And that’s thanks to the GOP since Regan, gutting the rural health initiative.
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That source ran dry in SE Michigan 3 weeks ago. 
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Pro TP Tip indeed!
They are out too.
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Last place I saw TP was the tiny Mexican grocery down the road from us. 2 weeks ago.
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Hey, it’s Springtime, the leaves are new and soft.
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The Sunday Newspaper and scissors?
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Peel a paper towel in half.
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But don’t flush it!
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Or the newspaper!
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Nor the ■■■■■ wipes, if lucky enough to have found those.
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Oh - the building management sent out a letter to everyone about those. Not happy.
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a link to natgeo with some more info.
including this depressing tidbit:
Big cats like tigers and lions are already facing a litany of threats to their survival in the wild. If COVID-19 jumps to wild big cat populations and becomes a significant cause of mortality, the virus could develop into a very serious concern for the future of these species.
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Interpret with great caution. Previous weekend numbers have been wonky.
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at the store where i work, it comes and goes almost immediately.
a part of the issue is our distributor has limited store orders to just over 100% of last year’s average. they are doing this all over the country, and just outright canceling any orders that exceed the limit.
meanwhile, while we only have about half the number of normal customers the store is still doing about 2x sales. so the buyers are incredibly constrained in what they can order to keep the shelves full of food, let alone tp.
even limiting sales to one per customer, we don’t seem to make it more than a few hours after a shipment before we’re out of tp again. ( not staff tp though. get your damn dirty hands off the store’s tp please. )
the other part of the issue is probably that shift from people being at work or school with commercial tp and now everyone being at home with consumer grade tp.
things do seem to be settling down a bit, tho. maybe it will be somewhat normal again (tp wise) soon.
on other fronts, we’re keeping the number of shoppers in the store to less than a dozen. social distancing is still a bit fraught. i’d guess people are averaging about 3 feet of distance. but, it’s something.
nearly everyone is wearing masks now: workers and shoppers. i see some masks that look medical grade, and i really wonder where people are getting them from, and why they aren’t donating them to the hospitals instead.
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A summary of Sunday’s unwatchable presser.
The networks just gave Trump over an hour of free prime time advertising. They are allowing him to steal this election, even as he kills thousands of American citizens. It’s unbelievable.
By Lucian K. Truscott IV [columnist for Salon]
Started around 7:00, almost completely contentless. No news. Nothing to add from yesterday, nothing that wasn’t covered by Cuomo this morning and babblers on the Sunday morning shows. A really, really long promo for the malaria drug…“What do you have to lose?”…on and on and on. You really have to wonder if Trump Inc. doesn’t have some stock in one of the companies that make it. Reporters kept hammering him on his promotion of the drug, asking him, wasn’t he acting like a doctor. He just kept repeating, “I’m just trying to save lives.” The base probably ate it up. He’s trying to save us! He’s such a great guy! He’s standing up to those nasty liberal reporters, doubting him!
But really, no drama to speak of, no information to speak of, even Shoulder Scarf was understated tonight, with silk carefully draped over only one shoulder rather than two!
I strongly suspect that Trump’s campaign people have gotten their hands on numbers telling them there are two hundred some million people just sitting at home self isolating with the television on, and they’ve told him it’s an audience just waiting for him to fill time for them. He’s happy as a clam as long as he’s speaking, and he talked through almost every minute tonight. He’s now been on camera for more than an hour. Pence got about 5 minutes, Shoulder Scarf only 5, and the general in charge of shipping everything a couple.
It was all Trump all the time in prime time. He’s campaigning every single day for more than an hour, and these fucking networks are giving him billions of dollars of air time. He’s happy as long as his pancaked mug is on the screen, and it’s on the screen 7 nights a week for hours and hours and hours.
He’s killing a thousand people a day, 10,000 as of tonight, and he’s being rewarded for it. Democrats are sucking wind, and he’s riding a total disaster for which he’s responsible for all he’s worth. This is fucking criminal. The networks are allowing him to steal this election. Fuck them, every one of them.
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