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Post by tar12 on Mar 14, 2020 14:52:41 GMT -5
WTF is wrong with people? Panic buying is running amuck here as I am sure it is elsewhere...is the sky falling? TP was the first thing to fly off of the shelves..Diarrhea isnt even a symptom! Next was meat and bread and baby wipes...It is hard for me to fathom the stupidity of people...what are these people going to do if the S^%T really hits the fan? I guess the gene pool will be cleansed...rant over...for now....lol
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Post by reloader22 on Mar 14, 2020 16:31:48 GMT -5
It's the same here. I blame it on the media and social media. The toilet paper is the weirdest thing. If you can't eat, you wouldn't need it. My wife and I are always prepared for a long duration of an outage. Freezer full, cupboards full, generator ready with lots of gas. But most people live day to day on groceries. Apartment dwellers, city dwellers, etc. They eat all their meals out. Where I work, many people bring their breakfast in from McDonalds or other morning joints. Then they all go out for lunch. THEN, they order a Pizza for dinner. When the news tells them the shelves are clearing out they panic cause they have nothing at home. All those people, and others that just plain hoard, can do a ton of damage to inventories quickly. That is why I stay prepared. Quietly prepared, in more ways than one.
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Post by ET on Mar 14, 2020 17:39:57 GMT -5
The same is starting here with panic buying. First off I fault the WHO for calling this a pandemic instead of an early epidemic. Then the media jumped on the word pandemic and panic buying started. Now what I don't understand why everyone is going after hand sanitizer that only deals with bacteria and not viruses, dah. They say it's going to get worse before it gets better but which is it, the virus or the panic?
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Post by mrbuck on Mar 14, 2020 18:22:50 GMT -5
This whole virus thing has been blow way out of proportion ! As of Saturday of the 8.9 million people in NJ 57 are sick from this new virus .
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Post by reloader22 on Mar 14, 2020 19:03:05 GMT -5
Agreed. There is a degree of politics about this. Funny thing is that Crazy Bernie and Sleepy Joe have had NO airtime on this since it got bad. It's only been Trump and he is doing as good as can be expected. Biggest super power on earth. Fragile as hell. Gonna watch the 1st few episodes of the 1st season of the Walking Dead to remind myself of why I liked that show. Not the Zombies or violence....Just the way strong people need to band together when it really falls off the rails. Stupid and crazy that we need to be where we are. Wasn't necessary.
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