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          1. It isn’t rapeseed. It started out that way, but it was genetically tinkered with. Canola is the first GMO food.

          2. Ed – “it was genetically tinkered with. Canola is the first GMO food.”
            Bullshit. It is the result of crossbreeding like every other plant we use for food. They simply crossbred and selected for low erucic acid. Otherwise canola and rapeseed are the same damn thing and are pretty much identical to mustard. A Roundup ready version is GMO.

  1. Only oils we use in this household are:
    Olive
    Avocado
    Coconut.

    The rest is to me, a molecule away from plastic….

      1. No. The difference between Lead and Gold is in the nucleus. Different number of protons.

    1. Agreed. And I am never without a month’s supply of Sweet Cream (unsalted) butter. I buy it in BRICKS from COSTCO. Good thing I didn’t need it during my aborted trip to Panic-buy Central this morning.

    2. “March 13, 2020 at 6:56 pm
      Only oils we use in this household are:
      Olive
      Avocado
      Coconut.”

      Yes. We also use peanut oil and grape seed oil. Other than those, we use butter and rendered lard.(+ bacon grease)
      Mostly olive oil, though.

      1. If you read how grapeseed oil is processed i don’t think that you will ever use it again

  2. A buddy just told me you can buy all the TP you want in Winnipeg. There are ads offering it for up to $250.

    It’s worth more than that. They’re giving it away…..

    1. Nope it’s going like hotcakes now. Three of my kids live there and it’s nuts in all the store they went to right now.

    1. And I would hope they bought the best air-seeders out there made by BOURGAULT…..

      1. Youre wrong there. The USED section on several dealers lots are full of Bourgault.
        The times, they are a changin’….
        Best air drills now are made by 2 brothers who had a falling out and split the original company of SeedMaster and created SeedHawk (recently bought out by Vaderstad)

    2. What about us suburbanites who have no idea what you’re talking about? Is that, like, “air”-popcorn poppers? Popcorn would be good for sheltering in social distancing … !

      1. Speaking of burdizzos, I offered to save my son-in-law some money. Told him we could use those instead of him getting a vasectomy.
        Those must have been a godsend to sheepherders. Before those came along, the only safe way to castrate rams was chewing.

    3. My wife is supposed to inherit one of her dad’s quarter sections some day. Does that count?

  3. I am rather surprised no one is stocking up on condoms. A large portion of the population sitting at home with nothing to do, but what comes naturally. We are going to have a lot of newborns in 9 months.

      1. I’ve read divorces are sky rocketing in China. There are a lot of people who can’t spend concentrated time with their spouses.

  4. The average person is going to come out of this healthy and with a lifetime supply of toilet paper. Ten cans of Lysol will probably last through the next three of these. And given how things are in China, we can probably expect a few more of these episodes. At some point, a response that is a better blend of economic reality and cynical acceptance of our mortality will have to prevail, otherwise, the global economy will collapse and not recover.

    1. Speaking of Lysol, Peter O’Donnell, a Vancouver couple “spent the last few weeks hitting up every Vancouver region Costco to buy Lysol wipes and liquid cleaners”. They bought the “Lysol wipes in bulk and re-sold them on Amazon for inflated prices”. “One six-pack of wipes goes for about $20 at Costco, but fetches upward of $80 online, they said…they’d spent about $70,000 in bulk buys, and raked in about $100,000 in sales”!!!

      Amazon has since suspended the couple’s account. I wonder if Revenue Canada reads CBC articles.

      https://www.cbc.ca/radio/asithappens/as-it-happens-friday-edition-1.5496727/b-c-couple-confronted-at-costco-for-buying-bulk-lysol-wipes-to-re-sell-for-profit-1.5496733

  5. I went to stock up on pop, chips and beer (I have all the essentials already) and the panic has REALLY set in now. The store was busier than christmas time. Absolute pandemonium like I’ve never seen. Interesting that there’s still lots of cold medication left so I grabbed more. Instead of toilet paper and hand sanitizer you’d think people would grab medical supplies.

    1. Cold medication, umm! Now you can open your own meth lab.
      But seriously, think ahead and plan for the situation your household members might get sick and no medical help will be available.
      One of the invaluable resources will be sugar or glucose syrup. Make a few liters of it in a concentration that is somewhat sweet, sterilize it, and seal in pickling jars. You can drink it if you are too weak to cook real foods.
      Also make saline with NaCl, KCl, CaCl2, and MgCl2 or MgSO4. You can mix it with syrup or drink it alone, to restore electrolytes.
      I suggest stocking up on dry baking yeast. You can make a quick yeast drink to keep vitamin B levels high. A teaspoonful of sugar, another of yeast, per glass of warm water. Let it sit in a warm place for a few hours. When it starts foaming, drink it.

  6. I don’t think Canola is the immediate worry. Can we live without the innernets?

    As I commented earlier. Hooray, we all get to ‘work’ from home. Did someone tell Bell, Telus, Shaw, etc.? Microsoft and Amazon, their cloud services AWS and Azure, and all networks and routers in between are going to be swamped.

    Netflix is hosted at AWS, pray for the millennials.

    Domestic violence should be studied before and after. As should the reduction in commute based fatalities.

    1. If you’re on fibre internet, it’s built for the load, you have your own dedicated path from home to the concentrator, and the world at high speed.
      If you’re on copper DSL, much slower, but still dedicated, shouldn’t have hiccups
      If you’re on coax……good luck! That heavy increased traffic will slow things down a bit., you’re sharing with all your neighbours on the node.

      1. Has no one thought about the staff in all these data centers? It takes a big staff to physically keep racks upon racks of servers running.

        1. Literally, they run themselves, with little required of human physical monitoring, which can be done remotely.

  7. Second worry. Lots and lots of babies in about 9 months.

    Can we survive all those gender reveal parties?

    How many will perish in pink and blue (and poorly timed Instagram moments).

    I pity all the girls named Corona, is like being pre-equipped with a stripper’s stage name.

    1. These are the triplets.
      Corona
      Wu Han Solo
      And Cardi19

      Sadly my partner was crushed in tragic pink-pink-blue piñata trampoline avalanche back in December.

      But don’t worry about the gendered names or colours, I’m letting the kids decide for themselves.

  8. For some reason there are rumblings that the LCBO is closing here in Ontario.

    Top that.

  9. What is the average age of Canadian farmers? Late fifties? Heading into the “at risk” age group regardless. Who is going to plant in the upcoming seeding season if those farmers are sick or dead? There is a rather narrow time frame window to plant, that crops mature before fall frost. Will growers be able to get diesel, seed, fertilizer. equipment parts and deliveries in that critical window of time to get it in the ground? Tumble weeds may be blowing through grocery stores before this is over.
    We live in interesting times is indeed a Chinese curse.

    1. Farmers can, and do, feed themselves. They are resilient, resourceful, and relatively isolated. They are healthy. They are, and will be able to produce all the food society needs.

      The problem will start in the autumn when the farmers arrive at the urban boundaries and processing plants with their full trucks and see full-on millennial apocalypse and chaos. Remember, this is the generation that needs “mental-health days” and “support animals” just to survive the hardship of homework at universities.

  10. The best piece of news is Parliment closed demonstrating Canadian leadership in a crisis en par with Vichy France. Really. It will prove we dont need them.

  11. The Run on Jackie-D is ramping Up….Alcohol is an antidote… Pickling you liver is one of the best Options .. Hillary has always been ahead of the Bimbo-Virus (Lots of vodka) because Bill has brought home every strain….

    Think of those poor souls in Hollywood, the fluid exchange has already taken place and they are infected… All the Hookers whos clientele is now limited to those that have it & those that don’t Care……

    Interesting Times

  12. Regarding President Trump’s potential exposure to COVID-19 …

    Is there anything WORSE than Trump being taken out by a Chinese virus with a Mexican name?

    Ay caramba Wu Han

  13. Talked to a gal this afternoon who said the dollar store in her small town had 4 rolls of TP for a dollar today

    1. I love TP, man…’specially the two bits per roll kind.
      wooooo!

      …about 4 days ago we were drillin’ yet another hole south of Lloyd…an one of my coworkers went into town and bought 2 shopping carts full of TP from S’store…i’ called him a fricken Moe-ron.

  14. Buddy called me from Jamaica this morning. Said the tourist business is in the bag. Price of street sex is dropping faster than…

    The locals are getting some cheap poom poom.

    Not everything is bad

    1. shweet…dig it!…Irie Irie Mon..cheep tail is the best way to stop the Corona-Corona Mon. Irie.

  15. So, no mention of the Hua-wei heiress/C.F.O. of late, likely she’s happy to stay away from China for a while, yet.

    Given how many herds/flocks of livestock were lost in China due to farm workers ill or under quarantine due to the Wuhan virus. I wager, Canada will soon be able to make a trade. A couple of rail cars worth of frozen pork carcasses for the two Michaels.

  16. So have you heard how this virus is being called “boomer remover” — by young people anyway.

    1. the current yout’ fergit it was MY generation that pretty much set the stage and
      devised the basic technology designs *they* are so fond of.
      BIG diff knowing how to *use* a technology to its max, and being able to ‘code’ and
      even design the digital circuits at the very heart of it.

      I call them the narcissist generation.

  17. The day will come when the oceans rise and they’ll drown in their basements. Then they’ll be sorry that mom isn’t around to run the sump pump.

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