Assistant Secretary of Health Brett Giroir on Monday agreed with White House coronavirus response coordinator Dr. Deborah Birx about the “peak week” ahead for COVID-19 hospitalizations and deaths.
“But don’t go every day to the grocery store"
Well that’s going to require behavior modification of the highest order.
So this is “peak week,” is it? I fear this will turn out to be the horror movie equivalent of infrastructure week. July 2020: “Well, we actually meant peak three months.”
Did Giroir clear his advice - not to go to the grocery store everyday - with the Trump Regime? You know…they could fire, demote or gag him if he tells the truth!
ICYMI:
Covid Super Spreaders in SK - a Patient 31 infected 1160 people while a church infected 5,016 people. One would think one can commune with their gods individually!
But we’ll be able to go by Easter, right?
The hoax virus orchestrated by Hillary will have magically disappeared.
I guess it’s news that 2 members of the administration agree on something sensible, but I’m not really sure why this is a story.
So, great advice. But if either of them were actually shopping for a family they would know that for many essential items, bread, pasta, soymilk (for my lactose intolerant kids), other staples and needs, most stores in our area have limits on how much you can buy each day. So if I can only buy food and supplies for two days at a time, and I never know which stores will have what, there really aren’t a lot of choices. Delivery services have wait times >week in my area, so that hasn’t been a solution either. So I get it, they have to say SOMETHING, and we do need to limit exposure, but sheesh. While there has been a lot of attention paid to how horribly the federal government has managed the medical piece of of this, other logistical issues also should be considered part of the federal response, like food distribution, household goods and cleaning supplies, even toilet paper, apparently. The networks need to recognize that the daily press briefings quickly degenerate into campaign speech and begin allowing equal time to the DNC or Joe or Bernie or all three.
The WH wants the message to be that the entire country will peak and then recover at the same time, so they can declare victory on a certain date. Get the country back to work! Unfortunately, the virus has other ideas about how this will pan out.
It’s Spring Sweeps Week, and there’s a song for it.
Every day? I haven’t been in two weeks.
You know who needs to go to the grocery store every day? The employees. So between all your criming and grifting, I hope you’ll take care of them in your trillion dollar rescue packages, and not just pay them lip service while distributing the money to multinationals. And we’ll be watching.
Unless you’re covered in the blood of Jesus.
People go every day? Now? I’ve been going every 2-3 weeks. I went last week for, hopefully, the last time, until after the outbreak peaks in my region.
People might be going more often than normal just due to supply chain interruptions. Looking for something like TP or eggs, finding the shelves are bare. So they come back the next day, or whenever they think it might be restocked.
The stores are so hammered they can’t say when things will be back in stock, because some of it is disappearing as fast as they can get it on the shelves.
I feel for you! It is much easier for me (retired) and hubby (older guy working from home) with much smaller food needs, and a well-stocked household larder. Yet it is still challenging to make sure I only need to shop every couple of weeks.
A competent administration (Hillary!) would have done more than hold daily press rallies.
And the military needs to be geared up (yesterday) to take over the distribution of food and emergency supplies. Our supply lines are currently run by people vulnerable to the virus.
But maybe people wouldn’t listen because she is so shrill. I think you underestimate how folks won’t take advice from someone with no ‘likability’. Thank god we have someone so different in charge.
The military might help with medical supplies, but they can’t do much about the messed up consumer supply chains that keep grocery stores stocked. The link below is a good article about the problem.
https://marker.medium.com/what-everyones-getting-wrong-about-the-toilet-paper-shortage-c812e1358fe0
Summary: People are now staying home instead of going to work, going to school, and eating out. That means more TP consumed at home, more eggs being made for breakfast. The packaging and type of TP sent to offices, factories, and schools isn’t the same as what goes to grocery stores. Restaurants don’t buy eggs in small cartons of a dozen.
So it isn’t possible to just shift products and food items made for a work, school, or restaurant environment to local grocery stores. This isn’t something the military could help with.
