As in, several months. At least. Fucking hell. This is gonna get even more rough if it pushes into hurricane season like I'm afraid.
Grocery stores now limited to 50 people inside at a time. People are gonna riot. I’m staying the fuck away.
I'm somewhat glad I'm in a rural part of NY as the shutdown hasn't taken a huge toll daily life as of now. The state is completely shuttering after Sunday which isn't great, but the smaller communities are banding together and actually trying to help things not break down into a shit show. Up here we had a pretty bad natural disaster ~10 years ago that wiped out most of the towns in a 40 mile radius so people have been through similar events recently and have been pretty responsive to all of the mandates. My local Italian place is pumping out business and I've made sure to order from them twice this week. They started doing deliveries as well and are doing just pick up orders for everything else. They are probably busier then during normal times. I'm actually really surprised I haven't come down with anything yet. I work in an entertainment/hospitality industry with 1000's of people from all over the state coming and going every day. We finally shut at the beginning of the week, but there were literally people lined up to get into our place when the 500 person cap started. It was actually pretty insane to see people with walkers and on oxygen coming out in the midst of a pandemic affecting people with pre-existing conditions. People are not very bright.
I’ve found going to small town grocery stores just west of where I live still have stock and aren’t busy. At least not yet. There’s a new grocery store they built in anticipation of community growth so it’s on its own and apparently it’s secret is still safe, seeing that it still had all the things the fat Hoarders have been cleaning the shelves of.
I think the biggest risk is just plain stupidity. Our illustrious head of Border Control had symptoms and went to a Cabinet meeting, day or so later confirmed covid-19. Just read about a chidcare worker showing symptoms, went to work, next day confirmed covid-19. Maybe a baseball bat to the back of the head for anyone with a runny nose in public. And we're having a surge on pet adoptions.... Animal hair the cure for nasal irritation.
What I'm really afraid of is the possibility of quarantine being enforced, and then I won't be able to feed my dogs. They live at my shop, about 15 miles from my house. And I've got a lot of expensive equipment/ tools there. I've already stocked up on beans, rice, etc. (and YES, I have toilet paper; Jungle Julia and I always buy one of the big packs at Costco, and believe me, I know how to make toilet paper last; I've been to prison. ) It's not like I'm going to be going out-and-about for the hell of it; these days, I just got from home, to work, to my shop, then back home. I'm afraid of road blocks manned by power-hungry State Troopers, or wet-behind-the-ears sheriff deputies who are over-eager to hand out fines, or worse, make arrests. I know that Jimmy James and some others may give me some shit about this, but I think that at this point "the horses are already out of the barn." I don't think that quarantining or "social distancing" will do much at this point. It's out there, and it lives on, even if you have recovered from it. AND there is no treatment / cure. I'm probably going to get it.
Liquor stores deemed essential business in NY state, as everything else gets shut down. Priorities? Edit: Dixie: agreed the horses are out. But if they're out there are two options, let it spread prolifically which will overwhelm hospitals and increase the death count, or encourage social distancing/quarantining and reduce the immediate impact to hospitals.
FYI, Remark and Sobey's are all fully stocked, and not that much more expensive than the cheap places. And they're pretty well empty.
Grocery stores here are out of TP and paper towels, but have everything else and aren't over run. In Vegas they limited the grocery stores to 30 people at a time. What is going to be really bad is that this all started in Vegas about a week ago (Say the 13th or so).....wait until the 1st of April when folks get their food stamps. That is going to be an absolute shit show.
If you need that shit, check Lowe’s or Home Depot. They usually carry it and are typically aren’t picked clean. As for general grocery orders, I’ve teed up future orders on Amazon for when I’ll probably need them when things come back in stock.
If you still have one open, Office Depot or an office supply store might have some that gets overlooked as well. Also, ethnic grocery stores (Asian/Mexican) are a decent place to check.
I saw plenty of TP left in Biglots the last time I was in there, which was more than a week ago. The hoarders seem to not realize they stock it.
The thing about social distancing is that it is more about dragging out how long it takes for 70% of the population to get sick. Because if everyone gets sick right now there will be no hospital care available and probably no medicine available to stop people from going going from mild symptoms to severe. I'd much rather spend the next year with people I know gradually getting sick then getting mostly getting better then spend the next month saying goodbye to people because one in twenty won't survive.
So what’s gonna happen when the drugs run dry? aren’t crackheads and heroin addicts affected by the hoarding and being being quarantined just like everything else?
Our neighborhood is mostly vacation homes for city folk, only about 25% of us live here full time. They're all bugging out and coming here. I'm seeing people and houses occupied that I've never seen. I couldn't even tell you if some are actually the home owners because I've never seen them. That is a little unsettling. I'd say the neighborhood is 75% occupied now.
The Canadian Government has made available these reports to businesses here in Canada, thought I'd share them here in case you're interested.
Are you fucking serious? These people climb into rusted-out old machinery in the cover of dark just to find the tooth-sized brass fittings inside. NOTHING gets in the way of a habit, even life itself. And drug dealers don’t play rule of law, or any rules whatsoever. One of the reasons they always carry guns.
The US just passed Iran and Germany for total cases. Gunning for that Bronze medal. If w're anything like Italy, we're fucked. Check their death rate. 793 deaths in ONE day. Day before that was around 480 (IIRC) Fucking scary. https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/country/italy/
What’s the rate of infection comparison? Germany and Iran have about 160 million people combined. The US has more than twice that.