pics of Californians stocking up

[Demovictory9]

pic heavy article in daily fail

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-8061147/Coronavirus-panic-grips-California-anxious-shoppers-stock-supplies.html

[Takket]

1. the guy in the first photo........

had enough toilet paper and paper tower to last several months, and enough bottled water to last a week.

Prioritize.

[sl8]

16. That would be me, too.

If you have access to safe tap water and suitable containers, you don't need to buy bottled water. The small bottles are convenient for travelling and such, but you can fill small bottles yourself, as well. I can see where the pre-bottled water might make sense for short-term, emergency distribution, but I don't plan to do that.

DIY toilet paper, on the other hand <wink>, is beyond me, and the substitutes I've tried leave something to be desired.

On edit:

Oddly enough, the TP substitutes I've tried also leave something not to be desired.

[2naSalit]

20. Could have a large family at home...

or intending to share with others.

I know some who have emergency supplies for themselves and their neighbors so there's that too.

I go shopping in a couple days, I'll go to Costco but I don't plan to buy any of those items anyway! I'll be looking for perishables that I can convert to dehydrated or other storable goods, we have private well water here.

[jmbar2]

2. I started stocking up last week, a little at a time

Panic buying will definitely make it worse if deliveries are slowed. I don't understand why people are stocking up on water. The ecological cost of all those bottles is very high.

[tanyev]

8. I don't get the water, either.

This isn’t like a weather crisis that has the potential for loss of electricity or contaminated water supply. If there is a structural breakdown so severe that those things are affected we are well and truly f*cked and a couple cases of bottled water won’t make a bit of difference.

[NutmegYankee]

13. Some may have well water.

I have fairly good well water, but some choose to drink bottled water.

[2naSalit]

21. I have well water

but I don't drink it unless it's been boiled. I buy drinking water. But I'll get most of my stuff in the closer town than over at Costco on the other side of the pass. I think I'll do better getting most of what I need, which isn't much, locally, less competition for most things. Everybody is heading to Costco and big box places from several counties so they'll be packed and short on supplies. Since it's a long drive to get to one, and the gas to do the round trip, I'm better off just getting convertible perishables when I go to Costco.

It would surely be different if I had a family to support.

[Merlot]

3. The Costco pictures just look like a regular day at Costco

[Demovictory9]

11. not this one

[shanti]

22. I try to never

shop at Costco on a weekend. During the week, it's just old people and stay at home moms, mostly. In and out. No lines at all. I was just there last week, before the panic, and people were buying a shit ton of water and tp.

[2naSalit]

23. In California, yeah. ...nt

[dalton99a]

4. Damn.

[chia]

5. I live in SoCal, haven't seen any lines like this anywhere I've shopped

I don't know if in the end not panicking will work out for the good or the worse.

[Baclava]

6. Well, it'll all come in handy after THE BIG ONE hits, can never have enough TP

And if u wrap a roll around your mouth and nose 7-8 times it would work like a paper mask, mostly

[Maeve]

7. That is just nuts

I remember a toilet paper shortage caused by Johnny Carson making a joke about it one night--stay calm and wash your hands!

But I suppose doing something calms some panic

[defacto7]

14. Definitely there's an emotional aspect that we shouldn't overlook.

Fear makes people feel helpless and acting on it helps. A little overreaction isn't always bad. That's not panic.

[Polly Hennessey]

9. Looks like a regular Saturday at Costco.

I often wonder what people do with all of the paper towels.

[Demovictory9]

10. they go fast if you have pets

[GoCubsGo]

17. A lot of people use way more than they need for the job.

The same goes for toilet paper. I see it in spin class all the time. When it comes time to wipe down the bikes after class, some people take half the roll of towels for a job that only takes two or three squares. It's a good part of the reason my gym and many other businesses switched to hand dryers in the rest rooms, too. Lots of waste.

[defacto7]

12. It's going to be a supply and distribution disruption if anything.

It's not like the electrical grid will go down or there's a nuclear winter. It's always good to have some water with or w/o a virus but it's not a long term necessity. It's having some extra food around in case you decide to stay in for a week or two. The rest would be things that are not high on the distribution chain like TP, animal food, lite meds like you'd have in a medical kit, alergy meds, cold comfort meds etc. Just make sure your normal supplies are covered ahead of time. Then think camping at home.

[GoCubsGo]

15. That guy with the cartload of Huggies is going to kill his family by Lysol poisoning.

Unless he's hoarding it to sell at grossly marked-up prices sometime down the road. Either that, or his kid has some wildly contagious gastrointestinal disease. But, seriously, plain, old vinegar likely does just as good a job of killing the virus as do all those toxic chemicals.

[2naSalit]

24. Either has a

publicly frequented business or maybe buying for resale?

Up here in Montana we have the Hutterites* and they market their farmwares in open markets and some stores, farmers' markets. A friend of mine, not fond of them but still, saw some of them buying bulk veggies at Costco then saw them selling re-bagged veggies at the farmer's market the next day at a jacked up price. Around here, the farmers' market is not bargain prices by any stretch.


*A religious group who live isolated much like Amish, they mostly speak a German dialect and the women dress like something out of the Handmaid's Tale.

[GoCubsGo]

27. I'm betting the latter.

Either that, or he's just really panicking. Which, considering the amount of disposable diapers on his cart, is the more likely scenario. Most likely, he's just terrified that his kids are going to get sick, but doesn't understand that the Lysol, in those quantities, will probably do him and his family far more harm than the virus.

[2naSalit]

28. Good point.

I have been around Lysol addicts, it's not sustainable.

[Wellstone ruled]

30. Have to say,you are

one in millions who figured out the Hoot's and Costco. BTW,first of the month and SNAP funds on the EBT Cards.

[2naSalit]

33. Right?

I didn't figure that out, my buddy's wife did. And for sure on EBT day! I'm surprised they don't hit up the food bank but most of the ones that come around here live at least two counties away, you kind of need to show you live in the county to get stuff from the food bank around here.

[Wellstone ruled]

34. Try to avoid any Grocery shopping from the

1st to the 10th of the month unless necessary. Fortunate for our City,the Food Bank is funded for many years from a Endowment from one of the Casino owners Wife. And the rules are very liberal as to who may use it.

[MineralMan]

18. Well, I did some re-stocking of my staple foods shelves yesterday.

We had recently donated everything to a food drive. I keep about two weeks worth of non-perishable foods in my pantry closet. It needed updating anyhow.

[LiberalArkie]

19. Looks like us in Arkansas when someone has seen a snowflake

[2naSalit]

25. LOL!

I have driven through your state when there was snow. The Interstate was empty, we drivers out there would discuss the wide open driving experience. We decided that everybody was too scared to go out driving anywhere. Of course, there were a few vehicles who slid off the pavement.

[LiberalArkie]

26. We usually get a couple of inches of ice followed by the deceptive furry snow for effect.

I was driving in early to work one day after a good blast. Doing about 35mph on the 2 lane from my house to work about 40 miles ahead. I was passed by a black SUV with blacked out windows doing about 65mph. I figured they had 4WD as a little down the road I saw a lot of pine trees shaking. Figured they spun out and headed to the woods. As I go closer to work in Little Rock, I was puttering along beside the WalMart and a guy on a 4wheeler was getting ready to turn in, I guess for more beer as his left leg was in a cast and his right arm was in a cast. He was doing about 40 faster than me in my car. I guess he was trying for some more casts. Fun day.

[Iliyah]

29. That looks like Costco on the weekend . . .

Best day for me is a Tuesday a week after 1st and 15th.

[Texasgal]

31. What's up with all the dang

toilet paper?


Good GRIEF!

[roamer65]

32. The bottled water hoarding is utterly STUPID.

Just boil regular tap water if you are that worried. Then cool it in the fridge.