Just like Y2K all over again. Big jugs of water in the garage, sacks of rice and beans. Cans of tuna and spam. Time to hit up Academy for some water purifiers.
Maybe add some industrial respirators from Lowes to the shopping list this time.
I did wonder why the local Walmart Grocery started stocking those ‘feed 4 people for 48 hours’ packs a few weeks ago. Must have gotten some advance notice from the government.
At least with this, it appears public utilities would still be functional. That lessens the situation. Having water, gas, electric would make self quarantine almost tolerable.
Good luck finding them. They're pretty much sold out nation-wide and going for insane prices on EBay and elsewhere.
I actually saw an EBay listing yesterday - $11,000+ for 10 respirators. (Not a typo). That might be an outlier, but the net is that there are just not enough respirators and they are sold out just about everywhere..
The most important preventative purchase from Walmart should be a bottle of 5,000 iu vitamin D3 gels