crissindahouse said:
John2290 said: Well, I've enough food for 4 weeks, a month worth of fry food in storage and only need to go to the local shops for perishables. I may be overreacting but I feel much more at ease now and reduced my chances of getting sick. |
I'm a department head of a wholesale company and we work 2 hours extra a day +Saturday and Sunday now.
Thx a lot...
Btw there are other people who don't get anything because of some people wo buy everything away from them (even food for their toddlers). This egoistic behaviour is pretty ugly.
Edit: was going to reply to your other post but clicked this accidentally
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It's kind of your job to anticipate trends and stock up before shelves have a chance to run empty. This has been developing since Januari, and you or your boss should have hired extra help to mitigate the pretty much guaranteed run on stores. So far here it's just sanitizer and stuff like that that's all sold out, although I'll find out tomorrow what else is gone when I go shopping. I already got some extra food a week ago, just in case the stores run empty when panic sets in.
Anyway, thanks for putting the extra time in trying to keep up with demand.
I'm less worried about the virus after reading about the results in Wuhan. Children are seemingly not very susceptible, thus the threat of it spreading through schools is a lot lower than for the flu. It's mostly people that keep traveling and then infecting family members who are spreading the virus. Suspend all air traffic until proper tests are in place at boarding would slow this down immediately. But business and tourist sector is more important...
"2 in Orange County in Southern California: a man in his 60s and a woman in her 30s who had recently traveled to countries that have widespread reports of COVID-19"
"10 new cases in Belgium, 9 of which returned from a trip to northern Italy and are now isolated at home after developing an upper respiratory infection with a relatively mild flu-like condition."
"22 new cases in Sweden: in Stockholm, Värmland, Västra Götaland, Örebro county and in Skåne.
he risk of an outbreak in Sweden is judged as "moderate." All cases in Sweden as of earlier today were linked to recent travel abroad ('import case') or contact with a confirmed import case."
Just ugh.
2,237 new cases today (So far), 88 new deaths.