Here’s what bugs me. Maybe around 6 weeks or so ago, I advised FReepers to stock up for a couple of months. Said that stores would have a chance to order more and restock earlier.
Maybe that way, there would be fewer people in the stores, when the stores are very infected. The advice didn’t go very far. It was business as usual in the stores at least most of last month, if I remember correctly.
When most of the stores became somewhat infected, people mobbed those stores. Now the stores are more infected each week, and people are still crowding into them. That’s what I was hoping to prompt as many people as possible to avoid needing to be in those places now and after and to spur store managers to order more earlier and get more production going.
At the press briefing a few days ago, Dr. Fauci said that we’re about two weeks behind in the numbers of cases that we see as compared to the real numbers of cases. The numbers of cases can multiply an awful lot in two weeks, as we’re beginning to see.
Do you have a Brave browser? If so, you might be able to see the following map with numbers of cases without a subscription. Might even be able to see it with another browser (don’t know). The map is updated quickly from several sources.
https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2020/us/coronavirus-us-cases.html
Informing people to get them to do something good for themselves is far more difficult than herding cats.
Was motivated by you and many others on FR to prepare. I was done by Feb. 21st. Much of my stuff was given to my kids (although my oldest boy did prepare, so he hasn’t needed much). And now I’ve given a few things to neighbors.
I shop for grandma and one of our elderly neighbors. I keep warning them that one of these days I’m not going to go out for two weeks, but they always seem to need something. Hard to say no, so I go on my weekly shopping trip.
I wear gloves, N-95 mask and googles and have a system in place for decon of myself and the groceries so I feel pretty safe. But one of these days they just might close everything down. Everything else is closed, but the grocery store is crowded (parking lots are full) with perhaps 10% of the people wearing masks, nobody wears eye protection. I can’t imagine that the state will allow that for much longer. What is the use of shutting down all the other businesses but allowing the masses to crowd the grocery stores!?