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I can’t remember a time when we have seen such widespread “panic
buying” all over the nation. Today I spoke with someone that just visited
the closest Wal-Mart in this area, and I was told that there are empty shelves
all over the store. There are very few canned goods left, some of the
most essential medications have been cleaned out, and there was nothing left in
the long-term storable food section at all. Of course similar things are
being reported at major retail stores all across the United States.
All of a sudden, fear of
COVID-19 has motivated thousands upon thousands of Americans to start prepping
like crazy. But most of the population is still not taking this crisis
seriously enough. As the number of confirmed cases all over the world
continues to rise at an exponential rate, what are the stores going to look
like when most of the country finally realizes that they should be prepping for
an extended pandemic?
Over the past several days, this coronavirus outbreak has
escalated significantly.
Italy reported a 50% increase in coronavirus cases Sunday, as the
US further restricted travel and the famed La Scala opera house closed.
Italy’s Civil Protection Authority reported the country now has
1,694 confirmed coronavirus cases, up from 1,128 confirmed cases on Saturday.
Thirty-four people have died.
And in Germany, the number of confirmed cases actually doubled in
just 24 hours.
Here in the United States, confirmed cases are now popping
up all
over the nation, and we are being warned to brace for a
“boom” of confirmed cases…
A “boom” of confirmed cases of the coronavirus that has now killed
more than 3,000 people around the world — including two in the U.S. — could
already be racing across America despite ramped-up efforts to contain the
outbreak, experts say.
The spread of the virus by “community transmissions” is an
indication that we could indeed be looking at the tip of the iceberg,”
Ogbonnaya Omenka, an assistant professor and public health specialist at Butler
University’s College of Pharmacy and Health Sciences, told USA TODAY on Sunday.
Overall, the number of confirmed cases outside of China has more
than tripled over the past week. If we continue to see that sort of
a growth rate, there will be more than a million confirmed cases outside of
China just five weeks from now.
I don’t think that it will happen that quickly, and let us pray
that we don’t hit that number at all, but right now this outbreak is starting
to spiral out of control.
As fear of this virus rises, grocery stores from coast to coast
are stocking up on essential supplies in an effort “to
prevent shortages”…
Now grocers are working to prevent shortages and preparing for a
spike in demand for disinfectants and long-lasting items such as pasta and
canned food. Some are ramping up orders from suppliers.
“This is like a natural disaster, but it’s an illness,” said Doug
Baker, vice president of industry relations at FMI, a trade group for food
retailers.
In the short-term, hopefully things won’t be too bad.
But without a doubt global supply chains are becoming extremely
strained due to the widespread shutdowns inside of China, and that has led one
analyst to predict “empty
shelves in Target and Walmart as early as April”…
“Literally, empty shelves in Target and Walmart as early as
April,” predicts David Iwinski, a local China business consultant who once ran
a factory in China.
Most retail stores are likely to have shortages because the
coronavirus in China is hampering the manufacture of products shipped to
America.
If there are things that you need to go buy, you need to do it
now, because thousands upon thousands of Americans are already storming the
stores.
In Los Angeles, a local Costco was quickly raided of the most
essential supplies when
the store opened on Saturday morning…
At a Costco Wholesale market in Los Angeles Saturday morning, a
swarm of shoppers loaded up carts with essential items to prepare for a
possible period of quarantine.
According to the chain, water, paper towels and Clorox
disinfecting wipes were the most in-demand products.
And up in northern California, photos of completely empty shelves
over the weekend were
rapidly shared on social media…
On social media, residents further north shared shocking photos
and videos from Costco centers in San Francisco.
Shelves were depleted of tinned food, while some shoppers climbed
up onto shelving in order to reach remaining supplies of rice.
Of course the exact same thing is happening in other states as
well.
In Washington, one local resident claimed that “thousands of people” have been descending on
the local Costco centers…
I live in the epicenter of the coronavirus outbreak in Washington
State. My advice for those elsewhere – go to Costco now. Thousands of people at
local stores yesterday – not where you want to be if there is a virus
spreading. Glad I went a week ago.
And one video that has been very widely
shared shows
hundreds of people lined up at a Costco in Brooklyn before it even opened in
the morning.
So what will things look like if thousands of people start dying?
Already, there is a
worldwide shortage of protective face masks. In fact, things have gotten
so bad that Surgeon General Jerome Adams posted a tweet demanding
that people stop buying them…
The surgeon general has a message for people who want to run out
and stockpile masks to combat the coronavirus – don’t.
“Seriously people – STOP BUYING MASKS!” Surgeon General Jerome
Adams tweeted. “They are NOT effective in preventing general public from
catching #Coronavirus, but if healthcare providers can’t get them to care for
sick patients, it puts them and our communities at risk!”
Personally, I don’t understand his logic. If the masks are
not effective, then why do healthcare providers need them?
Yes, the masks have limited effectiveness against a virus that is
so easy to catch. But at least they are better than nothing.
The time of “the
perfect storm” is here, and this virus has the potential to greatly
accelerate our problems.
We still don’t know if this will be the great global pandemic that
so many have warned about, but Bill Gates certainly seems to believe that this
may be the “once-in-a-century
pathogen we’ve been worried about”…
Billionaire and Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates said the coronavirus that has killed at least
2,859 people and infected more than 83,700 globally may be the
“once-in-a-century pathogen we’ve been worried about.”
“I hope it’s not that bad, but we should assume it will be until
we know otherwise,” Gates wrote in an article published Friday in The
New England Journal of Medicine.
Personally, I am still hoping that this outbreak will start to
subside once warmer weather arrives.
But so far nothing is slowing this virus down. As I
mentioned above, the total number of cases outside of China has more than
tripled over the last seven days, and that is a huge red flag.
If you need to get to the store, do it now. Because at the
rate that people are raiding the stores, there could soon be shortages of some
of the most important supplies.
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3 comments:
Better off preparing for the worst while hoping for the best...most of the stuff we've already stockpiled and I'm not surprised stores are sold out now. People tend to wait to the last minute to clean out stores-just look what happens each time hurricanes hit!
Given that more than 18,000 have died so far in 2020 from the flu, I think it's almost comical how people are being driven to panic by Leftists & their corrupt co-conspirator media allies.
We may be too late given how sickening socialism seems to be spreading, especially among the young & stupid...but any outbreak of a deadly disease should give even them pause when they consider supporting idiot candidates who want a medicare for all system...Most are too young & ill-informed to realize medicare doesn't cover everything.
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