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That’s because it’s an ingredient in so many cleaning and sanitizing products.

First, the sanitizing wipes (made with alcohol) have to be made and restocked, and then we can have some rubbing alcohol in the stores. Until then, all the extra goes to the health care industry, or so I’ve read.

The whole situation is bizarre to me. A two-week panic four months ago and we still can’t buy a bottle of rubbing alcohol? In the USA in 2020? Something is rotten in Denmark. And pretty much everywhere else, the way it seems.

Rubbing alcohol is one of the easiest and quickest ways to destroy a virus. Hopefully the production will catch up quickly. All through February when I would go into Costco I would buy two 2-packs of 70% alcohol at $5.00 or whatever it was. My last trip was the end of the 3rd week and they still had some.

I now give them to my physical therapist and barber. And to a few elderly neighbors. I gave the neighbors little spray bottles too.

I did see they have Hydrogen Peroxide at Costco now. I bought way too much of that earlier. It isn't all that effective at the 3% that is commonly sold - takes a long time to destroy a virus.

I've seen on line on how you can heat it up to evaporate the water and increase the percentage of Peroxide, but that seems like a lot of trouble.