All Things Coronavirus (Part 2)

[Crtcl Rice Theory 2,432]

6 minutes ago, Dashinka said:

Wait, I thought all the pharmaceutical companies are evil?

Did I say that?

[yuna628 9,676]

Just now, CanAm1980 said:

Meanwhile at a Costco near me, get ready for runs on TP part deux.

 



At least they have something. Pretty much most stores here have been cleaned out of TP, PT, and kleenax. Sightings of cleaning products is rare as well. This week most canned goods are gone and the run on water started. Perhaps the most interesting items gone off the shelves are xmas decorations. It doesn't matter how many trailers the local stores brought in with stock, everything is getting cleaned out. Kind of an amazing frenzy of people wanting to go all-in with decor.

[Crtcl Rice Theory 2,432]

1 minute ago, yuna628 said:

At least they have something. Pretty much most stores here have been cleaned out of TP, PT, and kleenax. Sightings of cleaning products is rare as well. This week most canned goods are gone and the run on water started. Perhaps the most interesting items gone off the shelves are xmas decorations. It doesn't matter how many trailers the local stores brought in with stock, everything is getting cleaned out. Kind of an amazing frenzy of people wanting to go all-in with decor.

I think that the sight of empty shelves triggers a fight or flight mechanism in Americans because it is such a strange site.  

[Prizm123 1,086]

most of my christmas shopping is already done. mom wants me to go with her to costco next week so she can get something for my wife.

wife is very sad that i already got 3 big boxes under the tree for her and she hasnt been able to find a PS5 yet

[Steeleballz 7,550]

7 minutes ago, yuna628 said:

At least they have something. Pretty much most stores here have been cleaned out of TP, PT, and kleenax. Sightings of cleaning products is rare as well. This week most canned goods are gone and the run on water started. Perhaps the most interesting items gone off the shelves are xmas decorations. It doesn't matter how many trailers the local stores brought in with stock, everything is getting cleaned out. Kind of an amazing frenzy of people wanting to go all-in with decor.

 

  I've been doing grocery pickup since April and I just noticed last week that I have to order things at least 2-3 days in advance again, just like back in the spring. Also seems to be more stuff out of stock now, and the parking spots are always full. For a while I could get same day pickup and there were hardly any cars at the pickup area. The bright side I guess is that more people are taking social distancing seriously again.

 

  I have been trying to stock up since spring, so the freezer is loaded up and the basement is full of paper towels/TP and bottled water. I figure if we get any panic buying now, we can just stay away and not be a part of it. I'm hoping everyone did that at least a little.

 

[Prizm123 1,086]

3 minutes ago, Steeleballz said:

 

  I've been doing grocery pickup since April and I just noticed last week that I have to order things at least 2-3 days in advance again, just like back in the spring. Also seems to be more stuff out of stock now, and the parking spots are always full. For a while I could get same day pickup and there were hardly any cars at the pickup area. The bright side I guess is that more people are taking social distancing seriously again.

 

  I have been trying to stock up since spring, so the freezer is loaded up and the basement is full of paper towels/TP and bottled water. I figure if we get any panic buying now, we can just stay away and not be a part of it. I'm hoping everyone did that at least a little.

 

we have a 5 gallon and 3 gallon jug we take to a place thats like a little kiosk and fill those up once a week, do it early enough on weekends, no line and we dont have to lug cases of water upstairs

[Steeleballz 7,550]

1 minute ago, Prizm123 said:

we have a 5 gallon and 3 gallon jug we take to a place thats like a little kiosk and fill those up once a week, do it early enough on weekends, no line and we dont have to lug cases of water upstairs

 

  I get 4 gallons 2x a week since I started doing grocery pickup. We have about 60 one gallon bottles in the basement now, and my wife is giving me a hard time about the "mess". She never actually goes in the basement, but somehow the idea of water bottles and paper towels all over the place causes a reaction.

[Prizm123 1,086]

its probably a good thing we dont have a lot of room in this apartment otherwise it would be easy for me to finally go full prepper

[Dashinka 24,494]

3 minutes ago, Steeleballz said:

 

  I get 4 gallons 2x a week since I started doing grocery pickup. We have about 60 one gallon bottles in the basement now, and my wife is giving me a hard time about the "mess". She never actually goes in the basement, but somehow the idea of water bottles and paper towels all over the place causes a reaction.

Just put a filter system in the kitchen, and that along with the fridge filter should be good enough for us.  We already have enough TP and PT to last a year, so no need for that now.

[Steeleballz 7,550]

4 minutes ago, Dashinka said:

Just put a filter system in the kitchen, and that along with the fridge filter should be good enough for us.  We already have enough TP and PT to last a year, so no need for that now.

 

   We do have a filter but we also have to worry about power outages/frozen pipes here. We probably have enough of everything now. I tend to do the "reorder all" on groceries a lot, so we tend end up with extras that I wouldn't necessarily have if I was shopping in person.

[Steeleballz 7,550]

15 minutes ago, Prizm123 said:

its probably a good thing we dont have a lot of room in this apartment otherwise it would be easy for me to finally go full prepper

 

  Me too, if I didn't have a wife to rein me in. 

[Prizm123 1,086]

4 minutes ago, Steeleballz said:

 

  Me too, if I didn't have a wife to rein me in. 

my wife would probably go along with it. she says she knows how to use guns already, and she knows how to do pretty much everything. we both would love to just live in a cabin in the woods somewhere

[Dashinka 24,494]

14 minutes ago, Steeleballz said:

 

   We do have a filter but we also have to worry about power outages/frozen pipes here. We probably have enough of everything now. I tend to do the "reorder all" on groceries a lot, so we tend end up with extras that I wouldn't necessarily have if I was shopping in person.

We put in a whole house generator in January, something I should have done years ago.

[Steeleballz 7,550]

8 minutes ago, Dashinka said:

We put in a whole house generator in January, something I should have done years ago.

 

  How much did you pay roughly? I have been thinking about doing that.

 

  I have some bargaining room with my wife since she takes up all the closet space with shoes, so I might be able to swing the generator.

[Prizm123 1,086]

2 minutes ago, Steeleballz said:

 

  How much did you pay roughly? I have been thinking about doing that.

 

  I have some bargaining room with my wife since she takes up all the closet space with shoes, so I might be able to swing the generator.

we have an expandable shoe rack. we just add more tiers as she gets shoes.