But the people doing the panic buying are stocking up on things like toilet paper, bottled water and nothing else. Genuine preppers would have had things like that months ago, not fighting over it now.
As a Mormon and life long prepper can confirm. Most people even here do not realize how much and what even 8 weeks of food looks like. Why 8 weeks well Dr. Fuaci the head Dr. of our administration’s coronavirus response team the man with 30+ years of experience in these matters who has served under Reagan and ever other administration since, who is the expert on this matter. Got on national tv yesterday and said 8 weeks of social distancing is optimistic at best and that’s with strick movement controls like China did who is at a little over 8 weeks into the lockdowns and have achieved relative control if you believe them.
That is why people are buying 8 weeks worth of food. Which for 4 people 2 adults and two adolescent age children would fill by volume 4 standard grocery carts. With prudent buying of protein, carbohydrates,and canned veggies one cam fit two weeks worth in a standard Wal-Mart sized cart. Most people have no clue what a years worth of food looks like it’s not a closet or pantry full its a 20x20 shipping container full. We have as is part of our faith a years or more of food it takes up half of a two car garage in sealed buckets, 10# cans, and shelving floor to ceiling that’s what a years food looks like. Two months of frozen food is 10 cubic feet of freezer space we have two of them full to the brim.
So when you government expert and the man who is directly advising the response team as their chief medical officer says we are going to need at least 8 weeks of isolation people took that at face value and started to buy the needed volume of food to accomplish such. It’s not panic buying when you man in charge says 8 weeks be ready. Like I said people who do not prep on a regular basis have ZERO clue what 8 weeks of food volume looks like. Those of us who saw this coming bought fresh and frozen foods over the last two months to last for 4 months in addition to the shelf stable years worth, better to eat fresh food than dry and canned. The problem is the supply chain is not set up for every one to go out in one day or even a week and buy 8 weeks worth of food volume. Again its not panic when the lead expert says ve ready for 8 plus weeks. Regardless of the options of the but flu bros, or the democrat conspiracy theories bros our government knows the true nature of this bug they get classified information and that information has prompted them to take measures that we haven’t seen since 1918. Really the opinions of the citizens doesn’t matter the government has a duty to respond and they are doing exactly that. Force will be used if needed to isolate people. The declaration of national emergency give then vast power to do expressly that. It would be prudent to be prepared for when they lockdown the USA for the next few months it’s not up to the citizens to decide anymore the response to the pandemic our elected officials are now in control by rule of law. That’s why we elected them they have the power now that an emergency has been declared.