COVID-19
The Latest in COVID-19 News: Week Ending 05.02.20 – NEJM Journal Watch
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The Latest in COVID-19 News: Week Ending May 2.
Meanwhile in Oklahoma…
Underwriting Among Early Effects Of COVID-19 On Life Insurance
COVID-19 has had the biggest short-term effect on life insurance in two ways:
Insurers extending grace periods for paying premiums.
Placing a greater emphasis on accelerated underwriting.
Full article at the link below.
Underwriting Among Early Effects Of COVID-19 On Life Insurance
Heads Up! Mega-Strike May 1st
This May Day event follows a string of protests held by workers at Amazon, Instacart, Whole Foods, and Shipt over the last two months, whose employers have seen unprecedented profits as staffers on the ground handle cash sales and run deliveries. The demonstrations reflect growing unrest among the nation’s essential workers, who are entering their third month of duty on the front lines of the coronavirus pandemic.
Amazon, Walmart, Target mega-strike: Here’s what to know about the sprawling protest
Your shopping woes just got worse.
Leprino Foods shuts down Fort Morgan Plant
The Leprino Foods plant in Fort Morgan was started in 1950 by Mike Leprino Sr. making mostly handmade mozzarella and Ricotta cheese. Now they make only mozzarella cheese for many different products. It is the nation’s number one Mozzarella cheese maker in the nation. The company has approximately 275 employees in their Fort Morgan plant. Their milk capacity is over 200,000 pounds per day. Whey production is about 60,000 pounds lactose per day. The products they produce are cheese blends in individually quick-froen (IQR) shreds and dices, Whey protein concentrate, Lactose 100 and 200 mesh, sweet cream and animal feed.
Helen H. Richardson/ The Denver Post
https://www.denverpost.com/2020/04/26/leprino-foods-closure-coronavirus-cases/
The unconfirmed number of Covid-19 infections is 80.
Who knows how many pizzas will be affected.
Rooms for Rent – Airbnb Crashes
“No one anticipated that a global pandemic would require the country to shelter in place, upend the economy,” said Airbnb spokesman Nick Papas. “This is temporary: Travel will bounce back and Airbnb hosts—the vast majority of whom have just one listing—will continue to welcome guests and generate income.”
It’s not just the big hotel chains that are hurting. For more insight read the full article at nakedcapitalism.com which contains absolute gems like the quote below.
It takes a lot of gall or a lot of ignorance to peddle a line like that.
My vote is IGNORANCE.
It will be a long time before travelers return to flying petri dishes and spend time in a rented room in someone else’s house.
Where’s the Beef?
…we produce more than enough for our consumer needs, but quantity is not the problem. Getting it from the fields to the consumer is the problem and that’s where our distribution system fails.
COVID-19 stands to forever change cattle industry
Same issues with produce, milk, chicken…
Time to break out all of my vegetarian cookbooks.
HT – Vegan Twitter feed.
Covid-19 Buzz Cut Week 4 – 04.25.20
Getting longer…starting to pop out all over.
Meanwhile in Oklahoma…we’re getting ready to reopen.
SITUATION UPDATE: COVID-19
We have an estimated population of 4,000,000. Doesn’t look like we’ve tested a lot of people…
A week ago I was having one hell of a time contemplating the future. One of the things I wrote was:
Online ordering and curbside pick up or delivery are probably here to stay.
Earlier this week I placed an online order with a Big Box Store, drove down to their parking lot and got my groceries delivered into my trunk. The store however did not allow me to buy wine in this fashion. So today I placed an online order for chardonnay at the wine shop, drove down to their parking lot and got my wine delivered into my trunk. I can get used to this.
Retail shopping will be changed forever.
Restaurants and other out of home dining options will be changed forever.
Barbershops will all do very, very well from the pent up demand.
But I needed one more home-style buzz and The Boss graciously volunteered.
These were the instruments used, an old beard trimmer and an old pair of scissors.
And here’s the result.
I should be OK for another few weeks.
Stay safe. Stay home.
The New Normal
A Reliable Source for Reliable Sources During Covid-19 — The Skeptical Cardiologist
It is a daunting task tracking down reliable information during Covid-19. Misinformation tends to spread like …the coronavirus. The Baker institute Blog is providing excellent succinct summaries of reliable information and sources as the pandemic evolves. 52 more words
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Another reliable Covid-19 source for your reading pleasure.
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