Stocked up some extra provisions at walmart today. Will pick up more tomorrow.
That is my plan for tomorrow as well—I am well stocked on most stuff, just topping off a little extra...
I work in the food industry for a major CPG firm that does almost 8% of all grocery sales and we have ready to ship to retail 3 -5 months of food-stock up if you want but no need to panic in US. We heard all this with SARS, Ebola and Y2k. We just met with some of our PHds that work with food safety.
Keep this in perspective, even if 250,000 US citizens were to be infected and the mortality rate was 3.5%
there would be 8500 deaths,tragic yet car deaths annual are 33,565 and I don’t see many people refusing to get in cars. And our mortality rate will be much lower here than China because we are better at antibody treatment, Regeneron Pharmaceuticals Inc NASDAQ: REGN is the company based here that shut down ebola with anti-bodies is already working with HHS on anti bodies, Vertex based here is working on virus and we are better at Sepsis, check out on Google Dr Marik new protocol and we are better at preventing organ failure.
And we know there are existing drugs that may already work, For example, teicoplanin, oritavancin, dalbavancin, and monensin are approved antibiotics that have been shown to inhibit corona- and other viruses in the laboratory. These are beign brought to bear jsut now and not getting the publicity because that doesn’t sell.
What we are not any better at is NOT Panicking or not pushing the sensational stories-after all People Magazine is the most popular US Magazine
“Stocked up some extra provisions at walmart today. Will pick up more tomorrow.”
Just got back from Walmart here in Texas - getting a bit busy in the 0630-0700, although no evidence of people prepping. But there were some nearly empty shelves and gaps in others, so the 1.3M missing containers that were supposed to leave China is (finally) starting to show up on our shelves.
We’re basically down to buying hair dye now (for the wife, obviously)...figure that goes bye-bye too, although they were fully stocked, for now.