I got some last week at Costco. I must have hit it at just the right time. Toilet paper lasts pretty long in our house with only my wife and I needing it. We didn't have an issue with stock earlier in the year, but we did with paper towels.
I just counted in my basement we have 87 rolls. All from amazon. Maybe I am hoarding. I have now staggered our delivery schedule to once every two months. Costco has also been out of paper towels for the last month and a half. Maybe I should use amazon to hoard them also.
I work part time at Publix and our supply of paper towels and especially toilet paper hasn't been that bad over the last few months. Both still get hit harder than normal, but we can at least keep a decent amount of the big name brands on the shelves. About the only thing that we can't really still keep in stock are the Clorox and Lysol wipes, but we do always have 1 or 2 of the no-name brands in stock that we only started carrying a few months ago. Of course, I haven't worked since last Saturday. Who knows what I'll see when I go in for my shift tonight.
If the virus was as deadly to 0-35 year olds as it was to 85+, the world would be colossally fucked. Our responses were too slow, and there was no political will to get anything done. We have blown every containment window. To answer your questions though- the numbers will not drop to be more in line with the flu, as this is a deadlier disease. It’s a bad base of comparison and pushes the wrong ideas. It sounds to me like the biggest issue with this disease is messaging, due mostly to political meddling. People don’t understand the scope of the issue, just that it has been messing with their lives for a frustratingly long amount of time. I get it, but unfortunately that attitude will make things worse. As it is now, data suggests deaths are still being underreported. I believe that once people see friends and family members get hit with it, the narrative will change, for example what happened with Chris Christie. We will see if that is enough to generate momentum. At the beginning of the pandemic, I felt that the response should have been handled locally rather than at the state level or nationally, with federal support wherever needed. Areas were asymmetrically hit, which led to people in the light areas feeling like it was a joke and all for nothing. We are at the point where I definitely think we will need federal mandates, and ideally support at the state and corporate level too. If you need a shot to go to work, hopefully people will step up. Not too many doctors and nurses complain about needing a flu shot when they work in a hospital. My .02.
On the flipside, though, a strong federal response might have reduced the lag time in adopting protocols at the local level. Not that we were ever going to get a strong federal response with the fuckwit who's in charge.
For sure, I’m definitely with you there. Having a playbook in place at the federal level to guide responses would have been invaluable. Instead, we got that it will be gone by Election Day (Any minute now?). Pretty infuriating when you think about the fact that there was indeed a preexisting playbook from the prior administration...
About two weeks ago our governor told everyone to stay at home because things were getting bad. It wasn't a mandate, but a strong suggestion. No one listened. So here is the headline from today: CORONAVIRUS: Nevada reports record-high 2,416 new cases Thursday, 15.6% positivity We're fucked. We'll be going into full lock down in the next few days. My niece had invited me to Thanksgiving (She lives in a smaller city just north of Vegas), I declined. She has 4 small children and her husband works all over the place in Utah. I've already had it, but it has been mutating, so who knows? Not to mention that I would be carrying money and who knows what else that may have the virus just waiting for a host.
You can see it the most minor things here. We have the app that immediately notifies you if any school in the district has a positive COVID hit. Usually it’s one case. Then two weeks later, the same school will have 1-3 more kids. This is in an all-masked, constantly sanitized and locked-down environment. When some nose-thumbing sack of anuses decides to throw a 300-plus wedding or rave or whatever, that’s a potential genocide. Consider one of those careless party goers to be a long-term care nurse. And considering every single other person is also a careless fuck who willingly showed up to this mess... the butterfly effects are horrific. The message needs to be more simple: “We are LOSING because of careless, ignorant idiots.”
Pfizer applied for emergency use of the vaccine with the FDA. If they get it, limited distribution could begin in December. They estimate having 50 million doses available by the end of the year. Apparently Big Pharma has its place in the world after all.
That would be awesome news, I would guess that gets pushed through and if it's as effective as they say it would be a huge help.
I'm going to be working COVID as of December 1st. They stipulated it's also for "Operation Warp Speed", so..... This is going to be fun. So much for Christmas.
....Tits, then. Or asses. Or vaginas. I'm getting emails about the vaccines now, so looks like shit is about to go down. I think we're getting close enough we need to start planning for distribution, control, etc. Hopefully that's the case. However, looking at case counts, hospitalizations and deaths.....we're still going to be working on the places that have been overwhelmed.
My test came back negative today. Im debating if I want to go in for the second half of the day. Once my symptoms cleared after 3 days of antibiotics I knew this wasnt anything more than a sinus infection. I got fuck all done around the house while off too. I forgot how lazy I am when not given a strict schedule.