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Are there any regular Grofers users here? How good is Grofers? Most online reviews I read say they have poor service. Also how good are their own brands (Mother's Choice, Family Farm, Happy Day pasta, etc)?

RIP. We have lost a truly great artist.

Thanks guys for your wishes. Lots of leftovers so will be having the same today.

Wife baked cake for our wedding anniversary. For dinner Pav Bhaji Veg Biryani

I used to live alone and had a proper kitchen (except for fridge). The mess food was terrible so I tried cooking for myself. Most of the cooking techniques I learnt whenever I would return home, and the rest I learnt by following online recipes and experimenting.

It's Pune. What do you expect?

Earlier this morning I went to buy some medicines for my father (for high blood sugar, cholesterol etc.). The chemists we usually buy from didn't have any and we had to to wander around the city and check at 3-4 more before we found these medicines. I don't know how well medicine production and all related supply chains are operating right now but government needs to ensure that there is no effect on them due to lockdown. Later went to a kirana store and was surprised and happy to see that fresh bread is arriving daily now. Unforunately baking ingredients like yeast, baking soda/powder, etc. weren't available so any baking plans in the immediate future would have to be put on hold.

I think they are using 60 grammes of cooked noodles as the serving size. Cooked noodles are mostly (60-70%) water. 60 g is nowhere close to the average serving size which is usually between 200 - 300 g. Sneaky and dishonest marketing I would say.

I find that hard to believe. Since noodles are made from flour, they should have high carbohydrate content. I'll have to check the labels next time I eat it. I searched online and the carbohydrate content varies from 37 to 45 g for a 60 g pack. Google Image search: Chings secret label

There may be PR involved but their numbers don't lie. They are among the top states in every single health indicator and far better than the Indian average. Even in this pandemic, their death rate is extremely good compared to everyone else. Government mismanagement a myth. A lot of mismanagement happens due to corruption and vested interests, not because of govt. inability. Sometimes government is constrained by politics. A lot of facilities are poorly managed simply because of low funding. There are many government departments, PSUs and other government institutions that do an excellent job. There are lot of different ways govt. can go about increasing its stake in healthcare. Nationalising some key hospitals is just one of the ways. They could also create autonomous bodies to run hospitals, or enter into public-private partnerships. All the western European countries have diverse models that each work best for them. Middle class people might feel comfortable now because normal (non-critical) healthcare looks affordable now, but that might not be the case few years down the line.

That is true. A lot of these deaths could have been avoided if we had better government medical facilities. Case in point is Kerala, which has very good medical facilities and they have kept the deaths low, while also preventing spread of the disease. Middle class and even working class people prefer to go to private clinics but situations like this show why we need good government hospitals and in enough numbers to serve most of the population. At the moment, private healthcare is afforable but as our country gets richer, we don't want to go the America way. Govt. won't get a better opportunity to nationalise some of the important private hospitals than this.

Please don't spread panic. This disease can be fatal to those with severe symptoms and lack of medical care but a vast majority of people who get corona don't have any symptoms at all. At the moment this little bit of misinformation is causing a lot of harm to people. There are many pockets of people who believe that testing positive for corona means certain death. Many villages are treating families who are in home quarantine or any people helping them out like outcasts.

Because it still has a lot of cases right now.

None released yet. This is from 1 week ago. https://english.lokmat.com/maharashtra/covid-19-maharashtra-intends-to-give-some-relaxation-to-green-orange-zone/ Mumbai and its surrounding districts, Pune, Nagpur, Nashik, Nagar, Sangli will obviously stay red.

Germany Health Minister announces that their coronavirus reproduction rate has fallen below 0.7. Lockdown will be slowly eased now. https://www.deutschland.de/en/news/outbreak-has-become-manageable

Marble cake we made in the afternoon.

Lunch today. Dal vada, fried prawns and surmai with bhakari. Making a cake right now, will post in some time.

If you can afford it, take a private test or go to any corona health centres that local govt. bodies are operating now. Be careful as it might be possible that you aren't infected now and might come into contact with an infected person there. If anyone in your house shows symptoms, call local authorities immediately.

From an economic standpoint, China is very capitalist. Very little communism left in China except for the fact that they are authoritarian. Also, mentioning "communism is bad" is not a good response to someone pointing the flaws of capitalism as if we have only 2 options. Soviet Union fell almost 30 years ago and not one country is interested in going towards communism now. This communism paranoia has turned usa into cofortably the world's worst first world country today.

Capitalism is extremely flawed but it has pulled more people out of poverty in the last 50 years than any other system in human history. China and India went from dirt poor to major world economies. There are a lot of problems with extreme unregulated capitalism and a government's job is to control it directly and indirectly. Western European countries manage to do a good balance of both welfare state and free market capitalism. Where our country has failed specifically is a poorly managed and very corrupt PDS system that allows people to starve and not recognising health as a basic human right at all, which the rest of the world has been doing since the 2nd World War. Our network of govt. hospitals is too small to make any difference and many are poorly run. Even poor people have to go to private doctors. Labour laws are also not enforced and workers are usually underpaid for the workd they do. That leads to a widening gap between rich and poor.

USA is a poor role model to look up to. I hope we won't become more like them over the next few decades.

Various long distance trains start at Bombay Central, Bandra, LTT (Kurla), CST, Dadar, Panvel. Apart from that they stop at Borivali, Vasai Road, Thane, Diva, Kalyan. If there are rumours of trains starting again, crowds could form anywhere among these.

Is this specific to March or do such shootings happen throughout the year?

That doesn't make sense. Both are run by the same party.

What you are saying sounds like rubbish. Post sources if you have. Antibodies from milk last for only a few months. For permanent immunity baby must learn to develop its own antibodies. That only happens if the baby is exposed to the disease or vaccinated. Anti vaccine movement in usa is strongest in white middle class households. Being vaccinated for other diseases doesn't make one immune to Covid. Previous generations having or not having access to healthcare or vaccines doesn't change people's reaction to the virus. Black communities in usa are a social construct. Almost all of them are mixed race with European as well as African ancestry.