Stocking the cupboards in the event of a pandemic in the USA

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:The milk at my store has a sell by date of late April due to ultra Pasteurization. So just buy extra. That's what I did.

I did the same thing.

+1

You are all buying a couple extra half-gallons of milk just in case there is a signal to the city to stay home for a while, or for your social group to "self quarantine", for whatever reason (a parent at soccer practice or a coworker is positive), or if at some point there are so many cases confirmed in DC that that you don't feel comfortable going out shopping so often. When is that likely to happen? Next week? in three weeks? In a month? Regardless, what happens late April? Late April shit will so likely be worse, dude, not better. You'd have said May or June or July, I'd have stayed quiet, but we don't know.

It's more and more obvious that every day going by, there are (exponentially) more untested (and possibly barely symptomatic) cases walking around you at the supermarket, and slowly, as the cherry blossoms bloom, you'll also be surrounded by sick sounding people telling you "oh, it's just allergies," which it very well could be. By the time we're testing at full speed, we will have so many cases that it won't be long until DOH just decides to only test cases they need to admit to the hospital, and they'll send everyone else home to self-quarantine.

What I'm trying to describe is a situation where you'd so much rather not have a pre-planned need to go to the supermarket late April, much like on an ordinary weekend you'd rather not leave the house on Friday at 7pm, after getting out of your work clothes and into your slippers, to go pick up soy sauce for the stir fry you want to make.

It will die out in warm weather. Mark my words

Okay Mr. President.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:The milk at my store has a sell by date of late April due to ultra Pasteurization. So just buy extra. That's what I did.

I did the same thing.

+1

You are all buying a couple extra half-gallons of milk just in case there is a signal to the city to stay home for a while, or for your social group to "self quarantine", for whatever reason (a parent at soccer practice or a coworker is positive), or if at some point there are so many cases confirmed in DC that that you don't feel comfortable going out shopping so often. When is that likely to happen? Next week? in three weeks? In a month? Regardless, what happens late April? Late April shit will so likely be worse, dude, not better. You'd have said May or June or July, I'd have stayed quiet, but we don't know.

It's more and more obvious that every day going by, there are (exponentially) more untested (and possibly barely symptomatic) cases walking around you at the supermarket, and slowly, as the cherry blossoms bloom, you'll also be surrounded by sick sounding people telling you "oh, it's just allergies," which it very well could be. By the time we're testing at full speed, we will have so many cases that it won't be long until DOH just decides to only test cases they need to admit to the hospital, and they'll send everyone else home to self-quarantine.

What I'm trying to describe is a situation where you'd so much rather not have a pre-planned need to go to the supermarket late April, much like on an ordinary weekend you'd rather not leave the house on Friday at 7pm, after getting out of your work clothes and into your slippers, to go pick up soy sauce for the stir fry you want to make.

It will die out in warm weather. Mark my words

Mark my words = Read my lips?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:The milk at my store has a sell by date of late April due to ultra Pasteurization. So just buy extra. That's what I did.

I did the same thing.

+1

You are all buying a couple extra half-gallons of milk just in case there is a signal to the city to stay home for a while, or for your social group to "self quarantine", for whatever reason (a parent at soccer practice or a coworker is positive), or if at some point there are so many cases confirmed in DC that that you don't feel comfortable going out shopping so often. When is that likely to happen? Next week? in three weeks? In a month? Regardless, what happens late April? Late April shit will so likely be worse, dude, not better. You'd have said May or June or July, I'd have stayed quiet, but we don't know.

It's more and more obvious that every day going by, there are (exponentially) more untested (and possibly barely symptomatic) cases walking around you at the supermarket, and slowly, as the cherry blossoms bloom, you'll also be surrounded by sick sounding people telling you "oh, it's just allergies," which it very well could be. By the time we're testing at full speed, we will have so many cases that it won't be long until DOH just decides to only test cases they need to admit to the hospital, and they'll send everyone else home to self-quarantine.

What I'm trying to describe is a situation where you'd so much rather not have a pre-planned need to go to the supermarket late April, much like on an ordinary weekend you'd rather not leave the house on Friday at 7pm, after getting out of your work clothes and into your slippers, to go pick up soy sauce for the stir fry you want to make.

It will die out in warm weather. Mark my words

How "warm"? Isn't it warm in Southern CA?

[Anonymous]

Ok, so I'm not a preppier. But this whole corona virus thing has me very concerned about being stuck in the house for a couple weeks

I bought from Aldi probably a 1 month supply of rice, beans, canned fruit and veg, pasta, cheap sauce, canned ravioli and crap like that, mac & cheese, 4 cases water
Thats all in the basement stored for worst case scenario

Im also supposed to be gone on a 2 week trip at the end of the month so getting ready for that plus the possibility of us not going and being stuck home I stocked up on

OTC meds like advil, tylenol, cold med etc
prescription meds
toiletries, soap, laundry soap, dishwasher detergent, dish soap etc
cereals (tons of cereal) and snakcs
boxed brownies, s'mores stuff since we have a fire pit outside if the kids get bored
long lasting fruit like apples oranges, along with shelf stable fruit
frozen veggies
meat to be portioned and frozen
ultra pasteurized milk, 1/2 & 1/2
shelf stable milk
normal pasta sauce we actually like lol
long lasting veggies like onions, celery, carrots potatoes
drinks, juice boxes etc
I make bread daily for work so I have multiple sourdough starters at my house, so I bought a 25 pound bag of bread flour
a ton of butter
Bleach tabs

We have some new bored games still unopened from Xmas and a couple new puzzles

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:The milk at my store has a sell by date of late April due to ultra Pasteurization. So just buy extra. That's what I did.

I did the same thing.

+1

You are all buying a couple extra half-gallons of milk just in case there is a signal to the city to stay home for a while, or for your social group to "self quarantine", for whatever reason (a parent at soccer practice or a coworker is positive), or if at some point there are so many cases confirmed in DC that that you don't feel comfortable going out shopping so often. When is that likely to happen? Next week? in three weeks? In a month? Regardless, what happens late April? Late April shit will so likely be worse, dude, not better. You'd have said May or June or July, I'd have stayed quiet, but we don't know.

It's more and more obvious that every day going by, there are (exponentially) more untested (and possibly barely symptomatic) cases walking around you at the supermarket, and slowly, as the cherry blossoms bloom, you'll also be surrounded by sick sounding people telling you "oh, it's just allergies," which it very well could be. By the time we're testing at full speed, we will have so many cases that it won't be long until DOH just decides to only test cases they need to admit to the hospital, and they'll send everyone else home to self-quarantine.

What I'm trying to describe is a situation where you'd so much rather not have a pre-planned need to go to the supermarket late April, much like on an ordinary weekend you'd rather not leave the house on Friday at 7pm, after getting out of your work clothes and into your slippers, to go pick up soy sauce for the stir fry you want to make.

It will die out in warm weather. Mark my words

That may be -- but it may also return in Fall/Winter and we still will not have a vaccine at that time. So there may be a time we need to be prepared to be in the house for a bit.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:lol

This title made me laugh. Of course the most obese nation in the world is worried about running out of food.

ROFLMAO! If there is a pandemic and no food delivery to your local supermarket, food will ran out after a while and you will be very happy if you have a gun in the house to fend off people that will be foraging for food in upper class neighborhoods.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:lol

This title made me laugh. Of course the most obese nation in the world is worried about running out of food.

ROFLMAO! If there is a pandemic and no food delivery to your local supermarket, food will ran out after a while and you will be very happy if you have a gun in the house to fend off people that will be foraging for food in upper class neighborhoods.

For realz. I ordered a few stun guns off of Amazon for this very purpose. although if it gets to that point it’s over. If they’re coming to your house they probably have their own guns

[Anonymous]

I just ordered a 3.5 cubic foot freezer, somebody stop me!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I just ordered a 3.5 cubic foot freezer, somebody stop me!

Do you have a generator? Food will spoil before you can eat it all. In times like this you will wish you had married the plumber/handyman/out door rough guy with only a high school education rather than the phd guy, or the lawyer or the lobbyist.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I just ordered a 3.5 cubic foot freezer, somebody stop me!

Do you have a generator? Food will spoil before you can eat it all. In times like this you will wish you had married the plumber/handyman/out door rough guy with only a high school education rather than the phd guy, or the lawyer or the lobbyist.

Don't worry, my wife's got me covered

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I just ordered a 3.5 cubic foot freezer, somebody stop me!

Do you have a generator? Food will spoil before you can eat it all. In times like this you will wish you had married the plumber/handyman/out door rough guy with only a high school education rather than the phd guy, or the lawyer or the lobbyist.

Don't worry, my wife's got me covered

should have added "handy woman, the outdoor butch girl, rather than the helpless princess" to the list.
Lucky you!!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I just ordered a 3.5 cubic foot freezer, somebody stop me!

Do you have a generator? Food will spoil before you can eat it all. In times like this you will wish you had married the plumber/handyman/out door rough guy with only a high school education rather than the phd guy, or the lawyer or the lobbyist.

Don't worry, my wife's got me covered

should have added "handy woman, the outdoor butch girl, rather than the helpless princess" to the list.
Lucky you!!

If we get a healthy quarantine, I plan to enjoy it to the fullest extent possible

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:
I just ordered a 3.5 cubic foot freezer, somebody stop me!


Do you have a generator? Food will spoil before you can eat it all. In times like this you will wish you had married the plumber/handyman/out door rough guy with only a high school education rather than the phd guy, or the lawyer or the lobbyist.

Damn, I married that guy AND he has a PhD too!!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:
I just ordered a 3.5 cubic foot freezer, somebody stop me!


Do you have a generator? Food will spoil before you can eat it all. In times like this you will wish you had married the plumber/handyman/out door rough guy with only a high school education rather than the phd guy, or the lawyer or the lobbyist.

Damn, I married that guy AND he has a PhD too!!

+1 DH is in medicine who does wood working and electrical work in his spare time. Used to follow the handyman around at his Ivy League university as he had a job managing the dorms. I have a doctor/handyman/plumber/electrician lol.

[Anonymous]

I grew up in an area with more hurricanes, so we always keep a few gallon jugs of water, batteries, canned goods, etc. on hand. Not doing anything special for this except making sure we have enough of our common OTC medicines. I'm having a hard time picturing a case where where will be some major disruptions in services, but maybe I'm not being creative enough.