Just came back from the store. Didn't really need to go but the library is closing

[captain queeg]

Figured I better stock up on reading material. And I wanted to get a little fresh produce. I got a few things and looked around. Sanitizer has been gone for awhile and a lot of other cleaning supplies were low so I picked up 1/2 gallon of bleach. There was TP there but pretty picked over and seemed more expensive than usual. I already got a 12 pak last week so didn’t need any. Lots of water being sold but what I noticed was the dried beans and rice were almost gone. That’s when I realized some people are preparing for months of isolation. Seems overly extreme to me but at least that sort of explained the TP stampede of some.

There are the two extremes; people preparing for the apocalypse and those who are completely ignoring it, still clingy to believing it a hoax. I’m sort of in the middle. Taking reasonable precautions and a have a couple weeks worth of food. But I guess at this point we really don’t know where it’s all going.

[Gothmog]

1. I went by the store and half of the people had toilet paper in their carts

I was able to get some bakery items including some pies. Today is pie day

[More_Cowbell]

2. If you have an e-reader, libraries have a lot of free e-books to borrow

No worries about going to a branch to check them out or return them.

[BusyBeingBest]

3. I feel like stores will gradually get restocked, to the point

where shopping might be closer to normal, UNLESS factories and trucking shut down. The Kellogg's plant stops making cereal? Dairies don't have truckers to deliver? Who knows where this goes eventually.

[Rorey]

4. There's so much uncertainty

I have joked to people that I was getting ready for the apocalypse, but I think that once we get past this stocking up stage, food availability won't be a problem. I hope I'm right. My issue is, of course, that I don't want to be in proximity to those who may be infected.

I'm a super early riser, usually, so I may see about going to a store at opening time next week. If the parking lot is full, I'll just turn around and go back home.

[kurtcagle]

5. Preppers taking this seriously

I was at a local grocery chain here in Western Washington. Ahead of me in line was a gentleman, lean, wiry, stubbly beard, could have been a walking advertisement for Survivalist Magazine. His cart held twenty-five pounds of beef steak, three boxes of bottled water, two large toilet paper rolls, wore surgical gloves and a mask around his neck.

When he finally headed off, the cashier and I exchanged glances as I loaded my normal grocery run.

"It's been a weird day, "she said." Most people are like you, but every so often we get Mad Max showing up."

The Trumpsters might be denying it, but the preppers are taking this very seriously.

[Skittles]

6. I try not to judge people

those who are seriously immune-compromised have a vested interest in doing EVERYTHING possible to avoid the virus, including stocking up not just because of perceived shortages, but to limit the number of times they need to venture to the store

[woodsprite]

7. I planned for 45 days. I figured if one of us got it

None of us should go out and about.