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OhNo-Really

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Sat Mar 7, 2020, 03:03 AM Mar 2020

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napi21

(45,806 posts)
1. What is meaNT BT "EVERYTHING"? If you're talking food, NO, if clothing, no. There will
Sat Mar 7, 2020, 03:18 AM
Mar 2020

probably be a shortage of new spring clothes, misc. stuff-no. There's nothing I can think of that is a necessity that wouldn't be available. The shortages might be in items that are made in China and other smaller countries like Vietnam, etc. where we've outsourced most of our clothing and lots of miscellaneous items that aren't really NEEDED RIGHT NOW.

The biggest problems I see many hourly workers being laid off because their jobs aren't needed, like dock workers when the ships from China aren't coming into port, housekeeping not needed when the hotels are closed.

OhNo-Really

(3,985 posts)
4. No this is about medical supplies, hospital capacity & medical staff
Sat Mar 7, 2020, 07:54 AM
Mar 2020

The exponential infection rate must be slowed down otherwise treatment options will be woefully lacking.

uponit7771

(90,335 posts)
2. K&R, people aren't calculating the infection rate of this virus which puts people down. This isn't
Sat Mar 7, 2020, 03:21 AM
Mar 2020

... the common cold or common flu, its something that can scare lungs of healthy folk.

fleabiscuit

(4,542 posts)
3. That's alarming... nt
Sat Mar 7, 2020, 03:33 AM
Mar 2020
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