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Hairball
Down in L.A., Farmers Markets have been reopened for almost two weeks now, but with many safety precautions:
L.A. Farmers Market
I live up the coast apprx. 60 miles north of L.A., and thankfully the Farmers Markets in our area have never closed, but the number of people allowed to enter at a time is limited and there are social distancing rules.
Plus with many farms and agricultural fields in the area, there's many roadside produce stands selling fruit, veggies, honey, nuts, flowers, etc., etc., etc.
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Hairball
Down in L.A., Farmers Markets have been reopened for almost two weeks now, but with many safety precautions:
L.A. Farmers Market
I live up the coast apprx. 60 miles north of L.A., and thankfully the Farmers Markets in our area have never closed, but the number of people allowed to enter at a time is limited and there are social distancing rules.
Plus with many farms and agricultural fields in the area, there's many roadside produce stands selling fruit, veggies, honey, nuts, flowers, etc., etc., etc.
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Hairball
Down in L.A., Farmers Markets have been reopened for almost two weeks now, but with many safety precautions:
L.A. Farmers Market
I live up the coast apprx. 60 miles north of L.A., and thankfully the Farmers Markets in our area have never closed, but the number of people allowed to enter at a time is limited and there are social distancing rules.
Plus with many farms and agricultural fields in the area, there's many roadside produce stands selling fruit, veggies, honey, nuts, flowers, etc., etc., etc.
I don't see why not...if supermarkets are open (and restaurants can serve take-out), having these markets open seems "logical" provided the same "social-distance" rules are present (which it seems they are).
my knee-jerk reaction is that there should be a plan to open more markets like this
People need food. Farmers need to sell produce before it rots. People need jobs - picking food seems like it should be deemed "essential"
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Hairball
Down in L.A., Farmers Markets have been reopened for almost two weeks now, but with many safety precautions:
L.A. Farmers Market
I live up the coast apprx. 60 miles north of L.A., and thankfully the Farmers Markets in our area have never closed, but the number of people allowed to enter at a time is limited and there are social distancing rules.
Plus with many farms and agricultural fields in the area, there's many roadside produce stands selling fruit, veggies, honey, nuts, flowers, etc., etc., etc.
I don't see why not...if supermarkets are open (and restaurants can serve take-out), having these markets open seems "logical" provided the same "social-distance" rules are present (which it seems they are).
my knee-jerk reaction is that there should be a plan to open more markets like this
People need food. Farmers need to sell produce before it rots. People need jobs - picking food seems like it should be deemed "essential"
[www.wtsp.com]
Agree. But a lot of these seasonal/neighborhood ones like Seattle and where I am, are really set up more as combination Market/Festivals with lots of food stands, music, street artists etc. New regulations and distancing measures will be good (hopefully), but tough to see people standing six feet apart in lines etc like grocery stores. Even there, with lines taped to the floors people don't always abide.
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CaptainCorella
New White House Policy just announced.
[www.whitehouse.gov]
It's a statement of WHAT can be done, but the WHEN is not prescriptive.
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MileHigh
One of the great tragedies of this crisis is the adult children of people in senior citizen's residences making their weekly visits to their old and frail parents and being totally unaware that they were bringing death upon them.
Clearly the Chinese had to know about the very high transmissibility of this virus and the asymptomatic nature of it for some people and they didn't tell the world. We got a first glimpse of it ourselves about a month ago when that group of people went to the church for choir practice in Washington State. They sang for two hours and did their proper social distancing and about 40% of them got infected.
It reminds me of the fall of the USSR in 1991. The newspaper Pravda ("The Truth") admitted to the Russian people that they had been telling lies for years.
China is the real culprit and behind all of the factories supplying the cheap goods that the world wants, lies a corrupt communist regime that for all practical intents and purposes is stuck in the 1950s. A long march to misery and a dehumanizing Orwellian dystopia.
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MisterDDDD
Coronavirus clue? Most cases aboard U.S. aircraft carrier are symptom-free
"WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Sweeping testing of the entire crew of the coronavirus-stricken U.S. aircraft carrier Theodore Roosevelt may have revealed a clue about the pandemic: The majority of the positive cases so far are among sailors who are asymptomatic, officials say.
The Navy’s testing of the entire 4,800-member crew of the aircraft carrier - which is about 94% complete - was an extraordinary move in a headline-grabbing case that has already led to the firing of the carrier’s captain and the resignation of the Navy’s top civilian official.
Roughly 60 percent of the over 600 sailors who tested positive so far have not shown symptoms of COVID-19, the potentially lethal respiratory disease caused by the coronavirus, the Navy says. The service did not speculate about how many might later develop symptoms or remain asymptomatic.
“With regard to COVID-19, we’re learning that stealth in the form of asymptomatic transmission is this adversary’s secret power,” said Rear Admiral Bruce Gillingham, surgeon general of the Navy."
[www.reuters.com]
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Retired army captain Tom Moore aimed to walk the 25 metres around his garden 100 times before his 100th birthday on 30 April.
A 99-year-old war veteran who has raised more than £14m for the NHS by walking around his garden has now completed his challenge.
Captain Tom Moore, who turns 100 at the end of the month, smashed his original target to raise £1,000 for the NHS fighting COVID-19, by walking 100 lengths of his Bedfordshire garden.
After completing the challenge - with a guard of honour from the 1st Battalion of the Yorkshire Regiment - he told Sky News that the response he has received has been "absolutely amazing", as he praised the NHS.
He said: "They're doing such a magnificent job and every day, they're putting themselves in danger, and they're doing it cheerfully and they're continuing to do that, and good for them."
Coronavirus: Veteran, 99, raises £14m for NHS as he completes garden challenge (SKY News 16 April 2020)
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bv
First of all I am deeply impressed by retired army captain Tom Moore, the best of the best of the British. Then I am also impressed by the weather, as the sun is shining upon him as well as his garden, and his guard of honour. Who said it is often raining in the British Isles?
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bv
First of all I am deeply impressed by retired army captain Tom Moore, the best of the best of the British. Then I am also impressed by the weather, as the sun is shining upon him as well as his garden, and his guard of honour. Who said it is often raining in the British Isles?