re: #148 A Mom Anon

Welcome to Duh Apocalypse Everybody! Yay!

I went to my local Kroger store during senior hour at 7 am and managed to find some things, but I’m getting scared about the disruption of some supplies. No meat hardly at all. Dairy is mostly ok, but stuff like cottage cheese and coffee creamer are getting very low. Bread was pretty much wiped out. Produce was well stocked, but barely any frozen or canned veggies or soups or anything. No rice, no beans, cereals are running low. I think we’re ok, except for milk maybe, for about 3 weeks.

I’m terrified of where we’ll be in that time. What if food supplies dry up? Or medicines are delayed shipment because too many workers get sick? When this settles many proverbial heads need to roll. Bigly.

I’m trying not to panic and let my anxiety do it’s thing ,but holy shitmuffins peeps, this is just off the rails messed up? Our system has some seriously huge holes in it that need repaired. That is if we can learn some fucking lessons from HOPEFULLY surviving a fucking pandemic. Holy shit, I can’t even believe just the pandemic part, let alone the rest.

Hugs all around. With masks and gloves and 6 ft apart. Take care of yourselves. Those of you with symptoms, please take care even more. Love ya’all. Seriously.

Food supplies and so on will not dry up. The supply chains are robust and the food sources themselves are not going away. Even if half the workers are out there will still be more than enough food. The US is a net exporter and there has been no concomitant environmental catastrophe like the Dust Bowl to hurt the food supply. The only reason there is any shortage of anything right now is because almost everyone has panic bought 3x of things they might not even normally use.

The supply of medical equipment is what is going to kill us, and particularly people like me. And the solution for that, for the average person, is to not use any supplies, by staying home and not getting sick.