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12-09-2021, 10:50 AM #37001
Oh, yeah, for sure, it was there before, but that delivery industry has been forced to grow and compete in the past few years at a massive scale, and it seems to me that it's been pretty damn successful at it. My local Whole Foods is almost a food warehouse now, with racks full of outgoing stuff where there used to be a lot of tables for lunch, And I feel like I'm competing with all of their shoppers and private shoppers for whatever is on their shelves. Same for even smaller local supermarket chains. I don't think all of that is going away, like a lot of work from home.
Pizza commercials gross me out too, but, that's how 'Murica eats.
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12-09-2021, 11:24 AM #37002
Anti-Mask Senators & Congressman grandstanding at Bob Dole’s funeral.
Assholes.
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12-09-2021, 11:27 AM #37003
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12-09-2021, 11:31 AM #37004Registered User
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It been awhile but as I remember it the stand alone stores are 100% corporate and the counters you see in a safeway are called a different thing but they did have some connection to head office
SB would rent or lease store front space, get the initial construction done usually by a crew who has constructed SB stores before, load up a 4 ton truck with everything needed to open a store and they could have another SB location ready to go in 6 weeks
SB do train everybody in the store at least in the corporate stores, since they have so many locations they just swap experianced personel from other stores into the new location
I won't even go into other Fast food outlets but SB was always pretty good to deal with as corporate POS/ retail goes, I still remember the helpdesk ph# 1 800 23latteLee Lau - xxx-er is the laziest Asian canuck I know
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12-09-2021, 11:58 AM #37005
Those sous-vide egg bites you can get at Starbucks are great. The cold brew is passable.
I hope as a society we continue to wash our hands this much. The absence of the common cold in my life is fantastic.
And if people/kids are getting fat and anxious during all this - do we blame the policies or do we blame ourselves for this failure?
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12-09-2021, 12:01 PM #37006
Dominoes.
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12-09-2021, 12:07 PM #37007
It is amusing to find businesses going whole hog on the disinfecting thing and ignoring the mask thing. I was in MN recently (not by choice) and the difference in masking from CA is striking. Probably didn't help that the hotel had a convention of football coaches. No wonder that MN has high covid compared to CA--except that the SE, including FL also is low right now.
On an encouraging note--I was in Kaiser today and the line for Covid shots was impressive.
On a discouraging note--if omicron is sufficiently different from Delta, rather than displacing it, why couldn't there be two parallel pandemics going on? People could even have both at the same time. Pure speculation.
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12-09-2021, 12:11 PM #37008
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12-09-2021, 12:14 PM #37009
Om nom nom split into 2 lineages....
Move upside and let the man go through...
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12-09-2021, 12:43 PM #37010
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12-09-2021, 01:03 PM #37011
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12-09-2021, 04:07 PM #37012
You see, this is why we need the Metaverse
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12-09-2021, 04:12 PM #37013
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12-09-2021, 06:35 PM #37014
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12-13-2021, 08:46 AM #37015
I wish we would finally get to a place where we can break down the death and severe illness results from this virus relating to age and other factors, especially underlying health conditions, rather than the simplistic overall positive test and death numbers controlling the discussion. I know it's verboten to talk about, but, this thing is still killing old people, primarily.
As U.S. Nears 800,000 Virus Deaths, 1 of Every 100 Older Americans Has Perished https://nyti.ms/33f0cFQ
"Seventy-five percent of people who have died of the virus in the United States — or about 600,000 of the nearly 800,000 who have perished so far — have been 65 or older. One in 100 older Americans has died from the virus. For people younger than 65, that ratio is closer to 1 in 1,400."
And this article just hints at the fact that most of the younger old dying have underlying conditions that helped kill them, even if vaccinated. Sure, younger people are getting pretty sick and dying, but, what kind of shape are they in? We should all know this, if we want to live longer and healthier. But, we're all being fed simple fear as we stare at the flat screen eating a bag of chips.
There have never been so many old people in America and the world. You can thank many innovations for that, including, heh, vaccines. Now we should go beyond the simple numbers and improve the defenses even more with some real time education.
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12-13-2021, 09:12 AM #37016
#oldlivesmatter
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12-13-2021, 09:31 AM #37017
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12-13-2021, 09:45 AM #37018
Benny, if the demographics are shifting with recent variants, looking back at the whole period is just a distraction. You're right that more granular stats will be more inciteful, but do you figure the mass market media is going to give you that? Even at a 10th grade reading level (and what, 8th grade math?) the NYT audience isn't ready.
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12-13-2021, 10:30 AM #37019
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12-13-2021, 10:37 AM #37020
I believe both statements are true.
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12-13-2021, 11:23 AM #37021
Read the comments though. It's all about fuck the unvaccinated, all stupid Trump derangement anger, when, in reality, nobody is admitting that this is a culling of the herd.
Here, here's the top liked comment:
"Much of the fault lies with our former president for the cavalier public tone he showed about the virus. Had he set a responsible example, we never would have seen resistance to masking and vaccines and support for quack cures becoming badges of right wing identity.".
Jezuz, people are blinded by this bullshit. I mean, stated clearly in the article is the fact that most seniors are vaxxed. It's not a vax resistance issue. It's simply old age and pre existing conditions.
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12-13-2021, 11:33 AM #37022Jezuz, people are blinded by this bullshit. I mean, stated clearly in the article is the fact that most seniors are vaxxed. It's not a vax resistance issue. It's simply old age and pre existing conditions.I have been in this State for 30 years and I am willing to admit that I am part of the problem.
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12-13-2021, 11:43 AM #37023
If you have a way to track where the vaxed catch it then this could be a worthwhile discussion. Otherwise, the presumption that most transmission goes through the unvaccinated (and vaccines aren't 100% effective) is a stronger explanation for that perspective than "TDS." Exponential growth means the early mistakes will always share blame. If that's important.
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12-13-2021, 11:50 AM #37024
^^^ that. Can't catch something that isn't circulating.
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12-13-2021, 11:54 AM #37025
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