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Scenes from a panicked populace.
My actual experience | 3/14/2020 | By Laz A. Mataz

Posted on 03/14/2020 4:18:31 PM PDT by Lazamataz

I want to share with you some scenes that greeted me at my local Kroger today.

These are scenes from a panicked populace.

Like locusts, they are stripping the shelves bare.


Kroger Toilet Paper aisle.


Kroger Deli Meat aisle.


Kroger bottled water aisle.


TOPICS: Chit/Chat; Weird Stuff
KEYWORDS: anotherdamnedvanity; anotherstupidvanity; hysteria; kroger; shopping
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To: abb

Considering how compromised Hughes immune system had become, for real, his OCD about germs (which expanded from his well known demanding perfection in his aircraft/engineering/piloting/ and design work) was to his benefit.

Managed (and ripped off) by his Mormons, ever present in the casino business (and the licensing boards, on the take), who allowed all kinds of opiates and the things that killed him, aside from his degraded mental status.


301 posted on 03/14/2020 10:09:54 PM PDT by John S Mosby (Sic Semper Tyrannis)
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To: abb; Travis McGee

Another FReeper who does not know whom he is addressing. An expert in survival tactics and knowledge. Point of the Spear kind of expertise.


302 posted on 03/14/2020 10:12:29 PM PDT by John S Mosby (Sic Semper Tyrannis)
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To: ladyjane

A Berkley was one of my prep items.


303 posted on 03/14/2020 10:12:34 PM PDT by Hieronymus ("I shall drink--to the Pope, if you please,-still, t Conscience first, and to the Pope afterwards.")
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To: null and void

Good chart

https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/#countries


304 posted on 03/14/2020 10:13:42 PM PDT by sweetiepiezer (Winning is not getting old.)
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To: Lazamataz

I hope you’re doing better.


305 posted on 03/14/2020 10:24:51 PM PDT by blondiegoodbadugly (Thank you President Trump! Please KAG!)
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To: abb

And u, not caring, walking around, contracting it and passing it to others.


306 posted on 03/14/2020 10:29:39 PM PDT by griffin
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To: Lazamataz

Pshaw that was my city on thor’s day


307 posted on 03/14/2020 10:37:58 PM PDT by a fool in paradise (Everyone knows Hillary was corrupt, lied, destroyed documents, and influenced witnesses. Rat crime.)
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To: Lazamataz

I’ve seen societal collapse several times


308 posted on 03/14/2020 10:38:46 PM PDT by a fool in paradise (Everyone knows Hillary was corrupt, lied, destroyed documents, and influenced witnesses. Rat crime.)
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To: Lazamataz

Coronavirus infects tapwater?


309 posted on 03/14/2020 10:39:12 PM PDT by a fool in paradise (Everyone knows Hillary was corrupt, lied, destroyed documents, and influenced witnesses. Rat crime.)
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To: metmom

I really like the honor system veggie stands all around NH and VT.
If i tried that out on my street both the remaining vegs and the money would be gone in less than a half-hour.

i gotta get out of here....


310 posted on 03/14/2020 10:41:32 PM PDT by mowowie ( day)
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To: al_c

They are not all hoarders. Just ALOT of unprepared sheep. When alot of people go shopping for 2-3 weeks of supplies the normal distribution system can’t keep up. It is not sized for that.


311 posted on 03/14/2020 10:47:10 PM PDT by griffin
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To: Tijeras_Slim

I dont think i would have said that.


312 posted on 03/14/2020 10:51:09 PM PDT by griffin
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To: MrEdd

Careful up there. Sucks falling off a tall horse.


313 posted on 03/14/2020 11:01:59 PM PDT by griffin
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To: Lazamataz

314 posted on 03/14/2020 11:05:37 PM PDT by grey_whiskers (The opinions are solely those of the author and are subject to change with out notice.)
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To: Lazamataz

315 posted on 03/14/2020 11:06:10 PM PDT by grey_whiskers (The opinions are solely those of the author and are subject to change with out notice.)
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To: Nextrush; null and void; Travis McGee; Diogenesis; SkyPilot

[Welcome to Venezuela....]

That’s correct. I predicted an “event” (media-fueled in this case) would strip grocery stores in 72 hours. For some, it was less than 24 hours.

My closest Wal-Mart is out of toilet paper, bread, soup (yesterday), most canned goods (ALL gone today, reportedly) and most meat products.


316 posted on 03/14/2020 11:09:05 PM PDT by SaveFerris (Luke 17:28 ... as it was in the days of Lot; they did eat, they drank, they bought, they sold ......)
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To: House Atreides; Travis McGee

House Atreides wrote: “I’m trying to understand the genesis of your ‘let’s trigger hysteria over the Coronavirus’ jihad.”

https://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/3824207/posts
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/03/13/us/coronavirus-deaths-estimate.html
The Worst-Case Estimate for U.S. Coronavirus Deaths
New York Times ^ | March 13, 2020 | Sheri Fink
Posted on 03/13/2020 7:15:22 AM PDT by daniel1212

Officials at the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and epidemic experts from universities around the world conferred last month... Between 160 million and 214 million people in the U.S. could be infected over the course of the epidemic, according to one projection. That could last months or even over a year, with infections concentrated in shorter periods, staggered across time in different communities, experts said. As many as 200,000 to 1.7 million people could die.

And, the calculations based on the C.D.C.’s scenarios suggested, 2.4 million to 21 million people in the U.S. could require hospitalization, potentially crushing the nation’s medical system, which has only about 925,000 staffed hospital beds. Fewer than a tenth of those are for people who are critically ill.

(Excerpt) Read more at nytimes.com ...


317 posted on 03/14/2020 11:12:09 PM PDT by familyop ("Welcome to Costco. I love you." - -Costco greeter in the movie, "Idiocracy")
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To: ifinnegan

[Even if people aren’t worried they know everyone else will buy up everything so they have to buy now also.]

That is correct. I bought Friday night (a few things) simply because there will be a shortage.

Now, admittedly, I do expect some levels will be close to normal in a couple weeks, once the initial panic is over.

I didn’t get much, couple packages of toilet paper (needed that anyways), a few canned goods (less than 20) and since no bread, yeah some extra tortillas and bagels (bagels only good for a couple of weeks). And since ammonia cleaner was cheap, a couple of those. I had already bought some cheap bleach a week ago or so.

But I’m a prepper. Always 6 months or so of food. I won’t eat like a prince, but I do have stuff to eat.

I bought my extra ammo many months ago. Pray (I do) that I never need it. But I don’t shoot it up.


318 posted on 03/14/2020 11:13:37 PM PDT by SaveFerris (Luke 17:28 ... as it was in the days of Lot; they did eat, they drank, they bought, they sold ......)
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To: Lazamataz

I hope you can feel your legs by now. :)


319 posted on 03/14/2020 11:14:35 PM PDT by SaveFerris (Luke 17:28 ... as it was in the days of Lot; they did eat, they drank, they bought, they sold ......)
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To: abb

Except...not going to WWII museum, ya? You assuned that would be open for you.
You were wrong, assuming and arrogant. And still are.


320 posted on 03/14/2020 11:15:21 PM PDT by griffin
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