Posted on 03/17/2020 1:34:44 PM PDT by LibWhacker
And do what about it?
This panic was created by government and the media.
Be that as it may, right now we need to decide what to do with what's been handed to us.
If you think being perpetually angry is going to do any good, have at it.
Personally, this has all firmed up my resolve that when this blows over, and it will, we will be COMPLETELY ready next time.
I have always been a bit of a prepper at heart. Good training, I guess, from my mom who grew up during the Depression.
So when this thing started breaking in China, I was watching the reports and what they were doing and decided that if this came to the US, we could see a similar situation.
So I started stocking up in Feb of stuff I knew we would not want to do without.
It was just a matter of buying a little extra each time I went out. and storing it away. So when TSHTF last week, I knew we were ready and didn't have to panic or go out and panic buy.
I’m stocked up more or less. Could use a few things but could easily do without. I’m going out tomorrow because a few of the stores have implemented an hr each morning for 65 and over to shop. I’m not going for me I’m going for my daughter who has 3 kids at home now since the schools shut down. By the time she gets there the shelves are bare. And now she has a sick kid at home too with about 2 doses of children’s Tylenol left. It’s ridiculous. And I’m taking an elderly neighbor with me who didn’t stock up because they didn’t see this coming. So yeah I’m pissed at our governments, states and feds, and the media for creating this mess. And it took the stores too long to implement quantity control. They should’ve never let people take out baskets and trolleys loaded to the gills with them when they saw the rush starting. A cluster____ all the way around.
I tend to blame the stores more as they could have imposed limits much sooner when they saw the people starting to hoard.
No offense but this virus has been in the news for 3 months. Anyone could have stocked up 2 weeks ago with no issue. Ostriches waited until until it got real. It’s not everyone else’s fault. Simple planning was obviously needed. Crazy thought to be prepared. They said it for the last 6-8 weeks but let’s blame our neighbors, government, ....
These are the people that are so unprepared the bog down the system. Good luck helping them out. When my 3 kids were small, I never ran out of children’s medicine before I got more.
Self censorship on the rest of my thoughts.
I said the same thing.
Well you can blame all the unprepared people if you want but most people are not used to living in Venezuela or the Soviet Union. They’re used to being able to get what they need.
This is a really helpful comment for me. We run a small business with a good portion of our business in the tractor/trailer owner/operator world. We’ve been hoping transportation would actually get busier due to the need to resupply all the empty stores.
I usually spend about half my day on the phone with various owner/operator customers. Yesterday and today I’ve had radio silence so I figured things are either really good or really bad!
Very interesting article. ...Thanks for posting it all!
This should help some of the complainers better understand how commerce and supply chains work.
The article specifically only addressed non-perishable goods.
TP-ing happened to me 20 years ago when my next door neighbor had a son and daughter in high school. I had five large trees in front and they had none.
I think the kids used a twelve-pack of TP. I was using a hose to wet the paper and my neighbor came over, apologized and offered to help because she knew it was intended for one of her kids. I declined her offer and said I was a kid once.
btw... I bought my house 34 years ago. The neighbors had their house built one year later. They are the nicest neighbors I’ve had in my 77 years and a great Black family.
The water hose worked well on the low-hanging TP, but it took a heavy rain to get all that was very high.
I’ve never understood why people constantly buy cases or gallon jugs of WATER, unless a natural disaster like a hurricane is eminent or they are going camping.
I see people doing that every time I go to the grocery store.
My water comes from a faucet and doesn’t taste any different.
I think many others feel the same as you, TGKC.
Several articles the past few days about how gun sales are up.
I still haven’t scored and TP yet, nor tissues, but I’m finding other things to buy...usually on sale so there’s that....In bought Costco TP weeks ago so we are actually good...
Great question! Also funny.
I hope you make a lot of money for what you do....so many not working but in some areas, like trucking, grocery,nursing....its as much work as you want...
well we don’t want our truckers to get too tired or sick...they need rest too....
most people do not follow world events that closely...yes FR was well ahead of the curve but we’re just a small minority....
some of us buy the distilled water in gallon jugs for our cpap machines....
You just educated me. I wasn’t aware of that.
Still doesn’t explain why people buy cases of bottled water whenever I go to the grocery store.
It’s not like every community has water like Flint MI has/had.
At the worst it's a push.
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