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<span style="font-size: 14pt; color: #008000;">Didn't go shopping, but did have an appointment at Eisenhower Medical Center with the surgeon that will be performing my cancer surgery on 4/7. The normally crowded parking  lots were very empty. No need to use my handicap placard. No masks on attendants, nurses or the doctor. The surgeon even went to shake my hand but I opted for a bump. I won't be allowed any visitors unless they're there to make an end-of-life decision...so please stay away. I'm very nervous about facing this alone. At least I'll bring my tablet so I can stay in touch here. Stay healthy 
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Dishwasher detergent - people are staying home, a family can easily run the dishwasher twice a day if they're eating 3 meals, snacks, glasses, utensils. Dishwasher sales will probably spike in the late-summer and fall.

Haven't been to the grocery store for a couple of weeks, Costco/Sams for nearly a month. I need to put dishwasher det. on my list, have only 10 or so pods left. Definitely have run a few more loads than the norm here. The Anti-Bacterial cycle and the sani-rinse option, also a new norm.
 
My partner was able find some things I need, that cannot be found here,  in Alabama.  Hopefully the package will arrive on Saturday.  
 
Either folks are

calming down, or Thursday mornings are usually slow because those still getting paid often do today. I usually shop early Fri. afternoons. It's much busier. Thats why I went this morning. T.P. still limited, only paper plates on the shelf. I got one of the two jugs of Persil, and some liquid dish soap. Still no Lysol cleaner.
 
Overhere in the NL we are in almost total lock down. Going for a walk, a drive or a bike ride is ok as long as you keep distance from others. No groups of people are allowed, fines are serious. So far the policy seems to work, the curve flattens a little, but it's too early to draw conclusions.

I'm locked inside, I don't want to risk anything with my asthma. I'm having problems with allergies anyway, don't want to scare of people when sneezing. I decided to stop cooking, so shopping is not as much as an issue. I get meals delivered from a meal service, sort of like a meals on wheels thing. I ordered 5 meals per week for the next four weeks. They get delivered once a week. I still have enough in the freezer and enough things in stock to cook simple meals on the other two days. I order other groceries online at the supermarket next door and get them delivered. Just like bread from a baker and medication from the pharmacy. So far so good. Most things are available here, even toilet paper. People started buying that, but after a report on TV that we would never run out of TP, that settled down.

Only thing that is hard to get to is hand desinfection. Fortunately I had bought some already, I have enough to get through the coming months. I ventured outside once this week to get rid of the garbage bag and have a look in the letter box. Two neighbour ladies on the same floor of my apartment building started a Whatsapp group for people who need help. So far I didn't have to ask them.

I realise I am blessed with my apartment and living alone there, having people around me who want to help and our very advanced internet shopping and payment systems.

Hang in there!
 
I'm incensed that Walmart Superstore, Giant Tiger, and others are being allowed to remain open because they sell food and drugs which only takes less than 1/2 of their total retail floorspace. I just drove over to Walmart to see (not go in) and the parking lot is about as full as it is on a normal day, people walking out with tv's, bicycles etc. Yet all the otehr stores have to be closed. They're profiting off the backs of other stores and their employees and ultimately everyone elses health. They should be required to section off the non essential areas of the store and just sell food and drugs.
 
I went out today and after checking online it appeared that the Target 6 miles north of here had more in stock, so I went there first.  I hadn’t driven the car for 2 weeks, but it started right up.  The traffic was about 50% of normal.

 

The young lady in front of the store gave me a freshly sanitized cart.  No paper products at all, NADA! But this is OK for now, we have enough to last for about 3-4 weeks.  This Target only has iceberg lettuce and precut romaine, I passed.  No whole carrots, no tangerines, no green peppers, no butter, no bacon, pasta, rice, beans, no hand sanitizer, no Clorox wipes, only a few small bottles of dish soap.  But I did manage to get 2 lbs of ground sirloin,1 lb Italian sausage, 1 lb boneless pork chops,  4 lbs of boneless chicken breasts, 8 bananas, two bags of Gala apples, 10 lbs of potatoes, 3 lbs. onions, 5 bags of frozen vegetables, a package of Oscar Mayer beef hot dogs, cheddar cheese, two 1 lb. containers of lunchmeat, one turkey and one honey ham and juice boxes of David, Cheerios and Shredded wheat and 2 bags of dark brown sugar, no white sugar,  I have a bag already and that will be enough.

 

Stopped at the Target near home on the way back and got romaine lettuce, 4 green peppers, 3 lbs carrots, 4 avocados, 2 bags of Clementines, flour tortillas, enchillada sauce, 4 cans of pinto beans and a big bottle dish soap and 120 oz of Gain liquid.

 

I last put gas in the car 3 weeks ago and when I left home there were 30 miles on the trio odometer, upon return 44 miles.  I’ve never driven less in my life.

 

So, now if it really gets bad we will be set for a very long time without needing to go out except for milk, 1/2&1/2, butter, eggs and bananas.

 

Everyone was very nice and the store staff were all cheerful.  I thanked each of them that I saw for working and keeping the store open for us.

 

I got around OK on my bad right leg, limping thru the store like Grandpa McCoy on the Real McCoy’s. LOL

 

I was dreading this shopping trip, and I’m glad I was able to get what we will need for along time and glad the chore is over, after putting it all away, including cutting each of those huge chicken breasts in half horizontally and putting them in individual freezer bags for latter use.

Eddie
 
Thanks Bob for the well wishes.  It still has a ways to go and I’m being careful.  I was going to take another short walk today, but after todays shopping expedition I’m going to call it a day, and try again tomorrow.

 

 I’m not an especially religious person, but the phrase, “God doesn’t give you more than you can handle” keeps running thru my mind, and I believe this is true.

 

I do appreciate yours and all the other members kind words.  And as I’ve said before, I’m thankful that due to several prior serious sprains like this in the past I’m equipped to go all Marcus Welby and manage the recovery on my own this time.

 

Hope you and everyone else out there are managing well too.  This one helluva challenge, injury or not.

 

Eddie
 
RE: Reply #66

Louis, I’m glad you are being careful and taking this seriously in light of your asthma.  I have mild asthma and severe allergies myself.  I received allergy shots every other week from 1991 until the end of last year.  The new allergy doctor at Kaiser advised me that the newest train of thought is that after many years of allergy shot treatment one eventually gets no further benefit from these shots and suggested I try going off the shots and see if I can manage OK without them.  So far I’m fine without them, taking 10mg of Claritin in the morning and just using Flonase in the morning and Alvesco inhaler 1 puff in the morning and 1 in the evening and my lungs are clearer than they’ve been in years, which is a good thing with COVID-19 out there.

 

It’s good that you live in an apartment building with neighbors that are helpful.   The good side in the human nature of good people will pull us thru this terrible crisis.  Please keep staying safe my friend.

 

Eddie
 
I happened to stop at a Walmart I was near yesterday because my cousin said her daughter called and said they had TP in the Walmart near her (2 towns over). Voila- I grabbed a 12 pack of my usual brand to restock at about the usual time I would restock. I still had 8 rolls, but I always keep the hamper stocked as we draw on that for the other bathrooms in the house.

 

Tried to buy Everclear (or similar) at Total Wine so I could put some in a small spritz bottle, but they were out. Apparently someone posted a vid of how to make sanitizer with it- I may raid the limoncello I have brewing! It'll be the tastiest and best-smelling hand sanitizer out there! LOL!

 

All-in-all, I've been able to get anything we've needed. Even found yeast at Wegman's yesterday (stopped on a whim as I was near it delivering a typewriter we sold) only to find Rich found some at Roche Bros but didn't tell me! Glad I took a 3-pack to a friend who had lamented on Facebook that he didn't have any!

 

People need to calm the F down. Everything will be restocked if we allow the time for it!

 

Stores aren't allowing returns for good reason. I'm hoping when the open that back up they ban or limit returns on the HTF goods people hoarded! I spoke to a manager at one of the supermarkets we frequent, and they're hoping it's no returns or one unit per receipt. I hope all these hoarders get stuck with their TP, paper towels, flour, et cetera!

 

Hope you're all being safe,

 

Chuck
 
Stopped at Costco today on the way home to get fresh fruit for us, my sister and mom. We'll split the box of oranges, honeycrisp apples and I got each of us a kale salad kit and a box of strawberries. Probably should have bought more berries as my son and I can nibble a whole box completely gone as I clean them.

Costco changed their entry to a door at the far end of the cart hall and while not limiting entry numbers today, they seemed to be monitoring customer population pretty closely between entering and exiting attendants. They're out of many things, posted on a board as you come up to the entrance. Sanitized carts are waiting near the door. I got everything I needed, little interest in shopping the hard-lines and clothing.

The checkouts are every-other lane open, new plexiglas guards between customer and cashier and at all stations in customer service. All employees are gloved and it's asked to put as little as possible on the belt, they scan and double count items in the cart. The exit attendant doesn't take your receipt to mark as checked any longer, just matched a few items in the cart against the receipt you hold up and sends you on your way.

I have to say, some of the changes and adjustments we are all making will hopefully carry forward as they are good practice, generally. At least for now, it's hard to escape the nagging feeling of vulnerability at being in stores and in close proximity to others. I was glad to get back to my truck and hand sanitizer, even though logic still tells me that's a teensy bit irrational. I wonder how long it will be before we let our guard down again?
 
You’re right Petek, things are going to get much worse before they begin to get better.  It’s not unreasonable for some to try and have 30 days supplies, especially the immune compromised, other preexisting conditions and seniors.  Some of us may be unable to leave our homes at all due either to increased rates of infected persons, or being quarantined yourself.

 

This doesn’t mean though that households of 4 or less need to have pallets of TP and non perishable foods.  The trouble is most people don’t cook at home anymore regularly, and don’t shop for a weeks worth of groceries at a time, so they don’t know how to reasonably estimate what they may need for a possible 3 to 4 weeks of necessities, therefore they panic and buy everything that isn’t nailed down so someone else doesn’t get some.  This is a mindset that I hope people can learn to change by adapting to the current crisis, some may, but many won’t.  That’s life.

 

 I shopped today ( a regular shopping trip) for the first time in 2 wks, and bought twice the quantities that I would have usually purchased for 2 wks.  I figure that we can go 3 - 4 wks without needing to shop.  It gave me a sigh of relief knowing I don’t have to be around any strangers and possibly be infected.

 

Eddie
 
I've been posting my rant locally on different pages about Walmart etc being fully open for everything, not just food/drugs and the pushback from the ignorant masses is unbelievable. They seem to think that just because grocery stores are exempt from closing that it's perfectly okay for them to just continue to shop in there as usual.. They can't seem to comprehend that what they are doing is worsening the situation.
 
In both the Targets I was in this morning I only saw people in the grocery, cleaning supplies and OTC medicine depts.  At least around here people now seem to be getting that this isn’t the time to be browsing and shopping for anything non essential.  I’m planning on staying the hell home now.

 

Eddie
 
First, #58:

Best of luck with your surgery. Please keep us posted.

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Australia apparently is going to have a total lockdown. I haven't actually checked but AussieBum let me know they're having a storewide pre-lockdown 50% sale! I've bought a few things from them over the years and must say that the quality is good for the price. Given how little I'm going out, clothes are one thing I don't need!

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Like Louis and a lot of you I'm pretty well-stocked. I get as much as I can delivered. I hate to think it but you're probably right. Things will get worse before they get better.

I've a dear friend in Manhattan who has an even more dire outlook. He's a poster boy for Covid response in all ways except for stocking up on food. Like most Manhattanites, he drives but sold his car years ago as he never used it. He's pretty much limited to what he can comfortably carry. I try to avoid nagging and encourage him to buy just ONE more of whatever he buys anyway, but I don't think it's sinking in. He walks a lot and I think doing daily shopping is part of his routine. I'm just afraid there'll come a day when he gets to a store and finds it closed or the shelves bare.

Anyone else know a city dweller who has this mentality?

Jim
 

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