# That Damned Virus - your most inspired panic buys? **URL:** \ **Category:** The Quarantine Zone\ **Tags:** covid-quarantine\ **Created:** [March 17, 2020, 3:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/that-damned-virus-your-most-inspired-panic-buys/849655 "2020-03-17T15:05:44Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 5\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![Bert\_Nobbins](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/aeb1de/32.png) [@Bert\_Nobbins](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bert_Nobbins)\ **Post date:** [March 22, 2020, 7:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/that-damned-virus-your-most-inspired-panic-buys/849655/41 "2020-03-22T19:53:32Z")
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**Author:** ![ratatoskK](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ratatoskk/32/2987_2.png) [@ratatoskK](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ratatoskK)\ **Post date:** [March 22, 2020, 8:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/that-damned-virus-your-most-inspired-panic-buys/849655/42 "2020-03-22T20:29:22Z")
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**Author:** ![zoid](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/zoid/32/336_2.png) [@zoid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/zoid)\ **Post date:** [March 22, 2020, 9:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/that-damned-virus-your-most-inspired-panic-buys/849655/43 "2020-03-22T21:09:57Z")
> [@ratatoskK](#): > > Sex toys LOL - I was gonna say “vitamin E”, but same idea ---
**Author:** ![thorny\_locust](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/thorny_locust/32/431_2.png) [@thorny\_locust](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/thorny_locust)\ **Post date:** [March 23, 2020, 3:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/that-damned-virus-your-most-inspired-panic-buys/849655/44 "2020-03-23T03:02:08Z")
> [@Melbourne](#): > > Now this makes sense. Stuck at home for 3 months, what ya gonna do? > > Gardening. A lot of people apparently have the same idea. (It’s a good idea.) I’m a small scale produce farmer, and order from a batch of companies most of which also sell to home gardeners. My mailbox has been filling up with emails saying, in various wording, ‘we’re being swamped with orders and will get them out as fast as we can, but it’s going to take us longer than usual to get things shipped.’ (My own seed orders have been here for a while; but I hope the delayed-ship live plant starts (strawberries, asparagus, potatoes, sweet potatoes) will arrive on schedule.) ---
**Author:** ![Damuri\_Ajashi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/898d66/32.png) [@Damuri\_Ajashi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Damuri_Ajashi)\ **Post date:** [March 23, 2020, 4:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/that-damned-virus-your-most-inspired-panic-buys/849655/45 "2020-03-23T04:52:22Z")
I increased by internet bandwidth to 1 gig I have pretty much everything else left over from a “prepping” phase i went through around 2012. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/that-damned-virus-your-most-inspired-panic-buys/849655.md?page=2)