The Coronavirus thread

Quote: Mooseton

Well, if your humping dudes asses I think it’s clear who’s insane.

Don't knock it till you tried it

Quote: terapined

How Australia Saved Thousands of Lives While COVID Killed 1 Million Americans
https://www.nytimes.com/2022/05/15/world/australia/covid-deaths.html

No firewall version
https://www.yahoo.com/now/australia-saved-thousands-lives-while-120039853.html

Quote: missedhervee

There is a paywall, I cannot read the article.

Please, no more links to paywall sites like NYT; instead just cut and paste the article with a link at the end for source.

Thank you.

----the forum police

Sorry
I don't pay for NYT either
Too cheap :-)
I actually read the article on yahoo
Sometimes they post whole NYT articles of course giving NYT credit
I meant to copy the yahoo link and not the original source link
I'll pay closer attention next time

Quote: OnceDear

Don't knock it till you tried it

Do you feel the same way about scrapple?

Quote: AZDuffman

Do you feel the same way about scrapple?

No. I draw the line at pigs Ar53 :)

Taylor ham, aka pork roll, is better than scrapple.

Quote: missedhervee

Taylor ham, aka pork roll, is better than scrapple.

*Only known as pork roll*

I don't understand the whole Taylor Ham thing, in NJ some people insisted on calling it that, its just wrong.

I've seen it called both ways; I grew up in NJ, it was a regular on our table.

We always called it "pork roll."

After moving to south Jersey i learned of another local product never seen anywhere else; people called it "Take A toast" or "Boost."

http://www.takaboost.com/

I sometimes order a bunch of authentic Philly soft pretzels from https://www.atasteofphilly.com/

Check it out, all ye who yearn for a taste of the once-familiar...

Quote: missedhervee

I've seen it called both ways; I grew up in NJ, it was a regular on our table.

We always called it "pork roll."

After moving to south Jersey i learned of another local product never seen anywhere else; people called it "Take A toast" or "Boost."

http://www.takaboost.com/

I sometimes order a bunch of authentic Philly soft pretzels from https://www.atasteofphilly.com/

Check it out, all ye who yearn for a taste of the once-familiar...

I grew up in South Jersey, I have honestly never heard of Boost (looking at where its sold, the only place that I know that I have gone to is the Lucky 7 -which is kind of a Wawa knockoff type place- in Mount Holly, and I only remember that because its literally right next to the local armory). But, I am not a huge soda person, so craft sodas are not something that I would seek out.

But, I have always heard Pork Roll. Taylor Ham just sounds so bizarre, whenever I have heard a "controversy" over which to use, I didn't think anyone actually used that. I have always heard a story (no clue if its true) that sometime during WWI era there was some new Food Regulation that required ham to meet certain characteristics to be labeled ham, and since Taylor Ham was not actually ham they had to rebrand (assuming this is true, nobody who is alive should still be used to calling it Taylor Ham).

I love Philly food, but that links seems like a scam 130 dollars for a 12 pack of sliced pork roll? I am pretty sure you can buy multiple deli sized rolls for that price.... And, the soft pretzels over 100 dollars for 2 dozen? Even at overpriced boardwalk prices you can buy one from a vender for 1-2 dollars fresh. Seems like this site is taking advantage of nostalgia. (Heck order more than one item and its probably cheaper to just get a flight to Philly for the day....) -OK and 60 dollars for a gallon size of banana peppers, what, just checked the Walmart App and its like 3.27 for a decent brand.... - That site just seems more than a little price bloated.

The other Souther NJ/ Philly area thing that people seem to like is Birch Beer (kind of similar to root beer), but also as not a soda person, I never liked it, but I know some people love to buy it when in the area.

As if Trump was such a great leader concerning coronavirus. NOT.

Pro-Trump counties continue to suffer far higher COVID death tolls

Quote:

Even with widely available vaccines and newly effective treatments, residents of counties that went heavily for Donald Trump in the last presidential election are more than twice as likely to die from COVID-19 than those that live in areas that went for President Biden. That's according to a newly-updated analysis from NPR, examining how partisanship and misinformation are shaping the pandemic.

NPR examined COVID deaths per 100,000 people in roughly 3,000 counties across the U.S. from May 2021, the point at which most Americans could find a vaccine if they wanted one. Those living in counties that voted 60% or higher for Trump in November 2020 had 2.26 times the death rate of those that went by the same margin for Biden. Counties with a higher share of Trump votes had even higher mortality rates.

https://www.npr.org/2022/05/19/1098543849/pro-trump-counties-continue-to-suffer-far-higher-covid-death-tolls