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    Shopping report

    I was 15 days post exposure today and I took advantage of a gorgeous spring day to do some much needed grocery shopping. My first stop was the butcher shop. They might have had 1/3 the normal amount and selections in the cases. I wanted a chuck roast---no luck, their own hot dogs---no luck, souse---no luck

    Next was the grocery store. For the most part I only do the outside aisles, so I started in the fruit and produce department----no shortage of fresh selections at all. They did have the salad bar closed and and the deli is not its normal, but there was no problem at all with fresh things. Then I turned right and started going through the sea food and meat---sea food looked normal, I didn't look too closely to meats--but the internal aisles were various levels of empty, some entirely empty. When I got to the dairy aisle things seemed close to normal there and I got two dozen eggs and some cheese. I also picked up a loaf of rye bread and that appeared normal.

    Check out was slow because of a limited number of cashiers. The had marked the floor at 6 foot intervals, and people were complying with that. At the check out I found I had violated an anti hording rule---I could only have one dozen eggs!

    What is causing people to horde is beyond me----the woman in front of me seemed intent on buying every package of hamburger and chicken they had---I hope she has a big freezer!
    "A pessimist sees the difficulty in every opportunity, an optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty” ---Sir Winston Churchill
    "Political extremism involves two prime ingredients: an excessively simple diagnosis of the world's ills, and a conviction that there are identifiable villains back of it all." ---John W. Gardner
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    HEB has prominently displayed signs telling everyone that when the crisis seems past, and people realize what hoarding fools they've been there is a new no-return policy for items which have been in greater demand lately...In other words, you bought it - you keep it......Ben
    The future is forged on the anvil of history...The interpreter of history wields the hammer... - Unknown author...

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    Wall-Mart lets us have one little baggage of toilet paper at a time.
    Old redneck hillbilly borned and raised on a redwood stump.

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    I have Bidets.. don't need o stinking toilet paper. we are running low on Paper Towels though.. going to start figuring that out in about a week.

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    Here ya go —

    A woman in a grocery store in Hanover, Pa. intentionally walked through the story coughing on the display cases causing the store to dispose of $35,000 worth of groceries without knowing whether she was infected or not —

    https://nypost.com/2020/03/25/woman-...twisted-prank/
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    “You can vote your way into socialism, but you have to shoot your way out.” — Too fundamental to have an attribution


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    Joe, IV posted that in it's own thread yesterday.

    I have a question that keeps rolling over in my mind without answers. The question: where did all this hording originate? What is causing it? When I look at the things being horded it becomes even more bizarre---they range from toilet paper to guns and ammo. Can anyone give me some insights into the origin of this apparent fear? There has to be a common thread in all of this----these individuals did not all come to the same conclusion at the same time that they need to go out and buy all the toilet paper they can find!
    "A pessimist sees the difficulty in every opportunity, an optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty” ---Sir Winston Churchill
    "Political extremism involves two prime ingredients: an excessively simple diagnosis of the world's ills, and a conviction that there are identifiable villains back of it all." ---John W. Gardner
    “You can’t go back and change the beginning, but you can start where you are and change the ending.” ---C. S. Lewis

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