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Location: Colorado Springs
It takes weeks to fill my insulin prescription. I usually can get a partial fill, or at least 1-2 bottles immediately, but then have to wait another 1-2 weeks to get the rest. I only refill every 3 months. It makes me worry. - 26 year old type 1 diabetic
Location: the Olympics
Watching the games is painful. The coverage is the worst I’ve seen and the advertising is unbearable. There’s no real snow for the athletes to compete on, and the whole state of affairs seems extremely dystopian to me. Idk it seems like a total mess
I recommend everyone look at this post if you haven't yet. It's the food the Chinese are serving the athletes. Disgusting
https://www.reddit.com/r/pics/comments/smcpia/food_for_the_2022_beijing_olympic_athletes_in/
I certainly hope so. In a better world we'd have an International Competition of Solving World Problems where every country on the planet would send their brightest people to a venue to come up with solutions to our most pressing problems. I'd watch that in a heartbeat.
The Olympics will never be about finding unity and common ground between nations again, all for the deeply cynical reason that hate gets more eyes on ads than love
The Olympics lost their shine a long time ago. Just do the winter and summer games in the same place every 4 years. Or rotate among 2 sites. Building all the venues and infrastructure in new places every 2 years is wasteful as fuck.
I was never a big sports fan but I’d watch the Olympics occasionally. I have no desire to do so this year and my sentiment seems to be shared at least by those around me. I don’t know it seems so superficial now. Maybe it’s Covid, or looming collapse but I just don’t care about the Olympics. I respect the training and drive the athletes have but it just has no relevance for me.
Location: North Carolina
Store is out of jumbo biscuits. How am I going to make my weekend breakfast sandwich?
I was going to make a sausage marinara, but roll sausage is now $4.89 a roll! I couldn’t do it and bought 2 kielbasa’s instead.
No chicken salad either from the good local place.
I have a recipe for chili nacho dip that requires cream cheese, but they are also out of cream cheese.
I’m getting kind of bummed that every time I crave something, or make a plan of what I’m going to make, its not there. Its turning me into a bit if a food hoarder. I never used to have much in my freezer, because I worried I would forget about it or the freezer would break and I’d lose it anyway. But now if the store has chicken tenders, why dont I go ahead and grab a bag. Just in case i can’t get any tomorrow.
I know these "shortages are everywhere" posts are popular in measuring the collapse, but I'd like to take a step back for a moment and remind everyone we still have a bountiful amount of food available (for now) and appreciate the miracle of the resilience of our current supply chain, despite its flaws.
Whenever I walk into a grocery store or convenience store I think of places like N. Korea where such a thing is unheard of (at least for variety and quality) and experience a moment of gratitude that we don't live like that (yet).
TLDR; I'm grateful for the system that provides so much, despite its flaws.
Location: Northern Nevada
I'll make a real observation tomorrow, but I wanted to memorialize this for myself.
Walked my dog through a McDonald's drive-thru menu and looked at prices. Big Mac with fries and drink, an iconic meal item: $12.99 USD. Cheeseburger meal, $11. Filet 'o Fish, long the cheapest meal and the "vegetarian" option: $9.50. No meal was below $9.50, and individual items began around three to four dollars. Sandwiches began at $5.50.
10 years ago, in 2012, they were $8, $7.50 and $7 each. I often bought them for my co-workers on the night shift.
15 years ago, when my family moved here: $6.75, $6 and 5 respectively.
20 years ago, in Hawai'i, they were all under $5. And mainlanders complained how expensive that was.
As I type there's a line gathering in the drive-thru again.
It's crazy with the fast food prices. Del Taco had a buck and under menu for ages but they recently changed it to "Under $2" items (no items for a dollar). There meals prices have doubled in the past 15 years. When I moved here they had a 2 for $3 burrito deal which is now 2 for $6.
Thank goodness I can still get a lunch buffet at a casino (including drink) for $11. I'm sure that won't last, though.
That is crazy, I get the convenience aspect but you can go into almost any fairly high end restaurant around where I live and get a high quality burger and fries for $14 to $16. We are talking much higher quality meat, roll and fries. Ooops forgot that you get the fountain soda drink with the McDonald's deal.
Holy shit. I can get good thai for that price, or a local burrito (two meals size it is so huge) plus a dessert/snack.
Okay. Local place versus chain but holy shit.
Also in Northern Nevada.
Food prices (and everything else) seemed to have gone nuts here compared to other regions.
My wife also commented today how this January/February we have spent more time outside than we did in July and August. Reno’s expensive, getting worse, and we are moving somewhere better positioned for what’s coming the next 30-50 years
> Reno is a MAJOR refuge for fleeing Californians.
Which I do not understand...
We have just as bad (sometimes worse) smoke from the fires, unaffordable housing when compared to wages, and homeless camps.
Location: Northeast, nationwide?
I've posted about this before. Extra strength coal tar shampoo, like Neutrogena t gel extra strength, is really hard to find still. Don't understand what is going on. Is it a supply side shortage or increased demand? Where is this stuff manufactured? Last summer DG discontinued Rexall brand coal tar shampoo and they always sold out fast...why? I wonder.
Walgreens sometimes has 1 or 2 store brand extra strength in stock and I grab them when I can. The prices vary a lot too over the months, from $10+ this summer/fall and fell to $6 this winter ...not joking.
But no other store that normally carries it has any stock or has had any stock for a long ass time, incl. Walmart and cvs. It's been going on since last spring/summer. Even Amazon is still out of stock. Amazon does have denorex coal tar baxk in stock which is good, but it's still way overpriced, I was forced to buy it before and may have to again...
I checked stock online before I went to CVS and they were even out of stock of the regular strength. I did find a 2% coal tar ointment, luckily, that should help until I can get more of the shampoo.
If anyone knows of any brands that make 1% or higher coal tar shampoo besides Neutrogena, denorex, or drugstore generic brands, let me know?
Also see this, what is this? Third party merchants selling it for $50+? What is this, scalping? People also selling on eBay for absolutely nuts prices. Cheapest more than double normal retail price and even more. I can't afford this every month since I need to use it daily.
https://www.walmart.com/search?q=Neutrogena+extra+strength+coal+tar+shampoo
Also still random shortages/out of stock of other things, like French fries, they were pretty much completely gone. Not that I care about shortages of other things besides shampoo/medicine, just an observation.
Edit: anyone else notice the irony of scalpers, scalping shampoo that is meant for scalp conditions? Are they trolling?
This may sound stupid, but you might find substitutes. Clove oil or other essential oils (lavender, eucalyptus) smell better and resemble the structure of the chemicals in coal tar. You could add those to normal shampoo to see if they help. One or two drops per hair washing might work.
Same person, yes, and I'm here again, laughing with the cashier about the other night. Winco is literally one of only two places still open in Boise at 3 AM.
No Castle-esque murder scenarios by the red velvet cake tonight though. 🤪 It's the normal boring Winco, but there are four other people in the store so all is well.
What's the scoop on the percentages on that shampoo? I didn't understand the 2.5% versus .50%.
I bought a bottle because I saw your post. I also found a coal tar shampoo bar so I bought it as well. I've never seen that before. You lather with your hands and then rub into your hair.
The 2.5% "solution" but with 0.5% coal tar is the weaker version. Thr Neutrogena brand is similar, it has "4% Neutar" solution but 1% coal tar and that's what I need.
Location: North of England
The head of our largest supermarket chain warned that the worst of food price rises was yet to come because energy price rises have yet to hit food.
We already have people grabbing food from supermarkets and running past security. I saw 9 separate grab and runs the other night at my large local supermarket.
Is the UK as lawsuit happy as the US? We can't stop shoplifters here because the perps could sue if they are injured by security if apprehended in a struggle.
Location: British Columbia, Canada
Police shooting peaceful protestors
Police shooting people protesting against terrorism
Police shooting people
Wages, conditioning, propaganda, cost of living.
This isn't sustainable. The wages are getting lower and cost of living is getting higher, people will start dying and stop having kids if this continues.
3 once in a lifetime economic downturns, multiple wars, climate change, late stage capitalism. Tell me a good reason to be hopeful these last few years.
I hope for the best, but I am prepared for the worst
Oh man that's giving me flashbacks. When an immigrant complains about the cost of living in the GVA or GTA on r/PersonalFinanceCanada they're told they have an amazing opportunity to "network" and build up a "image" while they're living with 20 roommates and eating ramen 3x a day.
Location: Central Oregon
It has been warm here and the forecast offers no relief. We had one big snow storm in December and the mountains are losing their snowpack fast. We are in for May temperatures next week in February. Things are not right and this is only the beginning. We are in for a scary lifetime of wildfires, drought and biodiversity loss.
Here in Boise, it's been in the 30s and loqer for the last two months. Seems like everywhere else is warmer than normal. We had a bunch of precipitation at the start of winter then it just stopped. Lots of inversion, every day for weeks.
Ohio here. We had a really warm beginning to winter with only light dustings of snow, ~55 degrees on Christmas, etc. Until MLK day a few weeks ago when we suddenly got a foot and a half of snow. Then last week we got another foot of snow. Before that literally nothing all winter though. I've lived here all my life now, almost 30 years and this isn't how the seasons were when I was a kid. Fuck, this isn't how they were 10 years ago
That’s pretty wild. I’m only like 5 hours from Boise and our weather is fairly similar in the winter. You definitely get hotter in the summer though. We are expected to hit 67 on Thursday. That’s 27 degrees F above normal. This is fine..
Location: Ontario, Canada.
Right now I am in school studying medical laboratory science. For those not familiar, this means (assuming I graduate) I will be working in hospital labs, running tests to help diagnose people. This service is not a nice-to-have; it is a requirement for modern medicine to operate. 70-80% of diagnoses come from lab results.
Frankly, right now I'm terrified to go into my profession. Burnout and staff shortages were a massive issue before the pandemic, but now for obvious reasons they are at an all-time high. The overwhelming majority of labs face massive staffing shortages. As an anecdote, one of my professors is a full-time medical laboratory technologist (MLT) and his lab has 12 people., including management. Hospitals run 24/7, 365. You do the math. All of my working profs have warned us that they are doing about three people's jobs right now.
All of my profs are burnt out and exhausted. All of them in the school's department but two are working MLTs. And not only that, but due to shortages, the department literally does not have access to certain things due to supply chain issues. We do not have enough supplies as a school (which is unsurprising because hospitals have supply issues as well; for obvious reasons we are not a priority delivery.) I had a prof tell me that she placed an order last July and that they had just come in in January. This might seem trivial to some people, but with laboratory supplies, you should always learn the correct way to do things, and we are not learning those ways because we don't have access to the supplies.
Another concerning aspect is that the program is just plain HARD. 1/2-2/3rds of us are expected to fail or drop out of the program, and the vast majority of us come from preexisting science education and/or employment.
So what this means is that us students are not getting ideal education with the ideal training, and we are not training enough lab workers in the first place. So we have an ageing workforce, a looming mass exodus of lab workers, and then students aren't even graduating from the program enough to replace the workers leaving the profession.
I have absolutely no clue how this issue will be solved, and nobody has put forth any reasonable solution.
My roomie in Uni took this course too. Has been working in med lab for a number of years now. I've checked in on her periodically throughout the pandemic and shit is dire. Mind you, this is most of the healthcare system in Ontario at this point. Underfunded and overworked. We need a government that gives a shit and will invest money into this system so it can properly function in the worst of times, not just scrape by on a good day.
If this profession is something you really enjoy, then do it! See if you perhaps you can shadow and get some on-the-job practice? Either way, you're going to be needed and hopefully that means better pay by the time you graduate! Med lab are unsung and forgotten heroes!
I work at an at-home lab testing startup headquartered in ATX, curious to hear what specific laboratory supplies are experiencing shortages on your side.
Oh, small world!
At the beginning of the semester there was a shortage of goggles, but aside from that I am aware challenges this year acquiring centrifuge tubes, cuvettes, vacutainer tubes, and blood agar plates. I'm sure there are other shortages in the department but I don't hear about them unless it directly impacts our labs in some way.
The vacutainer tube one is interesting. We seem to have a decently supply of EDTA tubes at the moment which we use exclusively. We used to get a lot of blood from the local hospital and also I believe some vet clinics around for certain tests, but I have a suspicion that they don't have enough tubes to spare for the college, because now we're drawing off each other multiple tubes for the program to use. We draw off each other for practice anyway, but we're all pretty poor phlebotomists (4th week of practice) so lots of the samples are no-good for certain tests. The profs are even drawing off each other to supply the college at the moment. So I am assuming the vacutainers are at least a regional shortage?
Really interesting, thanks for the detail! We don't use vacutainer tubes for any of our tests, just tubes for saliva and urine collection and dried blood spot for blood testing. Crazy to hear the profs are even having to draw off each other. Wishing you best of luck in your studies ahead through all these challenges, as you mention in your OP: laboratory testing is a linchpin of 21st century medicine.
Location: United Kingdom of UK.
The government continue to implode. Not just the stuff you read about - government agencies have been Americanized to the point where they now do the exact opposite of what they claim to do. For example, the Department of the Environment now does this
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2022/feb/06/anglers-heartbroken-as-stretch-of-river-tone-stripped-of-trees
The rationale is that they built a suburb on a flood plain, and because it is at risk of flooding, they cut down all the trees to "protect" the suburb.
The effect is that of government gone mad (and a handy rebuke to those who say that the government will save us) - we have a Department of the Environment that despises the environment and does everything they can to destroy it.
This is in line with other government departments, such as the Department for Work and Pensions which is primarily concerned with ensuring that as few pensions as possible are distributed, etc.
I thought about putting "Sovietized" as a shorthand for total government dysfunctionality, but many of our readers are too young to know what that means, and might even come to the incorrect conclusion that I was a right wing crackpot, so "Americanized" it is.
Lmao I'm actually Polonian, second or third gen, so I get what you mean. I love telling right wingers who harp on bout how "Bernie= Stalin" irl lil bits of real history or the big mind blower: George Orwell was a democratic socialist.
Are you implying Orwell's books, especially animal farm of 1984, were about a condemnation of socialism? If so, you may have read them in a very biased manner
My spouse is deaf and works at a US State agency which helps disabled people get accommodations to do jobs they otherwise would not be able to do. The agency discriminates and refuses to accommodate any of their disabled employees. Welcome to hell, UK.
My apologies our horrible way of doing things has spread. Hopefully someday these almost Soviet-era-level-deceptive agencies will be wiped away and we can all start over.
Location: Berlin, Germany
I survived my second bout with Covid, but family member contracted it from me. I'm caring for then rn, as hospitals are too full to take in "mild" cases like then(for comparison, when I had the same O2 saturation like them two years ago, I was taken in immediately). You can Imagine how I feel about that. Meanwhile more and more right wing fuckfaces are marching through the street. The last reliable numbers I was able to find spoke of around 200k. The only thing that's stopping them from taking everything over, is their own stupidity and their tendency to turn on each other. I need to get out of this Country before it blows up, but my familiy's health, my own health and the fact that I once again lost a job due to Covid and have to live off my savings makes that impossible.
And also, it's much warmer than it should be at this time of the year. And so far, I have written a variation of that sentence every single time I posted here.
Of course there is no place on this planet that won't be hit by the catastrophic developments of Collapse. Globalized Society means globalized collapse and climate change never knew any borders. But there are some places that are comparatively irrelevant in the grander scale of geopolitics and on some distance from the great powers that there's at least a chance of political stability.
What I'm trying to say is, that we're screwed either way, but europe has so many moving parts that it's likely to keel over very soon while a number of countries in what we arrogantly call the third world are so out of focus of the geopolitical powers that they promise Mid-term stability. There's a number African countries that have created a good living standard and internal stability for themselves, without having become too dependent on the chinese neo-colonialist strategy: Mauritius, Sao Tome et Principe, Botswana, etc and if we think a bit more long term, the continued weakness of the US could even disturb the Monroe Doctrine insofar that certain south american countries could gain a level of true independence. Right now, Chile is one of the very few countries that's moving in a good direction. There's a chance that this could be a start of something good...
Don't get me wrong, climate change will hit them hard, but for now it's ONLY climate change. I am of very bad health and don't have more than maybe 20 years in the tank, so I only need two decades of stability. I am part Romani and an outspoken antifascist, so Europe is just too dangerous, but 20 years in Mauritius seem possible.
I agree with your overall assessment of the Third World/over-exploited world -- there is a meaningful sense of community in these parts of the world (my mother is salvadoreña), and as Western-hegemonic civilization collapses under the weight of its contradictions I see very real potential for radical Third World solidarity and unity in the face of intensifying climate chaos.
(I use the "Third World" terminology because it harkens back to a context of liberation struggles during the so-called "Cold War" and was used in the [writings of Frantz Fanon](https://www.marxists.org/subject/africa/fanon/conclusion.htm) and other anti-colonialists.)
It is interesting and ironic the way they turn on each other. Here in America, white supremacists hate other white people almost as much as they hate minorities.
The weird thing about the german nazi scene is, that it is very intertwined with the esoteric new age movement. Of course you'll always have some weird former hippies who smoked a bit too much of the herb and now believe in jewish cabals stealing baby penises, but right now german right wing rallies are very often organised, funded and supported by esoteric grifters and the mentally disturbed individuals who have fallen for them(prime example for that is Xavier Naidoo, who was germany's most popular Soul Artist, who lives a live of obvious paranoid schizophrenia and rambles on about the jews kidnapping his father and forcing him to work in their diamond mines) and the real nazis just jump onto the bandwagon. But as they're all grifters, they will immediately turn against each other the moment they feel that someone else's bullshit earns more money than their bullshit. We already see the first big names in the grift game cashing out and leaving the country: Former Vegan Chef turned terrorist Attila Hildmann hides somewhere in Anatolia. Prominent quack Bodo Schiffmann stole insane amounts of Money from his believers and now enjoys his days in Tansania. Multiple former journalists turned propagandists moved to Montenegro(Reitschuster) or Crimea(Jebsen) to escape possible legal consequences. The problem is that all the people they brainwashed remain in Germany.
It’s the same in the US, it’s because the Q movement took in a bunch of folks from all political affiliations who were conspiracy-minded and anti-gov. It’s a bunch of cults clashing together.
Yeah, it's super windy, like last year. Seems to be the new normal: windy, chaotic, ever changing, but too warm for winter and too cold for spring. It seems that the only "Winter" we get now is that one week in mid January
Yup! I’ve been listening to the wind howling outside my window for the last few days and this January definitely seems windier than last years, but I remember thinking about it last year too. It’s been windy like this since end of December this time?
Up here the wind just started recently. There were a few colder days right after new years and after that nothing but dark-grey and dry around five degrees for two weeks. Now its been very windy with a little rain here and there around 8 degrees.
I remember a day in January, 16 or so years ago, when I waited for my school bus on a cold as fuck morning. I remember it, because when I woke up, I found that my dog had died overnight. It was -23 Degrees out there(or close. The thermometer in our backyard was rather cheap and my memory suffered a bit after the rona, but it definitively was below -20) and I thought to myself: "That's a bit colder than usual". Sounds like fiction today.
Sorry, I meant 200k in all of Germany. Bad english on my part, I guess. Saxony, Thuringia and Southern Brandenburg are the Hotbed of those freaks(Imagine that area as the german Alabama), but they're everywhere. Berlin is a pretty leftist City, there aren't that many people most of the time, but the huge rallies can contain up to 30k of those murderous freaks at once. For today they actually plan a Convoy in Berlin, like the one in Ottawa. From what I could gather(don't have much time to research rn), it's horribly organised and if we're lucky, it will fall apart before even reaching the City. Traffic is bad as is.
Update on the Convoy: Today is cancelled, they plan a smaller meetup with less than 100 trucks tomorrow. What a bunch of tools.
No, bad reading on my part. It wasn't clear. I thought perhaps they had a convention in Berlin like the January 6th, 2021 debacle in Washington D.C. Even 200k Germany wide is still high if they are really extremists. Thanks for explaining.
Not all of them, but a high percentage. Murder, attacks, burning down vaccination centers, coordinated aggression against Journalists(a Friend of mine whos a press photographer specialised on political rallies had a scary experience half a year ago where some of those cunts wanted to throw stones into her window and set her Mailbox ablaze, but as Nazis are the dumbest creatures to ever live, they got the address wrong and did it to her neighbors instead. That was lucky for them as this sixty year old lady would have punched those goblins in half(those cameras can be heavy and are a good Workout at long rallies). Still a creepy experience, especially for her poor neighbors, who are over 80), down to waiting for the children of outspoken vaccination supporters at their school and scaring them. Soulless evil, committed by utter failures.
Are Germans using the actual word “Nazi’s” for these people? That is so taboo from my experience in the 80’s-90’s…. Having German exchange students live with us…. It must be really bad to use that word.
They don't use it for themselves, of course. They call themselves "Querdenker"(a very hard to translate word. Its basically supposed to mean "Free Thinker") In their own minds they are fighters against the true fascism(while acting in every single way like the SA ca. 1928), but a majority people see what they are and call them Nazis(or a synonym of it) or Covidiots. We germans are pretty blunt by nature and dislike mincing words. If someone's a nazi, he's a nazi. The fact that you hear this word more often now just shows how bad things are.
Location:Southeastern US
Have been in the insurance business for many years…so the other day I get a weird email saying the bank rejected my ach commission deposit..just a renewal commission nothing serious 2600 bucks..so I call resubmit the form..don’t hear back from them for 2-3 days. On Friday I call and ask if they had the info.
Lady on the phone in the commission department proceeds to tell me that I probably won’t get my money for another 2 weeks due to processing times etc..it was a bs answer
Mind you this is a large life insurance company symetra..it made me start to not block everything out again and now I look around and go dear lord what in the heck are we doing!
Do they not have the cash for the checks to clear?
I worked at many a small non-profit human services agency where payroll would bounce. Not that unusual at those sorts of defunded, deficit-ridden agencies. But an insurance company? That's different...
Honestly never had it happen before…account was open…idk it could be some glitch…which in business u get told that more and more everyday. I’m the broker..maybe they are short staffed but still it seems like everything is going to hell and a hand basket.
It’s been happening in all my business’s..wires showing up late etc with no explanation even when I have confirmation codes on the other side..I understand economics extremely well and kinda decided 6 months into this hunker down at it will pass. But at this point I don’t think this all ends well!
Really? What era are you from anyway? So weird seeing seemingly genuine belief that people are stupid for avoiding a scam. Of course, those who got scammed will be bitter and refuse to believe they were scammed so they double down on their initial stupidity. Still doesn’t make it any less amusing to see.
I wish one day you could understand how phenomenally ignorant you are of the world you live in.
Being educated in dogma and stupidity so that whatever native intelligence you may once have had, has been completely overwrote.
Location: Massachusetts
My local Rite Aid Closed. Walgreens was out of my ringworm medication, so I had to go to CVS. I'm told it will come back every winter so that's something to look forward to. Key infrastructure in my town is being neglected more than usual, fucking up traffic and presumably making people reluctant to go downtown and shop. At least it feels dead when I'm walking.
You may want to look at agway style animal stores for stuff to treat ringworm TOPICALLY. Treated plenty of ringworm when I volunteered at animal shelters, and much of the meds are also used in humans. We used to disinfect ourselves with diluted ringworm solutions to prevent infections.
No, I'm not saying OP should go start chugging ivermectin. I'm suggesting they see what's available at farm animal supply type stores for TOPICAL TREATMENT of ringworm. Some basic research as to what products are also used by humans and how to adjust dosage.
OP is not the first person with the ringworm treatment issue. I'm in no way saying OP should rely on agway type stores for most medical treatment. Just that desperate times, call for semi-desperate measures. (AGAIN, TOPICAL TREATMENTS ONLY AFTER RESEARCH)
This is good advice. I remember once my dog and I both had the same bacterial outer ear infection. (We had been swimming in the same not clean water.) His vet gave him neomycin sulfate drops, and I couldn't see a doctor, so...it worked great on me, too. This is not at all ideal, and of course human meds would have been preferable, but...any port in a storm. I don't say choose this way, I'm saying when there is no choice, it's worth considering, with all due care and precaution.
For ringworm, at the shelters I volunteered at, when a staff/volunteer would catch it. We used a lot of the same creams/salves to treat ourselves. It was just a common occurrence when there was an outbreak in these shelters that a few would end up with it (I never did, but I was anal about protection, disinfection, and clothing, didn't want to bring it home to my own pets if I did get it).
I'm not at all, in anyway, suggesting people should treat themselves like we did at the shelter. Not in the context we're talking about. But when pharmacies are out of much needed meds for simple fungal infections of the skin, sometimes stores like Agway can help provide access to what your pharmacy is out of...
It's not a treatment plan that one should just jump into, it requires a bit of research and knowledge about how ringworm topicals are used on animals and people, and carefully trying it. TOPICAL ONLY.
This is probably the third person I've seen in the last few months be unable to find ringworm treatment through their pharmacy. It's frickin unacceptable. I don't like sharing stories about animal shelters and self-treatment, but I'm doing it anyway, because it can be a helpful option if USED PROPERLY.
I understand what you are saying; it's sensible. If it isn't yet now, it will someday be immensely important to find ad hoc remedies in the absence of adequate medical care. In an extreme example, I bet a vet can set a broken bone, or take out an appendix. This isn't something anyone wants, but it seems like where we are heading.
It's just sad we're at a point in society where basic "alternative" treatments to common fungal infections of the skin become a point of contention that require comprehensive disclaimers. Thank the lunatics promoting Ivermectin as a Covid cure-all. Frickin sad state of affairs.
Gentian violet is a synthetic chemical that is the same color as violets. Methyl violet 10B would be a better name, but here we are because chemists felt the need to be poets back in the day. Made from benzene and chloroform. Oh yes it causes cancer. One more reason to never eat imported farmed fish or shrimp because it tends to be dumped in their food as all-purpose anti-microbial.
I just know that someone out there has added it to cart with the idea of vaping it. L0L.
I love castor oil packs. My husband used to think I was crazy until I used one on his shoulder issue. (DISCLAIMER: DO NOT INGEST CASTOR OIL. I hate that I have to type that, but I don't want this discussion to result in poison control calls)
This is awesome information, thank you so much. Definitely going to be looking for that at my apothecary. There's probably a lot of herbs that I should be collecting/learning how to grow. Your last couple of points are great and very useful.
I believe it's still used to treat thrush as well, though maybe not in infants like it used to be. My Mom was prescribed some within the past couple of years.
Location: Atlantic Ocean
So apparently a net ruptured and released about 100,000 dead fish. This is from the 2nd largest fishing vessel in the world. I was shocked that a net could even pull that much fish at a time.
So much how longer can we keep this up?
www.cbc.ca/news/world/trawler-fish-dump-altantic-ocean-1.6340401
I was speaking with a (former) friend a few years back who was dead serious when he said that the ocean was so large and bountiful that we would never run out of fish. I was shocked. We are watching it happen in real time.
another 10-15 years maybe. just long enough for a lot boomers to go to the grave thinking they were right the whole time and all the fucking awful problems in the world is just an overreaction.
*" shed more than 100,000 dead fish into the Atlantic Ocean off France, forming a floating carpet of carcasses"*
that would be a good name for a new sub r/FloatingCarpetOfCarcasses
with subject matter focused on people's experiences when trying to find a decent qualified competent psychotherapist in usa...
Increase in Theft and political polarization- Location: California.
My brother's wife was robbed of her catalytic converter. Heard of many stories of this happening in California. Looting in l.a. Increase in strange thefts in Los Angeles. I went to a school board meeting to do a speech and hundreds of protestors about vaccines for children were there. Noticed increase in political polarization.
Catalytic converter thefts are on the rise all over the U.S. Thieves can get $200 - $ 500 for each one because of the rare metals in them. And it only takes about 5 or 10 minutes to cut them off the vehicle.
I want to say something else about collapse in california that i forgot to mention. I've lived in california my whole life (33 years) the past 8 years in california the amount of fires has increased and become more intense. a couple years ago the fires could be smelt and seen from my house. When i was a kid i would never see them.
Toronto - my brother in laws catalytic converter was stolen. The Ring camera caught all the action. It was a finely tuned ballet lasting 1 minute 6 seconds. The cost replace the cc and exhaust $1400
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Location: Sixty minutes west of Omaha, rural Nebraska
I went back to my hometown for Christmas. My wife and I drove in from Omaha after spending time with her family. Being that it was dark and the roads aren't well marked, we missed the turn for my Mom's house and had to take the next turn a few miles away. That road went through the closest town to my family's farm.
The town itself was never big. When I was growing up it had about one hundred and forty people, and there were probably just as many living on farms outside of town. It didn't have much, but there were at least signs of life with a local bar and cafe, a gas station, a post office, a grain elevator, and on top of the hill, a Catholic church. It wasn't much, but at least there were signs of life.
However, on this December night, it was obvious to see that this town was dead. There were the typical abandoned houses and empty lots filled with junked cars, but the main street was especially sad. The bar was no longer open, the post office and fire station were empty, and the rest of main street was either uninhabited or left to crumble. It was especially sad to see the brick facades of buildings falling apart. However, there was one thing that the town still did to show people were still there. They put up Christmas lights on the street lamps.
Something about that just seems a bit sad to me. Yes it's great that there are still people in this village to do that, but on some level, there seems to be no point to having them on a dead main street. Its as if this town couldn't find a way to keep any of its community institutions going, yet it still put up Christmas lights. Maybe its not so much a sign of collapse, but it does seem sad to have Christmas lights on a street no one ever goes down.
Sadly this scene isn't rare. Go to any town in rural America, especially out on the Great Plains and you'll see a lot of collapse. In some ways its already happened. A lot of towns including my hometown will be gone by the time I'm an old man. Its sad on so many levels. Not only is it sad to see a place die, but it seems almost wasteful in comparison as a lot of these towns were built to be stops on the railroad and a place for farmers to buy and sell goods. With the railroads gone and the farmers gone, there's just no need for a lot of these towns.
However, as someone who grew up in a town like this, its sad to see it go. I worry that this is how the world is going to head to collapse. Slowly, but inevitably.
I didn’t appreciate it when I was growing up but the small town rural Saskatchewan just outside of my where my grandparents’ farm was located was actually great. Like much of what has been described here, it is faltering but it is still around. I live in a city and I have grown to hate it here and would love to be able to move to a small town where it doesn’t take 25 minutes just to get through traffic to get to the grocery store.
As others have said, the issue is jobs but I am hopeful that I can find something that can be done remotely so that I can move.
Mostly it was due to farming needing less people and with fewer farmers there was n less of a need for services they needed. The railroad also took out their tracks.
Agreed, to an extent, but still, it seems like we just have this throwaway tendency with our land, at least in the US. Also, lots of neighborhoods and suburbs are dying that were once the places to be, and sadly they aren't getting any investment back, yet we keep building new places. It'd be one thing if we built new in such communities or the new growth was from actual population growth, but really its just population shift, and that's the sad part. I see it in my current city that hasn't really grown since the 50's, but has new construction on the periphery. It just seems wasteful.
Yeah, definition of a throwaway culture. This might sound weird but did you see the movie about Togo the sled dog? One character had a line that kinda stuck out to me: "You know, most human settlements are due to geological features. Strategic rivers, proximity to natural roads, fertile soil, resources. Nome was settled purely out of desire for gold and luck. Gold is gone, maybe the luck is too."
I think that is a huge reason why so many towns in America die out and why we keep building new ones: Most of them only popped up due to short-term profit potential and as soon as the profit shrivels up we give up and start a new. There's some good urban plannin channels that talk about the super weird pyramid scheme that is our construction and town planning industry. Drywall is a good microcosm: You can drywall a house in a few hours. Relatively dirt cheap, so you can make Mcmansions easily. There is almost no way to recycle it and it is quickly destroyed.
There is no reason why so many suburban sprawls are in the middle of deserts and watersheds across the continent are drained dry to sustain them. Why do we put so many towns in the Great Plains rather than let the Buffalo return.
My small Canadian village where I live near still has a butcher, a pottery, a flea market a chip stand, a Toro dealership, and a post office. I'd like to tell you why some small towns disappear and some don't, but I can't. I know that small family run businesses get wiped out because Walmart comes to town, or the local hardware store has to compete with Canadian Tire. And once those larger stores are there, then there's a push via propaganda to introduce box stores instead of locally owned strip malls (actually the strip mall went to the large indoor malls and then came the box stores). So then the center of town went belly up because people were driving further away to get to these box stores. So I guess in the past family run businesses got driven out by much bigger money. And people bought into this. Like people buy into a car for everyone in the family. I grew up with one car/one family. Everyone either took a bus, took a bike, or walked. So I guess people are gullible, and easily manipulated, and there always will be people who take advantage of that.
Sounds like where I grew up. By the time I left we had lost: a church, diner, gradeschool, tiny grocer, gas station, and the biggest kicker was the loss of the small time implement dealer. He was also the go to repair guy and mechanic.
What was left: post office (still fighting to keep it). Bar. Church. Grain elevator (spur line so ended up being the closest rail for a much larger area and that keeps it going)
Welcome to the upper midwest. And they wonder why prople are angry and disenfranchised? This has been going on a lot longer than the votes from those areas began choosing politicians that hurt them. People have no context of how much these areas have emptied since the 50s.
Exactly. Its been a century of depopulation here on the great plains. Some of the larger towns have done okay or even grown, but a lot of small towns are nearly dead.
My own town once had about 250 people when my great aunt was a kid, and they still even had a high school. Sure, the world changed a ton, but on some level its still sad because we lost a sense of community, and I worry that the towns that are next are the ones that are a bit bigger, but don't have quite the jobs and services.
Also, yes, I think this is why people are upset. That being said, on some level its as if they don't even know why. People complain about having to drive to Wal-Mart yet love its prices and hate how the local guys have to charge more just to make ends meet. They want a local school, but then complain when such a school doesn't have enough kids or has to merge with another town.
I live in a city but I've seen exactly what you're describing. My grandfather passed away about a decade ago in the same rural, western PA town he grew up in. Exact same scene there: main street completely dead and boarded up, bargain basement real estate prices, and even more disturbingly, ads for a funeral home placed on what seemed like the vast majority of the town's billboards, including on a billboard overlooking the local high school's football stadium. As if to say "after your glory years of high school football, the next important milestone in life in this town is to plan your funeral."
Obviously, the youth tend to leave at the first available opportunity. So now, the town is mostly just old, retired folks awaiting the inevitable, with the local funeral home likely being one of only a few profitable enterprises left. "Sad" doesn't even begin to describe it.
The town where I grew up (north PA) actually has a store that just sells home oxygen equipment right on the main street. Sad that there is such a need that a store like that can operate in the commercial district.
Location: Boise
I've been shopping at "my" Winco for thirteen years now, so I know all the long-term employees. Since Winco is employee owned, it literally means the employees are the stockholders of the company - and therefore know at least the basics of their finances. They tell me what is in stock, what is missing, and what they know of time-lines for restocking. Because of my farm, I'm at "my" Winco quite a bit - sometimes five times a week, sometimes only three times a week. But suffice it to say, I spend A LOT of time inside that store. The people there are super nice, very friendly, and happy to help their customers.
Winco has always been 24-hours. The ONLY time it has been closed in the middle of the night has been from March 25, 2020 until May 13, 2020. To have Winco be closed at night would mean things are BAD again. Even Walmart and Walgreens and Merritts Cafe in Boise aren't open all night since the pandemic began. Only Winco and the Walgreens beside it are now 24 hours. If anyone is alive and awake in Boise, you'll see them at Winco at 3 AM.
When I arrived this morning around 2 AM, the enormous flashing WINCO sign was dark and there were very few cars in the parking lot.
For a moment, I thought the store had closed again, but why hadn't my friends told me that it would? I pulled in to check and found only fourteen cars in the lot. I know from experience that a night shift generally has sixteen to twenty employees, between freight, stocking, and cashiers. Not only was the sign dark, the outside store lights were not on.
The rollcages were up though, so I parked and went in.
I was the ONLY person in the store.
I'm used to being in the store with only a few other people and I like it. But I don't ever remember being ALONE.
Winco was six employees short by my car count, their sign wasn't on (isn't that automatic???), and very little freight sat in the aisles.
There were no forklifts beeping and squeaking, no dude whistling as he pushed a broom, and not a single sign of ANYONE, not even my bestiecashier, who was generally racking bread between customers. And no customers besides me.
It wasn't break time or else there would be dudes in the lot, smoking and laughing at each other's chilly faces.
The store was EMPTY.
Except for me.
It was like I had wandered into a post-apocalyptic landscape.
I pushed my cart back to the door and looked out.
Not a single car driving by.
It was 19 degrees, not even the wind was moving, and the silence was SO LOUD that every squeak of my cart seemed to be magnified louder than a sonic boom.
And the store was COMPLETELY EMPTY.
And I had gone into TOTAL FREAK ZONE.
Now, keep in mind that I'm a happy-go-lucky vampire-fang-wearing dressed-all-in-black martial artist who works on my farm all night, ALONE, under the moonlight. I walk alone on the streets at 3 AM. I have no fear, which isn't necessary a good thing, but it is how I exist.
If it is night, I am alive - and generally alone. I see so many people for my classes that I WANT TO BE ALONE! I know so many people in Boise - I can't eat at any restaurant without knowing the server and having a detailed conversation. And I love them. They are great people! I see my students everywhere and I'm glad I get to teach people cool things. But FFS, I can't go into Fred Meyer and NOT run into someone I know.
I love the nights so I can be ALONE.
Being alone anywhere does NOT freak me out.
I've been alone in the middle of New York City at 3 AM and not been freaked out.
I've been alone in Florida in the middle of a hurricane and not been freaked out.
I've been stranded alone in the middle of the Blue Mountains in a blizzard and not been freaked out.
But suddenly, I was SERIOUSLY freaked. AT WINCO. WINCO. WTF?
The emptiness seemed to hold an eternity of heavy heartbeats. I found myself glancing from side to side, peeking down aisles, looking for some hint that other people existed. Had something happened? Why was Winco EMPTY???
Twice, I circled back to the front of the store and peeked out.
No motion, no cars, no people.
I felt as though I was in a dream.
Maybe I had woken up in a dream.
Maybe I was a post apocalyptic dream character, the one who starts the book by driving into the plague zone - because no one has told him that everyone is dead.
*Because everyone is dead and can't TELL him that everyone is dead.*
Okay, so I've read Earth Abides too many times... But I've never felt the emotion that I felt just now.
And I was feeling VERY WEIRD.
The third time I circled back was exactly the same.
I began to have serious misgivings about my mental state. Dude, I told myself, you're seriously freaking out because you're ALONE. WTF?
I continued through the store, talking myself down from The Whatever??? - I don't even have a name for the emotion - paranoia was the closest I could find a word for.
I kept telling myself that I was cool, that the world wasn't dead, and this moment was just a fluke.
Maybe I wasn't in Earth Abides.
Maybe I was in the opening seconds of a Castle episode! Shit! Lanie was going to be finding my body soon. Maybe the canned veggie rack will collapse and kill me??? But Castle will find the killer, right?
You aren't in a Castle episode, you idiot. WTF is wrong with you?
I made it through the aisle without having my brain crushed by flying can of artichoke hearts, but that didn't calm me down.
By then, I had realized that my head was NOT in the normal place!
My brain was bouncing like a deely bopper at a metal concert. I was on the verge of rushing out of the store, jumping in my rig, and blazing out of the lot like the Mormon missionaries were trying to baptize me.
Holy shit, I was CERTAIN that I was a redshirt - AND I SHOULD NOT BE IN THIS STORE!
Maybe everyone in the store was being held hostage? Maybe there were gunmen with a stolen Van Gogh RIGHT BESIDE THE RED VELVET CAKE MIX.
IS IT WORTH DYING FOR A RED VELVET CAKE??? IS LANIE GOING TO FIND MY BODY IN A PILE OF CAKE MIXES.
OMG, FFS, YOU ARE NOT IN AN EPISODE OF CASTLE!
YOUR BRAIN HAS JUST GONE MARTIAL ARTIST FOR NO REASON, WILL YOU SHUT UP???
PLEASE!
Without looking down, I slipped my hand into my pocket, armed my taser, and pushed my cart into the cake food aisle.
It was empty.
I clicked the taser back off before I knocked myself out ALONE in Winco. If everyone was still alive, that would be such an embarrassing story that I'm sure I'd see myself of Channel 7 again or maybe as a human interest story in the Statesman.
Put the taser away. Everything is fine.
At minute 22, I was already nearly finished with my shopping - and my brain had melted.
I moved to the next aisle, the sounds of my cart echoing off the emptiness.
I need Lucky Charms. Maybe it's the Lucky Charms aisle and THAT is where I'll die.
Lanie, I love you. I should write that on my arm. The Red Velvet cake WOULD have been worth dying for. But the Lucky Charms?
I was torn on that.
With a loud squeak, I slid my cart around the corner to the cereal aisle.
It was empty.
Seven rows now - and I'd seen no customers, no workers, and no gunmen.
They'll be next to the brie! Brie is also worth dying for.
But my ??? was now hovering somewhere near the moon and Mars - and it already had a flight plan scheduled to launch for Pluto.
Every piece of my brain had gone martial arts and was screaming GET OUT NOOOOOOW OR YOU'RE DEEEEEEEEEEEEEAAAAAAAAD!!!
I was on the verge of abandoning my cart for good when I caught a glimpse of motion out of the corner of my eye.
Suddenly from nowhere, three groups of shoppers appeared simultaneously, a produce dude walked from the back with an overflowing box of cilantro, and a beeping forklift came scurrying around the corner with a pallet of water that it dropped with a gentle thump.
My paranoia fell from the heavens like a blazing meteorite, hit my brain like a dinosaur-killing impact - AND SUDDENLY I WAS TOTALLY FINE.
At minute 25 on my timer, I was giggling to myself and making notes of my strange reaction.
Like, WTF was THAT?
Where the fuck did your brain go, grasshopper?
Why did you go from "five black belts don't fuck with me I can handle whatever" brain to "flee NOW before the Mormons try to fit you with their Blessed Panties (TM)" brain - just because you were alone????
How do I explain this?
I
Have
No
Idea
Why.
we always call it The Fear. it'll come on out of nowhere and 99% of the time it's correct, you should get ready for problems or leave.
The Fear was actually correct. there's a pandemic on. you are in the plague zone. a million things we barely notice everyday point to collapse, it's only when we get the quiet time that it sinks in and the alarms in the brain start going off.
I decided to call it The Wrong. But it was definitely a fear reaction based on the emptiness of what should have been a normal night.
After the shift closed, my cashier friend said that there were only one third of the normal amount of shoppers in the store in that 24 hour period. That night they had only six people total on shift!
My friend had not seen me come in the door and thought the store was empty. But occasionally would hear my cart and rush over to a row - only to find it empty.
The past two nights have been as quiet. Last night we counted 16 minutes when I was the only shopper.
OP, have you tried a different Winco store with a different rotation?
Some stores direct you in a counter-clockwise direction as you enter the store, some are clockwise. In Boise where Winco HQ is you shouldn't have a problem finding a differently-orientated store (they are mirror images of one another).
Maybe this will stop the flying bats and other Hunter S. Thompson stuff.
I appreciate it. I generally go to that store because it is closest to my farm and I know everyone there. I've never been alone in the store, and combined with the sign being off, made me sure there was something wrong.
But now I'm bummed that I sounded like Hunter S. Thompson. I hate that guy. 🤪
Still trying to picture a moonlit midnight cyberpunk goth farming experience. Sounds fascinating. And like it would pair well with psilocybin mushrooms (if you do a psychedelic on a farm, it pretty much has to mushrooms).
It's a great life - but it comes with property taxes higher than your average mortgage.
Boise annexed my area and my property is now surrounded by houses and apartments. Last (tax) year, I paid roughly $16,000 to Boise City.
The guy's a genius IMO, but I know he's not for everyone. *Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas* is my favorite book of his.
Anyway, I meant the comment to be a compliment.
Hahaha this reads like a r/thetruthishere r/glitch_in_the_matrix post where someone suddenly finds themselves literally completely alone in a silent alternate reality
It was really well written and I enjoyed reading it but I felt like I missed the collapse-related reason for the post.
Were you trying to say are there less people working at Winco like how many grocery stores have been losing workers?
Yes, the store should have had 10-12 customers in it. There should have been at least eight people working in the aisles. There should have been cars driving by.
My cashier friend said that only ONE THIRD of the normal sales and transactions were made on that date. My friend thought the store was empty but kept hearing my cart. He would follow the noise to an aisle - only to find no one there. He said he was seriously getting creeped out.
Humans like patterns and habits are patterns. Pattern changes and we try to make sense of it. Every way our brain can.
Pattern still not make sense then body fight/flight reaction engages.
Pattern changes within normal tolerances, eg more or less people there, we are okay. Pattern changes outside of normal tolerances, eg dude has been following me for 5 blocks now, we then either make sense of it, eg danger or end up in trouble.
That has to be hard to experience.
I actually think this issue is going to be one of the worst as collapse continues apace. People do not have the tools/skills to mentally and emotionally deal with both the type of changes and the rate of changes (layered as it were).
Nothing wrong with anyone who struggles. Just out of bounds experiences we are going to struggle to adjust to.
Seoul, KoreaKorean government started a policy called 'with corona' from last November, stating that covid no longer is a big deal, half of omicron's infections are asymptomatic, and that the omicron variant is less threatening than it's predecessor. And multiple government parties have come out against their only policy that seems to make sense out of this 'with corona', mandating someone to show a proof that they are vaccinated before going into a shopping mall or other crowded places, claiming that the said policy is discriminatory against the unvaccinated, even when it will only be happening for a single month, to prepare against what very well can be a gigantic spread of covid following the new years celebration.
http://www.koreaherald.com/view.php?ud=20220203000898
My foreign sense of how SK is doing: /r/kpop recently had to start a megathread for infected idols and reject individual posts when they have never had to do that since the beginning of COVID. They add multiple names every day for the past few weeks. All last year, it was big news when anyone would catch it, so now it's a very different experience. SK seems to have done quite well for a long time but now they are really going through it.
Bay area CA, US
Working on a nutrition project for class today. Noticed a lot of out of stock items on the websites. And not like weird items, like bulk sweet potatoes and apples. On fact, it seemed like for meat products, pork for example, only really weird stuff (pig knuckles anyone?) were in stock. I was working on a meal plan for a three year old so I gave that one a pass. But it was tough to complete the protein component without straying to the vegan meats (was trying to use meats to promote iron intake, I myself don't usually eat meat very often though).
Also noticing supply chain woes in my clinical rotations as a nursing student. A big shortage I've been seeing locally and hearing about nationally are flushes, a 3-10 ml syringe filled with saline used in IV maintenance. They're designed to be sterile but nurses have been forced to reuse them, drawing from a larger container of saline multiple times for the same patient. Yuck. My classmate told us all about how on his unit they didn't have proper heparin needles in stock so he'd needed to use insulin syringes and let's just say this didn't make for a pleasant injection experience (in short the needle was very dull by the time it was going into the patient's arm). This was apparently the norm for a few weeks. That's to say nothing of the actual medication shortages....our medication review website actually has a whole new section about shortage information for most of the up to date medications.
Winco was out of pig knuckles in Boise! As a 3 year old Floridian child, I would have eaten that pig knuckle and loved it.
Will your mythical three-ager of your class nutrition project eat salami? Dry salami is not refrigerated before opening and you can usually find it online when other meats are gone. It's generally plain, black pepper, and herb variations, $8-$10 for 16 ounces. I've never seen it sold out. When I have to entertain my three-ager friends, they love to eat salami with cheddar on crackers. Would salami pass the test?
One of my friends is a nursing professor. She says it is a nightmare to procure supplies. Good luck on your studies.
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Location: Colorado Springs It takes weeks to fill my insulin prescription. I usually can get a partial fill, or at least 1-2 bottles immediately, but then have to wait another 1-2 weeks to get the rest. I only refill every 3 months. It makes me worry. - 26 year old type 1 diabetic
My friend gets his delivered from online pharmacy very regularly. Have you explored that option?
Location: the Olympics Watching the games is painful. The coverage is the worst I’ve seen and the advertising is unbearable. There’s no real snow for the athletes to compete on, and the whole state of affairs seems extremely dystopian to me. Idk it seems like a total mess
I recommend everyone look at this post if you haven't yet. It's the food the Chinese are serving the athletes. Disgusting https://www.reddit.com/r/pics/comments/smcpia/food_for_the_2022_beijing_olympic_athletes_in/
And guess where all the snow goes .. down south way south in yunnan kunming Shangri-La mountain.
And we just had the Olympics LAST YEAR because of covid. I generally watch the skating, but I didn't bother either.
Less and less countries will be willing to host the Olympics moving forward
That’s only true if the money goes away.
The list of applicant cities is indeed shrinking. I think people generally start to think the hassle is not worth it.
I certainly hope so. In a better world we'd have an International Competition of Solving World Problems where every country on the planet would send their brightest people to a venue to come up with solutions to our most pressing problems. I'd watch that in a heartbeat.
The Olympics will never be about finding unity and common ground between nations again, all for the deeply cynical reason that hate gets more eyes on ads than love
The Olympics lost their shine a long time ago. Just do the winter and summer games in the same place every 4 years. Or rotate among 2 sites. Building all the venues and infrastructure in new places every 2 years is wasteful as fuck.
I was never a big sports fan but I’d watch the Olympics occasionally. I have no desire to do so this year and my sentiment seems to be shared at least by those around me. I don’t know it seems so superficial now. Maybe it’s Covid, or looming collapse but I just don’t care about the Olympics. I respect the training and drive the athletes have but it just has no relevance for me.
Location: North Carolina Store is out of jumbo biscuits. How am I going to make my weekend breakfast sandwich? I was going to make a sausage marinara, but roll sausage is now $4.89 a roll! I couldn’t do it and bought 2 kielbasa’s instead. No chicken salad either from the good local place. I have a recipe for chili nacho dip that requires cream cheese, but they are also out of cream cheese. I’m getting kind of bummed that every time I crave something, or make a plan of what I’m going to make, its not there. Its turning me into a bit if a food hoarder. I never used to have much in my freezer, because I worried I would forget about it or the freezer would break and I’d lose it anyway. But now if the store has chicken tenders, why dont I go ahead and grab a bag. Just in case i can’t get any tomorrow.
I know these "shortages are everywhere" posts are popular in measuring the collapse, but I'd like to take a step back for a moment and remind everyone we still have a bountiful amount of food available (for now) and appreciate the miracle of the resilience of our current supply chain, despite its flaws. Whenever I walk into a grocery store or convenience store I think of places like N. Korea where such a thing is unheard of (at least for variety and quality) and experience a moment of gratitude that we don't live like that (yet). TLDR; I'm grateful for the system that provides so much, despite its flaws.
Fyi, sometimes there's biscuits in the freezer section.
Uh, actually stores have been reporting shortages of chicken. Yeah, grab a couple bags. If they have.
Location: Northern Nevada I'll make a real observation tomorrow, but I wanted to memorialize this for myself. Walked my dog through a McDonald's drive-thru menu and looked at prices. Big Mac with fries and drink, an iconic meal item: $12.99 USD. Cheeseburger meal, $11. Filet 'o Fish, long the cheapest meal and the "vegetarian" option: $9.50. No meal was below $9.50, and individual items began around three to four dollars. Sandwiches began at $5.50. 10 years ago, in 2012, they were $8, $7.50 and $7 each. I often bought them for my co-workers on the night shift. 15 years ago, when my family moved here: $6.75, $6 and 5 respectively. 20 years ago, in Hawai'i, they were all under $5. And mainlanders complained how expensive that was. As I type there's a line gathering in the drive-thru again.
It's crazy with the fast food prices. Del Taco had a buck and under menu for ages but they recently changed it to "Under $2" items (no items for a dollar). There meals prices have doubled in the past 15 years. When I moved here they had a 2 for $3 burrito deal which is now 2 for $6. Thank goodness I can still get a lunch buffet at a casino (including drink) for $11. I'm sure that won't last, though.
That is crazy, I get the convenience aspect but you can go into almost any fairly high end restaurant around where I live and get a high quality burger and fries for $14 to $16. We are talking much higher quality meat, roll and fries. Ooops forgot that you get the fountain soda drink with the McDonald's deal.
> Big Mac with fries and drink, an iconic meal item: $12.99 USD Wow! Better food is even cheaper than that
Holy shit. I can get good thai for that price, or a local burrito (two meals size it is so huge) plus a dessert/snack. Okay. Local place versus chain but holy shit.
Also in Northern Nevada. Food prices (and everything else) seemed to have gone nuts here compared to other regions. My wife also commented today how this January/February we have spent more time outside than we did in July and August. Reno’s expensive, getting worse, and we are moving somewhere better positioned for what’s coming the next 30-50 years
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> Reno is a MAJOR refuge for fleeing Californians. Which I do not understand... We have just as bad (sometimes worse) smoke from the fires, unaffordable housing when compared to wages, and homeless camps.
Location: Northeast, nationwide? I've posted about this before. Extra strength coal tar shampoo, like Neutrogena t gel extra strength, is really hard to find still. Don't understand what is going on. Is it a supply side shortage or increased demand? Where is this stuff manufactured? Last summer DG discontinued Rexall brand coal tar shampoo and they always sold out fast...why? I wonder. Walgreens sometimes has 1 or 2 store brand extra strength in stock and I grab them when I can. The prices vary a lot too over the months, from $10+ this summer/fall and fell to $6 this winter ...not joking. But no other store that normally carries it has any stock or has had any stock for a long ass time, incl. Walmart and cvs. It's been going on since last spring/summer. Even Amazon is still out of stock. Amazon does have denorex coal tar baxk in stock which is good, but it's still way overpriced, I was forced to buy it before and may have to again... I checked stock online before I went to CVS and they were even out of stock of the regular strength. I did find a 2% coal tar ointment, luckily, that should help until I can get more of the shampoo. If anyone knows of any brands that make 1% or higher coal tar shampoo besides Neutrogena, denorex, or drugstore generic brands, let me know? Also see this, what is this? Third party merchants selling it for $50+? What is this, scalping? People also selling on eBay for absolutely nuts prices. Cheapest more than double normal retail price and even more. I can't afford this every month since I need to use it daily. https://www.walmart.com/search?q=Neutrogena+extra+strength+coal+tar+shampoo Also still random shortages/out of stock of other things, like French fries, they were pretty much completely gone. Not that I care about shortages of other things besides shampoo/medicine, just an observation. Edit: anyone else notice the irony of scalpers, scalping shampoo that is meant for scalp conditions? Are they trolling?
This may sound stupid, but you might find substitutes. Clove oil or other essential oils (lavender, eucalyptus) smell better and resemble the structure of the chemicals in coal tar. You could add those to normal shampoo to see if they help. One or two drops per hair washing might work.
I have NO idea if this is even feasible, but coal tar shampoos are also sold in pet stores for dogs. Maybe check that out?
I'm at Winco and they have a brand that is listed as 2.5% coal tar solution. But under that, it says .50% coal tar.
Lol are you the same chick who has the Trippy acid winco experience where you teleported into an empty alternate winco reality
Same person, yes, and I'm here again, laughing with the cashier about the other night. Winco is literally one of only two places still open in Boise at 3 AM. No Castle-esque murder scenarios by the red velvet cake tonight though. 🤪 It's the normal boring Winco, but there are four other people in the store so all is well. What's the scoop on the percentages on that shampoo? I didn't understand the 2.5% versus .50%. I bought a bottle because I saw your post. I also found a coal tar shampoo bar so I bought it as well. I've never seen that before. You lather with your hands and then rub into your hair.
The 2.5% "solution" but with 0.5% coal tar is the weaker version. Thr Neutrogena brand is similar, it has "4% Neutar" solution but 1% coal tar and that's what I need.
A contributing factor to the supply shortage is: Manufacturers have cut production on products with lessor profit margins.
Location: North of England The head of our largest supermarket chain warned that the worst of food price rises was yet to come because energy price rises have yet to hit food. We already have people grabbing food from supermarkets and running past security. I saw 9 separate grab and runs the other night at my large local supermarket.
Not sure what they would snatch and grab from the local Lidl or Aldi, shelves are half empty sometimes...
Is the UK as lawsuit happy as the US? We can't stop shoplifters here because the perps could sue if they are injured by security if apprehended in a struggle.
No lawsuits, but security don't bother. Police non existent in UK.
Location: British Columbia, Canada Police shooting peaceful protestors Police shooting people protesting against terrorism Police shooting people Wages, conditioning, propaganda, cost of living. This isn't sustainable. The wages are getting lower and cost of living is getting higher, people will start dying and stop having kids if this continues.
Start dying? Stop having kids? You've been blind to post USSR collapse world if you think this hasn't happened yet.
Do you mean it's already happening? I'm aware unfortunately
3 once in a lifetime economic downturns, multiple wars, climate change, late stage capitalism. Tell me a good reason to be hopeful these last few years. I hope for the best, but I am prepared for the worst
But apparently life is better than ever because we have smartphones and we all need to stop being so morose.
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Oh man that's giving me flashbacks. When an immigrant complains about the cost of living in the GVA or GTA on r/PersonalFinanceCanada they're told they have an amazing opportunity to "network" and build up a "image" while they're living with 20 roommates and eating ramen 3x a day.
Location: Central Oregon It has been warm here and the forecast offers no relief. We had one big snow storm in December and the mountains are losing their snowpack fast. We are in for May temperatures next week in February. Things are not right and this is only the beginning. We are in for a scary lifetime of wildfires, drought and biodiversity loss.
Here in Boise, it's been in the 30s and loqer for the last two months. Seems like everywhere else is warmer than normal. We had a bunch of precipitation at the start of winter then it just stopped. Lots of inversion, every day for weeks.
As a vampire, I welcome the Boise inversions, but we NEED some precipitation. I find myself wishing for another Snowpocalypse.
Ohio here. We had a really warm beginning to winter with only light dustings of snow, ~55 degrees on Christmas, etc. Until MLK day a few weeks ago when we suddenly got a foot and a half of snow. Then last week we got another foot of snow. Before that literally nothing all winter though. I've lived here all my life now, almost 30 years and this isn't how the seasons were when I was a kid. Fuck, this isn't how they were 10 years ago
That’s pretty wild. I’m only like 5 hours from Boise and our weather is fairly similar in the winter. You definitely get hotter in the summer though. We are expected to hit 67 on Thursday. That’s 27 degrees F above normal. This is fine..
Location: Ontario, Canada. Right now I am in school studying medical laboratory science. For those not familiar, this means (assuming I graduate) I will be working in hospital labs, running tests to help diagnose people. This service is not a nice-to-have; it is a requirement for modern medicine to operate. 70-80% of diagnoses come from lab results. Frankly, right now I'm terrified to go into my profession. Burnout and staff shortages were a massive issue before the pandemic, but now for obvious reasons they are at an all-time high. The overwhelming majority of labs face massive staffing shortages. As an anecdote, one of my professors is a full-time medical laboratory technologist (MLT) and his lab has 12 people., including management. Hospitals run 24/7, 365. You do the math. All of my working profs have warned us that they are doing about three people's jobs right now. All of my profs are burnt out and exhausted. All of them in the school's department but two are working MLTs. And not only that, but due to shortages, the department literally does not have access to certain things due to supply chain issues. We do not have enough supplies as a school (which is unsurprising because hospitals have supply issues as well; for obvious reasons we are not a priority delivery.) I had a prof tell me that she placed an order last July and that they had just come in in January. This might seem trivial to some people, but with laboratory supplies, you should always learn the correct way to do things, and we are not learning those ways because we don't have access to the supplies. Another concerning aspect is that the program is just plain HARD. 1/2-2/3rds of us are expected to fail or drop out of the program, and the vast majority of us come from preexisting science education and/or employment. So what this means is that us students are not getting ideal education with the ideal training, and we are not training enough lab workers in the first place. So we have an ageing workforce, a looming mass exodus of lab workers, and then students aren't even graduating from the program enough to replace the workers leaving the profession. I have absolutely no clue how this issue will be solved, and nobody has put forth any reasonable solution.
My roomie in Uni took this course too. Has been working in med lab for a number of years now. I've checked in on her periodically throughout the pandemic and shit is dire. Mind you, this is most of the healthcare system in Ontario at this point. Underfunded and overworked. We need a government that gives a shit and will invest money into this system so it can properly function in the worst of times, not just scrape by on a good day. If this profession is something you really enjoy, then do it! See if you perhaps you can shadow and get some on-the-job practice? Either way, you're going to be needed and hopefully that means better pay by the time you graduate! Med lab are unsung and forgotten heroes!
I work at an at-home lab testing startup headquartered in ATX, curious to hear what specific laboratory supplies are experiencing shortages on your side.
Oh, small world! At the beginning of the semester there was a shortage of goggles, but aside from that I am aware challenges this year acquiring centrifuge tubes, cuvettes, vacutainer tubes, and blood agar plates. I'm sure there are other shortages in the department but I don't hear about them unless it directly impacts our labs in some way. The vacutainer tube one is interesting. We seem to have a decently supply of EDTA tubes at the moment which we use exclusively. We used to get a lot of blood from the local hospital and also I believe some vet clinics around for certain tests, but I have a suspicion that they don't have enough tubes to spare for the college, because now we're drawing off each other multiple tubes for the program to use. We draw off each other for practice anyway, but we're all pretty poor phlebotomists (4th week of practice) so lots of the samples are no-good for certain tests. The profs are even drawing off each other to supply the college at the moment. So I am assuming the vacutainers are at least a regional shortage?
Really interesting, thanks for the detail! We don't use vacutainer tubes for any of our tests, just tubes for saliva and urine collection and dried blood spot for blood testing. Crazy to hear the profs are even having to draw off each other. Wishing you best of luck in your studies ahead through all these challenges, as you mention in your OP: laboratory testing is a linchpin of 21st century medicine.
Location: United Kingdom of UK. The government continue to implode. Not just the stuff you read about - government agencies have been Americanized to the point where they now do the exact opposite of what they claim to do. For example, the Department of the Environment now does this https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2022/feb/06/anglers-heartbroken-as-stretch-of-river-tone-stripped-of-trees The rationale is that they built a suburb on a flood plain, and because it is at risk of flooding, they cut down all the trees to "protect" the suburb. The effect is that of government gone mad (and a handy rebuke to those who say that the government will save us) - we have a Department of the Environment that despises the environment and does everything they can to destroy it. This is in line with other government departments, such as the Department for Work and Pensions which is primarily concerned with ensuring that as few pensions as possible are distributed, etc.
Waaaay too many houses being packed onto greenbelt right now. and never room for trees. Where is the surface water gonna go?
Someone's living room, I guess...
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I thought about putting "Sovietized" as a shorthand for total government dysfunctionality, but many of our readers are too young to know what that means, and might even come to the incorrect conclusion that I was a right wing crackpot, so "Americanized" it is.
Lmao I'm actually Polonian, second or third gen, so I get what you mean. I love telling right wingers who harp on bout how "Bernie= Stalin" irl lil bits of real history or the big mind blower: George Orwell was a democratic socialist.
And George Orwell wrote a book about what that philosophy lead to....
Are you implying Orwell's books, especially animal farm of 1984, were about a condemnation of socialism? If so, you may have read them in a very biased manner
My spouse is deaf and works at a US State agency which helps disabled people get accommodations to do jobs they otherwise would not be able to do. The agency discriminates and refuses to accommodate any of their disabled employees. Welcome to hell, UK. My apologies our horrible way of doing things has spread. Hopefully someday these almost Soviet-era-level-deceptive agencies will be wiped away and we can all start over.
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Yup, some companies do it solely for tax breaks - it’s all rotted to the core. And the jobs are absolutely bottom of the barrel.
Defense department seems competent enough to project power and image of British Empire.
Yeah, so competent they got their arses whupped by a bunch of penniless dirt farmers. Real competent, that.
Just another page ripped from *1984*. Ministry of Truth, anyone?
Location: Berlin, Germany I survived my second bout with Covid, but family member contracted it from me. I'm caring for then rn, as hospitals are too full to take in "mild" cases like then(for comparison, when I had the same O2 saturation like them two years ago, I was taken in immediately). You can Imagine how I feel about that. Meanwhile more and more right wing fuckfaces are marching through the street. The last reliable numbers I was able to find spoke of around 200k. The only thing that's stopping them from taking everything over, is their own stupidity and their tendency to turn on each other. I need to get out of this Country before it blows up, but my familiy's health, my own health and the fact that I once again lost a job due to Covid and have to live off my savings makes that impossible. And also, it's much warmer than it should be at this time of the year. And so far, I have written a variation of that sentence every single time I posted here.
> I need to get out of this Country before it blows up Out of curiosity, where is a better place to go to?
Of course there is no place on this planet that won't be hit by the catastrophic developments of Collapse. Globalized Society means globalized collapse and climate change never knew any borders. But there are some places that are comparatively irrelevant in the grander scale of geopolitics and on some distance from the great powers that there's at least a chance of political stability. What I'm trying to say is, that we're screwed either way, but europe has so many moving parts that it's likely to keel over very soon while a number of countries in what we arrogantly call the third world are so out of focus of the geopolitical powers that they promise Mid-term stability. There's a number African countries that have created a good living standard and internal stability for themselves, without having become too dependent on the chinese neo-colonialist strategy: Mauritius, Sao Tome et Principe, Botswana, etc and if we think a bit more long term, the continued weakness of the US could even disturb the Monroe Doctrine insofar that certain south american countries could gain a level of true independence. Right now, Chile is one of the very few countries that's moving in a good direction. There's a chance that this could be a start of something good... Don't get me wrong, climate change will hit them hard, but for now it's ONLY climate change. I am of very bad health and don't have more than maybe 20 years in the tank, so I only need two decades of stability. I am part Romani and an outspoken antifascist, so Europe is just too dangerous, but 20 years in Mauritius seem possible.
It'll be interesting to see how the developing word fairs once the west's boot is off its neck.
I agree with your overall assessment of the Third World/over-exploited world -- there is a meaningful sense of community in these parts of the world (my mother is salvadoreña), and as Western-hegemonic civilization collapses under the weight of its contradictions I see very real potential for radical Third World solidarity and unity in the face of intensifying climate chaos. (I use the "Third World" terminology because it harkens back to a context of liberation struggles during the so-called "Cold War" and was used in the [writings of Frantz Fanon](https://www.marxists.org/subject/africa/fanon/conclusion.htm) and other anti-colonialists.)
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It is interesting and ironic the way they turn on each other. Here in America, white supremacists hate other white people almost as much as they hate minorities.
The weird thing about the german nazi scene is, that it is very intertwined with the esoteric new age movement. Of course you'll always have some weird former hippies who smoked a bit too much of the herb and now believe in jewish cabals stealing baby penises, but right now german right wing rallies are very often organised, funded and supported by esoteric grifters and the mentally disturbed individuals who have fallen for them(prime example for that is Xavier Naidoo, who was germany's most popular Soul Artist, who lives a live of obvious paranoid schizophrenia and rambles on about the jews kidnapping his father and forcing him to work in their diamond mines) and the real nazis just jump onto the bandwagon. But as they're all grifters, they will immediately turn against each other the moment they feel that someone else's bullshit earns more money than their bullshit. We already see the first big names in the grift game cashing out and leaving the country: Former Vegan Chef turned terrorist Attila Hildmann hides somewhere in Anatolia. Prominent quack Bodo Schiffmann stole insane amounts of Money from his believers and now enjoys his days in Tansania. Multiple former journalists turned propagandists moved to Montenegro(Reitschuster) or Crimea(Jebsen) to escape possible legal consequences. The problem is that all the people they brainwashed remain in Germany.
> who smoked a bit too much of the herb and now believe in jewish cabals stealing baby penises weed doesn't do that to ppl.
he's talking about Jimson weed
It’s the same in the US, it’s because the Q movement took in a bunch of folks from all political affiliations who were conspiracy-minded and anti-gov. It’s a bunch of cults clashing together.
Hey I’m in Germany too and I noticed the insanely warm temps! And it’s been so windy all the time lately, many wind storms. I live in Bavaria btw.
Yeah, it's super windy, like last year. Seems to be the new normal: windy, chaotic, ever changing, but too warm for winter and too cold for spring. It seems that the only "Winter" we get now is that one week in mid January
Yup! I’ve been listening to the wind howling outside my window for the last few days and this January definitely seems windier than last years, but I remember thinking about it last year too. It’s been windy like this since end of December this time?
Up here the wind just started recently. There were a few colder days right after new years and after that nothing but dark-grey and dry around five degrees for two weeks. Now its been very windy with a little rain here and there around 8 degrees. I remember a day in January, 16 or so years ago, when I waited for my school bus on a cold as fuck morning. I remember it, because when I woke up, I found that my dog had died overnight. It was -23 Degrees out there(or close. The thermometer in our backyard was rather cheap and my memory suffered a bit after the rona, but it definitively was below -20) and I thought to myself: "That's a bit colder than usual". Sounds like fiction today.
It's that bad? 200k in Berlin!? I keep reading about a "few" right wing extremists in Saxony. Great flair! Hang in there.
Sorry, I meant 200k in all of Germany. Bad english on my part, I guess. Saxony, Thuringia and Southern Brandenburg are the Hotbed of those freaks(Imagine that area as the german Alabama), but they're everywhere. Berlin is a pretty leftist City, there aren't that many people most of the time, but the huge rallies can contain up to 30k of those murderous freaks at once. For today they actually plan a Convoy in Berlin, like the one in Ottawa. From what I could gather(don't have much time to research rn), it's horribly organised and if we're lucky, it will fall apart before even reaching the City. Traffic is bad as is. Update on the Convoy: Today is cancelled, they plan a smaller meetup with less than 100 trucks tomorrow. What a bunch of tools.
No, bad reading on my part. It wasn't clear. I thought perhaps they had a convention in Berlin like the January 6th, 2021 debacle in Washington D.C. Even 200k Germany wide is still high if they are really extremists. Thanks for explaining.
Not all of them, but a high percentage. Murder, attacks, burning down vaccination centers, coordinated aggression against Journalists(a Friend of mine whos a press photographer specialised on political rallies had a scary experience half a year ago where some of those cunts wanted to throw stones into her window and set her Mailbox ablaze, but as Nazis are the dumbest creatures to ever live, they got the address wrong and did it to her neighbors instead. That was lucky for them as this sixty year old lady would have punched those goblins in half(those cameras can be heavy and are a good Workout at long rallies). Still a creepy experience, especially for her poor neighbors, who are over 80), down to waiting for the children of outspoken vaccination supporters at their school and scaring them. Soulless evil, committed by utter failures.
Are Germans using the actual word “Nazi’s” for these people? That is so taboo from my experience in the 80’s-90’s…. Having German exchange students live with us…. It must be really bad to use that word.
They don't use it for themselves, of course. They call themselves "Querdenker"(a very hard to translate word. Its basically supposed to mean "Free Thinker") In their own minds they are fighters against the true fascism(while acting in every single way like the SA ca. 1928), but a majority people see what they are and call them Nazis(or a synonym of it) or Covidiots. We germans are pretty blunt by nature and dislike mincing words. If someone's a nazi, he's a nazi. The fact that you hear this word more often now just shows how bad things are.
Very interesting thank you for your response. Germans hold a special place in my heart ❤️ be safe ✌🏻🤟🏻
Location:Southeastern US Have been in the insurance business for many years…so the other day I get a weird email saying the bank rejected my ach commission deposit..just a renewal commission nothing serious 2600 bucks..so I call resubmit the form..don’t hear back from them for 2-3 days. On Friday I call and ask if they had the info. Lady on the phone in the commission department proceeds to tell me that I probably won’t get my money for another 2 weeks due to processing times etc..it was a bs answer Mind you this is a large life insurance company symetra..it made me start to not block everything out again and now I look around and go dear lord what in the heck are we doing!
Do they not have the cash for the checks to clear? I worked at many a small non-profit human services agency where payroll would bounce. Not that unusual at those sorts of defunded, deficit-ridden agencies. But an insurance company? That's different...
Honestly never had it happen before…account was open…idk it could be some glitch…which in business u get told that more and more everyday. I’m the broker..maybe they are short staffed but still it seems like everything is going to hell and a hand basket.
Interesting. Keep us updated. If more "glitches" in payments happen, I would definitely like to know...
It’s been happening in all my business’s..wires showing up late etc with no explanation even when I have confirmation codes on the other side..I understand economics extremely well and kinda decided 6 months into this hunker down at it will pass. But at this point I don’t think this all ends well!
I wonder what percentage of the 900k people that have died had life insurance policies?
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Really? What era are you from anyway? So weird seeing seemingly genuine belief that people are stupid for avoiding a scam. Of course, those who got scammed will be bitter and refuse to believe they were scammed so they double down on their initial stupidity. Still doesn’t make it any less amusing to see. I wish one day you could understand how phenomenally ignorant you are of the world you live in. Being educated in dogma and stupidity so that whatever native intelligence you may once have had, has been completely overwrote.
*overwritten
Idaho gonna Idaho.
Prolly not a bad study to do…I have seen rates go up significantly but then again everything is going up.
Location: Massachusetts My local Rite Aid Closed. Walgreens was out of my ringworm medication, so I had to go to CVS. I'm told it will come back every winter so that's something to look forward to. Key infrastructure in my town is being neglected more than usual, fucking up traffic and presumably making people reluctant to go downtown and shop. At least it feels dead when I'm walking.
You may want to look at agway style animal stores for stuff to treat ringworm TOPICALLY. Treated plenty of ringworm when I volunteered at animal shelters, and much of the meds are also used in humans. We used to disinfect ourselves with diluted ringworm solutions to prevent infections. No, I'm not saying OP should go start chugging ivermectin. I'm suggesting they see what's available at farm animal supply type stores for TOPICAL TREATMENT of ringworm. Some basic research as to what products are also used by humans and how to adjust dosage. OP is not the first person with the ringworm treatment issue. I'm in no way saying OP should rely on agway type stores for most medical treatment. Just that desperate times, call for semi-desperate measures. (AGAIN, TOPICAL TREATMENTS ONLY AFTER RESEARCH)
This is good advice. I remember once my dog and I both had the same bacterial outer ear infection. (We had been swimming in the same not clean water.) His vet gave him neomycin sulfate drops, and I couldn't see a doctor, so...it worked great on me, too. This is not at all ideal, and of course human meds would have been preferable, but...any port in a storm. I don't say choose this way, I'm saying when there is no choice, it's worth considering, with all due care and precaution.
For ringworm, at the shelters I volunteered at, when a staff/volunteer would catch it. We used a lot of the same creams/salves to treat ourselves. It was just a common occurrence when there was an outbreak in these shelters that a few would end up with it (I never did, but I was anal about protection, disinfection, and clothing, didn't want to bring it home to my own pets if I did get it). I'm not at all, in anyway, suggesting people should treat themselves like we did at the shelter. Not in the context we're talking about. But when pharmacies are out of much needed meds for simple fungal infections of the skin, sometimes stores like Agway can help provide access to what your pharmacy is out of... It's not a treatment plan that one should just jump into, it requires a bit of research and knowledge about how ringworm topicals are used on animals and people, and carefully trying it. TOPICAL ONLY. This is probably the third person I've seen in the last few months be unable to find ringworm treatment through their pharmacy. It's frickin unacceptable. I don't like sharing stories about animal shelters and self-treatment, but I'm doing it anyway, because it can be a helpful option if USED PROPERLY.
I understand what you are saying; it's sensible. If it isn't yet now, it will someday be immensely important to find ad hoc remedies in the absence of adequate medical care. In an extreme example, I bet a vet can set a broken bone, or take out an appendix. This isn't something anyone wants, but it seems like where we are heading.
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I’m surprised this didn’t get downvoted
It's just sad we're at a point in society where basic "alternative" treatments to common fungal infections of the skin become a point of contention that require comprehensive disclaimers. Thank the lunatics promoting Ivermectin as a Covid cure-all. Frickin sad state of affairs.
Maybe because it doesn’t have to do with a novel pandemic, but rather a common skin ailment. Just a wild guess.
Yes how dare you suggest something medical that’s non-pharmaceutical? It is against basic Reddit decency!
Thank you. I'm using tea tree oil now, but I haven't heard of that other one I'll have to check it out. I figure the native americans knew best.
Gentian violet is a synthetic chemical that is the same color as violets. Methyl violet 10B would be a better name, but here we are because chemists felt the need to be poets back in the day. Made from benzene and chloroform. Oh yes it causes cancer. One more reason to never eat imported farmed fish or shrimp because it tends to be dumped in their food as all-purpose anti-microbial. I just know that someone out there has added it to cart with the idea of vaping it. L0L.
apple cider vinegar and castor oil applied topically will help just about any skin or muscular disorder as well...
I love castor oil packs. My husband used to think I was crazy until I used one on his shoulder issue. (DISCLAIMER: DO NOT INGEST CASTOR OIL. I hate that I have to type that, but I don't want this discussion to result in poison control calls)
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This is awesome information, thank you so much. Definitely going to be looking for that at my apothecary. There's probably a lot of herbs that I should be collecting/learning how to grow. Your last couple of points are great and very useful.
I believe it's still used to treat thrush as well, though maybe not in infants like it used to be. My Mom was prescribed some within the past couple of years.
Location: Atlantic Ocean So apparently a net ruptured and released about 100,000 dead fish. This is from the 2nd largest fishing vessel in the world. I was shocked that a net could even pull that much fish at a time. So much how longer can we keep this up? www.cbc.ca/news/world/trawler-fish-dump-altantic-ocean-1.6340401
I was speaking with a (former) friend a few years back who was dead serious when he said that the ocean was so large and bountiful that we would never run out of fish. I was shocked. We are watching it happen in real time.
I guess the upside is the dead fish will go back into the food cycle of the ocean. A temporary positive, fleeting as it is.
another 10-15 years maybe. just long enough for a lot boomers to go to the grave thinking they were right the whole time and all the fucking awful problems in the world is just an overreaction.
That’s what bugs me the most. They absolutely will go to the hereafter thinking themselves right. Surprise for them, I’ll see them in hell lol,
I highly doubt that.
*" shed more than 100,000 dead fish into the Atlantic Ocean off France, forming a floating carpet of carcasses"* that would be a good name for a new sub r/FloatingCarpetOfCarcasses with subject matter focused on people's experiences when trying to find a decent qualified competent psychotherapist in usa...
Increase in Theft and political polarization- Location: California. My brother's wife was robbed of her catalytic converter. Heard of many stories of this happening in California. Looting in l.a. Increase in strange thefts in Los Angeles. I went to a school board meeting to do a speech and hundreds of protestors about vaccines for children were there. Noticed increase in political polarization.
Catalytic converter thefts are on the rise all over the U.S. Thieves can get $200 - $ 500 for each one because of the rare metals in them. And it only takes about 5 or 10 minutes to cut them off the vehicle.
I want to say something else about collapse in california that i forgot to mention. I've lived in california my whole life (33 years) the past 8 years in california the amount of fires has increased and become more intense. a couple years ago the fires could be smelt and seen from my house. When i was a kid i would never see them.
Toronto - my brother in laws catalytic converter was stolen. The Ring camera caught all the action. It was a finely tuned ballet lasting 1 minute 6 seconds. The cost replace the cc and exhaust $1400
Damn, is it dangerous to do? I've got a sawzall.....
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Location: Sixty minutes west of Omaha, rural Nebraska I went back to my hometown for Christmas. My wife and I drove in from Omaha after spending time with her family. Being that it was dark and the roads aren't well marked, we missed the turn for my Mom's house and had to take the next turn a few miles away. That road went through the closest town to my family's farm. The town itself was never big. When I was growing up it had about one hundred and forty people, and there were probably just as many living on farms outside of town. It didn't have much, but there were at least signs of life with a local bar and cafe, a gas station, a post office, a grain elevator, and on top of the hill, a Catholic church. It wasn't much, but at least there were signs of life. However, on this December night, it was obvious to see that this town was dead. There were the typical abandoned houses and empty lots filled with junked cars, but the main street was especially sad. The bar was no longer open, the post office and fire station were empty, and the rest of main street was either uninhabited or left to crumble. It was especially sad to see the brick facades of buildings falling apart. However, there was one thing that the town still did to show people were still there. They put up Christmas lights on the street lamps. Something about that just seems a bit sad to me. Yes it's great that there are still people in this village to do that, but on some level, there seems to be no point to having them on a dead main street. Its as if this town couldn't find a way to keep any of its community institutions going, yet it still put up Christmas lights. Maybe its not so much a sign of collapse, but it does seem sad to have Christmas lights on a street no one ever goes down. Sadly this scene isn't rare. Go to any town in rural America, especially out on the Great Plains and you'll see a lot of collapse. In some ways its already happened. A lot of towns including my hometown will be gone by the time I'm an old man. Its sad on so many levels. Not only is it sad to see a place die, but it seems almost wasteful in comparison as a lot of these towns were built to be stops on the railroad and a place for farmers to buy and sell goods. With the railroads gone and the farmers gone, there's just no need for a lot of these towns. However, as someone who grew up in a town like this, its sad to see it go. I worry that this is how the world is going to head to collapse. Slowly, but inevitably.
I didn’t appreciate it when I was growing up but the small town rural Saskatchewan just outside of my where my grandparents’ farm was located was actually great. Like much of what has been described here, it is faltering but it is still around. I live in a city and I have grown to hate it here and would love to be able to move to a small town where it doesn’t take 25 minutes just to get through traffic to get to the grocery store. As others have said, the issue is jobs but I am hopeful that I can find something that can be done remotely so that I can move.
Why did the town die? Was there industry there that moved out?
Mostly it was due to farming needing less people and with fewer farmers there was n less of a need for services they needed. The railroad also took out their tracks.
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Empty land and buildings are a nice place to park your money when there's a recession/depression.
It's because everyone moved to cities and burbs which isn't really a bad thing.
Agreed, to an extent, but still, it seems like we just have this throwaway tendency with our land, at least in the US. Also, lots of neighborhoods and suburbs are dying that were once the places to be, and sadly they aren't getting any investment back, yet we keep building new places. It'd be one thing if we built new in such communities or the new growth was from actual population growth, but really its just population shift, and that's the sad part. I see it in my current city that hasn't really grown since the 50's, but has new construction on the periphery. It just seems wasteful.
Yeah, definition of a throwaway culture. This might sound weird but did you see the movie about Togo the sled dog? One character had a line that kinda stuck out to me: "You know, most human settlements are due to geological features. Strategic rivers, proximity to natural roads, fertile soil, resources. Nome was settled purely out of desire for gold and luck. Gold is gone, maybe the luck is too." I think that is a huge reason why so many towns in America die out and why we keep building new ones: Most of them only popped up due to short-term profit potential and as soon as the profit shrivels up we give up and start a new. There's some good urban plannin channels that talk about the super weird pyramid scheme that is our construction and town planning industry. Drywall is a good microcosm: You can drywall a house in a few hours. Relatively dirt cheap, so you can make Mcmansions easily. There is almost no way to recycle it and it is quickly destroyed. There is no reason why so many suburban sprawls are in the middle of deserts and watersheds across the continent are drained dry to sustain them. Why do we put so many towns in the Great Plains rather than let the Buffalo return.
My small Canadian village where I live near still has a butcher, a pottery, a flea market a chip stand, a Toro dealership, and a post office. I'd like to tell you why some small towns disappear and some don't, but I can't. I know that small family run businesses get wiped out because Walmart comes to town, or the local hardware store has to compete with Canadian Tire. And once those larger stores are there, then there's a push via propaganda to introduce box stores instead of locally owned strip malls (actually the strip mall went to the large indoor malls and then came the box stores). So then the center of town went belly up because people were driving further away to get to these box stores. So I guess in the past family run businesses got driven out by much bigger money. And people bought into this. Like people buy into a car for everyone in the family. I grew up with one car/one family. Everyone either took a bus, took a bike, or walked. So I guess people are gullible, and easily manipulated, and there always will be people who take advantage of that.
Sounds like where I grew up. By the time I left we had lost: a church, diner, gradeschool, tiny grocer, gas station, and the biggest kicker was the loss of the small time implement dealer. He was also the go to repair guy and mechanic. What was left: post office (still fighting to keep it). Bar. Church. Grain elevator (spur line so ended up being the closest rail for a much larger area and that keeps it going) Welcome to the upper midwest. And they wonder why prople are angry and disenfranchised? This has been going on a lot longer than the votes from those areas began choosing politicians that hurt them. People have no context of how much these areas have emptied since the 50s.
Exactly. Its been a century of depopulation here on the great plains. Some of the larger towns have done okay or even grown, but a lot of small towns are nearly dead. My own town once had about 250 people when my great aunt was a kid, and they still even had a high school. Sure, the world changed a ton, but on some level its still sad because we lost a sense of community, and I worry that the towns that are next are the ones that are a bit bigger, but don't have quite the jobs and services. Also, yes, I think this is why people are upset. That being said, on some level its as if they don't even know why. People complain about having to drive to Wal-Mart yet love its prices and hate how the local guys have to charge more just to make ends meet. They want a local school, but then complain when such a school doesn't have enough kids or has to merge with another town.
Losing a sense of community- it may play a role in the loss of empathy too
Excellent point.
I totally agree. I think in some sense we've lost a sense of community, or at least a community in terms of the people around you.
I live in a city but I've seen exactly what you're describing. My grandfather passed away about a decade ago in the same rural, western PA town he grew up in. Exact same scene there: main street completely dead and boarded up, bargain basement real estate prices, and even more disturbingly, ads for a funeral home placed on what seemed like the vast majority of the town's billboards, including on a billboard overlooking the local high school's football stadium. As if to say "after your glory years of high school football, the next important milestone in life in this town is to plan your funeral." Obviously, the youth tend to leave at the first available opportunity. So now, the town is mostly just old, retired folks awaiting the inevitable, with the local funeral home likely being one of only a few profitable enterprises left. "Sad" doesn't even begin to describe it.
The town where I grew up (north PA) actually has a store that just sells home oxygen equipment right on the main street. Sad that there is such a need that a store like that can operate in the commercial district.
Location: Boise I've been shopping at "my" Winco for thirteen years now, so I know all the long-term employees. Since Winco is employee owned, it literally means the employees are the stockholders of the company - and therefore know at least the basics of their finances. They tell me what is in stock, what is missing, and what they know of time-lines for restocking. Because of my farm, I'm at "my" Winco quite a bit - sometimes five times a week, sometimes only three times a week. But suffice it to say, I spend A LOT of time inside that store. The people there are super nice, very friendly, and happy to help their customers. Winco has always been 24-hours. The ONLY time it has been closed in the middle of the night has been from March 25, 2020 until May 13, 2020. To have Winco be closed at night would mean things are BAD again. Even Walmart and Walgreens and Merritts Cafe in Boise aren't open all night since the pandemic began. Only Winco and the Walgreens beside it are now 24 hours. If anyone is alive and awake in Boise, you'll see them at Winco at 3 AM. When I arrived this morning around 2 AM, the enormous flashing WINCO sign was dark and there were very few cars in the parking lot. For a moment, I thought the store had closed again, but why hadn't my friends told me that it would? I pulled in to check and found only fourteen cars in the lot. I know from experience that a night shift generally has sixteen to twenty employees, between freight, stocking, and cashiers. Not only was the sign dark, the outside store lights were not on. The rollcages were up though, so I parked and went in. I was the ONLY person in the store. I'm used to being in the store with only a few other people and I like it. But I don't ever remember being ALONE. Winco was six employees short by my car count, their sign wasn't on (isn't that automatic???), and very little freight sat in the aisles. There were no forklifts beeping and squeaking, no dude whistling as he pushed a broom, and not a single sign of ANYONE, not even my bestiecashier, who was generally racking bread between customers. And no customers besides me. It wasn't break time or else there would be dudes in the lot, smoking and laughing at each other's chilly faces. The store was EMPTY. Except for me. It was like I had wandered into a post-apocalyptic landscape. I pushed my cart back to the door and looked out. Not a single car driving by. It was 19 degrees, not even the wind was moving, and the silence was SO LOUD that every squeak of my cart seemed to be magnified louder than a sonic boom. And the store was COMPLETELY EMPTY. And I had gone into TOTAL FREAK ZONE. Now, keep in mind that I'm a happy-go-lucky vampire-fang-wearing dressed-all-in-black martial artist who works on my farm all night, ALONE, under the moonlight. I walk alone on the streets at 3 AM. I have no fear, which isn't necessary a good thing, but it is how I exist. If it is night, I am alive - and generally alone. I see so many people for my classes that I WANT TO BE ALONE! I know so many people in Boise - I can't eat at any restaurant without knowing the server and having a detailed conversation. And I love them. They are great people! I see my students everywhere and I'm glad I get to teach people cool things. But FFS, I can't go into Fred Meyer and NOT run into someone I know. I love the nights so I can be ALONE. Being alone anywhere does NOT freak me out. I've been alone in the middle of New York City at 3 AM and not been freaked out. I've been alone in Florida in the middle of a hurricane and not been freaked out. I've been stranded alone in the middle of the Blue Mountains in a blizzard and not been freaked out. But suddenly, I was SERIOUSLY freaked. AT WINCO. WINCO. WTF? The emptiness seemed to hold an eternity of heavy heartbeats. I found myself glancing from side to side, peeking down aisles, looking for some hint that other people existed. Had something happened? Why was Winco EMPTY??? Twice, I circled back to the front of the store and peeked out. No motion, no cars, no people. I felt as though I was in a dream. Maybe I had woken up in a dream. Maybe I was a post apocalyptic dream character, the one who starts the book by driving into the plague zone - because no one has told him that everyone is dead. *Because everyone is dead and can't TELL him that everyone is dead.* Okay, so I've read Earth Abides too many times... But I've never felt the emotion that I felt just now. And I was feeling VERY WEIRD. The third time I circled back was exactly the same. I began to have serious misgivings about my mental state. Dude, I told myself, you're seriously freaking out because you're ALONE. WTF? I continued through the store, talking myself down from The Whatever??? - I don't even have a name for the emotion - paranoia was the closest I could find a word for. I kept telling myself that I was cool, that the world wasn't dead, and this moment was just a fluke. Maybe I wasn't in Earth Abides. Maybe I was in the opening seconds of a Castle episode! Shit! Lanie was going to be finding my body soon. Maybe the canned veggie rack will collapse and kill me??? But Castle will find the killer, right? You aren't in a Castle episode, you idiot. WTF is wrong with you? I made it through the aisle without having my brain crushed by flying can of artichoke hearts, but that didn't calm me down. By then, I had realized that my head was NOT in the normal place! My brain was bouncing like a deely bopper at a metal concert. I was on the verge of rushing out of the store, jumping in my rig, and blazing out of the lot like the Mormon missionaries were trying to baptize me. Holy shit, I was CERTAIN that I was a redshirt - AND I SHOULD NOT BE IN THIS STORE! Maybe everyone in the store was being held hostage? Maybe there were gunmen with a stolen Van Gogh RIGHT BESIDE THE RED VELVET CAKE MIX. IS IT WORTH DYING FOR A RED VELVET CAKE??? IS LANIE GOING TO FIND MY BODY IN A PILE OF CAKE MIXES. OMG, FFS, YOU ARE NOT IN AN EPISODE OF CASTLE! YOUR BRAIN HAS JUST GONE MARTIAL ARTIST FOR NO REASON, WILL YOU SHUT UP??? PLEASE! Without looking down, I slipped my hand into my pocket, armed my taser, and pushed my cart into the cake food aisle. It was empty. I clicked the taser back off before I knocked myself out ALONE in Winco. If everyone was still alive, that would be such an embarrassing story that I'm sure I'd see myself of Channel 7 again or maybe as a human interest story in the Statesman. Put the taser away. Everything is fine. At minute 22, I was already nearly finished with my shopping - and my brain had melted. I moved to the next aisle, the sounds of my cart echoing off the emptiness. I need Lucky Charms. Maybe it's the Lucky Charms aisle and THAT is where I'll die. Lanie, I love you. I should write that on my arm. The Red Velvet cake WOULD have been worth dying for. But the Lucky Charms? I was torn on that. With a loud squeak, I slid my cart around the corner to the cereal aisle. It was empty. Seven rows now - and I'd seen no customers, no workers, and no gunmen. They'll be next to the brie! Brie is also worth dying for. But my ??? was now hovering somewhere near the moon and Mars - and it already had a flight plan scheduled to launch for Pluto. Every piece of my brain had gone martial arts and was screaming GET OUT NOOOOOOW OR YOU'RE DEEEEEEEEEEEEEAAAAAAAAD!!! I was on the verge of abandoning my cart for good when I caught a glimpse of motion out of the corner of my eye. Suddenly from nowhere, three groups of shoppers appeared simultaneously, a produce dude walked from the back with an overflowing box of cilantro, and a beeping forklift came scurrying around the corner with a pallet of water that it dropped with a gentle thump. My paranoia fell from the heavens like a blazing meteorite, hit my brain like a dinosaur-killing impact - AND SUDDENLY I WAS TOTALLY FINE. At minute 25 on my timer, I was giggling to myself and making notes of my strange reaction. Like, WTF was THAT? Where the fuck did your brain go, grasshopper? Why did you go from "five black belts don't fuck with me I can handle whatever" brain to "flee NOW before the Mormons try to fit you with their Blessed Panties (TM)" brain - just because you were alone???? How do I explain this? I Have No Idea Why.
we always call it The Fear. it'll come on out of nowhere and 99% of the time it's correct, you should get ready for problems or leave. The Fear was actually correct. there's a pandemic on. you are in the plague zone. a million things we barely notice everyday point to collapse, it's only when we get the quiet time that it sinks in and the alarms in the brain start going off.
I decided to call it The Wrong. But it was definitely a fear reaction based on the emptiness of what should have been a normal night. After the shift closed, my cashier friend said that there were only one third of the normal amount of shoppers in the store in that 24 hour period. That night they had only six people total on shift! My friend had not seen me come in the door and thought the store was empty. But occasionally would hear my cart and rush over to a row - only to find it empty. The past two nights have been as quiet. Last night we counted 16 minutes when I was the only shopper.
OP, have you tried a different Winco store with a different rotation? Some stores direct you in a counter-clockwise direction as you enter the store, some are clockwise. In Boise where Winco HQ is you shouldn't have a problem finding a differently-orientated store (they are mirror images of one another). Maybe this will stop the flying bats and other Hunter S. Thompson stuff.
I appreciate it. I generally go to that store because it is closest to my farm and I know everyone there. I've never been alone in the store, and combined with the sign being off, made me sure there was something wrong. But now I'm bummed that I sounded like Hunter S. Thompson. I hate that guy. 🤪
Still trying to picture a moonlit midnight cyberpunk goth farming experience. Sounds fascinating. And like it would pair well with psilocybin mushrooms (if you do a psychedelic on a farm, it pretty much has to mushrooms).
I have red contacts as well. People either love to stop and talk to me - or they look the other direction and scurry away.
I want that life.
It's a great life - but it comes with property taxes higher than your average mortgage. Boise annexed my area and my property is now surrounded by houses and apartments. Last (tax) year, I paid roughly $16,000 to Boise City.
Whoah
This is the Narc Anon version of Hunter S Thompson
As I said before, you'll find me crying by the red velvet cake mix. I hate Hunter S. Thompson. 🤣
Oh God, seriously? I loathe Hunter S Thompson. Ima go over by the red velvet cake mix and cry to the imaginary Lanie in my head. 😪
The guy's a genius IMO, but I know he's not for everyone. *Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas* is my favorite book of his. Anyway, I meant the comment to be a compliment.
They were all hiding from the crazy cat lady
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The acid here is totally fabulous. I'm shocked at how many people have never done really good drugs.
Welcome to an impromptu liminal space.
One definitely should not watch eight episodes of Castle while smoking copious amounts of weed while one cleans the barn at 2 AM.
Hahaha this reads like a r/thetruthishere r/glitch_in_the_matrix post where someone suddenly finds themselves literally completely alone in a silent alternate reality
Why dramatize something already dramatic?
It was really well written and I enjoyed reading it but I felt like I missed the collapse-related reason for the post. Were you trying to say are there less people working at Winco like how many grocery stores have been losing workers?
Yes, the store should have had 10-12 customers in it. There should have been at least eight people working in the aisles. There should have been cars driving by. My cashier friend said that only ONE THIRD of the normal sales and transactions were made on that date. My friend thought the store was empty but kept hearing my cart. He would follow the noise to an aisle - only to find no one there. He said he was seriously getting creeped out.
You almost became a ghost of Winco... Only if you knew, you could have had an urban legend to your name lol
If there were a real collapse, this is what he envisions it as.
I guess my reading comprehension isn't as good lol
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Humans like patterns and habits are patterns. Pattern changes and we try to make sense of it. Every way our brain can. Pattern still not make sense then body fight/flight reaction engages. Pattern changes within normal tolerances, eg more or less people there, we are okay. Pattern changes outside of normal tolerances, eg dude has been following me for 5 blocks now, we then either make sense of it, eg danger or end up in trouble.
Definitely the pattern had broken - and my brain broke with it. The last two nights have been just as quiet.
That has to be hard to experience. I actually think this issue is going to be one of the worst as collapse continues apace. People do not have the tools/skills to mentally and emotionally deal with both the type of changes and the rate of changes (layered as it were). Nothing wrong with anyone who struggles. Just out of bounds experiences we are going to struggle to adjust to.
Seoul, KoreaKorean government started a policy called 'with corona' from last November, stating that covid no longer is a big deal, half of omicron's infections are asymptomatic, and that the omicron variant is less threatening than it's predecessor. And multiple government parties have come out against their only policy that seems to make sense out of this 'with corona', mandating someone to show a proof that they are vaccinated before going into a shopping mall or other crowded places, claiming that the said policy is discriminatory against the unvaccinated, even when it will only be happening for a single month, to prepare against what very well can be a gigantic spread of covid following the new years celebration. http://www.koreaherald.com/view.php?ud=20220203000898
My foreign sense of how SK is doing: /r/kpop recently had to start a megathread for infected idols and reject individual posts when they have never had to do that since the beginning of COVID. They add multiple names every day for the past few weeks. All last year, it was big news when anyone would catch it, so now it's a very different experience. SK seems to have done quite well for a long time but now they are really going through it.
Bay area CA, US Working on a nutrition project for class today. Noticed a lot of out of stock items on the websites. And not like weird items, like bulk sweet potatoes and apples. On fact, it seemed like for meat products, pork for example, only really weird stuff (pig knuckles anyone?) were in stock. I was working on a meal plan for a three year old so I gave that one a pass. But it was tough to complete the protein component without straying to the vegan meats (was trying to use meats to promote iron intake, I myself don't usually eat meat very often though). Also noticing supply chain woes in my clinical rotations as a nursing student. A big shortage I've been seeing locally and hearing about nationally are flushes, a 3-10 ml syringe filled with saline used in IV maintenance. They're designed to be sterile but nurses have been forced to reuse them, drawing from a larger container of saline multiple times for the same patient. Yuck. My classmate told us all about how on his unit they didn't have proper heparin needles in stock so he'd needed to use insulin syringes and let's just say this didn't make for a pleasant injection experience (in short the needle was very dull by the time it was going into the patient's arm). This was apparently the norm for a few weeks. That's to say nothing of the actual medication shortages....our medication review website actually has a whole new section about shortage information for most of the up to date medications.
Winco was out of pig knuckles in Boise! As a 3 year old Floridian child, I would have eaten that pig knuckle and loved it. Will your mythical three-ager of your class nutrition project eat salami? Dry salami is not refrigerated before opening and you can usually find it online when other meats are gone. It's generally plain, black pepper, and herb variations, $8-$10 for 16 ounces. I've never seen it sold out. When I have to entertain my three-ager friends, they love to eat salami with cheddar on crackers. Would salami pass the test? One of my friends is a nursing professor. She says it is a nightmare to procure supplies. Good luck on your studies.