“The whole purpose of the stay at home, social distancing and mask wearing was to give our system a chance to get ready when it does happens. It was to buy the US time to develop treatments and to get the equipment/material in place.”
Yes.
In case it isn’t clear to anybody, the hard part is ahead of us, not behind us. Use the lull - right now - to stock up. Last time was just practice.
truer words and all that...
This is the time we can plan for 4 months. Whatever we found ourselves short on after one month, that’s what we want to slowly build up over the next 3 months. Whatever didn’t keep well, either substitute or find a better way. If there’s still 4 years of rice and beans left, don’t buy more. But if you ran out of laundry detergent two weeks ago, that’s a shopping item. Being locked down and grocery runs limited, we’ve all got a pretty good idea now just what it takes to get the family thru a month’s siege. Times 4, plus holidays, and we’ll be set for winter, still eat like kings and queens of our castles and we won’t be contributing to sudden grocery store shortages come October.