Coronavirus Coronavirus: In-Iowa General Discussion (Not Limited)
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People need to relax on the food. We literally feed the world, and with the travel bans, etc, we're going to be swimming in it.
Every single person makes a difference. See the South Korea "patient 31". South Korea almost had the outbreak contained (or so they think) in their country until one patient went against protocol and went out in public starting a chain reaction that infected hundreds of people. All from a single person making a bad decision.
Please stop swimming in the food.
It becomes a problem when people hoard perishables, only to have them go to waste because they can't consume them fast enough. Rinse and repeat until there actually is a shortage.
sort of curious why you are going once a day?
Only because my kids are INCREDIBLY picky eaters so I kept us topped off on things that would go quickly. If I'm going to spend the next month locked in the house with a 4 year old with ADHD and a 9 year old with ADHD, and my wife... the last thing I want to worry about is fighting over what people eat
We didn't stock up per say, just pre-bought things we would have normally bought over the course of the next 2 weeks. Nothing that doesn't expire until late in the year (pasta, rice, frozen pizza, etc). I'm not worried about food being limited by anything other than people hoarding and would prefer not to have to go out a ton (other than for sanity sake).
What the hell else am I going to do with the stockpile? If I eat it, I'm going to have to use my stockpile of TP
One would think that any ramp in production would be focused on canning. Can't imagine how silly you'd have to be to hoard perishables.
Not specifically but there were apparently thoughts to closing airports for even domestic travel. I didn't see any language around travel restrictions in the draft language.
Was just at Walmart. Fresh food and veggies......plenty. Milk, meat.....no problem. Frozen dinners...getting a little thin. Where you noticed it was in the paper products and cereal. T.P. is gone. Others areas the named brands are gone, but there is still house brands. For example flour....all that is left is the Walmart brand....but there is plenty. We had zero problems getting what we needed for a week or two. No big deal.
Luckily supply chain disruptions and challenges
can be better served locally than preventing a pandemic and/or testing infrastructure.
That said, you can be swimming in food capacity nationally, but still have local outages in food supply.
That's one way to do it. Most people prefer to poop in the toilet, then shower off afterward.
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