24 hours after yesterday's trip to the local supermarket (see above) the entire produce section had been restocked (impressive), the dairy section had some inventory (I bought milk) and the packaged meat section was about 50% stocked (I bought a roast and some ground beef). Still no eggs and no bread whatsoever. Minimal canned goods available. I didn't bother looking for cleaning or paper products or healthy frozen food. I bought a frozen pizza - gotta have some fun!

That sounds so nice right now. I’m envious.

If they shut restaurants and transport in London, I am going to Cornwall.

Cornwall, Ontario or Cornwall, Prince Edward Island?

The weekending places are packed right now. The Hamptons are supposedly busier than a Memorial Day weekend.

stockholm syndrome


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Didja bring someone nice enough to cross-contaminate?

Ohio and Illinois have closed all bars and restaurants. I’m sure every state is not far behind from doing this. So it looks like no more going out to drink or eat after work or on the weekends.

Ireland is ordering all the pubs closed from midnight. Ireland!

The last time the pubs in England were ordered closed was under Oliver Cromwell in the 1640s. And then there was a civil war.

Putting Cromwell and Ireland in the same sentence is culturally insensitive. lol

Of course he did. He is a kool... maudit... after all.

Wow. Aerial views of expressways in Italy are just freaky. So deserted it looks like a CGI of a fictional city where no one lives.

Tellement.

I trust his good judgement to lasso (figuratively speaking) a green-eyed platinum blonde for prolonged chess tournaments. There is a sanitary measure behind this thought.

Boise hasn't been too bad, yet, but I think this is just the beginning. We got our first confirmed case this last Friday. Talks of several school districts being cancelled is circulating, restaurants are taking a hit (I couldn't believe how dead Texas Roadhouse was. That place is ALWAYS packed here. Some restaurants offering 50% off your tab just to keep their employees working), and grocery stores are getting hit by the hoarders.

I'm sure this is just the start of the race. I work for the city and we have an all-hands on deck meeting tomorrow, so, I will be interested to see what comes out of it.

Should’ve been doing this nationwide last week along with closing the airports and mass transit systems. This is just beginning and will continue to get worse because of our response. Wait and see what kind of panic ensues when the hospitals are overrun and thousands are dying across the country.

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PA just had all restaurants and bars close in the state.

Kind of destroys the arguments most us have been making for mass transit to realize they can be totally shut down, leaving those utterly dependent on them (even to access medical care) stranded. This may not be the last rampaging virus as everything goes more and more global.

Economic conditions in the US are deteriorating rapidly. This is pretty scary.

Closing transit is not a good idea. People still need to go to the grocery and pharmacy or to work at the hospital...

Hopefully rush-hour transit will get less crowded by itself...

https://www.wsj.com/articles/coronav...=hp_lead_pos10

Now we’ve gone too far.