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Apocalypse 2020
Apocalypse 2020 My FB memory from this day, 1 year ago, was a text conversation between myself and The Hippie. Hippie - If you were a Spice Girl, you would be Apocalypse Spice. Me - I can live with that. I'm certain I was being difficult and we were disagreeing about something... I do have that infamous Irish temper. It still made me chuckle today, considering the current state of things. I'll be honest, I'm 100% unprepared for the Corona Virus Pandemic of 2020. Sixty five rolls of toilet paper tucked away all over my apartment? Nope! I think I have 4? Five hundred cans of corn and peas squirreled away in the cupboards? Nada! Hand sanitizer coming out of my ears? No way Jose! I think I have a half used one somewhere.... I work within the retail industry and I saw, with my own eyes, 10 skids of toilet paper SELL OUT in the span of 3 1/2 hours. And now the schools in my area are closed.... Closed so that we may keep our home and quarantine them, keep them safe. Safe?!? Yesterday morning Boss #1 told me, in my office, to keep healthy because he's going to really need me in this time of crisis. We anticipate a lot of the sales floor needing to take time off because of the childcare situation which means the rest of us will be all that more necessary to keep the store going. What does that mean? Every day I go to work, I expose myself to the potential of becoming infected and bringing it home. Yah, safe.... This is craziness.... Absolute insanity. If we are going to be infected, it's going to happen. Someone may have already touched the cardboard of your cereal box and the virus may be<b> lying </font></b>there already, in wait. It could be in the air at the post office while you check your mail. Someone might have sneezed when they walked past your car door, leaving you the gift of virus for the next time you open your door. Do you actually think will be AT HOME during the next 3 weeks? I don't... I'm going to be seeing them out and about everywhere because parents still have all their normal daily responsibilities to take care of. What's more? People are using this time off as an excuse to take a vacation. I witnessed, with my own eyes, as 2 customers talked about how they "came up north from downstate because they got the next 3 weeks off. Perfect excuse to go skiing." I was appalled. One customer had 3 with him. Nice quarantine..... I will plan to continue on, life as normal, being as proactive as possible. I will continue to wash my hands often. I will continue to not touch my face. I will now refrain of shaking hands.... etc, but I will still be as pleasant as usual. Here's the thing... Doctors and nurses deal with infectious disease every single day. If they somehow manage to continue to open their eyes each morning without a stockpile of toilet paper and hand sanitizer, so can I. |
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Hi secret_lade thanks for sharing this post I saw the same things this weekend hopefully, we will be able to pull together and come thru this period with our loved ones stay safe
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Hi secret_lade thanks for sharing this post I saw the same things this weekend hopefully, we will be able to pull together and come thru this period with our loved ones stay safe To leave private messages, please use my confidential mailbox at my blog: Good luck!!!
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Long lineups and panic buying abounds. There have been fistfights over a package of TP. Yesterday, the local chain of drug stores had it on sale for $5.99. Not a package to be found as any stock brought in had been snapped up during the week at the full price of $14.99. I work in event management and every event has either been cancelled or postponed. All tourist attractions are closed. There are no sports, theatre, community centres, day cares or schools open. The list goes on and on. The economic impact will be devastating; far worse than SARS.
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I have a stockpile of toilet tissue. But in my defense, it's because I normally buy it by the case because it's cheaper and convenient. I had not finished the last case but when I got my income tax refund, I decided to go ahead and buy another case...because it keeps. That was last month. Now I see people loading their carts with TP and other items. I don't even have hand sanitizer. Can't stand the stuff. I'll wash my hands. I was out a couple of weeks ago at a Target store and listened to a man berate his young son over touching a display cell phone, telling him he could die from touching it because of the virus. The child was too young to comprehend the severity of what his father was spouting to him. My thought was....why did he even bring his son out in public, much less to someplace like Target, if he was so worried about the virus?
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As I did my normal shopping routine amidst all the hording idiots today, I couldn't help but wonder what would happen if I did some open mouth coughing.
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Long lineups and panic buying abounds. There have been fistfights over a package of TP. Yesterday, the local chain of drug stores had it on sale for $5.99. Not a package to be found as any stock brought in had been snapped up during the week at the full price of $14.99. I work in event management and every event has either been cancelled or postponed. All tourist attractions are closed. There are no sports, theatre, community centres, day cares or schools open. The list goes on and on. The economic impact will be devastating; far worse than SARS.
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I have a stockpile of toilet tissue. But in my defense, it's because I normally buy it by the case because it's cheaper and convenient. I had not finished the last case but when I got my income tax refund, I decided to go ahead and buy another case...because it keeps. That was last month. Now I see people loading their carts with TP and other items. I don't even have hand sanitizer. Can't stand the stuff. I'll wash my hands. I was out a couple of weeks ago at a Target store and listened to a man berate his young son over touching a display cell phone, telling him he could die from touching it because of the virus. The child was too young to comprehend the severity of what his father was spouting to him. My thought was....why did he even bring his son out in public, much less to someplace like Target, if he was so worried about the virus?
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3/14/2020 7:06 pm |
As I did my normal shopping routine amidst all the hording idiots today, I couldn't help but wonder what would happen if I did some open mouth coughing.
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