Coronavirus (COVID-19) Discussion Thread

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Kristof81 said:

TBH, I'm not worried about the virus itself, but the shier panic it (or people, to be more precise) causes. Two days ago I went to my local supermarket. Finished my shopping and went home. One hour later I saw a post on FB about the shortages in the market I just came from. I though nothing of it, aka another FB BS post. Another two hour passed and I left home to pick my wife from work. She finishes at 8PM so way past the rush hours. It's only 6 miles away, but it took me over an hour to get there! It looked like half of fucking town, all of a sudden, stormed all local markets! I've never seen traffic like that since I moved here 10 years ago! Anyways, it turned out that the lorry stuck in the traffic and that's why there were temporary shortage of ... MILK! Madness!

Same here

I actually facepalmed today because I told my wife that France confiscates all face masks to give them to doctors and patients and deny them to scalpers. Her reaction to that news? OMG, we need to buy a shitload of face masks now! Even after explaining her twice why they did it, she still wanted to buy as many facemasks as she could get her hands on.