Fake News and Scams

You Tube is not working for me again.  It was working on Friday, but not on Saturday or today.  I thought I had it solved about three weeks ago, but apparently not.

I have heard that there is a lot of fake coronavirus news going around, and also some scams like people trying to sell you a fake cure or get their hands on your stimulus check.  Of course that doesn't mean that it's all fake, but keep your grain of salt handy.  We generally trust our local NBC and CBS affiliate TV stations.  Of the two, NBC seems to have the more reliable weather reports, so that's the one we usually watch.  They have been running a banner at the bottom of the screen during news hour with the latest numbers and other corona news.  Judging by that, Michigan might be turning the corner, with less than a thousand new cases and less than a hundred deaths per day for the last several days.  Apparently that's what passes for good news in these troubled times.

Like I said, Walmart is like Face Book, everybody complains about it, but they keep going there.  In the case of Face Book, I think everybody goes there because their friends go there.  With Walmart it's because it's relatively cheap and you can often get everything on your list in one store.  The bad part is that, if it's out of stock, they don't know if or when it will be back in stock.  That's the price you pay for the price you pay.  It was about a year ago when they first started showing empty shelf space.  Before that, if they were out of something, they quickly filled that space with a similar product, and they even had whole pallets of stuff in the aisles.  Somebody wrote a letter to the editor about it, claiming that the Walmarts in Petoskey and Charlevoix weren't having any trouble keeping their shelves full, so it must be a Cheboygan thing.  Like I said, it got much worse when the corona hit the fan, and it's not much better yet.  Meanwhile, the Walgreens across the street is advertising three brands of paper products in their sale flier.  I'll have to go there this week and see if they sell flour there.