When it really happens: SHTF...

[usabaker]

50th birthday today.

Happy Birthday! and you will be happy to note that the US has taken note of how well things are working in Italy. In an email today it was written;

"We are looking at all manners to do this through shifts/watch teams, social distancing, and be responsible when not on duty/at the work place. This has been working very well in South Korea and Italy with few staff members infected. "

[Aragorn243]

Happy Birthday. Nice to be able to take a quiet break from things.

[HOOKED ON HISTORY]

Apparently...when the last panic was in China, they were using it to make face masks. They were using everything including sanitary products. So the story goes, then here people forgot that part of the story.

I have always heard the four things to have in a dystopic situation are toilet paper, Jack Daniels, tobacco and ammo not in any particular order.
Barter items I suppose. Lets pray it does not come to that.

[Ovidio]

I’d take grappa over Jack, but for the rest I can agree.
Even as a non smoker...

[Flying10uk]

I have always heard the four things to have in a dystopic situation are toilet paper, Jack Daniels, tobacco and ammo not in any particular order.
Barter items I suppose. Lets pray it does not come to that.

You could add a few chickens to the list (live ones).

My family found that during WW2 people will take hen's eggs as "payment in kind", as a "thank-you", as an alternative to cash or if that doesn't work you can give them the entire chicken, dead or alive, which ever they prefer. My father found that he could even "bribe" school teachers with a few hen's eggs, with regards to his school homework or more to the point lack of homework.

[CINDERS]

Tabacco can be a barganing chip like UK's Chook and cackleberries.

[muffett.2008]

I guess you could use the toilet paper to roll the tobacco in lieu of cigarette paper.

My wife and daughter were stuck on a cruise ship until SLOMO relented and allowed them to return to port....big problem now is that I am stuck in self isolation along with the bossgirl(no, not the dog) wish they'd stayed on the ship.

[CINDERS]

Having been on a cruise ship for a month being cooped up in those state rooms would have seen me stir crazy thank god I took Volume 1 of The Australians in the first world war By C E W Bean at 900 pages I was not short of distractions so I guess they were very happy to be off the tug boat.

I surmise Muffet that the holidays over now so no feet up on the coffee table then!

[Aragorn243]

The Commonwealth of Pennsylvania is now nearly completely shut down under penalty of law. Only life sustaining businesses may remain open and operating. These include banks, grocery store, building supply stores, pharmacies, hospitals. Restaurants may remain open but may only operate on a take out or delivery basis. Most retail stores have been closed along with most major industries. As far as I know, we are the first state to do this. We have had one death and 150+ confirmed cases. 40% increase in one day.

I haven't figured out whether this affects me yet or not as building supply stores may remain open and building services are still allowed but I'm not sure what exactly a building service is yet. New construction has most definitely been halted. I'm not working tomorrow, that's all I know at this point.

Governor orders non-life-sustaining businesses to shut down | National politics | stltoday.com

[Surpmil]

One would perhaps understand some of the "binge buying" if it was a pandemic of diarrhea sweeping the world.

Unfortunately not even a face mask suffices to arrest the prevalent form of the condition.