Emergency, everyone to get from street!

[S.A. Boggs]

With the "panic" that is currently going on what do you think will be hard to find/get in your area? Planting time is coming up, will there now be a run on seeds?
Sam

[dryheat]

E-mared-gency. Face masks have vanished everywhere. But I don't see anyone wearing them.

[dogtag]

Toilet paper. It's a daily use item that you really don't want to be without.

[Art]

I can tell you what goes first with a Hurricane on the way, and from what I saw in Italy I suspect it will be the same for a possible pandemic/quarantine,

First to go - bottled water and drinks. After that non perishable food. People usually don't think about stuff like paper goods until later. If people decide they want to "get out of Dodge" while they can gasoline will go but I don't really expect that in this case.

[Vern Humphrey]

With the "panic" that is currently going on what do you think will be hard to find/get in your area? Planting time is coming up, will there now be a run on seeds?
Sam

No. Planting would require too much work from the panicking liberals.

[S.A. Boggs]

Toilet paper. It's a daily use item that you really don't want to be without.

Remember when Carson kidding about a "shortage" on his show and made a shortage? Wife said her store is all out of bleach including the cheapo stuff, however there is boxes of it with the pool supplies.
Sam

[dogtag]

I've never understood the bottled water craze.
An investigation proved that most brands came out of a tap.
My water comes from a tap. I never drink water - it's tasteless,
but I do drink tea and coffee which is made with the stuff.

[Vern Humphrey]

Read the label on the bottle: "Lapped out of a toilet in Guttenberg, NJ and strained through the kidneys of a diabetic Rottweiler."

[blackhawknj]

I drink water from the tap here in Central NJ-chilled of course. Been drinking it for 59 years, have yet to get sick. Coffee and tea-boiled-kill whatever's in it. Our local water company recovered from Hurricane Floyd pretty quickly back in 1999.

[Vern Humphrey]

I drink water from the tap here in Central NJ-chilled of course. Been drinking it for 59 years, have yet to get sick. Coffee and tea-boiled-kill whatever's in it. Our local water company recovered from Hurricane Floyd pretty quickly back in 1999.

Boiling will kill bacteria (although some bacteria need to be boiled as long as 20 minutes.) Boiling lead, arsenic and so on has no beneficial effect.

[Gun Smoke]

I've never understood the bottled water craze.
An investigation proved that most brands came out of a tap.
My water comes from a tap. I never drink water - it's tasteless,
but I do drink tea and coffee which is made with the stuff.

I've read where 20% of the people here do not like or drink water because they don't like it. You and me are part of that group.

As far as bottling your own water goes I've also read that adding a teaspoon of chlorine beach per gallon of water will disinfect it and prevent any new bacteria activity for a while. Municipalities do this now to keep a check on bacteria count. With over chlorinated water, the chlorine will weather off over night in an open container. I leaned this from my raising tropical fish days.

[lyman]

I've never understood the bottled water craze.
An investigation proved that most brands came out of a tap.
My water comes from a tap. I never drink water - it's tasteless,
but I do drink tea and coffee which is made with the stuff.

most larger chain grocery stores own or contract out beverages, and Milk,

if they own or lease a Milk Plant the do Milk, and cultured product (cottage cheese, yogurt, etc) for store brands and some contacts for other store brands or name brands,

why does this matter?

cause each plant is basically a big bottling facility,

so it is just as easy to blow a gallon jug and fill with whatever percentage milk, as it is to take the local tap water in the plant, run it thru a few filters, and call it bottled water,


Safeway had a dairy in High Point, NC, that was sold to Winn Dixie, and then later someone else,,

Kroger has a handful, not each does everything,

the Westover Dairy in Lynchburg Va is Kroger owned, and produces Milk, some cultures, and gallon\2.5gal bottled water,

Kroger owns a bottler in Bluefield Wva, that does canned soda's and bottled water,

the profits in Bottled Water are damn good, and folks think it is something special,


spring water has to originate from a spring,,, but is still processed like tap water, (filtered and bottled)


wife likes bottled water, so I buy it from Aldi's (cheaper) and I just put a glass under the tap (we have well water,, damn tasty)

[S.A. Boggs]

FEAR is driving society at this time and continues to feed on the unknown. Usually rational people are now behaving irrational to the detriment of society. NSD continue to feed the peoples fear hoping to cash in on the fear in the fall. MSM stock the irrational society to help their "friends" to push America back to the left.
There is some good that can come out of this if America wants it. America has put many of it's eggs into China's basket and we now have broken eggs. The start of human induced shortages in many imported areas, increase in those prices and black markets to evolve. The markets will shrink that is a given, market will continue to decline and plateau as it always has.
When people experience the new reality people will adjust to the reality after the initial shock wears off. Remember when AIDS first hit the scene back in 1985 and the panic that evolved? American society adjusted to it as a new given and society went on with people having sex as "usual" and the "protection" of the blood supply. Influenza kills/sickens more people each year yet society goes on with nary a ripple.
Sam

[Roadkingtrax]

Here you go Sam.

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[S.A. Boggs]

Why Togey, I see that you have brought your puppet "Miss Ann Thrax" out to perform and you have done a fantastic job with your puppet skills...almost lifelike. Her imitation Russian peasant costume is well done, very bright colors. I love the way you get her to mimic intelligent speech yet continuing to sound foolish. Genius sheer genius on your talent to take a block of dense wood and make it talk.
Sam