Corona Virus # 3

[shooterdon]

Even if someone thinks "this is just the flu", common sense makes us realize millions of others are going to panic.

I cannot imagine fighting over TP...we are not far from being savages. Waiting to see what happens if this gets serious.....Like the lock down in Italy.

 

[txdon]

Reminds me of Seinfeld's "Do you have a square to spare?" episode.

 

[Big Barn]

I just now ordered TP from a Costco on line. Their cheap Kirkland brand and another on sale this week are sold out.

A premium brand for a few cents more was still available so I ordered two boxes of it. I don’t consider this hoarding* as I typically buy that amount approximately once a year.

Two day shipping was a $6 bargain to me as gas to Costco is close to five bucks and 90 minutes of unenjoyable time in traffic and cashier lineups.

* my take on TP is that the people doing panic buying and hoarding are the same idiots who cannot plan ahead and make last minute “runs” to the store and pick up the smallest pack regularly.

 

[5030]

Even if someone thinks "this is just the flu", common sense makes us realize millions of others are going to panic.

I cannot imagine fighting over TP...we are not far from being savages. Waiting to see what happens if this gets serious.....Like the lock down in Italy.

'Food fight' 'Toilet paper fight. If the isn't any TP to be had, buy a 'Bucket of Towels' at Harbor Freight and wipe your bum with them...lol Now if you practice a 'Farmers squat', you don't get your buns dirty anyway (unless it's a blower poop)....:laughing:

 

[5030]

I have to say that the media is bringing out all the 'Closet Preppers'....

 

[k0ua]

Even if someone thinks "this is just the flu", common sense makes us realize millions of others are going to panic.

I cannot imagine fighting over TP...we are not far from being savages. Waiting to see what happens if this gets serious.....Like the lock down in Italy.

This is JUST the flu. Maybe a little more virulent, but it is JUST the flu. The problem is the panic from the sheep. This is NOT some horrible disease, this is JUST the flu. We are starting to suffer from the fear, the stock market is tanking, the price of oil is dropping like a rock. Russia won't cut production to keep oil from dropping, THEY want us to falter, They want oil to tank, they want to put the shale industry out of business. They are our enemies. If we could just resist the fear and continue to travel, continue to go to meetings and sporting events and continue on with our lives, we would all be fine. We don't panic for flu, why are we panicking for this? We are killing ourselves. Stop hoarding toilet paper. stop Panicking.

 

[YanmarFever]

James, I hope you're right, but we will see in a month from now where its going

Im not making any predictions, but I am taking precautions...

 

[5030]

Motor fuel is getting pretty cheap lately. I just filled both my bulk diesel tanks with offroad diesel at $1.70 a gallon. Took 721 gallons plus a bottle of biocide in each. I like to keep the 'red slime' under control.

 

[Fossil Farm]

Unfortunately, this is just a rehearsal for a real pandemic like the 1918 flu outbreak. People are so mobile these days, it will be bad when/if it comes.
If people are in such a panic now, it will really be bad when a new strain of flu or whatever you want to call it begins to form. People are just so used to
doing whatever they want, and not be inconvenienced, it will be tough. During WWII, people came together and sacrificed for the good of all. Not sure
how well it would go over these days. As Spock said (or something close) "The needs of the many outweigh the needs of the one."

Hope it never happens, and we find the magic pill to cure so many diseases some day, but in the meantime we need to act reasonable and be smart.

 

[ovrszd]

I don't see the World having a Pandemic of the magnitude of 100 years ago. News of the problem arrives before the problem does now. Wasn't that way then. No one knew what to do. The problem spread ahead of the education. The World simply doesn't live like that anymore. Of course there are pockets of humanity that aren't that informed. But they also aren't that exposed.