Arizona had a super spreader event today, maybe kinda watch our number closer in the coming couple of weeks. Slaps hands to stop from making a political jab, but all of you guys already know all about it already.
Hawaii hit a new record high of single-day new cases yesterday, with 5977 reported. That’s the first time it went over 5000, and that’s just a hair short of 6000. Today, it’s back to a “reasonable” 3878 cases. It was only early last month that daily new cases were in the low double digits.
We are long time preppers. We plan and buy for a year ahead. Even our pantry is starting to show holes and I just put “culture buttermilk” on a three week schedule because not having it was hard and I know I can’t depend of finding it in the store when I need it.
I knew this was going to be bad when it started. I had no idea how limited my imagination was back then.
Meanwhile I’m still a slave to the supply chain - I just noticed I’m down to six rolls of toiler paper, three rolls of paper towels and a single box of kleenex . Time to hit Target again to continue with my semi-hand-to-mouth existence. I’m kind of amused at myself that despite the pandemic I still haven’t developed much of a “hoarding” mentality. Even perfectly reasonable supply. I hardly ever even make use of my Costco membership (just enough on the occasional big purchase to make it worthwhile). I do occasionally stock up, but as with now I tend to wind it back down rather than keep supplies topped off.
Mostly personality I guess - I’m more a grasshopper than an ant. But it also makes a bit of difference that I’m living an apt existence these days as well. I really don’t have anywhere to store sixty rolls of TP.
That’s only 7 states. Most of them are in the blue (meaning declining case rates), and have rebounded very dramatically in the last week or so. The US as a whole is down in daily reported cases by almost 200,000 cases – we 're at 603586 total reported new cases 97-day average) today.
We’re playing “eat from the feeezer” so we’ll have room to rotate in new food. We tend to have a two months’ supply of food, medicine, household items, and medical supplies since we’re in a wildfire/earthquake/ice zone even without the pleasures of plague isolation.
Prescriptions are the weak link in our chain. We can only get our doctors to write the scripts for 6 months at a time despite being willing to pay out of pocket for the extra 6 months.
It sounds like you are doing it right, though. Prepping involves good inventory control, allowing your supplies to spoil is worse than not stocking up at all.
. Time to hit Target again to continue with my semi-hand-to-mouth existence. I’m kind of amused at myself that despite the pandemic I still haven’t developed much of a “hoarding” mentality. Even perfectly reasonable supply. I hardly ever even make use of my Costco membership (just enough on the occasional big purchase to make it worthwhile). I do occasionally stock up, but as with now I tend to wind it back down rather than keep supplies topped off.