Lockdown diaries - COVID-19 matters!
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Best of luck. I know of 2 old people that got it and recovered. They did however have headaches and fever for a few days but they did get through. Im hoping this is the same for you.
As for the idiots, im with you there as the argument i received the other day from, let me just call her Stupid, was that her friend runs 20kms a day so he cant possibly have covid even though his results were positive....
The blood, pressure thing. Get a blood pressure monitor, i personally went for sphygmomanometer and stethoscope but i do know how to use them. Stressing about it wont make it go down - it will have the opposite effect.
Try exercising more regularly (If you are not already) and making some better food choices for a week and see if you get results. It took me two weeks to get my pressure down slightly but I suspect its all stress and the reduced exercise.
It is the silent killer so start recording your BP daily, when you wake up and maybe before bed and have it checked out in a months time by a professional.
Scored a bottle of peach mampoer last Friday and had some guests over from up north , that will explain my absence from the forum for two days 
Forgot how potent that stuff can be , we were quite boisterous till about 3 o' clock Sunday morning.
Forgot how potent that stuff can be , we were quite boisterous till about 3 o' clock Sunday morning.
As long as you woke up in your own home then all is goodScored a bottle of peach mampoer last Friday and had some guests over from up north , that will explain my absence from the forum for two days
As long as you woke up in your own home then all is good
Waking up in your own home is overrated! In my drinking days, I once went out to buy some milk and woke up the next morning, sleeping on top of a Renault in Mooinooi. Was one hell of a kuier....
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Please let us know where we can buy this milk you speak of!
You may want to check the expiry date on that beer before you pay
https://www.businessinsider.co.za/a...ng-on-shelves-as-prohibition-continues-2020-7
15 Aug. 2020
"Once bottled, high-alcohol spirits – including whiskey and vodka – are considered shelf-stable. Bottles may carry dates on their packaging, but from a consumer point of view, all that matters is an unbroken seal.
That is less the case with beer.
"I'd say you probably have at least a year after the best-before date to drink it, but personally I wouldn't try it," one liquor store owner says. "Beer absolutely goes off, and it can be pretty horrible."
Beer is complex, so complex that the way it changes in the bottle is not entirely understood. But "nonbiological instability" can cause haze, foaming, and changes in flavour. Due to the way oxygen, carbohydrates, proteins, and other elements interact, temperature and light are particularly important in how long beer will actually be good for, and the extent to which changes may spoil the experience.
What that means will differ from product to product, brand to brand, and even store to store. Complaints about beer that has gone off, experts say, are few and far between. But never in modern brewing history has so much stock sat for so long on so many shelves across South Africa, so a grand experiment is about to take place.
And it will be up to buyers to watch out for trouble. Not all booze sellers even track expiry dates to being with, because they are so rarely an issue, liquor store owners say. Those who do are about to face a rough ride, as consumers demand instant satisfaction while supply lines are still catching up. The level of incentive to make sure they don't sell expired product?
"Zero," says one experienced liquor trader.
By anecdotal counts, anything between 5% and 10% of the short-life booze products currently on liquor store shelves may be close to, or past official expiry dates.
Interference by light is significantly reduced by brown and green glass bottles, or opaque cans. (Without UV blocking, beer can turn "skunky", though anti-UV coatings mean the actual colour of the glass is no longer that important.)
But during lockdown, several liquor store operators said, they didn't keep expensive fridges running: every beer was basically sitting on a room-temperature shelf, even if it was technically locked in a fridge.
https://www.businessinsider.co.za/a...ng-on-shelves-as-prohibition-continues-2020-7
15 Aug. 2020
"Once bottled, high-alcohol spirits – including whiskey and vodka – are considered shelf-stable. Bottles may carry dates on their packaging, but from a consumer point of view, all that matters is an unbroken seal.
That is less the case with beer.
"I'd say you probably have at least a year after the best-before date to drink it, but personally I wouldn't try it," one liquor store owner says. "Beer absolutely goes off, and it can be pretty horrible."
Beer is complex, so complex that the way it changes in the bottle is not entirely understood. But "nonbiological instability" can cause haze, foaming, and changes in flavour. Due to the way oxygen, carbohydrates, proteins, and other elements interact, temperature and light are particularly important in how long beer will actually be good for, and the extent to which changes may spoil the experience.
What that means will differ from product to product, brand to brand, and even store to store. Complaints about beer that has gone off, experts say, are few and far between. But never in modern brewing history has so much stock sat for so long on so many shelves across South Africa, so a grand experiment is about to take place.
And it will be up to buyers to watch out for trouble. Not all booze sellers even track expiry dates to being with, because they are so rarely an issue, liquor store owners say. Those who do are about to face a rough ride, as consumers demand instant satisfaction while supply lines are still catching up. The level of incentive to make sure they don't sell expired product?
"Zero," says one experienced liquor trader.
By anecdotal counts, anything between 5% and 10% of the short-life booze products currently on liquor store shelves may be close to, or past official expiry dates.
Interference by light is significantly reduced by brown and green glass bottles, or opaque cans. (Without UV blocking, beer can turn "skunky", though anti-UV coatings mean the actual colour of the glass is no longer that important.)
But during lockdown, several liquor store operators said, they didn't keep expensive fridges running: every beer was basically sitting on a room-temperature shelf, even if it was technically locked in a fridge.
I can't remember what store bought beer tastes like. So propably won't even notice.
Bought 2 courts for 80 bucks
just to refresh my taste buds
oh , those foamy suds
reminded me of days in pubs
and nights in clubs
So , rise your mugs
my cheerful buds !
just to refresh my taste buds
oh , those foamy suds
reminded me of days in pubs
and nights in clubs
So , rise your mugs
my cheerful buds !
ag man please
I once got on my bike to go for bread and milk
came back four days later.
My son carried on the tradition, got on a plane at Newcastle (UK) and got off in Ibiza. Had some coupons for the Tequila bar in the hotel and woke up a week later ...... back in Newcastle.
The South African Health Products Regulatory Authority (SAHPRA) recalled approval of SARS-CoV-2 antibody tests just 24 hours after they had issued it, citing the absence of a national testing algorithm as the reason. Regrettably, Lancet Laboratories can no longer offer this test until this algorithm is released by the Department of Health. Queries can be directed to Andrea Keyter @ SAHPRA. Thank you for your understanding.
Bread and purple milk sounds like a sure way to re-introduce the liver back to its former glory
What a book! Now that I know his family background and how he was raised, so much of his behaviour makes sense. This is truly a very interesting read.
Level 2 lockdown special.
Everybody's going crazy over air fryers when this is the real appliance to save 2020.
Is it just me or does everyone think now that we have level 2 that the virus has disappeared? People already having parties, walk around without masks, booking holidays etc?
Butcher Boys closed down?? That was our go-to joint every time we went to the Durban office, that and Palki.I feel your pain @Hooked. My favourite restaurant in Hillcrest (Butcher Boys) closed never to reopen again!
It is shocking that a restaurant that great was decimated by this screwed up event and the way government handled it.
She can blow it out her arse, the tobacco ban was a complete economic disaster fueled by nothing more than her personal agendas.
"Dlamini-Zuma said that now that there are beds and ventilators available, the sale of tobacco products is now allowed."
In my 20 years of smoking 2 packs a day did I ever needed a hospital bed or a ventilator. (Was most likely heading that way but thats another discussion). What difference would 5 months cold turkey have made?
Ironically, it's probably produced more occupants for those beds in future since most smokers I know smoked those dirt grub brands on the black market, and with the stress of every thing smoked more.
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