Hope for the best prepare for the worst.How are you prepping for the covid-19 virus.

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Jernik said:
I generally am not opposed to trying new things, but that one would take some convincing and maybe a few beers...

Not sure why, I've eaten chicken innards (livers, gizzards, and hearts), beef liver, tripe, tongue, and sausage uses pig intestines and who knows what else, but the thought of eating brains and eyes weirds me out.
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Fried brain sandwiches are a deep south thing. Remember eating one ages ago, it was really fatty and gross, kinda like biting into a fried chicken breast sandwich that hasn't had the fat trimmed out.
 
Wow, Dearborn.
I guess humans can eat just about any part of an animal. Usually out of necessity; don’t waste anything. And a lot of tasty cuisine developed around that.
But I draw the line at brains. And testicles. :shocked:
 
ElectroBoy said:
Wow, Dearborn.
I guess humans can eat just about any part of an animal. Usually out of necessity; don’t waste anything. And a lot of tasty cuisine developed around that.
But I draw the line at brains. And testicles. :shocked:
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I think part of the problem in China is that the general population can't afford better food, so they resort to things such as bats, centipedes, scorpions, rats whatever other things they can find. I'm sure some of it is choice, but given the option between a chicken leg or a 10-inch centipede, I can't imagine the vast majority selecting the latter. Saw a video recently of a Chinese lady trimming a bush and coming across a nest with baby birds inside. She plucks one out, examines it briefly, then bites it in half and eats it.
 
Jernik said:
I generally am not opposed to trying new things, but that one would take some convincing and maybe a few beers...

Not sure why, I've eaten chicken innards (livers, gizzards, and hearts), beef liver, tripe, tongue, and sausage uses pig intestines and who knows what else, but the thought of eating brains and eyes weirds me out.
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You'd make a terrible zombie. :hello:
 
thennen said:
I think part of the problem in China is that the general population can't afford better food, so they resort to things such as bats, centipedes, scorpions, rats whatever other things they can find. I'm sure some of it is choice, but given the option between a chicken leg or a 10-inch centipede, I can't imagine the vast majority selecting the latter. Saw a video recently of a Chinese lady trimming a bush and coming across a nest with baby birds inside. She plucks one out, examines it briefly, then bites it in half and eats it.
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No, it is a choice. When I was in China, our hosts made it a point of offering us the most disgusting (to us) stuff like sea slugs. They also put away an amazing amount of alcohol.
 
My kids think it's acceptable to bring friends over because they show no signs of being sick :rolleyes:

Why is this so difficult for everyone to comprehend?
 
thennen said:
I think part of the problem in China is that the general population can't afford better food, so they resort to things such as bats, centipedes, scorpions, rats whatever other things they can find. I'm sure some of it is choice, but given the option between a chicken leg or a 10-inch centipede, I can't imagine the vast majority selecting the latter. Saw a video recently of a Chinese lady trimming a bush and coming across a nest with baby birds inside. She plucks one out, examines it briefly, then bites it in half and eats it.
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Before this guy worked for me he went to China and ate something that was not cooked well enough. He got some kind of a parasite that took him over a year to get rid of and he lost about 100 pounds. He thinks it was from eating a pigeon.

A good friend good mine is Chinese and eats all kinds of horrifying shit he buys in Chinatown.
 
Have a chicken head. He thinks these are great.
 

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RichinRidgewood said:
Before this guy worked for me he went to China and ate something that was not cooked well enough. He got some kind of a parasite that took him over a year to get rid of and he lost about 100 pounds. He thinks it was from eating a pigeon.

A good friend good mine is Chinese and eats all kinds of horrifying shit he buys in Chinatown.
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Yeah, a lady I used to work with is from China. She made a 1-month trip back home, and returned with a ton of pics of those open-air markets. Virtually everything is available on a stick. She wouldn't touch any of it.
 
People eat all sorts of stuff. In America people eat gator, turtles, rattle snake, possums etc the difference is cooking. I have had goat,squirrel, gator and rattle snake but it was cooked thoroughly. I grew up eating rabbit and lamb which by some would be considered gross. In South east Asia eating raw or lightly cooked meat is a norm which doesn't kill all the germs.
 
cb1111 said:
No, it is a choice. When I was in China, our hosts made it a point of offering us the most disgusting (to us) stuff like sea slugs. They also put away an amazing amount of alcohol.
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I mean, I can understand if they're accustomed to that - you develop affinities for things. What I can't understand is someone preferring a slug or centipede or some other such critter over, say, chicken or fish or beef. I can't imagine WANTING to eat insects. That's why I'm assuming that some of it is money-related, given the horrible 'wages' many of them are subjected to. My Chinese co-worker that I mentioned elsewhere grew up in China with that stuff and is repulsed by it. Perhaps that's from living here in the States for many years.
 
RoyBell said:
My kids think it's acceptable to bring friends over because they show no signs of being sick :rolleyes:

Why is this so difficult for everyone to comprehend?
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Perhaps because none of us has ever been in circumstances like these. They have no reference point. Heck, I don't either.
 
RoyBell said:
My kids think it's acceptable to bring friends over because they show no signs of being sick :rolleyes:

Why is this so difficult for everyone to comprehend?
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thennen said:
Perhaps because none of us has ever been in circumstances like these. They have no reference point. Heck, I don't either.
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Yes, it is a huge problem that most can't comprehend. 25% of "carriers" will never show symptoms and you can go from well to dead in no time.

I spoke with a colleague who got off a ventilator a few days ago. Three weeks ago she woke with what she thought was a cold. By that afternoon, she was starting a cough. By evening, she was having a cough she couldn't control and went to the ER. Oxygen helped and she was admitted and tested. The next morning she appeared a bit better but still felt lousy. By early afternoon, she was intubated on a ventilator. She stayed that way for almost two weeks. She's back home now but says the pain was awful and she never got so sick, so quickly. She is in her early 40's and a marathoner, so not in a high risk category.

The "average" patient in ICU is on a ventilator for three or four days - the COVID-19 patient is on a ventilator for at least double that time.
 
I painted the bathroom over the last couple days because if Im going to die from the coronaz I want it to look nice since Ill be in there lots.
 
I haz an inferred thermometer (and it kinda looks like a handgun. Word!). My wife and I are takin our temporal temperatures a few times a day to see if we goz the cornaz.
 
cb1111 said:
Yes, it is a huge problem that most can't comprehend. 25% of "carriers" will never show symptoms and you can go from well to dead in no time.

I spoke with a colleague who got off a ventilator a few days ago. Three weeks ago she woke with what she thought was a cold. By that afternoon, she was starting a cough. By evening, she was having a cough she couldn't control and went to the ER. Oxygen helped and she was admitted and tested. The next morning she appeared a bit better but still felt lousy. By early afternoon, she was intubated on a ventilator. She stayed that way for almost two weeks. She's back home now but says the pain was awful and she never got so sick, so quickly. She is in her early 40's and a marathoner, so not in a high risk category.

The "average" patient in ICU is on a ventilator for three or four days - the COVID-19 patient is on a ventilator for at least double that time.
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That's good news that she is well now. I do have to ask if you know? Now that she has recovered does it give her some sort of resistance to another covid infection or is she still susceptible to it? In other words, Does one build immunity to the virus after being infected and surviving?
 
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spartacus said:
That's good news that she is well now. I do have to ask if you know? Now that she has recovered does it give her some sort of resistance to another covid infection or is she still susceptible to it? In other words, Does one build immunity to the virus after being infected and surviving?
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I've seen news articles like this. People who recovered do seem to have antibodies. Can you catch the coronavirus twice? You'''ll probably be immune — for some time, at least
 
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