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Panic buying strips store shelves as people stockpile amid coronavirus outbreak
Daily Mail (UK) ^

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.

(Excerpt) Read more at dailymail.co.uk ...


TOPICS: Business/Economy; Government; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: chinaviruspreppers; fakenews; oanic; virus
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To: TigerClaws
Costco trip yesterday.

Wouldn't say it was "panic" buying - but one can see the signs around the edges.

Toilet paper was in much shorter supply than normal.

Fresh meat was low stock.

Most other convenience items were at a lower stock level than normal.

It will be interesting to see what things look like on Monday, after people have had the weekend to freak out.

61 posted on 02/28/2020 9:46:17 AM PST by politicket (Don't remove a Bernie Sanders bumper sticker. It's the only thing holding the car together!)
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To: TigerClaws

What garbage from the UK Collaborators in the MSM to drive panic

Have not seen anything of the sort where I live in a major metro area

Seems like the Deep State is busy yet again pushing meme’s for the ill informed or useful idiots

Not buying it!


62 posted on 02/28/2020 9:46:25 AM PST by 100American (Knowledge is knowing how, Wisdom is knowing when)
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To: A_Former_Democrat

You’re supposed to be boycotting that beer. It’s swill anyway but apparently that’s also the virus’ vector.


63 posted on 02/28/2020 9:46:37 AM PST by AFreeBird
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To: pax_et_bonum

Stripped bare of Marmite and Wheetabix.


64 posted on 02/28/2020 9:47:13 AM PST by biggerten (Love you, Mom.)
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To: TigerClaws
I was at several stores including Walmart over the last few days, and nothing seemed out of the ordinary to me. Maybe the bicoastal idiots are running around in circles flailing their arms like retarded fairies, but in my part of the woods things are fairly calm. This has the strong stench of Fake News.


65 posted on 02/28/2020 9:47:45 AM PST by Mr. Rabbit
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To: COBOL2Java

does the low sodium version of spam taste a lot worse?


66 posted on 02/28/2020 9:47:48 AM PST by Mount Athos
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To: All; null and void

Here’s a guy they let go!

https://twitter.com/JackPosobiec/status/1233448729820172288


67 posted on 02/28/2020 9:48:26 AM PST by TigerClaws
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To: biggerten

Plenty of Pop Tarts in our store so it can’t be bad.


68 posted on 02/28/2020 9:49:22 AM PST by Bitman
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To: TigerClaws
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69 posted on 02/28/2020 9:50:50 AM PST by proust (Justice delayed is injustice.)
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To: Bitman

Very good point.


70 posted on 02/28/2020 9:51:26 AM PST by proust (Justice delayed is injustice.)
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To: Buckeye McFrog

That’s Aldi on a Saturday here. I never ever go to Aldi on Saturday. Or the first of the month.


71 posted on 02/28/2020 9:53:48 AM PST by hellinahandcart
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To: TigerClaws

Was at the local grocery store this morning - no panic buying like one sees before hurricanes or snow.


72 posted on 02/28/2020 9:54:09 AM PST by RightGeek (FUBO and the donkey you rode in on)
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To: the_Watchman

I did!

I wrote “This is N Ga” in my post.

Promise.


73 posted on 02/28/2020 9:54:21 AM PST by Blueflag (Res ipsa loquitur: non vehere est inermus)
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To: Mr. Rabbit

Just look up how much food we waste in this nation on a daily basis. Stuff that has to be tossed-out or marked-down.

There is a whole group in NYC that collects it. Amazing loads of food!

We have more food in this nation than we can eat.


74 posted on 02/28/2020 9:54:37 AM PST by VanDeKoik
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To: Buckeye McFrog

“They’re panicking in Northern VA because that community never turns off the mainstream media 24 hours a day.”

My liberal sister and liberal BIL live in Louden Cty. Huge amounts of Chinese, Muslims, pakis, Indians. I was the only white boy in the local Wal Mart that tells you something.

My sister let it slip last night she told her daughter to keep their 6 month old baby away from foreign” people as daughter live 5 miles from Dulles airport.
Same sister who preaches diversity to me but moved to a new development further out that is mostly white when their old gated community became overrun with brown people.


75 posted on 02/28/2020 9:58:09 AM PST by setter
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To: Mount Athos

I was also wondering about the taste of the low sodium spam. I bought a bunch during the last panic many years ago. Still have it.


76 posted on 02/28/2020 9:58:46 AM PST by dmcnash (Back off! I'm a Scientist.)
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To: TigerClaws

I lived through Sister Corona in grade school. She was a nasty old bat of a nun. If I can handle her, I can handle any sissy virus names after her.


77 posted on 02/28/2020 9:59:12 AM PST by cyclotic (Democrats must be politically eviscerated, disemboweled and demolished.)
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To: dp0622

At least it isn’t a Warsteiner virus.


78 posted on 02/28/2020 10:00:47 AM PST by steve8714
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To: TigerClaws

I don’t believe it. These are Probably photos from a snow storm and twisting the reason for why some shelves are empty.


79 posted on 02/28/2020 10:01:29 AM PST by HollyB
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To: TigerClaws

Bread and milk, eggs and Orange Juice.


80 posted on 02/28/2020 10:01:35 AM PST by steve8714
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