A few years ago, there was a scandal in several European countries involving a company that sold frozen “beef” lasagna. They used horse and mislabeled it as beef. What’s more, the horses in question weren’t supposed to be eaten (not food grade).
The result was, everyone wanted to try horse. The one butcher in town that actually sold horse reported a 600% increase in sales.
I cooked horse and beef steaks for some friends to compare. The verdict: they preferred the horse, while for me, the beef still had a slight edge.
Yeah its honestly extremely unfair and unreasonable for parents considering most schools and daycares are closed so that would leave them with nearly no alternative options. They’re apparently checking to see if the kids are not with the parents by calling/skyping randomly throughout the day, so technically it’d be possible to get the kids to quiet down in another room but it seems really disruptive and lowkey hostile.
I’d be curious to know why their model predicts my rural southern MN county would have a higher infection rate (by percentage) than Minneapolis/St. Paul? Or why some rural South Dakota counties are higher than the one containing Sioux Falls? Do we/they just not wash our hands as frequently as those in big cities? Do studies show we refuse to practice social distancing even those we’re not as tightly packed?
I’m glad folx are having fun cosplaying overblown zombie apocalypse tropes, but let’s try to remember that reality is also important. A year from now, almost everyone will not have died, or even got very sick, even in the worst-case scenario. There’s no glorious vindication on the horizon for gun-hoarding preppers or self-righteous Cassandras. It’ll just be a depressing tale of elderly people dying and poor people getting poorer.
This could be a chance for us to finally wake up to the interdependent reality of our world (“you didn’t build that”). So I’m not into shoehorning it into the same old Reagan / Thatcher / Ayn Rand worldview where it’s all about me, and who I can defeat to come out on top.
