We’ve done our grocery shopping. It took twice as long as usual.
We made an extra trip to Whole Foods to get produce, and I was astonished to find the place uncrowded. “It looks like a normal day in a sane world,” I said to the checkout clerk. “How did you swing that?” He just smiled and said, “You should’ve seen it yesterday.”
On to the Stop & Shop. No toilet paper. No frozen vegetables, except for tons of chopped cauliflower with quinoa in it. (Hint to management: If they’re not buying it now, they’ll never buy it.) But at least it wasn’t a frantic mob scene like it was a few days ago. I don’t understand the run on toilet paper, though. “People are scared,” the clerk said. Of what–cholera? Why do they think they need so much toilet paper? There was hardly any chicken left, either. But other than that, the shoppers seemed a lot less frantic than they were a few days ago.
Again, this is like nothing I’ve ever seen in all my life. I view it as a massive failure of top-down, government-managed globalism. A little-bitty experiment in bio-warfare seeps out of a lab in Red China, and the whole world comes to a crashing halt. Carrying on like it was The Masque of the Red Death. With Democrats licking their lips because they think the chaos is going to be their ticket back to power. Not nice.
Not nice at all.
Just another day in a communist country. Oh wait, it’s US?? But I did everything we were supposed to do. I went to work, came home, showered, ate, watched TV and went to bed. On the weekends, I watched the games, drank some beer, played video games, went to bed, woke up and went to work again. So what did I miss? Well, I guess I missed everything that was going on right in front of my face while my face was turned somewhere else. Sure there was some nasty stuff on TV now and then but It was just to bizarre to believe. Not in America! I voted, stood up for the national anthem, and supported everyone who knocked on my door with a petition in their hand, asking for a donation. I was a model citizen and everyone I knew was just like me. So what happened to change all that and who do I blame. Certainly not me. I did everything we were supposed to do…
Remember when Boris Yeltsin came here, visited an American supermarket, and was reduced to tears by our abundance, compared to what he was used to in the good old USSR?
It’s like we went to bed one night and woke up in another country.
Exactly. Yes I do remember. And I read a lot of comments from people who escaped communism, comments that contained dire warnings based on what they had experienced. But apparently few people paid attention (again) because there weren’t many upvotes, if any. BYW, in my city people are wearing short sleeve shirts, walking around, working, shopping and children play outside later in the day. It’s like surreal sanity – and it’s a democratic city! Go figure. But it’s perfect for me. As I said, I don’t buy the hype, the cause, the reactions, or the numbers.
All these precautions will save lives but at what cost? – not only in money but in loss of freedoms as the central gov’t expands and expands. Sure glad Trump is at the helm and not Biden or Sanders – they would just let everyone in and then give away the store for free, destroying our economy beyond recognition.
I stopped by the supermarket this morning and things were pretty normal except that Clorox Wipes, Hans Sanitizer and Toilet Paper were nowhere to be found. I’m pretty well stocked, at this point, but I’ll keep the stock level where it currently is if at all possible.
The people at the grocery store said something quite similar, today was ok, but yesterday was bad.
I really don’t understand the run on toilet paper.
Neither do I
With all that’s going on I’m glad I”m not in a socialist country
All this business of the government leaning on us, telling us when our businesses can open and when they have to close, where you can go and when–that’s 24/7/365 in a socialist country.
Which is worse, the coronavirus or the panic that has ensued? I would say the latter. So what if shutting everything doesn’t work? What if it comes back next year? Do we make shutting down a yearly event now? Terrible damage is being done to the economy and we haven’t felt the repercussions yet. The other option is to learn to live with it like all the myriad of other diseases and viruses already out there. The coronavirus will not do us in, but panic just might.
Yeahbut, yeahbut! This is THE thing that’ll wreck Trump and put the Democrats back in charge forever!
I agree. The disease is nothing to trifle with, but the cure is atrocious.