Its not food hoarding as much as toilet paper, hand sanitizer, disinfectants and soap.
Went to Tractor Supply and got 32 ounces of Farnam Horse Health Povidone-Iodine Solution 10% for 12 bucks.
Even diluted, it’s deadly to everything.
All that hand sanitizer is USELESS unless you marinate yourself in it for 15 minutes.
Plain old dish soap or Ivory will dissolve the virus.
People wasted their money.
Idjits.
https://www.newsweek.com/this-why-soap-so-effective-stopping-spread-coronavirus-1491203
I have enough for at least a couple of months of all those items...plus toothpaste, toothbrushes, clorox. Just plain common sense.
I can understand the disinfectants, soap, and hand sanitizer but what's with the toilet paper?
We bought a lot of food about a week ago; probably enough of everything for at least a month. The reason wasn’t fear of food shortage, but simply to stay out of places where large crowds go. No hoarding or panic.
No, the stores are being cleaned out of pretty much everything, at least here in the Houston area. When I went shopping Saturday, almost all the produce was gone as well as dairy meat and eggs (in addition to all paper products and sanitizers).
Eggs, chicken, inexpensive beef, potatoes, gone. Pastas, sauces, soups, top ramen, rice, beans, empty shelves. Never seen it in America personally. Flash backs to the Soviet Union.