I don’t think Berea College offers graduate degrees? She has a doctorate and appears to be on the faculty at Cumberland, looks like not tenure track.
I think she would have had to close the restaurant regardless; even if there were no government-mandated closures, restaurants are closing all over because of the pandemic.
Anyway, she has written a blog post reacting to the reactions to the NPR story.
https://www.kentuckymoonbow.com/blog/url-gtsww
Who knows what really transpired, but my family have been in the papers a few times and I know full well how badly journalists can translate interviews into copy. Nothing malicious in our case, fortunately, just, “How the hell do you get that detail wrong? And why?” Given NPR’s “clarification”, which as I suggested above was basically “the point we founded our entire thesis on was actually a lie, but we’re not changing anything”, I think I buy her story.
gatto’s grocery update.
two co-workers out with covid like symptoms, another just returned after being out for two weeks with symptoms. no tests available for any of them.
a nearby store had a worker die recently. things feel so much more closer to home now.
everyone, customers and staff, are wearing masks now. i personally am not too worried about contact transmission, much more so about people’s breath. still, i do wish people would stop touching their masks to adjust them. and… here’s to hoping washable masks actually help at all.
the things buyers can get into the store appear almost random. still no flour or yeast. toilet paper appears to be on its way out again. i can’t imagine what the warehouses are like. apparently, it’s stressful enough that if stores accidentally order too many out of stock items, some of the warehouse workers ditch the order entirely and move on to the next store’s delivery.
the shelves are fully stocked with plenty of food, but it’s not always what we’d normally have.
bulk items are totally blocked off from customers. i guess a lot of places are doing that now. most of our single serve items are gone for now. yet still people are coming in for things like a single bottle of water.
i find myself standing around a lot, because i can’t stock and maintain distance from customers. i don’t know if we are more dangerous to them, or them to us. this whole multiple week lag between exposure and symptoms is maddening.
That’s scary. What state? I keep wondering if it’s my worth trying to get a test again. Both my parents are major risks (immuno-compromised/old) and we do shopping for them, figuring that’s safer than someone who spends all day in a grocery store delivering things to them. Back in February we (my wife, child and I) all had symptoms consistent with mild Trumpvirus, and we had been travelling in CA just after the new year, but when I checked with my doctor six years ago a few (?) weeks ago, there was still no testing for anyone who wasn’t currently dying of it.
We got flour one week, but then it vanished again. Been like that with a lot of things. However, we just got a bunch more from a local (awesome) baker. And some bread. Yeast an issue, though.
Yeah, I sometimes think journalism departments must teach their students to always include at least one error in every story. I once had death threats after a bolloxed interview by the NY Post. About statistics.
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This is really awful.
You shouldn’t have to stock while customers are in the store. Even people who are careful about social distancing will inevitably have to get down an aisle.
Where I am the weather has become nice and the infection rate is low and people are acting like there is nothing happening, other than schools being closed. My last time in the nearby small market there was a couple with 4 very active children in the store, basically blocking all the aisles at the same time. A few weeks ago they probably would have been honoring the one family member in the store at a time convention.
Earlier this week, I stopped by one of my nearby Aldi locations, and they had flour and yeast, with a two-bag limit on flour. I picked up one bag and some yeast, but have yet to try my hand at baking. I’m kind of thinking pizza crust for my first attempt.
Aldi had a better stock of meat than the Walmart the next town over, but Walmart actually had toilet paper, albeit a very limited selection.
I’m trying to rotate things in my freezer, so there’s always a stock.
Looking at past pandemics, it feels like we are right at that point in the timeline where we all start to feel things aren’t as bad as we thought, let our guards down, and subsequently fuck things up.
I am already seeing signs of it. People are getting bored with the novelty. They don’t seem to realize it’s a long haul.
Leaders Must Learn The Lessons Of COVID In Time To Fight Climate Change
We still have an opportunity to listen to experts and take strong action on climate change before the worst overwhelms our best intentions.By Stacey Abrams
Interesting in particular to hear this from her,
Also:
A friend who works in a hospital recommended a particular Jewel-Osco that was right off the highway from where I was going, so I tried it.
Was able to get everything on the shopping list except for one (very specific, the alternative available wasn’t right for us) item.But I did check to see what vegetarian and vegan offerings the store might have, and that wasn’t so plentiful.
Everyone shelving in the aisles was wearing a mask; only one other customer that I saw was wearing one; the cashier and her bagger were both wearing cloth masks around their chins, but when the cashier saw mine was on properly, she immediately pulled hers up too. There was a plexiglass panel, and I made a point of standing on the other side of it.
It was pretty clear that proper social distancing is still not being taken seriously in rural Indiana, but at least the workers are being educated about it.
I suspect they are talking about 405 nm light, which has a good safety profile. UV-A light was thought for years to be harmless, but more recent studies have shown that, if anything, it can be more harmful for sunburns than UV-B light. UV-A light does not directly disrupt tissue, but it does form reactive oxidative species that themselves can cause mutation, DNA damage, and cell death.
Alas, “Will you come to my funeral?” would be more appropriate.
I hope this is true.
