I'm glad he gave people a heads up and got some people panicked enough to stock up.This is why I hope this thread doesn’t get locked. I took this photo on 1/31/20:
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And I took this photo on 2/6/20. The lady at Giant Eagle looked at me like I had three eyes. Two days later I came back and got another cart load just like this:
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And I took this one on 3/6/20 after I got some more supplies. I won’t take pictures of all the stuff in my cabinets.
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I’ve also been taking my temperature twice daily, gargling with hot salt water every night, and have vinyl gloves and sanitizing tablets inbound, all thanks to helpful members here.
But many of us have been on INGO for YEARS (probably smokingman among them) telling people to stock up for disasters and events like this. And that people should have CASH reserves and a minimum of a month in non perishable food and water reserves. Fuel reserves. Medicine reserves. First aid reserves, the list goes on.
This is not a new concept with covid19.
I'm not saying this to pick on you. I'm glad you got stocked.
I truly hope this shocked many more Americans into waking up and getting ready for the next "big one".
The more people who are ready the better for us all.