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[Dave]

I never thought I would see the day when it is easier to buy pot than it is to buy toilet paper.

Just got back from our weekly trip to the store (we didn't need toilet paper). We walked each isle to see what was sold out. Plenty of fresh produce, meat case full, and the freezer section was full. Bread was pretty thin, no sugar, flour, rice, dry beans, butter, soda crackers, and some select items in the canned goods were gone. The wife wanted yeast and oatmeal but they were gone. Turned down the paper isle. Not a single roll of toilet paper, paper towels, or napkins.

 

[Caustic Burno]

I never thought I would see the day when it is easier to buy pot than it is to buy toilet paper.

Just got back from our weekly trip to the store (we didn't need toilet paper). We walked each isle to see what was sold out. Plenty of fresh produce, meat case full, and the freezer section was full. Bread was pretty thin, no sugar, flour, rice, dry beans, butter, soda crackers, and some select items in the canned goods were gone. The wife wanted yeast and oatmeal but they were gone. Turned down the paper isle. Not a single roll of toilet paper, paper towels, or napkins.

Some people have gone bat shyt crazy.
The media and politicians are eating this up.

 

[TexasBred]

I never thought I would see the day when it is easier to buy pot than it is to buy toilet paper.

Just got back from our weekly trip to the store (we didn't need toilet paper). We walked each isle to see what was sold out. Plenty of fresh produce, meat case full, and the freezer section was full. Bread was pretty thin, no sugar, flour, rice, dry beans, butter, soda crackers, and some select items in the canned goods were gone. The wife wanted yeast and oatmeal but they were gone. Turned down the paper isle. Not a single roll of toilet paper, paper towels, or napkins.

Dave, a friend sent me an email this morning. Said the reason for the high toilet paper demand was because everytime one person sneezes, 15 others shyt their pants. :lol2:

 

[callmefence]

I never thought I would see the day when it is easier to buy pot than it is to buy toilet paper.

Just got back from our weekly trip to the store (we didn't need toilet paper). We walked each isle to see what was sold out. Plenty of fresh produce, meat case full, and the freezer section was full. Bread was pretty thin, no sugar, flour, rice, dry beans, butter, soda crackers, and some select items in the canned goods were gone. The wife wanted yeast and oatmeal but they were gone. Turned down the paper isle. Not a single roll of toilet paper, paper towels, or napkins.

I assume you scored the pot no problems??

 

[rollinhills]

Dave, a friend sent me an email this morning. Said the reason for the high toilet paper demand was because everytime one person sneezes, 15 others shyt their pants. :lol2:

I laughed till could'nt see

 

[kenny thomas]

I never thought I would see the day when it is easier to buy pot than it is to buy toilet paper.

Just got back from our weekly trip to the store (we didn't need toilet paper). We walked each isle to see what was sold out. Plenty of fresh produce, meat case full, and the freezer section was full. Bread was pretty thin, no sugar, flour, rice, dry beans, butter, soda crackers, and some select items in the canned goods were gone. The wife wanted yeast and oatmeal but they were gone. Turned down the paper isle. Not a single roll of toilet paper, paper towels, or napkins.

I assume you scored the pot no problems??

Could you find rolling papers?

 

[Dave]

I never thought I would see the day when it is easier to buy pot than it is to buy toilet paper.

Just got back from our weekly trip to the store (we didn't need toilet paper). We walked each isle to see what was sold out. Plenty of fresh produce, meat case full, and the freezer section was full. Bread was pretty thin, no sugar, flour, rice, dry beans, butter, soda crackers, and some select items in the canned goods were gone. The wife wanted yeast and oatmeal but they were gone. Turned down the paper isle. Not a single roll of toilet paper, paper towels, or napkins.

I assume you scored the pot no problems??

No pot for me. That was back in the late 60's while in college. I would have had to drive the other direction on the freeway. One of these days when I go the the Vale cow sale I will have to stop and take a picture of the fancy new pot shop. It is right next to the Love's truck stop in Ontario, Oregon. Burnt River Cannabis. Actually you can google it and the first thing to pop up is a picture of the fancy new building.

 

[Chevy]

:lol2: :cry2: Ya'll crack me up! :pop:

 

[Chevy]

I eat the healthy foods. Funny thing is when we went to the store that's all that was left. Guess in a way it shows what Americans eat the most of. My daughter drink almond milk didn't have a problem finding that. Now regular cow milk was all sold out everywhere we went. Kentucky is up to 63 Coronavirus cases 4 in counties pretty close to us. We stocked up the best we could without over doing and have been staying home. Except when we went to delivery food.

 

[kenny thomas]

I checked out the website. Fancy building for a pot house. How times have changed.

 

[greybeard]

Here, where pot is still ILlegal, the local Love's Truck Stop is where the dealers hang out on the back side of the parking lot.
(as well as the lot lizards)
I partake of neither.

 

[greybeard]

I had to go to Walmart this afternoon to pick up a prescription for my wife. Walked around a bit just to see. It was indeed packed, and a repeat of last weekend.
As I suspected, people were in there, weekly paycheck in hand and grabbing everything they could. I was told that yesterday and early this morning, the stores were all pretty well stocked. Not the case this afternoon around 3pm.
No paper goods except a few napkins.
Plenty of milk (last Saturday there was none)
No eggs.
No canned goods to speak of except some canned fruit and canned pie filling.
No canned biscuits, refrigerated rolls etc.
Plenty of produce..except onions.
No butter of any kind except some high $ imported butter.
No bread.
Meat cases (fresh or sliced) all empty except some smoked link sausage that had garlic in it.
Some bacon...not much.
No bread.
Zero flour of any kind.
No sugar.
Very little coffee except decaf.
No bottled water or powdered drink mix including gatorade.
A lot of canned/bottled soda water.
Not much dry breakfast cereal but plenty of plain oatmeal.
No dry beans or rice.
No pasta.

Surprisingly, the frozen goods section looked to be pretty well stocked except pizza.

Most people kept their distance as did I.
Walmart says they are hiring 150,000 new employees to help stock. I suspect most will be in the regional distribution centers.

Now, I have since talked to my older sister and she said the stores had plenty of everything except TP when she shopped last Tuesday, and again at a different store on Thursday so that plays to my thoughts that Friday payday is playing into all this pretty heavily.
My niece works at a big Best Buy and she said their biggest seller by far the last 2 weeks was .........freezers.

Someone high up near the throne named Dr. Anthony Fauci is now saying this is current outbreak and it's response/reaction going to continue at least "for weeks" before a peak takes place and new cases start down.

Yesterday the US had:
19,640 total confirmed/suspected cases since US patient #1 appeared around Jan 30..
5,594 new cases.
264 total deaths.
49 died yesterday.
147 total had recovered as of yesterday.
19,229 still active cases as of last midnight.

Hopefully it will peak soon if everyone will stay away from everyone else.....

 

[Redgully]

Yesterday the US had:
19,640 total confirmed/suspected cases since US patient #1 appeared around Jan 30..
5,594 new cases.
264 total deaths.
49 died yesterday.
147 total had recovered as of yesterday.
19,229 still active cases as of last midnight.

Hopefully it will peak soon if everyone will stay away from everyone else.....

I think it has a long way to go yet unfortunately. Stopping it isn't going to help as it will just start all over again. It needs to spread but as slow as possible so the hospitals can cope. Plus they are making progress every day with treatments. Australian scientists have already mapped the entire process of how the body fights it. We have also got two drugs that initial trials showed it stopped the virus in it's tracks. They will have 50 patients trial it next week. I'm sceptical because the chinese tried the same drugs and said they didn't help. Maybe it is the combination and rates, i don't know but i really hope it works.

 

[Redgully]

 

[Named'em Tamed'em]

I had to go to the store 2x before I came home with milk and bread!!

 

[Caustic Burno]

Now let’s put the death toll in perspective so far. On average 7,500 people die daily of natural causes in the USA. So as of now the death rate of Coronavirus is .5% going by 49 who died yesterday. We have no clue as to how many really have the virus due to lack of testing up until now . The numbers of infected can only go up with testing.

 

[greybeard]

I guess as long as no one we personally know is included in that alleged .5% all is well huh?
Here's some other perspective. A woman in NJ has lost 4 family members to Covid-19, 2 more are on life support, and 19 more of the family are awaiting test results after a family get together earlier this month before the lockdowns began..

Would you put just as much emphasis on what the live cattle or feeder price or the broader stock market did on a single day, or would you put the emphasis on trends?
We already know the answer to that.
Infections and deaths, are trending UP.

March 15 (GMT)
737 new cases and 11 new deaths in the United States.

March 16 (GMT)
983 new cases and 18 new deaths in the United States.

March 17 (GMT)
1748 new cases and 23 new deaths in the United States.

March 18 (GMT)
2848 new cases and 41 new deaths in the United States.

March 19 (GMT)
4530 new cases and 57 new deaths in the United States.

March 20 (GMT)
5594 new cases and 49 new deaths in the United States.

Their family size is trending DOWN. Real people, grieving, hurting, worried and scared. They don't put much emphasis on % or what anyone's portfolio looks like today.

 

[greggy]

And it has not really started yet. But oh is that so true, how the tune would change if anyone became one of the "numbers" that reqd. help.

I will be honest, a large chunk of our cases came from the US...

There is no acceptable loss in my family or my stock for that matter, this will get ugly real quick for us and the US.

If simple measures can help, and it takes 2 weeks of my life to change some habits, then, so what....I would give that up to help save anyone on CT, anyone related or even friends of CT, damn, to be honest, I would do it if it helped save your cattle .....and I am selfish natured person.

It is like saying....I wont fix that fence cause only 5 of my 1000 cattle will wander onto tge road, and only 2 may be killed when hit.....acceptable if you can fix the fence in half a day ?

 

[Redgully]

I watched a video on all things that could kill you, all i was thinking was we really don't need 1 more thing!

 

[regolith]

I've been suggesting that anyone affected keep a food diary.

This is a highly interesting social study (for everyone who doesn't have to live through it). What I know is that some people *can't* go to the grocery store twice.
I went the other day to do a regular bimonthly/monthly shop and around 1/3 of the items on my shopping list were not available.
It's autumn here. Pumpkin soup, baked pumpkin, baked potatoes, milk, beef, ripe corn on the cob.
Jolly good thing I'm not reliant on the grocery stores.