Zardnaar
Legend
As the title says.
Put simply I'm a cynic. While some people believe in ideals I lean more towards humanity being highly evolved monkeys with nukes and cell phones. Monkeys seem to be less self destructive however so they might be smarter than us.
Panic buying IMHO is due to 2 things.
1. Fear of missing out or FOMO.
2. Trying to control something. You can't do much individually about Covid 19 but you can buy toilet paper.
However there will be genuine shortages. The best example of this is hand sanitizer. Even without panic buying theres not enough of it in the world.
Even if you could buy it that just means someone else in a poorer country is going without.
However there is a sane amount of panic buying. For example if you get sick even non Covid ideally you self isolate for 14 days. Who had 14 days worth of food? If you have two people in your household what happens if you get sick two weeks apart? Do you have a months food? What if you want to self isolate for two months?
You don't need a years supply of toilet paper but due to disruptions things are going to get hard to get. Here that's flour, we have plenty the Mills are operating, storehouses are 90% full. Freight is still running.
But we're out of packaging and resupply is 6 weeks away. The flours there, we can't buy it or at least the supermarket was out. They only have 20kg bags and they're being shipped to the bakery.
Another silly example is they banned plastic supermarket bags a few years ago. Reusable cloth bags are the way forward. Well can't buy them any more either and some supermarkets have banned them as well.
Well foods still going to be produced? Here and in the US it's starting to rot in the ground as they can't harvest it. Even if they could the smaller stores and restaurants that buy it are closed. In a few weeks people might not have the money to buy it even if it was available to buy.
It's harvest time for late autumn crops such as apples. Due to lockdown the tourists who work part time can't harvest them.
Those people who bought canned apples might not be stupid.
IDK where the line is between stupid panic buying and sane stocking up lies. We started a week or so the panic buying started. Since then we have been going in late at night often on Monday or Tuesday buying whatever's left.
I'm not fussy, I don't mind eating oats. I don't need a kale and quinoa infused soy latte with organic vanilla sprinkles on top. In the 1980s as a kid coffee choices were black or white with or without suger. I wasn't allowed coffee that often and didn't have McDonalds until 1991 age 12, Pizza Hutt 1996 aged 18.
So no FOMO here I'm expecting some things I like will disappear. Just going to go get some recipes for sausages via phone off my wives grandmother cya.
Put simply I'm a cynic. While some people believe in ideals I lean more towards humanity being highly evolved monkeys with nukes and cell phones. Monkeys seem to be less self destructive however so they might be smarter than us.
Panic buying IMHO is due to 2 things.
1. Fear of missing out or FOMO.
2. Trying to control something. You can't do much individually about Covid 19 but you can buy toilet paper.
However there will be genuine shortages. The best example of this is hand sanitizer. Even without panic buying theres not enough of it in the world.
Even if you could buy it that just means someone else in a poorer country is going without.
However there is a sane amount of panic buying. For example if you get sick even non Covid ideally you self isolate for 14 days. Who had 14 days worth of food? If you have two people in your household what happens if you get sick two weeks apart? Do you have a months food? What if you want to self isolate for two months?
You don't need a years supply of toilet paper but due to disruptions things are going to get hard to get. Here that's flour, we have plenty the Mills are operating, storehouses are 90% full. Freight is still running.
But we're out of packaging and resupply is 6 weeks away. The flours there, we can't buy it or at least the supermarket was out. They only have 20kg bags and they're being shipped to the bakery.
Another silly example is they banned plastic supermarket bags a few years ago. Reusable cloth bags are the way forward. Well can't buy them any more either and some supermarkets have banned them as well.
Well foods still going to be produced? Here and in the US it's starting to rot in the ground as they can't harvest it. Even if they could the smaller stores and restaurants that buy it are closed. In a few weeks people might not have the money to buy it even if it was available to buy.
It's harvest time for late autumn crops such as apples. Due to lockdown the tourists who work part time can't harvest them.
Those people who bought canned apples might not be stupid.
IDK where the line is between stupid panic buying and sane stocking up lies. We started a week or so the panic buying started. Since then we have been going in late at night often on Monday or Tuesday buying whatever's left.
I'm not fussy, I don't mind eating oats. I don't need a kale and quinoa infused soy latte with organic vanilla sprinkles on top. In the 1980s as a kid coffee choices were black or white with or without suger. I wasn't allowed coffee that often and didn't have McDonalds until 1991 age 12, Pizza Hutt 1996 aged 18.
So no FOMO here I'm expecting some things I like will disappear. Just going to go get some recipes for sausages via phone off my wives grandmother cya.
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