re: #1 silverdolphin

re: #91 Eclectic Cyborg

It wasn’t just water and toilet paper. I remember going to a local Wal-Mart around 3/16/20 and many of the shelves were picked clean.

About eight days after the pandemic declaration, Ms. Cyborg and I had to go to a small market 45 mins away to find, of all things, ground beef…and lucky for us the store had three one pound packs left.

For reference we have 7 grocery stores less than 10 miles from us and a couple of local butcher shops within that same radius.

Finding beef is usually not a problem.

In the early days I was as fearful of everyone losing their fucking minds as I was of the virus itself.

I was coming back from a bar mitzvah in PA when covid was starting to spread in NYC metro (and one of the first identified clusters was from a bar mitzvah). We stopped at a supermarket to pick up food, since we were already hearing about stores being short of some items. The supermarket - a Shop Rite - was nearly picked clean of *everything*.

I mean everything. You could barely find packaged goods, let alone toilet paper, paper towels, sanitizers, wipes, etc. It was Armageddon.

It was never that bad, even after Sandy, when supermarkets and stores in the area had power issues.

And Trump was busy waving this off as something that will be gone within a few days or weeks, even as the body count was starting to mount - and whoever contracted it seemed to die or face seriously and lengthy hospitalizations with uncertain outcomes.

That’s the kind of awful leadership Trump brings. He is even more unhinged and unwilling to listen to anyone who tells him what he needs to hear; he assumes that anyone who tells him differently isn’t a loyalist, so he will boot them. That means he’s surrounded solely by sycophantic suckups and yes-men - all of whom are there to loot and fleece the nation to benefit themselves and Trump personally and directly.