A farmer’s guide to wrestling COVID-19

Farm life is made up of, to paraphrase an auto-racing quote, 99 percent boredom and 1 percent terror. As is life in general sometimes. In that 1percent we will find that there is always a path forward, even if it’s not yet visible. Like the excellent post below about truckers saying “Fuck the log rules…” the builders of the world will find a way to keep it running. Read on…

10 Replies to “A farmer’s guide to wrestling COVID-19”

  1. When I pointed out to many people that grain farmers can be in a particular difficult predicament this spring, some Asshole (goes by the handle of “bs4u”) claimed that farmers are not affected by this Wuhan Flu.
    I’m sure many of the SDA’ers out there with prairie farm backgrounds would agree that spring work is a limited window of opportunity. Farmers have to get it done within that window whether 100% healthy or carrying a full blown flu. To not get the crop in means that bills and operating loans won’t be paid. Farmers do not have the luxury of self-isolating. In the event that many farmers cannot get the crop in, we would be looking at the price of a loaf of bread skyrocketing.

  2. Is there any real, tangible evidence that COVID exists?
    Excluding the news reports on the Internet about some celebrities and politicians who supposedly caught it?
    Does any real, living person have any friends or relatives, whose death can be proved as caused by an unusual, epidemic sickness?
    I am starting to cast doubt on the foregoing, because it more and more resembles the cyclic deprivation of wealth that occurs every once in a while. End result is that people’s equity is erased, bank accounts zeroed out, and the banking elite owns the world. Then they restart the mortgage cycles, and everyone pays interest again.
    The huge boost to the economy that the panic buying should have created had been negated by the forceful shutting down of the said businesses. This more resembles an orchestrated, planet-wide financial fraud scheme than an epidemic.

    1. Is there any real tangible evidence that a worldwide conspiracy of medical professionals and first responders exists? If not I’m going with yes on Wuhan virus.

      1. How many of your friends or relatives have died from a strange sickness?
        Until you know of at least one confirmed death this is nothing more than hearsay.

        1. Besides, how can we be sure that this “China” place really exists? Sure, there’s mentions of it in books, but if you haven’t actually been there, how can you be sure it’s real?

          Then again, why am I typing this when you aren’t real.

          I should never have taken off my shiny hat…

        2. I have had no friends or relatives die of cancer either. Yet I’m convinced that cancer does exist. Silly me.

          Alas, the Italian and Chinese and New York pathologists inexplicably forgot to invite me to the thousands of post-mortems already conducted and I never got to peer through the electron microscopes to personally verify those corona-thingies actually exist. So I’ll just sit down and shut up now.

          1. How funny! And I do have friends or relatives ho have died of cancer. This is how I know that cancer is real.
            The rest of what you wrote is re-telling the internet hearsay. Is there real evidence?

  3. Gosh, I live in the bush and I’m not worried at all! No Siree!

    After all, over the past month or so I have been bombarded with emails from airlines, banks, insurance companies, phone companies, etc., etc…and they all assure me that they are all there just for ME!

    What a wonderful world!

  4. I left the house today to help gather supplies for my Mother, who has cancer and lives in a seniors building, well first up the the LC for some medicine for meeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee-They were only allowing two people in and when said two people left- two people could enter-the problem was all those people were lined up outside on the sidewalk crammed together like sardines. The super store right beside the LC had a line up of forty, again two out two in. The LC informed me they didn’t want cash, cause people lick it or something, I said tuff take my cash or I’m leaving with me meds. She stated if I use the debit credit machine it protects them, really so they can stand there in gloves and force me to use a dirty machine with god knows what on it-so they are protected but it’s okay if I get infected with the Chinese virus from their machine. On to the drug store to get the Mudder her drugs, well the front door is locked and after walking a couple miles, not really-I enter through the back door where some chick is standing behind mountains of cartons with a clip board asking me health question before I can enter. Once I passed the liberal test they let me in, there were black marks on the floor so we could social isolate. Well that’s nice but the farking isles are two feet wide and less then six feet long where am I going to self isolate on the top shelf? So got the Mudders stuff, stood in line to pay behind the theater style rope, girl yells next. Okay but the guy in front on me is at the first cashier how am I going to pass him when I have two inches to get past?? So I crawl on my hands and knees under the velvet rope get up and put the stuff on counter-she yells behind the plastic shield. Okay behind it , she rings it up takes my money and get thissssssssssssssssssss-makes my leave the plastic shield to pick it up. Seriously, it’s okay to infect me but I must jump through hoops like a trained poodle to protect others, I don’t mind protecting them but where the hell is the common sense people? Dropped the mothers stuff off and came home, really are we that easy to control that we’d crawl on our knees to ensure we comply while the goberment’s edicts.

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