This Incompetent Administration's Response to Coronavirus

[bobabode]

"After Michelle Brenner was furloughed from her job at a menswear store in Gig Harbor, Wash., because of the coronavirus pandemic, she turned to comfort-food therapy.

Brenner, 45, made herself a huge pan of lasagna using her grandmother’s recipe. Then, in a moment of pride after shopping for groceries (including frozen lasagna) for some of her neighbors, she got on her community Facebook page and wrote that frozen, store-bought lasagna could not compare to the real Italian homemade deal. And she followed up with an offer: “If any of you want some fresh homemade, no calorie counting lasagna, please let me know and I will gladly prepare it,” she wrote.

Brenner set aside her $1,200 stimulus check to buy ingredients, and the requests soon began to trickle in. Nearly three months and 1,200 pans later, Brenner is still at it. About eight hours a day, seven days a week, she helps feed people in her community — from hospital workers and first responders to single parents struggling without paychecks.

Read more here. https://www.washingtonpost.com/lifes...-free-lasagna/

What a great neighbor and citizen. America needs more of her.

[Not Insane]

Originally Posted by bobabode

"After Michelle Brenner was furloughed from her job at a menswear store in Gig Harbor, Wash., because of the coronavirus pandemic, she turned to comfort-food therapy.

Brenner, 45, made herself a huge pan of lasagna using her grandmother’s recipe. Then, in a moment of pride after shopping for groceries (including frozen lasagna) for some of her neighbors, she got on her community Facebook page and wrote that frozen, store-bought lasagna could not compare to the real Italian homemade deal. And she followed up with an offer: “If any of you want some fresh homemade, no calorie counting lasagna, please let me know and I will gladly prepare it,” she wrote.

Brenner set aside her $1,200 stimulus check to buy ingredients, and the requests soon began to trickle in. Nearly three months and 1,200 pans later, Brenner is still at it. About eight hours a day, seven days a week, she helps feed people in her community — from hospital workers and first responders to single parents struggling without paychecks.

Read more here. https://www.washingtonpost.com/lifes...-free-lasagna/

What a great neighbor and citizen. America needs more of her.

That really is a great story.

However, she had better pray the FDA doesn't see it. I didn't see anything in the story about her jumping through the necessary government hoops to be able to do that legally. I've had some experience trying to help like that only to find out you open yourself up to a world of legal liabilities.

But hopefully this unusual situation will enable the FDA and local health department to show some compassion and give people a little more freedom to help each other without coming in to ensure we're doing it "by their book".

[donquixote99]

Originally Posted by Not Insane

That really is a great story.

However, she had better pray the FDA doesn't see it. I didn't see anything in the story about her jumping through the necessary government hoops to be able to do that legally. I've had some experience trying to help like that only to find out you open yourself up to a world of legal liabilities.

But hopefully this unusual situation will enable the FDA and local health department to show some compassion and give people a little more freedom to help each other without coming in to ensure we're doing it "by their book".

13 or more pans a day? I expect she did move to a commercial kitchen, which would get her past the expensive part of passing health inspection. Lots of shut-down kitchens available....

[donquixote99]

Yes. From the story:

But when the requests began multiplying faster than she could restock her refrigerator with ground beef and cheese, the president of the Gig Harbor Sportsman’s Club offered the clubhouse kitchen for her project.

“We saw what a great thing she was doing, and we have this nice commercial kitchen that wasn’t being used because of covid,” said Le Rodenberg, 73, the club’s president.

[bobabode]

Originally Posted by donquixote99

Yes. From the story:

Thanks for catching that, Don. Looks like NI just makes shit up on the fly.

[bobabode]

Originally Posted by Not Insane

That really is a great story.

However, she had better pray the FDA doesn't see it. I didn't see anything in the story about her jumping through the necessary government hoops to be able to do that legally. I've had some experience trying to help like that only to find out you open yourself up to a world of legal liabilities.

But hopefully this unusual situation will enable the FDA and local health department to show some compassion and give people a little more freedom to help each other without coming in to ensure we're doing it "by their book".

Ahh, yes. The great Libertarian Credo! Death To 'Onerous' Regulations!

I'll bet you keep a cheesy photo of Ayn Rand on your nightstand.

[Chicks]

New coronavirus cases in the U.S. soar to highest single-day total

https://www.washingtonpost.com/natio...ve-updates-us/

So much winning! Are you tired of all the winning yet?

[RickeyM]

Originally Posted by Chicks

New coronavirus cases in the U.S. soar to highest single-day total

https://www.washingtonpost.com/natio...ve-updates-us/

So much winning! Are you tired of all the winning yet?

THIRTY-EIGHT THOUSAND PLUS in one day and it's likely to get worse and tRump is talking about Covid-19 in the past tense.
Will somebody please dose this MF and get it over with already.

[Chicks]

Schwarzenegger: Anyone making coronavirus masks a 'political issue is an absolute moron'

https://thehill.com/blogs/blog-brief...ks-a-political

Lots of absolute morons out there, Arnold. Sadly, they’re mostly members of your party.

[donquixote99]

Originally Posted by Chicks

Schwarzenegger: Anyone making coronavirus masks a 'political issue is an absolute moron'

https://thehill.com/blogs/blog-brief...ks-a-political

Lots of absolute morons out there, Arnold. Sadly, they’re mostly members of your party.

Listen to these people go literally mentally ill over masks. I don't know what made them susceptible, but right wing propaganda has utterly destroyed their reason and all connection to reality. This is actually happening. Mandate for masks is attributed to utterly crazy stuff like "obeying the Devil's laws."

https://www.cnn.com/videos/politics/...WwnJhq7yVC3u-Y