I know where you can still find some in TP’d trees around here.
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We are a household of two . . . I think the 4-pack I purchased before the insanity will carry us through the next few weeks 
After all, this is a respiratory, not an intestinal, virus.
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Here are pics a friend took last night
at (top row) Market Basket, and bottom, TJ’s, both in Burlington, MA.
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Epic. 
The pattern of in-demand items suggested to me that people are stocking for a longer duration event, and for items to care for themselves and their households. This doesn’t look like the typical run on chips, bread, and milk I see before one of our New England snowstorms.
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The Wifeacita’s co-worker, work wife is from El Salvador. She says as long she has rice, beans, and masa she’s good and she is. Mind you she is solid mid to upper middle class.
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Had a serendipitous stroke of luck with regards to my dad not going shopping with his neighbor today, as per usual routine. Evidently, one or 2 of their kids are sick, so they kindly bought him what he usually gets, and left it on his doorstep. He then wiped off the outside of the bags, and everything inside with disinfectant wipes. I think he’s finally getting the potential severity of this, at his very advanced age…
Will have a report soon from H, who is grocery shopping this afternoon. Ground zero practically, of outbreak in US. BTW, schools closed in 3 counties in our state until April 24th. National Guard will be in to assist, and borders to our state will be shut down by Monday, if not earlier.
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Oh boy. I am glad that your Dad made such a good decision to let the food come to him.
Please continue to post—I like seeing your photos over on the WFD thread.
P.S. We have dear friends in the red zone in Northern Italy sending us daily photos of their “lockdown dinners” at home. It’s a comfort to us and a way to stay in touch.
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Well thank you so much @tomatotomato! Will do so - dropped off WFD when I was sick and couldn’t eat or even think much about food…thankfully, things have changed!
Good luck to your friends in Italy!
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MB has it covered. WCVB tonight showed an MB in Waltham that, while very busy, still had stock on their shelves, or it being replenished very quickly. They have very trusted and excellent vendor relationships, as is evidenced at how quickly they were back up and running after the employee, vendor and shoppers’ strike for Artie T. in 2014.
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You hit the nail on the head. As ever.
As I drove out of the parking lot
today, I was thinking how we shoppers stood with Team Market Basket then and they stand by us now.
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I just read this.
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Context: Things have been quiet here in Annapolis MD. Friday our Governor took some of the most aggressive actions in the country to stem the spread of COVID-19. I stopped at our grocery on the way home from working on a boat all day. At 9.30p it was apparent that schools being closed and National Guard activated among a number of other steps got people’s attention. The store was really wiped out. There was ONE potato left. No onions, no lettuce, really no produce. The state of the entire store made a winter blizzard forecast look like a memorial day weekend with rain the forecast.
There are trucks coming in tonight so I’m going back at 6a when they open mostly to see how well they restock. We’re in pretty good shape as we topped up our stores a month ago. Today was intended to just be a regular shop to keep topped up.
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Re the GI tract in Corona; please take your pre and probiotics, if needed. As you already know, that’s where most of our collective immune systems are…
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I know this is not food related, but I had a routine maintenance service appointment with BMW this morning and I was the ONLY person in the waiting room on a SATURDAY! I was out in less than an hour. Usually they are jam packed on Saturdays and the wait is close to 2 hours. When I went to pick up my car the steering wheel, and seat were completely covered in plastic. Even though the maintenance was covered, the invoice listed latex gloves and masks.
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SF public schools are closed as of Monday. But this presents the problem of a huge number of children who receive both breakfast and lunches at school, i.e. a major proportion of their daily nutrition.
Public libraries will also close as of today. There is discussion, maybe plans, to welcome children furloughed from schools and provide limited meals at the libraries.
Will be interesting how they balance need for social isolation with need for nutrition.
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Closure of schools in the UK is a subject of debate, partly along the lines of the issue Pilgrim outlines. All children, aged 5 - 7, receive a free lunch and older children also receive free meals if they are a low income family. It is already accepted by many of us that food poverty is an issue in the UK and this already manifests itself during school holidays.
An announcement by the health minster here, "warned the public on Saturday that anti-inflammatories like ibuprofen and cortisone could be an aggravating factor in coronavirus infections. "
“In case of fever take paracetamol. If you are already on a course of anti-inflammatories or if you are in doubt then consult your doctor,” Véran added on Twitter.
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Spain has just announced a very considerable lockdown across the country with serious movement restrictions and closure of places of large gatherings (including bars & restaurants). Supermarkets will remain open and travel to/from them is not restricted. The country’s various police forces - federal, regional and local - are put under the direct control of the ministry of the interior and they will supervise the new regulations.
One of the UK’s airlines, Jet2, with whom we often fly to Spain has withdrawn all its flights to the country, even turning back several in mid-air to return to the UK.
A lot of school districts arrange for meals when school is out. You can search under your school district, under “what parents should know”. Like this one;
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Just did my coronavirus shopping/stocking up.
20lbs of chicken breasts
9 lbs ground beef-pork-veal
15 libs of pasta
10 lbs of flour
10 lbs pork sausage
Multiple cans of tomato sauce-paste-whole
10lbs of various frozen vegetables
4 - 1.750lites of Stoli Vodka
And a variety of daily need items
( I am satisfied with my current level of 38 rolls of toilet paper)
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