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Lastpointe said:
I am actually surprised that bulk shopping is allowed. I would have expected it not to be in the same way restaurants can’t have buffets. Can’t have people breathing over food, handling food, the lids, who knows if they touch the ingredients

wouldnt shop that way right now
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I probably wouldn’t either, if there was more than the one case in all of NS right now. I was going to get my refills on spices before the next covid wave. If you compare it to grocery stores- they also have their produce out and you take it yourself, without gloves.
 
I am thinking the buffet thing is more about people pilling up next to eachother. And that you couldn’t exchange the scoops that quickly after each person
 
Mrs.Anteater said:
First time I have been to Bulk Barn since January or so. You enter an disinfect your hand. You are given gloves and explained the rules. The rules are: you use a new scoop for every thing you get. There are plenty of scoops around and you leave the used ones in a bag that is set in your cart. The cheap plastic gloves make it a bit slippery and needs getting used to. I am not sure, why the gloves, as disinfecting and using scoops only once should do the trick.Maybe because you open up the bins and they can’t disinfect them after you touched them. It seemed a bit over the top. I am interested if this is the same in other Provinces?
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My bulk barn had the sanitizer and gloves but the weren't very strict about it. Just reminded people if they didn't sanitize. Still have a scoop for each bin as always. I mainly went because it's the best place around here to get raw peanuts, which Mrs. M needs for a couple Chinese dishes.
 
I can understand using extra care getting honey or sticky fruit, but grains and things that get cooked are probably ok.
 
Lastpointe said:
I am actually surprised that bulk shopping is allowed. I would have expected it not to be in the same way restaurants can’t have buffets. Can’t have people breathing over food, handling food, the lids, who knows if they touch the ingredients

wouldnt shop that way right now
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They never closed here. The employees were doing all the doling out when things were quite restrictive, plus curbside was an option. Bulk really isn't any different than most other food when it's employees doing it. I haven't been to know what it's like now and what has changed, am considering doing a curbside order though.
 
I was thinking of getting coconut oil at Bulk Barn because it's half the price at most - it's "scoop yourself". I don't eat it from there, I put it in the bath - but then I remembered covid:( I don't know. I haven't been since before covid. I think I still have a $15 gift certificate I got from my mom for Christmas, a stocking stuffer, because I used to get a few things there. It's probably expired, if I can find it. But I doubt I'll go there right now. It's downtown and out of my way these days.
 
Given the "shape" of all important indicators in a worldwide pandemic, such as hospitalizations, ICU utilization, and deaths, "the pandemic is fundamentally over."
 
Ritafee said:
Given the "shape" of all important indicators in a worldwide pandemic, such as hospitalizations, ICU utilization, and deaths, "the pandemic is fundamentally over."
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Seriously? Have you seen what is happening in Ontario and Quebec in particular?
 
Northwind said:
Seriously? Have you seen what is happening in Ontario and Quebec in particular?
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Occupancy rates are hovering around 90 per cent at many of the large hospitals in Ontario. At Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre in Toronto, occupancy has been just over 100 per cent over the past two weeks, said Ru Taggar, executive vice-president and chief nursing and health professions executive. “We are back at the same level of activity that we had before COVID," she said.
In Quebec acute care in hospitals is overburdened. The waiting list for surgeries, built up because of pandemic restrictions in hospitals, is now 92,000 names long and emergency departments are operating at 130-per-cent capacity.
 
Northwind said:
Seriously? Have you seen what is happening in Ontario and Quebec in particular?
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Bars and restaurants must shut down earlier and all strip clubs in Ontario will be closed, Premier Doug Ford said Friday, as the province attempts to stop a recent surge in COVID-19 rates. Ford said the week-to-week increase in virus rates is concerning and new rules need to be implemented to reduce transmission in high-risk businesses.
 
Ritafee said:
Bars and restaurants must shut down earlier and all strip clubs in Ontario will be closed, Premier Doug Ford said Friday, as the province attempts to stop a recent surge in COVID-19 rates. Ford said the week-to-week increase in virus rates is concerning and new rules need to be implemented to reduce transmission in high-risk businesses.
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I don't understand what point you are trying to make.
 
Ritafee said:
You asked me if I had seen what was happening in Ontario that is what I found.
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I said that in response to your assertion that the pandemic is over. Have you happened to notice how many new cases there are in Ontario and Quebec lately? Or are you of the belief that it's all fake news designed to scare and control us?
 
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