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.