Posted on 02/28/2020 9:20:25 AM PST by TigerClaws
Supermarket shelves are starting to be stripped bare as Americans prepare for the spread of coronavirus by stockpiling on medications and non-perishable items across the country.
People have been panic buying items from stores ever since health authorities warned that Americans should start preparing for domestic acceleration of the virus, which has infected more than 80,000 people worldwide and killed nearly 3,000.
There are now 60 confirmed cases of the coronavirus in the U.S. and the first case where the origin of the disease is unknown was confirmed on Wednesday.
Supplies have been flying off the shelves countrywide this week with people posting photos on social media showing the lack of products available in some stores and pharmacies.
A supermarket aisle in Virginia had been stripped of non-perishable items like pasta.
People were also sharing photos of their coronavirus stockpiles at home, including one man in Texas who said he bought a year's supply on non-perishable food in one night.
Jesse Colombo, who is a financial analyst in Dallas, tweeted a photo of his emergency food pile, including rice, Spam, freeze-dried foods and beans.
'I just bought an additional year's worth of food last night. Everyone needs to have a stockpile of food. I wouldn't even touch stocks (or even gold/silver) before having food in these times,' he tweeted, adding he was 'on edge' with everything that was happening in relation to coronavirus and the economy.
A woman in Michigan shared a photo of her 'grocery store basement' that was filled with shelves stocked full of items.
It comes as thousands of people were buying up face masks to protect themselves despite evidence that most people who aren't sick don't need to wear them.
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Is there ever going to be a time in your life when you will not use toilet paper or eat soup?
The soup is good for about five years minimum. The toilet paper is good forever.
Yep. I call it a "french toast" snow.
The DM was caught Recycling photos from Italy for this hit garbage .
The DM is intentionally trying to incite panic .
Lets raid and arrest these dangerous DM fools .
ROTFLOL!
The UK Daily Star? you’re kidding, right?
https://www.dailystar.co.uk/news/latest-news/coronavirus-bombshell-14-patients-who-21588972
>TITLE:Coronavirus bombshell as 14% of patients who recovered test positive again
>Recovered coronavirus patients discharged from hospitals in China’s Guangdong province have later tested positive for the virus again - and nobody knows why
>China has discovered that roughly 14% of patients who recover from coronavirus test positive for the killer disease again – with the mechanism behind the virus’ apparent ability to re-infect a complete mystery.
They have been doing that in my area for at least two years.
Just came from my local Aldi store. Almost no one in there. No shortarges of anything. I was able to get what I wanted.
I have been stocking up for the past few weeks, all I really needed was my weekly stuff, an extra canister of coffee, and I did splurge on the 0.49 cent soups. I picked up extra pack of TP and PT too.
I am very comfortable with my stocks at this point and could certainly handle a month long quarantine.
This article posted here appears to be serious fake news and propaganda.
I think somehow we’re being played with the corona virus hype. It’s being push as a mystery disease. If you check the back of a can of Lysol spray you’ll find corona virus listed as one of the many that Lysol spray will kill. There is an attempt to stampede us. When Trump cut off travel from far east countries in January, Chine demanded he keep our borders open. He hasn’t. This was a plot to take down Trump, which got out of control over THERE.
I will probably go buy groceries in the next week and my wife will ask me, did you buy more TP? Yes. Good! If I say no. WHAT(insert Charlie Brown adult jabbering at me)!!! I can be in the bathroom doing my business, or taking a shower, in the garage changing the oil on my tractor and I will hear her coming. Do you know we only have that one 30 roll pack of toilet paper left, I just opened it? No I didn’t know, I don’t routinely do TP inventory(which will get a sharp retort if I decide to toss some gas on the fire just to see the reaction). Well you go by the store tomorrow and pick up another 30 rolls. I swear she must have been caught in the midst of something and not had toilet paper sometime in her life.
I was in WM this morning. Everything calm. Shelves full. Had lunch with friend. No mention of virus.
Working people don’t seem to know much about virus. Retired people panicked
lol...maybe she grew up like me. Me and my brothers and sister were on our own a lot and all pretty close in age. Imagine being on the toilet, running out, and then having a bunch of non-sympathetic siblings laughing or ignoring while you scream out "CAAAAAANNNNNN SOMEONE BRING ME SOME TOILET PAPER PLEEEEEASSSEEEEE!!!!!!"
Exactly.
Some of the photos show products there were ON SALE and they are sold out. That is pretty normal event at my CVS. People wait for stuff to go on sale, have coupons, and “extra bucks” and viola...you have FREE expensive medications.
I never said it was the end of the world. I don't think it's the end of the world. I've taken sensible precautions.
However that doesn't mean we should believe that NOTHING is going to happen. Listening to the Trump presser, the CDC and most recently vp Pence it's clear that the United States will do anything they can to stop the disease from spreading in the United States. They've said that.
And no I'm not invested in any stock. I was simply pointing out that Singapore has taken much more drastic action than any other country so far and seemed to have contained it.
I love Wegmans. I wish they would move towards us.
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