This whole thing stinks to high heaven. At most so far 59 people have died, with most of them being in one nursing home in Kirkland WA. The media is fear mongering harder than ever to make orange man look bad. Schools and businesses are closing which is sure to send us into recession if not worse. Out of 330,000,000 people, 59 have died in the US and everything is screeching to a halt. Something isn't right here but it's fucking everything up. The economy was the best it's ever been in the history of our country and now everything is going to shit because of less than 100 deaths. More people probably die each year from skiing accidents. This is un fucking believable.
EDIT: I'm not saying this is a total hoax. I'm saying the media overreaction is making things way worse than they have to be. Panicking is never going to make anything better. If this is truly as bad as some of you are saying, I hope it justifies sending our economy into great depression 2 Corona boogaloo
My Publix was out of eggs, DHA milk, and toilet paper... you know what there were a ton of? Canned foods and baby wipes. This is a lot of reactionary panic, I agree.
However, one should prepare against the products of mass reactionary panic anyway, so if you’ve been putting off on the things needed to be independent and safe for a while, do so.
There was nothing at the 3 Publix by my place. Nothing in Walmart, Aldi, convenience stores, etc. All the meats were gone (was going to make beef jerkey since it will last a good while...and haven't made some in a long while).
Wiped out here locally, too. No eggs, milk, cereal, laundry soap,tp, all lunch meats, cheese and breads are gone. I need to go to work, and brown bag my lunches. No access to a microwave during the day. Going to have to get creative and think out side the box a little.
McDonalds still open.
They'd love the business.
that's weird, here in NC just came from aldi, and it had 2 pallets of paper towels, lots of diapers, plenty of milk/eggs. the meat was a little slim pickings, but there was plenty for me, they had tons of deli meats, cases of it. there was very little they were out of stock. my grocery store had stuff when I went by there too.
The only thing I really can't find is hand-sanitizer and clorox type products like wipes and baby wipes.
Similar here in Charlotte, Lidl and Aldi's, milk, paper towels but no TP. Plenty on canned goods, chicken, fruit, cheese, but no rice. Local Harris Teeter picked clean of milk, cheese, rice, fruit, bread. They just closed public schools here, probably had something to do with the run on food.
Resellers hit the sanitization products hard and made a killing on ebay and amazon before getting cut off.
No issues here, we still have had ZERO identified cases of Corona in the entire region. Every store I have been to has overstocked in anticipation of a run that hasn't occurred as of yet and I'm doubting will happen. On a good note, my commute to work in the city has become heavenly, nearly no government workers going to work these days, they get paid to sleep and stay home now.
Nice. We have quite a few cases just south of my county. I don't think there have been any identified in my county yet but people are still freaking out.