All things Corona Virus

[Steeleballz 7,550]

8 hours ago, Voice of Reason said:

Oops!  Our bad!! (says the CDC)...

 

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/cdc-acknowledges-mixing-up-coronavirus-testing-data/ar-BB14qGHG

 

Reckon this might account for the spike in positive cases?

 

 

  That report was from May and they stopped doing it. How would it lead to a spike in positive cases reported in June and July?

[yuna628 9,700]

I don't know any state near me that lumps 'probable cases or investigating cases' in with confirmed cases. We run a separate tabulation and we let the public know as such. There are many reasons for it. OAN is not a source I'd be banking on.

[Steeleballz 7,550]

51 minutes ago, Ban Hammer said:

mask wearing and shopping carts

 

    We were at a Walmart up in Canada once and they had one large central cart return for the whole parking lot, but everyone had returned the carts. The Walmart here has at least 20 cart returns spaced out over the lot, and half the carts are left in the parking stalls. Sometimes the cart return is only 10 feet away and people still leave the cart.

 

  I think we do have a similar issue with masks. 

[Steeleballz 7,550]

1 minute ago, yuna628 said:

I don't know any state near me that lumps 'probable cases or investigating cases' in with confirmed cases. We run a separate tabulation and we let the public know as such. There are many reasons for it. OAN is not a source I'd be banking on.

 

  The last time someone mentioned this, we actually checked and all states were reporting positives as active cases (PCR testing) and seroprevalence (antibody tests). 

[Nature Boy 2.0 8,378]

15 minutes ago, Steeleballz said:

 

  That report was from May and they stopped doing it. How would it lead to a spike in positive cases reported in June and July?

People grasping at straws nad working google overtime to try and not have been wrong.

 

I was just ridiculed by my managers for wearing a mask. I told them I was just practicing for when it became mandatory at our business. They thought that was funny.  Comments like Kroger and Walmart are socialist for requiring masks.

 

I didnt waste my energy trying to explain to them, that these  companies have massive risk exposure and that the risk analysis departments had determined they needed a 100% mask policy to limit risk exposure. Nothing to do with social morals or socialism . Most businesses will be figuring this out shortly.

 

 

[laylalex 7,300]

1 hour ago, Steeleballz said:

 

    We were at a Walmart up in Canada once and they had one large central cart return for the whole parking lot, but everyone had returned the carts. The Walmart here has at least 20 cart returns spaced out over the lot, and half the carts are left in the parking stalls. Sometimes the cart return is only 10 feet away and people still leave the cart.

My mom drummed it into us as kids that there are small things we can do to make others' lives more convenient, and that have the added benefit of making us feel better for having shared a small kindness. Returning shopping carts is one of them -- it's second nature to me. The only -- ONLY -- time I will not do it is if I need to do it in a parking lot late at night, there aren't many people around and the corral is far away from where I've parked. As a relatively small woman, I am conscious of avoiding unnecessary physical risks. But usually I try to park near a corral if I'm in this situation anyway.

[Voice of Reason 10,298]

3 hours ago, Ban Hammer said:

mask wearing and shopping carts

As I get older, this really bugs me more and more.  About a year ago, I watched a guy push a cart out to his vehicle which was parked almost as far from the store as possible with two items in it.  He put the items in his truck, then pushed the cart beside his vehicle and got in to leave.  I pulled my truck right up in front of and perpendicular to his, and asked him if he was too lazy to return the cart to the corral which was about 8 spots away.  He said it wasn't his job to do that.  So I got out of my truck and politely pushed the cart to the corral for him, walked back, and told him he was welcome.  He called me a few choice names as I pulled away and let him leave.

I love the Aldi concept of quarters in the carts.  Has been working in Germany for decades.

[Ban Hammer 13,491]

21 minutes ago, Voice of Reason said:

I love the Aldi concept of quarters in the carts.  Has been working in Germany for decades.

i do too. i think they should use those and that would give kids a chance to make money at wal mart.

[Burnt Reynolds 5,058]

36 minutes ago, Voice of Reason said:

As I get older, this really bugs me more and more.  About a year ago, I watched a guy push a cart out to his vehicle which was parked almost as far from the store as possible with two items in it.  He put the items in his truck, then pushed the cart beside his vehicle and got in to leave.  I pulled my truck right up in front of and perpendicular to his, and asked him if he was too lazy to return the cart to the corral which was about 8 spots away.  He said it wasn't his job to do that.  So I got out of my truck and politely pushed the cart to the corral for him, walked back, and told him he was welcome.  He called me a few choice names as I pulled away and let him leave.

I love the Aldi concept of quarters in the carts.  Has been working in Germany for decades.

They've done this in Canada for a while, but forcing people to use a loonie ($1), an effective nudge and loss prevention tactic. At the more differentiated stores, they might not care so much about losing a quarter, but there'd be more consequences of losing $1 teach trip, starting with the presence of unwanted visitors. Wouldn't be feasible to do more than a quarter because there's no real circulation of larger coins, though they could do what Walmart did and do custom coins.

Edited July 16, 2020 by Burnt Reynolds

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U.S.—In a move that's being called "unprecedented tyranny," Walmart is now requiring all shoppers to wear pants in their stores.

 

Americans everywhere slammed Walmart for the move, saying it amounted to an infringement on our constitutional rights.

"I thought this was America," said one man as a greeter asked him to please put on some sweatpants or something before coming into the store. "It is my constitutional right to go into Walmart and shop for random stuff at 3 a.m. wearing nothing but some boxers and a giant Tweety Bird T-shirt I got in the '80s."

"Look, we don't think this is too much to ask," said a Walmart spokesperson. "Just throw on some sweats, pajama bottoms, whatever. This is for the health and mental safety of our employees. And for the love of God, take a shower once in a while, you know?"

Shirts will remain optional.

[Voice of Reason 10,298]

4 minutes ago, Burnt Reynolds said:

They've done this in Canada for a while, but forcing people to use a loonie ($1), an effective nudge and loss prevention tactic. At the more differentiated stores, they might not care so much about losing a quarter, but there'd be more consequences of losing $1 teach trip, starting with the presence of unwanted visitors. Wouldn't be feasible to do more than a quarter because there's no real circulation of larger coins, though they could do what Walmart did and do custom coins.

Yeah, here it's a quarter, in Germany it was a Mark I believe, their $1.  NO ONE gave up a mark out of laziness.

[laylalex 7,300]

In the UK, I remember it being a pound. Marks have been out of use since Germany went to the Euro about 20 years ago. Sorry if that comes off as a tweak about age -- I am not consciously being ageist here.

[Nature Boy 2.0 8,378]

1 hour ago, Voice of Reason said:

As I get older, this really bugs me more and more.  About a year ago, I watched a guy push a cart out to his vehicle which was parked almost as far from the store as possible with two items in it.  He put the items in his truck, then pushed the cart beside his vehicle and got in to leave.  I pulled my truck right up in front of and perpendicular to his, and asked him if he was too lazy to return the cart to the corral which was about 8 spots away.  He said it wasn't his job to do that.  So I got out of my truck and politely pushed the cart to the corral for him, walked back, and told him he was welcome.  He called me a few choice names as I pulled away and let him leave.

I love the Aldi concept of quarters in the carts.  Has been working in Germany for decades.

If I was king of the world

 

There would be only one size buggy. Kroger has 3.

Every Screw in the world would be Phillips or some standard. 

 

I had to deal with a VW Monday. Some kind of weird star pattern to get the tag off. Just why in the name of God not just use a Philips head.  The used car dude lucky had something to fit it.

 

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11 minutes ago, laylalex said:

In the UK, I remember it being a pound. Marks have been out of use since Germany went to the Euro about 20 years ago. Sorry if that comes off as a tweak about age -- I am not consciously being ageist here.

Pound

Shillings

Pence

 

[laylalex 7,300]

I think there should be two sizes -- the big one (single basket) and the smaller one with two baskets stacked on each other. When you are only shopping for two people, and you are a short person, it can be difficult to reach down into the large and mostly empty basket for the, what, two tubs of spinach and two six packs of beer you're buying. Okay, that's an understatement, but I rarely fill up a big basket. More of the two-basket small ones, please!

 

And while we're at it, there should be step stools on demand at supermarkets for the stuff on the top shelves. I feel like a 12 year old reaching up up up for the yeast on the top shelf. Sometimes I end up walking over to the mops in the cleaning supplies aisle and using one to knock down stuff for myself. Or I have to ask other people to reach for me, which makes me feel like an idiot.

3 minutes ago, Boiler said:

Pound

Shillings

Pence

 

Well decimalization was something like 50 years ago, right?

Edited July 16, 2020 by laylalex