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  Should the FDA have the right to inspect food?

  by NoAbuse in

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  i say it tramples on the free market!

  if a person gets botulism, e.coli or trichonosis, they'll just stop buying that brand!

  let the market decide i say.

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  Read "The Jungle" by Upton Sinclair. It's a good look at the meat industry prior to inspection laws.
  
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  Projected Covid 19 deaths in USA - about the same as 'flu stats.

  by The Fall Guy in

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  according to white house task-force expert: .

  https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-52241221.

  "dr anthony fauci, a key member of the white house's coronavirus task force, told nbc news' today show on thursday the final number of americans who will die from covid-19 in the outbreak "looks more like 60,000".

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  You know the eintire War in Viet Nam only killed 58,000 Americans. I guess we should all recognize that it was no big deal compared to the flu.
  
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  How Do You Get Most Of Your News?

  by minimus in

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  i read a lot on online.

  i regularly read fox news, the drudge report the new york post and local newspapers and local newscasts.

  where do you get most of your news from?.

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  Three rights make a left.
  
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  Differences between UK and US Corona Virus TV Updates

  by ThomasCovenant in

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  i'm in the uk, and most days over the last 2 weeks i've watched the 5pm uk government update on the corona virus situation which includes questions from the media.

  generally speaking i've found the whole update, including the questions and answers, to be respectful, informative and non combative, with, to the best of my recollection, very little mention of politics and blame.

  certainly no political point scoring.

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  When the CDC said death toll will be Lower, and closer to the administration's projections, Anderson Cooper seemed disappointed.

  I'm sure he was. The American leftist media has been having wet dreams about bringing down Trump for four years.
  
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  Differences between UK and US Corona Virus TV Updates

  by ThomasCovenant in

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  i'm in the uk, and most days over the last 2 weeks i've watched the 5pm uk government update on the corona virus situation which includes questions from the media.

  generally speaking i've found the whole update, including the questions and answers, to be respectful, informative and non combative, with, to the best of my recollection, very little mention of politics and blame.

  certainly no political point scoring.

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  Politicans and the media seem to be locked into a race to see you can be the least liked group in the US. They've beaten lawyers and used car salespeople.
  
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  Unbelievable!

  by The Fall Guy in

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  you gotta listen to the first 60 seconds of the special talk drivel.. you'll immediately see why i've put this under jokes & humour.

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  https://www.jw.org/en/library/videos/#en/mediaitems/vodspecialtalk2020/pub-sp-tk20r_1_video.

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  I don't know how any person with more functioning brain cells than my wife's houseplants could have given that talk with a straight face.
  
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  is this real? Wife got an email from here group elder about daily check in's

  by goingthruthemotions in

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  so this elder is super brainwashed, as is his wife.

  she actually made a comment that she wished antmo 3 was her dad and that he is so cool.

  oh my god, i threw up in my mouth.

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  I should call my old congregations (I went to three different halls while a dub) and tell them I heard everybody is supposed to check in. So I'm checking in. Just in case anybody wonders I'm still apostate. I wonder how many days that would go before I'm served with a no contact order.
  
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  So what are you doing...

  by JeffT in

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  ...while under house arrest sheltering in place?.

  i'm editing a (non jw related) novel i hope to self publish soon.

  i may be making an announcement about that in the near future.

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  @1234

  Musashi. Although I have Akagi, Kongo, Fuso and some little stuff in the collection. I had a pickup load of the old box scale kits when I was a kid, I got back into it a few years ago.
  
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  So what are you doing...

  by JeffT in

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  ...while under house arrest sheltering in place?.

  i'm editing a (non jw related) novel i hope to self publish soon.

  i may be making an announcement about that in the near future.

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  ...while under house arrest sheltering in place?

  I'm editing a (non jw related) novel I hope to self publish soon. I may be making an announcement about that in the near future. (The actual near future, not the JW near future).

  I just finished a 1/700 model of a Japanese battleship, I'm starting a 1/72 B-25 (the plane Doolittle bombed Tokyo with). I read "Midnight in Chernobyl"- I highly recoomend it. I'm now reading a novel about - of all things- an outbreak of plague.

  I'm chewing through movies, mostly old classics, on "on Demand." I expect to hit Amazon for more books and models soon.
  

  I hate yard work, but I've been trimming shrubs just to do something.
  
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  Covid-19 (Coronavirus) - Status Update Thread

  by Simon in

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  this topic is to focus on status updates & advice (no opinion or politics please).. status.

  latest status is that it's serious, probably isn't going to be contained and most large companies are making contingency plans, cancelling large events etc... which i don't think would happen if it was just people being alarmist.

  the incubation period means it may have already spread further and infected many more people than are currently known, so expect jumps in the numbers over the coming days and weeks.. tracking.

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  Governor Inslee just extended the stay at home order in Washington State to May 4th.

  The curve in Italy looks like its flatter only because its on a logarithmic scale. Take a look at the scale on the sides. I think we have a long way to go.