Well our little town(12-14k pop) is going fucking nuts. Last couple of day we have run out of toilet paper like everyone else. Rice is starting to go. The flour my wife(indian dot) uses to make rotti has been sold out. FFS people.
Our town is smaller but the super Walmart does serve the area, so probably about the same total as you. I did a grocery pickup order this morning for pickup right now and was limited as to what I could choose due to stuff being out of stock. It got worse through the day and they were out of a lot of things on my list. I made a huge mistake delaying the pickup time. I did pull the trigger on a bidet sprayer because fuck this noise. I have a reasonable amount on hand but if they keep selling out I won't have any when we need it.
Interesting article on the Coronavirus: https://medium.com/@tomaspueyo/coronavirus-act-today-or-people-will-die-f4d3d9cd99ca
ok this might be a dumb question, but what the hell are they gonna do with the stadiums and stuff they built for it? Aren’t they relying on the income from the games to help pay for it before they inevitably go broke anyway like every other place that’s ever held the Olympics? Would it be remotely feasible to move the games back a year?
They should put it off for a year or two. It's up to the Olympic committee. One would think they would approve it.
I feel terrible for all the athletes training to peak at the right time this year, then they have to put it on hold. Maybe they won’t even be the same in a year or two. That window is so very narrow. Two years of more training for a runner... hell, my knees hurt just thinking about that!
Justin Trudeau’s wife has coronavirus. This is just depressing now. I’m sure they’re taking all protective measures available and she still gets it. Not sure this is the time to get political, and don’t really want to with that one. I just hope everyone gets better and that there was something more I could do beyond keeping myself, my family, and my work place (a school) as a sane and sanitary as possible. It’s such a helpless feeling right now. And we don’t even have the virus — yet — in our city. The neighbor I revived, who’s still in rehab now 4 months later — can only speak with her husband on the phone. They put the place on lockdown, which in my opinion was the correct call but it’s still horrible for the families and patients involved. Right now everyone is starving for answers and there aren’t many. Appreciative more than ever this board is around to provide some semblance of both community and levity when it seems like both are disappearing faster than toilet paper.
Why? It is fairly common for people to get a cold or flu during cold & flu season. Unless I've forgotten that Trudeau is married to a 90 year old with a weak immune system, she'll be fine.
I don't get it, the Chinese took a month off (two weeks for Chinese New Years two weeks for the Virus), is a months long vacation here really that radical out of whack idea? Hell many places in Europe go on summer holiday for weeks/months. If we have to pause for a few weeks is it really worth the frantic madness we've seen? Edit: Also I was laughed and mocked out of my house for buying a attachable bidet . Well well well who’s laughing now?!?
All I want to do is my normal weekly grocery shopping, and get ready for a St Patty’s day party we’re hosting tomorrow. I thought the store opened at 7:30 but it doesn’t- now I look like a crazy person standing on a huge line waiting for the store to open.
That sucks. Now you’re forced to look like one of Those People who line up for Magnolia cupcakes or Pinks hotdogs. Standing in a line is the most unnerving, overrated thing ever. If it’s for anything other than a roller coaster it makes most people feel like a schmuck. ...the ones who don’t will stand for three hours for a fucking hotdog.
Not panicking here, haven't yet worried if I'll run out of toilet paper, but if food supplies run out or we can't go get any, I've done the following... I bought about 700 rounds of ammo for a couple of new guns we've got, but I was planning on doing that anyway. And before you call me a prepper, that brings the total amount of ammo in the house to about 900, I've never kept huge amounts of the stuff. I'll probably go stock up on fish hooks and line, stuff to make up trot lines. We live on a lake, between the fish, fowl, deer and turkeys, we'd probably eat better than if it was business as usual. My greenhouse got blown to bits by a storm, still need to fix that. Shit, that'd be a nice little life. Hop on the sailboat and go catch catfish for dinner. Just waiting for someone to tell me not to go to work. I just hope my wife's medications continue to be available, she would not fare well without her prescriptions for very long. And I hope the people that keep the electricity on keep going to work, it's about to get warm and I'd like the house to remain air conditioned.
As we speak I’ve rented a back-hoe to dig myself a flaming moat, which I will be stocking with fireproof sharks. I’ve trained my daughter to knife-fight and she is instructed to kill ANYBODY who comes near the house including the paperboy. Don’t tread on me.
I’m in almost the exact same boat as you. I don’t even wanna know how much ammo I have, but suffice to say I’d be able to still comfortably target shoot on weekends even if ammo dries up for a bit. Live on a creek, one of those 30 lbs cats could keep us happy for a while. I’m making coffee right now and looking at a pretty good sized 8 pointer in the front yard. Again, enough meat to share with neighbors. only thing I’m slightly worried about is my medication. I have enough for a month right now, but last week I started cutting the doses to see how I’d react if I did need to ration it out. Figured worst case I could go back to regular prescribed doses while everything is still available. Running out is a very real concern that could have potentially horrible consequences (one of the meds is anti-brain seizure, and if I ran out of that I’d die). So far I’m doing great, and might actually keep it this way after this all blows over. My larger concern is for my extended family and the people who work with me.