I’m in the Bay Area where supposedly we’ve been in “shelter in place” since Tues. And yet everyone is constantly going to the grocery store. Every day. With huge crowds.
It’s the opposite of social distancing and when we look back on this I think will be shown to have been a huge mistake. The grocery store exceptions. But then—people also have to eat.
We now will raise a generation of preppers who never again will be caught without lots of rice and beans on hand.
Here in NJ liquor stores were deemed “essential” and can remain open; people are also going to grocery stores, but that situation has calmed down - only large main ones are still crowded, and in my town that is probably due to the fact that neighboring Newark NJ (NJ’s largest city) has few supermarkets.
Having people plan in advance is a good thing; I don’t blame people for not anticipating this (the scale/situation is very unusual compared to storms and such), but now we know.