Bad news for pasta lovers in the UK

Yeah, I just got back from the store and saw basically the same thing. Everything is picked over and the poor workers can’t even keep the shelves stocked because all these idiots are trying to hoard everything. I just wanted to pick up a few items to make dinner and they were all gone. Wanted to start screaming at everyone in the store.

 

I have some kindness to share. A friend of mine and his wife are realtors, and on their Facebook page today they told everyone that since they are young and healthy, they would be happy to go shop or run errands for any of the elderly or at-risk people are afraid to go out.

I thought that was really kind of them

But yeah, a lot of people are being buttheads these days.

 

Oh, yeah, we also call them real estate agents here. Either/or, although I think there actually may be a slight technical difference between a real estate agent and a realtor. But we usually use those terms interchangeably.

 

I’m sorry to say that things are pretty much the same here in California. The panic-purchasing is actually sort of amusing to me. People are acting like it’s the end of the world. And I agree, it absolutely sucks that people are stripping these items away from others who really need them.

As a 32-year old, I’ve considered helping out elderly folks as well. However, since this virus can be very contagious well before symptoms show, I’m afraid of the possibility that I could carry the virus into the homes of these people, since I’m out and about. I won’t even visit my parents right now, especially because my dad has a pretty impressive list of health conditions as it is.

There are talks about “drive-through” testing sites in the coming days. Once those become available, it would be a great idea to get tested!

 

Idk why but when I saw this title I thought it was hilarious.

 

Ive seen people panic-buying because of the panic-buying. We're like a startled herd of buffalo running towards a cliff.

 

i work at retail company, and i can buy thoose thing's or pile em up for myself

i can monitor where those item are, which store, heck i can buy it directly from the warehouse ... so no need to fight for hand sanitizer tho

but we didnt do all thoose thing... i dont even have my own medical mask rather i usually used my motorcycle mask that i used when ride it and i have only 1 personal hand sanitizer that i bought before 2020 ( i used public hand sanitizer for most cases),

its a bad thing to do,, only rich people can stock em yet they killed the unlucky one who need thoose item more than them....

and i always think that if the situation become chaos, then the one who stock thoose item will be the one who being killed by other

 

Funny thing for me, is buying toilet paper, food I understand.
Lets take the worst case scenario: virus mutates more and death % rises rapidly.
Everything shuts down. You dont have anything to eat. If You dont eat, You dont go to number two.
Only thing You can do with TP, is use it as a tissue where to sneeze when You get the virus.
But I get your point, that less fortunate cant afford more expensive foods to feed themselves and their familys.

 

Man unfortunately it is human, I've seen the scene you're describing already on February, 22nd(when the virus spread in here), we got used to a good lifestyle,where everything is good, hard to say but this virus showed that we are spoilt. The country who reacted the best was China, because they're totalitarian, his president does not talk much, but when he talks, they obey, period. I mean if only 1 person had the virus in the chaos that you had the supermarket, with all the people that he would have touched, or that he would have reached with his saliva, well instead of saving yourselves, you spread it.
I am from Italy and here the situation is pretty bad as you heard from the news, but I have a lot of good acts to tell you, because from bad periods, you can get out bitter or you can get out better.
So, 3 days ago, hospital said that there was an emergency, lack of blood, the fear made people stop donating it, and now they didn't have it even for the basic operations.
Well let me say proudly that in the last 3 days(keeping the distance of 1 meter ) like every Italian person who was able to donate blood, showed up to donate it. Instead of the queue for the supermerkat to buy, there was the queue to give.

 

I think people are just buying more because they're worried about being quarantined. Especially if you have a large family, you could go through a lot of tp in three weeks.

Also, I guess some people are worried that everything is going to shut down soon and new deliveries won't be coming in. So they want to stock up before that happens.

 

That’s exactly what I said to the person next to me in the store. Everyone needs to chill out because they’re throwing everything out of balance creating a giant ripple effect. I guess we can blame the good old media for this madness.

 

You can expect this behaviour in any country, it is a normal survival instinct in the human body to prepare themself for what is coming.