopping somewhere every time at work, I would say combine trips, and cut down from five times a week. When working I too would have been essential. By this point after a month of this, not sure I would continue doing it, but then I am a lot older now so not sure how I would handle this mess emotionally while still working. It's not going so well for me. I am getting pretty bitter about it. The problem is you can play six degrees of separation for pretty much any business in Omaha in regards to the food/supply chain and get yourself exempt. The thing is we aren't really essential, herds are insured and there are traditional treatments that can be used till we reopen just fine. A stay at home order would be useless in Omaha because so many business have managed to get themselves granted essential status. But don't worry the office people are safe they get to work from home. It's only us and the production people who are to be sacrificed in the name of corporate profit.I'm exhausted anymore. If we didn't need my income and I didn't carry our health insurance I'd be seriously debating quitting and becoming a SAHM. This shit ain't worth it. That is not true. There are plenty of office positions that cannot be done from home. I work from home a good chunk of the week but even I have things that can't always be done from home. This week I am going in two days and working from home three days. I actually HATE working from home as everything blends together. Mail comes to the office, invoices need to be entered, checks needs to be cut, checks received need to be scanned into the bank and posted to the account. Questions come up from vendors/customers so files need to be pulled. People have to be in the office. Our President is there just about every day because he believes that he can't expect essential people to be there if he isn't. In the end, we have an essential business that people actually do need on a daily basis to survive. As a responsible business, we have taken all of the steps we can to lower the risk of infection.
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Post by Value Buy on Apr 14, 2020 7:54:56 GMT -5
I'm so sorry for anyone forced to work right now. I'm not happy being old but at this time its good to be retired. Doesn't make me feel any better for others. Problem for retirees, too much time to watch cable news programs driving us over the edge. I can only watch so many old televison series too. And I have only hunkered down for just under two weeks now. Before that I did help others in the community but I think I pushed the health envelope to the maxx and decided time to get in my "mental bunker"....... I do recommend binge watching Homeland Ozark Billions We are starting "Deep State" on Epixx this week but it is only 16 episodes Pat, I think Billions would be up your alley. Wall Street ripping off people, and corruption in state and federal Government........wife and I are counting down to the new season in May right now.
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Post by countrygirl2 on Apr 14, 2020 8:14:21 GMT -5
Hubs is watching that Nazi series, can't think of the name, he switches off to Blue Bloods. Pretty good shows.
I just finished watching Eureka, a silly, fun, sci fi series. Then I started watching Le Fem Nikita, another just nonsense show, non of these have any redeeming qualities. Just finished reading a Clive Cussler novel. I have one I haven't started on yet called Vicious Circle by Wilbur Smith and periodically read a bit of Fear by Bob Woodward. But its dry and I'm not getting to far in it. Right now its how bannon orchestrated the election. I bought a treasure trove of almost 100 books from a lady that was moving and they are good ones. Hubs is reading on them too. And I finished a ton of books I ordered from Amazon. Then was sewing. But now I'm not doing much. It's cold out.
I need to go to the house in town and wash down woodwork and maybe put a light coat of stain on it. And I need to do a bunch of caulking. We were going to have a make ready outfit come in and wash all the walls and everything down after hubs sands the floors, but now that's not feasible. We are also going to seal basement walls too. Hubs is still wiring and doing stuff in the garage. Today he went over to replace ceiling in one section of the basement that is not real tall and is insulated up in under it, it was the added kitchen and built in porch area. He got the conduit in from the house to the garage, I will have to help him when he pulls wire one day. The wiring was so old in the garage it had tube and knob stuff and a box with screw in fuses, so he did away with all that. Also is putting up a new outside light. Has a section on the side of the garage to replace, going to use metal. The garage is bigger then the house.
We have a neighbor whose sister is moving back with an 18 year daughter. They are looking for a place to rent. We don't know beyond that. But they are clean and good people, who knows about the sister. Told hubs sounds like a divorce situation. Have to see if she meets my criteria. I'm not relaxing my standards for anyone, is a mistake if we do. He told them June of July, I don't know about that.
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Post by NomoreDramaQ1015 on Apr 14, 2020 9:20:33 GMT -5
It's not going so well for me. I am getting pretty bitter about it. The problem is you can play six degrees of separation for pretty much any business in Omaha in regards to the food/supply chain and get yourself exempt. The thing is we aren't really essential, herds are insured and there are traditional treatments that can be used till we reopen just fine. A stay at home order would be useless in Omaha because so many business have managed to get themselves granted essential status. But don't worry the office people are safe they get to work from home. It's only us and the production people who are to be sacrificed in the name of corporate profit. I'm exhausted anymore. If we didn't need my income and I didn't carry our health insurance I'd be seriously debating quitting and becoming a SAHM. This shit ain't worth it. I thought you worked in a lab. It is not safe there as far as distancing? I do understand the frustration........ We wear a lot of PPE so we are likely less at risk than other departments but no we're all on top of each other. If one of us gets it we are all going down. I would imagine given the size of the building that production is in a similar situation. And I get there are other office jobs that have to come in. I am glad that DH doesn't work at his old job because they are still making the lower people work in the office because it's "against policy" to let them work from home. I was referring specifically to my location. A big email went out about work from home and doing whatever we can to keep people from risk. .. but that only applies to about 20 out of the 150 people who work here. There have been a lot of pat on the back emails about "reducing risk". Well that really only applies to the office people, at least at our location. I am not the only one that has been frustrated with it. Plus I'm frustrated because at the end of the day we are really not essential. It's simply because we can make a claim that we are "a part of" the food chain that we were granted exception. Nebraska and Iowa may be seeing low numbers now but with how many companies are using that as reasons to make everyone come in it's only a matter of time before our cases shoot up like the rest of the country.
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Post by thyme4change on Apr 14, 2020 9:47:38 GMT -5
defining public, outside of work trips. If someone is stopping somewhere every time at work, I would say combine trips, and cut down from five times a week. When working I too would have been essential. By this point after a month of this, not sure I would continue doing it, but then I am a lot older now so not sure how I would handle this mess emotionally while still working. It's not going so well for me. I am getting pretty bitter about it. The problem is you can play six degrees of separation for pretty much any business in Omaha in regards to the food/supply chain and get yourself exempt. The thing is we aren't really essential, herds are insured and there are traditional treatments that can be used till we reopen just fine. A stay at home order would be useless in Omaha because so many business have managed to get themselves granted essential status. But don't worry the office people are safe they get to work from home. It's only us and the production people who are to be sacrificed in the name of corporate profit. I'm exhausted anymore. If we didn't need my income and I didn't carry our health insurance I'd be seriously debating quitting and becoming a SAHM. This shit ain't worth it. My company has a small dog food business. It represents less than half a percent of our revenue. Pet food and pet "care" is considered essential. So, here we are , making chew toys and lawn ornaments, because we are so essential.
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Post by ednkris on Apr 14, 2020 9:52:21 GMT -5
we are considered essential--wife and i work at the same place. She will most likely get furloughed this week. I will probably be one of the last to go. Took couple weeks vac, did do some work from home and web meetings they suck. The office people only have to be at work 50% of the time but i fall under production and office so i have to be there. At least there is no travelling, too much of that crap last year.
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Post by Tennesseer on Apr 14, 2020 10:04:03 GMT -5
Hubs is watching that Nazi series, can't think of the name, he switches off to Blue Bloods. Pretty good shows. I just finished watching Eureka, a silly, fun, sci fi series. Then I started watching Le Fem Nikita, another just nonsense show, non of these have any redeeming qualities. Just finished reading a Clive Cussler novel. I have one I haven't started on yet called Vicious Circle by Wilbur Smith and periodically read a bit of Fear by Bob Woodward. But its dry and I'm not getting to far in it. Right now its how bannon orchestrated the election. I bought a treasure trove of almost 100 books from a lady that was moving and they are good ones. Hubs is reading on them too. And I finished a ton of books I ordered from Amazon. Then was sewing. But now I'm not doing much. It's cold out. I need to go to the house in town and wash down woodwork and maybe put a light coat of stain on it. And I need to do a bunch of caulking. We were going to have a make ready outfit come in and wash all the walls and everything down after hubs sands the floors, but now that's not feasible. We are also going to seal basement walls too. Hubs is still wiring and doing stuff in the garage. Today he went over to replace ceiling in one section of the basement that is not real tall and is insulated up in under it, it was the added kitchen and built in porch area. He got the conduit in from the house to the garage, I will have to help him when he pulls wire one day. The wiring was so old in the garage it had tube and knob stuff and a box with screw in fuses, so he did away with all that. Also is putting up a new outside light. Has a section on the side of the garage to replace, going to use metal. The garage is bigger then the house. We have a neighbor whose sister is moving back with an 18 year daughter. They are looking for a place to rent. We don't know beyond that. But they are clean and good people, who knows about the sister. Told hubs sounds like a divorce situation. Have to see if she meets my criteria. I'm not relaxing my standards for anyone, is a mistake if we do. He told them June of July, I don't know about that. If you ever get a chance, watch the 1990 French film La Femme Nikita, which was the basis of the TV series you watched. A good movie. Also good was the 1993 English language version of the French film called Point of No Return with Bridget Fonda. That too was a pretty good film. Never saw the TV series you watched of the same name so I cannot comment on it.
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Post by countrygirl2 on Apr 14, 2020 10:31:27 GMT -5
I think I've seen that movie, if so been a long long time ago. But seems like I have.
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Post by Miss Tequila on Apr 14, 2020 11:11:10 GMT -5
It's not going so well for me. I am getting pretty bitter about it. The problem is you can play six degrees of separation for pretty much any business in Omaha in regards to the food/supply chain and get yourself exempt. The thing is we aren't really essential, herds are insured and there are traditional treatments that can be used till we reopen just fine. A stay at home order would be useless in Omaha because so many business have managed to get themselves granted essential status. But don't worry the office people are safe they get to work from home. It's only us and the production people who are to be sacrificed in the name of corporate profit. I'm exhausted anymore. If we didn't need my income and I didn't carry our health insurance I'd be seriously debating quitting and becoming a SAHM. This shit ain't worth it. My company has a small dog food business. It represents less than half a percent of our revenue. Pet food and pet "care" is considered essential. So, here we are , making chew toys and lawn ornaments, because we are so essential. What are your production lines like? Are they packed on top of each other? At my other company, we had huge machinery with one guy per machine. They would have to watch the lunch room but if they spaced the tables out or spaced breaks/lunch times out everyone should be ok (assuming there were wipes available to sanitize). But it is a union shop so I'm not sure how easy it is to just change break/lunch times. If done correctly, they really would be able to minimize the risk of infection to an acceptable level (no more risk than I have going to my office)
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Post by steff on Apr 14, 2020 11:31:57 GMT -5
I go to the grocery store once a week. My son & hubby are essential employees, so I try to do my best to not expose anyone else to what I may be exposed to. When I go to the grocery store I wear a mask, carry my own Clorox wipes, & hand sanitizer. We do take out once a week from restaurants in our small town cluster. Either hubby or kiddo pick it up on their way home from work.
I haven't seen my mom since February. Typically I would see her at least once a week. Yesterday we found out there is a confirmed case at hubby's plant & a confirmed case at kiddo's work. A different plant in hubby's work had not only a confirmed case, but a death from CV19. That affects us because the production head at that plant is one of hubby's hunting buddies & he have been up at the deer lease since that confirmed case. Plus there were multiple employee transfers between the two plants. Hubby's work is current shut down for 2 days for cleaning. They will reopen on Thursday & hubby will be back to work. Thankfully, kiddo is on vacation this week, so he's not in his store while they deal with a confirmed case. He's more annoyed right now because he's supposed to be at a casino in Biloxi on vacation.
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Post by swamp on Apr 14, 2020 11:36:49 GMT -5
I just spent far too much time in public today. I'm almost out of chlorox wipes in my office. According to FB, there were some at a local drug store. Nope. So then I drove to a Dollar General at a small village nearby. Nope. All out. Then I drove to anoher Dollar General in my hometown. Nope.
I have good inside information that there is a truck arriving at Walmart today at about 2 with 41 cases of wipes. I'll have to go out after work to see if they are unloaded yet.
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Post by Tennesseer on Apr 14, 2020 11:40:57 GMT -5
I just spent far too much time in public today. I'm almost out of chlorox wipes in my office. According to FB, there were some at a local drug store. Nope. So then I drove to a Dollar General at a small village nearby. Nope. All out. Then I drove to anoher Dollar General in my hometown. Nope. I have good inside information that there is a truck arriving at Walmart today at about 2 with 41 cases of wipes. I'll have to go out after work to see if they are unloaded yet. Swamp-do you currently have any cases that are now or soon to be before the courts or are they all shut down.
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Post by Sharon on Apr 14, 2020 11:44:44 GMT -5
I got to the grocery store every 7-9 days and shop for Mom and me, and always go when they first open. The trips to Mom's have slowed down some but I'm still over there probably every other to every third day. She had hip replacement surgery at end of January and is awaiting surgery on the second hip, which is on hold for now. I still help her with some of her every day living tasks, make sure the mail is brought in, the garbage is out to the curb, yesterday I got out a lawn chair for her so she can sit out on her back deck.
On the other hand the public has been coming to me. Back in February I signed a contract to have my house resided and new windows installed. There was also a bunch of electrical work done while the siding was off. For the most part it was crews of two and I didn't have a great deal of interaction with them. Open the garage door in the morning so they could access the power type of thing. They have been done for almost two weeks now, except for the new front door which is in quarantine in a warehouse.
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Post by swamp on Apr 14, 2020 11:46:59 GMT -5
I just spent far too much time in public today. I'm almost out of chlorox wipes in my office. According to FB, there were some at a local drug store. Nope. So then I drove to a Dollar General at a small village nearby. Nope. All out. Then I drove to anoher Dollar General in my hometown. Nope. I have good inside information that there is a truck arriving at Walmart today at about 2 with 41 cases of wipes. I'll have to go out after work to see if they are unloaded yet. Swamp-do you currently have any cases that are now or soon to be before the courts or are they all shut down. Everything is shut down. The courts are not accepting any new filings except for emergency matters, and they really mean emergency. Even family court is shut down, except for emergency removals and Order of Protection. I have pending evictions, they are on hold. I have a ton of estate work, that is also on hold. I can file new simple cases, but the more complex ones will have to wait. Real estate is continuing, albeit very slowly. ETA: I go to work every day in leggings and a hoodie. That makes me very happy.
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Post by thyme4change on Apr 14, 2020 11:49:38 GMT -5
My company has a small dog food business. It represents less than half a percent of our revenue. Pet food and pet "care" is considered essential. So, here we are , making chew toys and lawn ornaments, because we are so essential. What are your production lines like? Are they packed on top of each other? At my other company, we had huge machinery with one guy per machine. They would have to watch the lunch room but if they spaced the tables out or spaced breaks/lunch times out everyone should be ok (assuming there were wipes available to sanitize). But it is a union shop so I'm not sure how easy it is to just change break/lunch times. If done correctly, they really would be able to minimize the risk of infection to an acceptable level (no more risk than I have going to my office) My point isn't if us being open is right, wrong, safe or not - just an example of how you can be deemed essential pretty easily. We have had confirmed Covid diagnoses in several of our plants, but I don't know how many people or if it spread around.
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Post by Miss Tequila on Apr 14, 2020 13:08:35 GMT -5
What are your production lines like? Are they packed on top of each other? At my other company, we had huge machinery with one guy per machine. They would have to watch the lunch room but if they spaced the tables out or spaced breaks/lunch times out everyone should be ok (assuming there were wipes available to sanitize). But it is a union shop so I'm not sure how easy it is to just change break/lunch times. If done correctly, they really would be able to minimize the risk of infection to an acceptable level (no more risk than I have going to my office) My point isn't if us being open is right, wrong, safe or not - just an example of how you can be deemed essential pretty easily. We have had confirmed Covid diagnoses in several of our plants, but I don't know how many people or if it spread around. Gotcha
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Post by Value Buy on Apr 15, 2020 6:32:13 GMT -5
Did not have to go to the grocery store yesterday. Had two apples, three oranges, two bananas and a half bag of Halos, so decided to wait til Friday. Reading how everyone is going less than twice a week made me think we were out too often! Used meat out of the freezer, but now with meat processing plants shutting down, wondering what price we will be paying for meat in a week or two.....or if there will be a shortage of product.....
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buystoys
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Post by buystoys on Apr 15, 2020 8:58:21 GMT -5
We bought extra packages of chicken thighs and breasts at the store the other day. We will try to keep the freezer full so we won't necessarily be hit by any shortages. Cost is the least of our worries right now, although it can be a factor at some point. We tend to eat a lot of chicken and pork loin, so that's what we'll try to stay stocked up on. I also have a couple of turkey breasts and a large ham in the freezer. The menu might get boring, but we'll still eat for a while.
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