Food & Grocery Shopping

so the local victims of the presumed liquor ban already outnumber local confirmed covid-19 casualties. yay :/

 

Or perhaps also the shopping was done already - i.e. 'panic' buying (or 'being prepared', however people wish to describe it).

 

It would be interesting to know the eventual overall death toll due to Covid-19 when account is taken of: Deaths from the virus, increased deaths from people unable to have medicines or hospital treatment for other illnesses, reduced deaths on the roads, increased deaths during home DIY, increased deaths from people foolishly making home alcohol, increased murders due to domestic disputes and crime on the streets, reduced deaths from drownings and other accidents when people are outside their homes, reduced deaths from pollution (or maybe just short-term relief), possibly (but hopefully not) increased deaths due to malnourishment or starvation.

There may be many other factors I have not included but I think the overall impact, unless Covid-19 gets far worse, is that we might end up with less deaths. Economically, however, the overall effect will be nothing but a disaster for already weak economies.

 

Being old I forgot to add the sex factor. Thank you young man for reminding me.

 

Just did a grocery run today. I went to Robinson’s first, but their chicken looked gross and nasty, so left that out and just got some other stuff. Checkout was a breeze. Not a lot of people there. I decided to go to hypermart to check out their chicken. Parking was already bad and the line outside was a distinct turn off. Don’t know why everybody was flocking to hypermart when Robinson’s was a ghost town. I assumed all the people lined up were all there for hopefully, better chicken. A forty minute wait to get inside is just ridiculous.

 

Both Lee Plaza and Robinsons downtown had pretty long lines this afternoon. The wife went to Lee, messaged a pic to me from the back of the line (below), but it only took her 10-minutes or less to get inside.