It's always the same thing we are hearing here about US (but also UK) food here: the more unhealthy & processed, the cheaper.

This post was edited by Saucisson6000 on May 23 2020 11:08am

That's a good point. Just look at the ingredients list on any pre-prepared or processed food in the store and you'll find sugar there. I still remember the lie they tried to sell us with the "Food Pyramid" where carbs (including very sugary foods like breakfast cereals and white bread) were supposed to be 50% of one's diet whereas fat was considered bad and only meant to be 5%.

This post was edited by EA7 on May 23 2020 10:54am

Big pharma, chemical, and food companies sponsoring the FDA to peddle the food they manufacture.

What is "cross immunity"?

This expression is used to designate an immunity acquired during a first infection and which will protect later against another infectious agent (virus or bacteria). Generally, an antibody is specific. But sometimes, certain antibodies can fight against bacteria or viruses of similar species. Thus, individuals may have acquired protection against Sars-CoV-2 by having been exposed in the past to other coronaviruses causing common colds.

This hypothesis, which remains to be verified, was raised by American researchers in the specialized journal Cell. According to them, 40 to 60% of the population could be immunized against Covid-19 without even having been exposed to it. If this hypothesis is confirmed, Sars-CoV-2 would no longer have many people to infect.

well said my friend!

This debate isnt foreign to Germany either. The gist of it is that if you know what you're doing, then a sufficiently healthy diet is actually slightly cheaper than eating fast food/pre-prepared food all week long. But the situation might be different in the U.S., I'll give you that. Food is indeed unusually cheap in Germany, so it might be us and not the United States who are the outlier in this regard.

This post was edited by Black XistenZ on May 23 2020 12:34pm

I've read a hypothesis a couple of weeks ago, it was meant to explain why we saw so little difference between the outcomes of countries which went for a super strict lockdown and those which went for a soft one.

The idea was that the R_0 of Sars-CoV-2 is actually not in the ballpark of 2-3, it instead is about 5 or 6, but with around half the population not susceptible due to cross-immunities.

It's only cheaper if you consider your time and taste to be worthless

Rich people only tip if there is an audience, if they can't impress anyone by doing it they won't bother.

Australia pretty much banned corn syrup.
Our Pepsi tastes worse but our coke is better.

This post was edited by Plaguefear on May 23 2020 02:20pm

Time is a fair point, taste isn't.

Self-prepared food tastes better than fast food, which is overpriced, nutritionally deficient, mediocre tasting garbage.