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!?
We live in Northern Virginia and I was driving to work on Monday and you could go bowling on the interstate it was so empty. Both commutes reminded me of the Autobahn.
Tuesday, same thing. A typical commute for me is 75 minutes, each way. Monday and Tuesday, it was less than 40 minutes.
Wednesday, traffic was dense but moving, like on a Saturday. Commute was back up to almost an hour. Stores were mobbed, gas stations were mobbed, there were groups of kids hanging out at fast food restaurants and one church parking lot was filled.
I think we will be on mandatory lockdown by the end of the month.
Thanks for the thanks on being prepared and the account of how you’re doing. I’m guessing that you might be in one of the hot spots (no need to tell where you are).
I’m not in a hot spot, yet, and have seen very few people wearing masks. But they do crowd up the local big store every day now. Here it comes.