Posted on 03/12/2020 8:15:12 AM PDT by Kaslin
Enterprising people took trucks of bottled water to Florida a few years ago to sell and the state forbid the “price gouging”. People had cash, but no water. Cash doesn’t mean much when you’re in the Florida heat.
Ask AOC to chime in on the rationing effect of higher prices, put her degree in econ to work.
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Well, I did my part by posting this two weeks ago:
https://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/3819141/posts
A few naysayers told me I was paranoid, overreacting, hysterical, and an alarmist.
Now my family is properly prepared while the naysayers are now bitching about the rising prices of things they could have at normal prices two weeks ago.
Too bad, so sad.
I told them so.
And I wish I had been wrong.
The high school student who created that sit has opportunities for a great future.
MeganC :" ..at home you do need to be reasonably ready for the possibility that you may be quarantined yourself
or that your city/town might be isolated for as much as eight weeks.
FEMA has a great list to start with and you can find it here:
<< https://www.fema.gov/media-library-data/1390846764394-dc08e309debe561d866b05ac84daf1ee/checklist_2014.pdf >>
The LDS also have a useful list of things to store up on and it's a good list to check as you go about your preparedness.
<< https://www.churchofjesuschrist.org/study/ensign/2006/03/random-sampler/food-storage-for-one-year?lang=eng >> "
Thank you for that information .
A list of resources needed for home preparedness
although the LDS home resource list is organized for a year.
Thanks, TIK!
It's one thing to be prepared in your own home,
but resources should be intelligently shared with the community.
If you don't intelligently share, you are considered a 'hoarder'
I have had reason to be in grocery stores recently while I am retired.
This morning something was going on!!!! Sure, toilet paper has been scare for awhile. Hand sanitizers gone since the first week. Anything made by Lysol has been gone in the last week.
but when I was in Trader Joes I could see all the paper products...but all rice, grains and beans are gone., Huge sacks of these items are gone.
In the regular market, water has been super scarce today, all pasta and sauces are gone. Same with cans of tuna, canned soup and cans of chili.
Super super long lines early in the morning in every grocery. Something happened over night.
I have always been prepped but back in Jan when I saw this starting, I went out and got more stuff.
And now I am not panic buying and contributing to price gouging.
And just imagine, if everyone had been reasonably prepped, then there would be no panic buying, and then no price gouging.
“And just imagine, if everyone had been reasonably prepped, then there would be no panic buying, and then no price gouging.”
I’m not doing anything different now than what I normally do. Kind of nice to have that piece of mind when other people are panicking. Maybe they will learn to stock up on Essentials. Or not!
Thanks for the Ping! And the links.
Yeah, that something was the President's speech last night. I suspect Trump has been reluctant to do that speech for this very reason, but of course, you can always bank on Democrats and the corrupt media to politicize everything.
A relative works at a large, well known retail outlet. He is seeing the same things. People are quickly becoming irrational.
I have lots of essentials and a bunch of non-essentials as well.
Today my lovely spouse no longer thinks I’m a bit delusional.
We have no need to go out and hoard.
People are nuts, period.
Wait for the day when Cell Phones don’t work and EBT Cards don’t get funded. You ain’t seen nothing yet.
Here is where we are: heading:https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0734676/
Or this: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Monsters_Are_Due_on_Maple_Street
Is chocolate considered non-essential?
I’ve been practicing to see the best way to store it. So far, in a mason jar with an oxygen absorber is better than using a FoodSaver Vacuum Pack. I’m up to about four years with them looking just a tiny bit less glossy, but tasting okay.
Don’t you just love being vindicated?
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