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RATS! I was going to get potatoes at Aldi, but forgot. Added to the list.

 

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Good luck. They have been out at the three stores I have been at over the last few days.

 

I'm in OH and just came back from the grocery store. Shelves are thin but not empty and pallets of groceries (water and TP too!) were being unloaded and pulled to the floor for overnight stocking. Hopefully in the coming days the panic buying and hoarding will calm down and the stores will return to normal inventory levels.

 

This panic buying is a very temporary thing. Many people are freaking out and they think that TP is going extinct.

It is not.

 

I saw someone carrying two bags out as I was going in. And I still forgot.

 

I went into a store here in the UK about 2 weeks ago and saw someone putting 12 packs of 12 TP into a trolley after exclaiming that this was the first store they had seen any in that day. I don't think that there is rational thought associated with that purchase.

There us the Australian woman who ordered 48 packs of TP but ended up with 48 boxes, I.e. 2,000 rolls. Common sense did not apply here since she SHOULD have seen the price.

A UK amusement arcade (in York) has converted one of their claw grab machines to rolls of TP rather than cuddly toys.

 

Clam chowder?!?
Goodness. I hope you mean New England style.
But how do you butter soup? Doesn't the butter knife just break through the surface?

 

We do a lot of homemade baking/ cooking. We make most things from scratch. For example, I make my own cinnamon buns/ one batch =2 lbs of butter/ make=60. Every 2 weeks I bake up 60. Have four every breakfast. Usefull for many prepared meals/ German style cuisine is made to taste good.
a/ German plum cake/b/ cinnamons
My calorie intake is 6000 @ day/ luckily I have a profession where i walk 300km@week.

 

2020 escalated quickly. I'm in North Carolina and life is basically shut down. Lucky for me, I work from home and could care less about most social activities. I do go to NA meetings which is kind of bad though because that's generally best done face-to-face. They offer online alternatives, but it's not the same.

My biggest worry is for those people who come out of prison or detox and have no meetings to go to. We're trying to reach out to them on our website, but those are the lives that fall through the cracks during a time like this.

 

I realize a lot of stuff is closing/canceled, but we're still allowed to have small meetings, right? The outright prohibition is on larger gatherings. (Speaking as an NC resident, but not an NA attendee...)

 

Correct. We are still allowed to have NA meetings, but most of our meeting places are in churches and thus we have to abide by their rules. On the contrary though, some meetings are working on getting temporary meeting places such as event houses and parks. It's a moving process, but at least there are some alternative solutions being hashed out.

 

Those cinnamon rolls look very tempting. Yum.

 

Today is my wife's birthday, so I had the florist deliver her a nice bouquet...

 

A cheerful report from Italy:

https://www.bostonglobe.com/2020/03...us-cautionary-tale-italy-dont-do-what-we-did/

All I can say is that if we start running out of beds and ventilators in the USA and this kind of triage starts happening, and I end up getting the virus, I can bid farewell to further coin collecting!

 

Thanks for your concern @Ocatarinetabellatchitchix

Yes France has been hit quite severely so far. Worse than population's health situation will be the social situation, because almost everything is shut down, and the panic people seem to show at supermakets : some people buying 300 kgs pasta and/or rice and flour. I sincerely hope weevils will eat them when all this stuff is over.

That said, the medical situation could evolve in a bad direction is we face a lot of cases as we've been delivered only 200 masks for the whole medical unit, i.e. 7 GPs, 2 assistants and 5 students.

Hopefully we'll be OK. I'll try to keep you posted in the coming days folks, but we'll be quite busy at the office. If I don't post regularily here doesn't necessarily mean I'm dead, just at work

Take care all



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Regarding the Twin Peaks meme, it seems like a good time to be LIVING ABOVE A CONVENIENCE STORE

 

Here's getting worse.....Ghost town.....Spain, 1000 new cases in 48 hours and 100 have died just in 2 days!.......Keep safe guys and girls...

 

About 1/2 full shelves today at the grocery store. Little meat - no carrots, few vegetables, no paper products. Apparently deliveries are being impacted because the grocer in the produce section said there was no way he could predict when these would be re-stocked.