Posted on 03/20/2020 4:52:02 AM PDT by Oshkalaboomboom
We have been under quarantine in Spain for several days now. All is calm. No shortages of anything yet. Police are out checking to see if you are doing things like having 2 people in a car, walking in pairs, walking your dog too far from your house, etc., and handing out big fines if you break the rules. People queue up outside stores but it ins't the madhouse like I've been seeing online. They control access to the stores so they don't get overcrowded. You get a squirt of hand sanitizer, rub your hands together then put on disposable gloves before you go into the store. They have lines marked out where you wait in line so you are keeping a safe distance. They will take cash but they prefer it if you pay with a debit or credit card. I do have a small stockpile of supplies but as long as there is plenty for sale in the stores I will keep using what I can get there until things get short. My town has a population of about 27,000 people, 3 large grocery stores and several smaller ones plus pharmacies and little corner produce stores. Those are the only things open. Every evening at 8pm people open their windows, go out on their balconies and start clapping in appreciation of the people who are still working to keep things safe. Nice little morale booster which I keep forgetting to do. I have no idea how things are in the larger cities. The nearest big ones are about 80km in 2 different directions and there haven't been any reports of panic yet on Facebook. The very big ones like Madrid and Barcelona I have no idea. Here are some pictures of our supermarkets taken either today or 2 days ago.
Life is comfortable under martial law apparently.
Just ask the folks in California.
You have hit the nail on the head. How long are we willing to live in a slave like state in which government has openly become our master, rather than our servant. It is beginning to seem as if our public servants have become the equivalent of plantation overseers (perhaps a little less scary than Simon Legree).
This is almost like a “proof of concept” for government take-over.
Queues for rationed goods were peaceful under the watchful eye of the NKVD.
We're not under martial law and if they wanted to the people could easily overwhelm the police. They wouldn't have done that before and they aren't doing it now. We'll have to wait and see what happens as people start running out of money and the virus situation doesn't get any better. All in all I'd rather be here than San Francisco.
I’m glad you’re doing ok so far.
I’m rapidly coming to the conclusion that we need to protect and isolate elderly and pre-existing condition folks, and the rest of us get the hell out and catch this thing and get it over...
I got some groceries......some peanut butter......last a couple of days...….
Seems the “ migrants’ in Paris and other FR cities dont follow laws about quarantines and dont give a scrap for social distancing or the good of society
Ditto with the diversity imports to London
“The Day After Tomorrow”
9 meals from anarchy
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I’m rapidly coming to the conclusion that we need to protect and isolate elderly and pre-existing condition folks, and the rest of us get the hell out and catch this thing and get it over...”
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Agree.
You sound like you're disappointed that we aren't coming out from behind the barbed wire to fight our neighbors over scraps of dead animals. Sorry to let you down.
If there was one thing I could hope you take away from my experience it would be that, for now anyway, this isn't a supply problem. Farmers are still growing food, food warehouses are still well stocked, truck drivers are still healthy enough to make deliveries and if you stay calm it's not that bad.
Trouble in transit, got through the roadblock,
We blended in with the crowd
We got computers, we’re tapping phone lines,
I know that that ain’t allowed...
Paris has been a $hithole for a long time. Now it's just getting worse but that doesn't mean all of France follows suit. If Los Angeles got even worse than it is now would the people in Montana start busting out store windows and looting? I don't think so.
True, all that !
But if the supply chain breaks (farmers and truckers), all Hell could break loose.
Society is built upon a foundation of civility, rules, and people who follow the social rules.
On the other hand, criminality occurs when hedonists, anarchists, and self-centered individuals
believe their needs are not sufficiently being met, and violate those rules with total disregard for others.
So glad to hear from you! You’re faring better than some big cities in America. My little Cow Town (Population: 283, SW corner of Wisconsin) is unfazed for now, but our little Mom & Pop Grocery is HAPPY for the small up-tick in sales!
The local Walmart (5 miles away, town of 4K) was completely out of some things, though if you didn’t mind buying higher-priced brands, items could be had. Walmart was 100% out of potatoes. The smaller chain store in the same town also looked untouched.
City Folk, LOL!
Give your wife my best. Bad timing for her. :(
Again, so glad to hear from you!
But if the supply chain breaks (farmers and truckers), all Hell could break loose.
Society is built upon a foundation of civility, rules, and people who follow the social rules.
On the other hand, criminality occurs when hedonists, anarchists, and self-centered individuals believe their needs are not sufficiently being met, and violate those rules with total disregard for others.
That is why I pinged you and the prepper list. Spain is your lab rat. They are trying a total quarantine. They have a good health system, a good supply chain, good roads and disciplined people. If this country fails it won't be good news for anyone.
This ain’t no party, this ain’t no disco....
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