[21twelve]

I looked at my pings last week to try to figure it out. The first one I replied to was on Jan. 20th I think. Wuhan closed down on January 23rd. I spent about $500 on stuff just on January 24th and didn’t stop. My wife would just kindly smile at me at first. Then after our spare room was getting filled up she started getting a bit concerned at how much I was spending, but trusted me. Two weeks ago she thanked me.

I looked it up on my ping list, and null and void first pinged me on January 1 with a thread about WHO visiting Bejing to investigate new SARS-like outbreak.

Then other threads that he posted that I didn’t read. “Hong Kong prepares for Mystery Diesease from China”, etc.

Thanks nully for bringing awareness to this very real threat. It was very interesting to go back through my comments. Before January 20th it was politics, music, “Florida Man” type stuff. Even that joke of an “impeachment” seems like trivial stuff now - and from long ago.

I’m glad that I finally woke up and still had time to prepare. I recall getting spares of stuff that I had bought on the 24th about a week later. Some of the stuff had gone from $16 to $28. The next week I looked just for grins - all gone.

That was actually very helpful - so when I saw other, more common stuff in the stores, I bought a bunch the first three weeks of February. By the start of the fourth week of February I was done.

I even walked by stacks and stacks of half-gallon hand sanitizer at Costco. “Oh - I’ve got plenty. I don’t need anymore of that.” The eight large bottles and numerous smaller bottles don’t look like much once all the store shelves are bare.

[CJ Wolf]

I bought boxes of powdered milk in January. Never bought them before. Sits in my well stocked pantry now. Thanks to a null and void ping. Thankq

[Persevero]

In response the gallons of sanitizer - glad you got what you wanted n and v but they will make more. It’s only “short” because it had sudden extreme demand. There is money to be made and I am sure the hand sanitizer producers are working triple overtime right now.

And the tp people. All the domestically produced stuff. They are making bank.

[bgill]

Many thanks to null and void for the pings. Especially for the early ones.

Thanks to janet and Vermont LT and everyone for the threads and their excellent and informative posts.

[WildHighlander57]

Thanks for checking and posting the timeline!