Muh Muh Muh My Corona (virus)

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U.S. Lags in Coronavirus Testing After Slow Response to Outbreak

 

The TP run is so stupid, there is no risk to the supply chain. It’s manufactured in the US, not overseas, the truckers are still going to drive, the stores are still open.

 

They're talking about people seeing their doctor via Skype. I literally had to talk a woman who had to be in her 90s through the process of writing a check last night. She's gonna Skype?

 

I would expect cities and states to offer tax payment suspension to landlords conditional on not evicting tenants.

 

This is what most shoppers don't realize, or aren't thinking about. Coming in and cleaning out the stores is not the way to go. People think that stores are replenished, with everything, fully, every night -- that they receive constant deliveries of things. This is not true.

Typically, merchandise replenishment, and the timeliness of it, is based on the rate of sales of that item. So, if people would just do their regular, weekly (or every-other-week) shopping, the stores, and manufacturers, could manage this supply-and-demand crisis. But when people come in and clean out, every day, it can take a store, literally, a week or more, per day, to recover with regard to that item. Some allowance and margin for error/change is built in with fast-moving consumable items like toilet paper and food (as compared to, say, office supplies or toys), of course, and manufacturers account for that and produce more of it than those other types of items. But there are still limits, and cleaning the stores out on an everyday basis actually sets the whole concept of shelf availability way back.

To wit: We had a sizeable delivery of toilet paper three days ago that took us almost three hours to hand out, a pack at a time, to customers who lined up for them. But yesterday, after having been cleaned out each of the next two days, too, we had only a small amount delivered that was gone after 15 or so customers.

I am hopeful that, in a couple of days, people will start to realize that, "You know what? I have what I need, for some time to come," and calm down and stop this madness. Stores literally cannot get stocked at this point.

 

https://www.flowbee.com/

We can still get than damn thing, but we can’t find a Ronco Original Pocket Fisherman anywhere.

 

I was stunned to see it had a 4.4/5 rating on Amazon, which lists it as not available.

 

I bought one of those for a birthday and had a blast, but never caught anything beyond a carp in a pond.

 

French Open ppd til September. Right after grueling US Open? Hmmm.

 

I can neither confirm nor deny that I'm leaving Vegas today with two rolls of toilet paper in my suitcase.

 

Where are you staying? And why?

 

This is one way to do it. Easy enough if most of your county is an island.