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What chaps me about this whole situation is that for the past several days the damn news media has been telling people to "stock up". Because of this there have been runs on various items at almost all stores.

We DON'T NEED TO STOCK UP!!!. Just purchase what you normally do and there will be plenty to go around.

Great stats here: https://informationisbeautiful.net/visualizations/covid-19-coronavirus-infographic-datapack/
Note the slide on media mentions.

@11:48 sounds like they waited too long to stock up. There were 100 people in line at the Pearl Walmart at 6:00 AM when they opened. I got mine. If you haven't got yours you are dumb and deserve what happens to you. What sort of irresponsible parent doesn't prep for their kids?

The supply chain is going to be seriously disrupted. The factories in China are closed. The factories in the USA and Canada will be closed this week. Kroger and Walmart will be closed or employees wont show up for their shift. This is real. People are dying. Wait until both Tater and Trump test positive.

I was pretty ticked off to see the empty shelves at the Kroger this weekend. What the hell, people? Oh well, at least I can grab a bunch of JFP papers to use once I run out of toilet paper.

We'll never know exactly when this thing started because there is no test to see who has had it and recovered. My guess is it started late this fall (Nov-Dec) in this country and started making headlines in Jan-Feb when the Chinese finally admitted it existed there.

Why the hell is there a run on water? Yesterday at Walmart they pulled a pallet of water out and there was almost a fight as the natives swarmed and began pushing and shoving and the pallet emptied in less than a minute. Today there was no water except Smartwater at $3 a bottle. One dude emptied the shelf and bought 4 1/2 cases (84 bottles). Turn the damn tap on. They put out four bags of dried red beans and this lady snagged them all and turned to me and said she had never cooked red beans and asked if I knew how. She graciously let me have one bag in exchange for showing there was a recipe on the bag. It's Monday and I do red beans and rice every other week and this bitch was about to deprive me of my Supper. Yeah, I'm from New Orleans.

MEMA's guidance was cut/pasted from a hurricane readiness checklist.

Water, seriously? Legal papers, seriously?

Morons!

Those who hoard toilet paper will wipe for those who have guns.

I've got some old Sears catalogs stored somewhere. The MS Link and JFP may have to suffice as well.

@1:30
This is Mississippi. Everyone has guns. Some of us just don't broadcast 24/7 to compensate for other shortcomings.

The fear of not having enough is powerful indeed. I read an article by some psychologists who discussed the tendency to control our feelings through large, bulk purchases. Considering society as a whole has been running at just below crises level long before COVID-19, it's a wonder people aren't shooting each other for cutting in line at gas stations.

On another note, I wonder where the vaxxers will stand when a vaccine comes out for this one? Will they bend, or will they double-down? Will the fact that it's their own health on the line, rather than their children's, change anything? Or will they get vaccinated, but not have their children vaccinated, and rationalize it away with the self-righteous belief that they are putting their children's health first?

@2:34
There will never be a vaccine for Covid-19. This strain has proven able to reinfect until it kills you. It is unnatural. That characteristic makes it clear that this is an engineered bioweapon behind the capabilities of China.

1:30; It's Whipple, not Wiffle. Wiffle is the game you played with plastic balls while you were shooting pocket pool.

No need to fight over water. Boil your water and place a lemon in it to alkaline it if necessary. It will more than likely be better than the expensive bottles you’re fighting over!

@12:15:

Prepping = Having this stuff well before a disaster hits.

"Standing in line at Walmart at 6AM" = Panic hysteria purchasing. You and your family don't need 2 years worth of TP. Period.

Wait isn't this a hoax perpetrated by the Media and Democrats. Why is this happening in Mississippi? We overwhelmly believe the president.who's buying all this toilet paper?

12:15: You are nuts. No reason to panic buy. Kroger's stock did better than most today. They will make money off this crisis. Kroger will not close. Oh, and your guns and Amendment II will not prevent C-19.

12:53 p.m., wild speculation about the virus starting in the US. Clearly first identified in Wuhan, an inland Chinese city, and you guess that it originated in the US? Based on what, Chinese propaganda? Bizzare. If it originated in the US, why on earth would it be in China as an epidemic before showing up in the US. There is zero evidence that it originated in the US.

No, I'm Mr. Wiffle, like the gun Elmer Fudd hunts deer with. You must be thinking of that toilet paper guy on TV, you wascally wabbit.

@ 6:08

I didn't say it originated in the US and if you're naive enough to believe the Chinese info you really have problems. I contend it started in China in early to mid fall and didn't take long to get here afterwards. Learn to read before you post.

Congratulations, 12:15. You got yours and you are now part of the problem.

Let me let you into a little secret.
Get some Tamaflu. It make the Flu less severe.
It should work on C-19.
You can thank me later.

Live Science

In hospitals, doctors and nurses are sometimes treating COVID-19 patients with the antiviral drug oseltamivir, or Tamiflu, which seems to suppress the virus' reproduction in at least some cases. This is somewhat surprising, Michigan Tech virologist Ebenezer Tumban told Live Science, as Tamiflu was designed to target an enzyme on the influenza virus, not on coronaviruses. The National Institutes of Health has begun a clinical trial at the University of Nebraska Medical Center to test the antiviral remdesivir for COVID-19, the agency announced Feb. 25. In China, doctors are also testing an array of other antivirals originally designed to treat Ebola and HIV, Nature Biotechnology reported.

Come November 1 we'll look up at all the trees, early morn, and know where all the T.P. went. Then there'll be a run on butane stick-lighters.

@2:34 You are incorrect. Doctors have said once you recover you have immunity, likely for at least a year and possibly for the rest of your life. Do some research.

Holy crap there are some real idiots on here

11:42, I don't know what "doctors" you are referring to, but here's some actual research for you:

https://www.ijidonline.com/action/showPdf?pii=S1201-9712%2820%2930122-3

You're welcome
2:34

I sure this guy calls it the Chinese virus too..

Kingfish is really letting be the world see that it doesn't take a virus to make you a special person.

Memeing "Wuhan" virus isn't going to change the fact that this bioweapon is beyond the PRC's capabilities and that the Iranian elite (who were the target) have only strengthened their grip on their nation.

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Kingfish is really letting be the world see that it doesn't take a virus to make you a special person.

Thanks for reinforcing the idea that Mississippi is a bigoted hellhole with your virus name bit.