Coronavirus (COVID-19) Panic Buying?

[lovetravellingoz]

Indeed, I get the impression Aussies are too busy emptying supermarket shelves to go on holiday!
cheers skip

Not at the supermarkets I frequent. And at Costco, when don't shoppers here have full trollies?

I think it is more that hand sanitiser has a run on.

 

[amaroo]

Amaroo,

Whilst it doesn't look good in todays light, it may have been for primarily humanitarian reasons then.

I have personally co-ordinated a donation of 100K masks from a chinese company to a major metropolitan hospital this week. They desperately wanted to help.

So it does go both ways.

TM

Many on here stated it didn't happen. Obviously it did. When shelves start to look empty, the panic starts, once it starts, it's gone for all money.

When will the aid start to flow back? That's the real Q.

Under-reporting a virus, expelling foreign reporters, having businesses strip goods from other countries - is the epitome, of not a good look.

 

[drron]

And if you read through the second article especially it said their employees who are mainly Chinese were encouraged to go out and source these things-ie strip supermarkets.That isn't what humanitarian aid should be like.

 

[teammongo]

Aid has already started to flow back. And almost certainly will continue.

The hardest part of this was getting federal assistance to get flights in. The government (state and federal) struggles with anything at the best of times, and required some top down a** kicking to get this to happen.

 

[zenyattamondatta]

Sense of urgency in Australia as of late February was minimal.

If you were overseas somewhere and Australia was by the far the epicentre of a crisis, what would you do?

 

[amaroo]

Aid has already started to flow back. And almost certainly will continue.

The hardest part of this was getting federal assistance to get flights in. The government (state and federal) struggles with anything at the best of times, and required some top down a** kicking to get this to happen.

Really! IIRC our government was made to wait, and wait, and wait to get approval to go and collect our stranded people. At the same time they were stripping our shelves of product.

 

[lovetravellingoz]

Hub said the fuel cans might because of generator purchases.

I wonder if there are people out there reading this and going, "Do I need a generator? Lets go buy one!"

I have a generator, but I am an offgrid camper for fun

So yes I have portable panels, battery etc. The solar set-up works so well that I have basically never used the generator and leave it home for most trips. Mind you virtually anywhere one can camp offgrid, you cannot at present as most areas that allowed it now have been closed. Not that I would camp anyway at present I stay at home as much as possible for all things.

 

[ja1]

Hope they also buy fire extinguishers. 7000 dead in Italy.

Fire extinguishers are literally on sale at Aldi..

 

[ja1]

Haven't been able to get them at local supermarkets for 2-3 weeks. I ordered some online from a supplier in NSW a week ago, not yet delivered, 2 days late on estimated delivery date.

I have seen gloves in every supermarket I've been to in the last week. There were gloves at 2 supermarkets I went to today - you could even choose size and colour.

However yeast is something I haven't been able to find for the last 2 weeks.

Or hand sanitizer but today lined up (queue was 50m long - about 8 people!) at a local distillery that has converted to making hand sanitizer. Very inventive chaps and I had to give them $60 for about 1L of 70% alcohol. That's enough to sort out our house for a while.

One of the funniest experiences of the day as a lady in scrubs with about a litre made chugging motions as she was walking past us in the queue (clearly people in healthcare have the best sense of humour..)

 

[straitman]

You got me JohnM
Two years before his death I spent 2 days looking after my father-living with him.My mother was in hospital and my 4 siblings all away.We spent virtually the whole time talking.We hadn't been close but those 2 days changed everything.Forgiveness is very powerful.
The lyrics of that song was the basis of the eulogy I gave at his funeral.
Wonderful advice.

That song haunted my brother for a very long time after our father died.

 

[ja1]

I think if youre a retired tradie and you want to work a couple of days during the week, its a good one. Clock on, do your hours, clock off. But onliy week days because of us idiots that want a "thingy" on the weekend. But still way too hot and cold during the worse of the seasons.

I've sold 3 lawnmowers and god knows what else.. and I don't even work at Bunnings. Got some fairly confused looks when someone shows up at the counter and points at me and says that I sold them this <something> and I don't have any uniform..

I've sadly had to spend much less time in Bunnings than I normally would but I've noticed a few things are being depleted and the garden seedlings are the most obvious..

They have plenty of masks (P95) if you're willing to pay $65 for a mask..

Or you could do the obvious and simply not leave home unless you really need to, don't get sick and thus save $65 on a mask you won't need because you didn't get sick..

 

[JohnM]

That song haunted my brother for a very long time after our father died.

Yes - it's a very moving song that could cause issues, especially if first heard after the event.

I was pretty neutral with my dad. No issues but, of course, that song suggested that I could have done more. He died very suddenly and unexpectedly and younger than I am now, so there wasn't that opportunity or situation for the reflection, I guess.

I've told my two boys to cremate me and scatter my ashes at Swanbourne beach - but not in the afternoon when there's usually a howling sea breeze.

 

[drron]

Though not a day goes by that I don't tell mrsdrron how much I love her.And every time I see our son and his family.So the song certainly had an impact on me.

 

[JessicaTam]

[mod hat]
As I have just done in another thread, off topic posts have been removed.

There seems to be some consistency wrt the offenders. If it keeps up AFF will be one less place you can visit.
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[/grumpy hat]

 

[Denali]

Hubby went to post office and checked out Coles while he was there - Toilet paper! We live like Kings today!

He didnt buy any as we have heaps but they had 2 x pallets and people were still scrambling for it.

 

[pauly7]

Hubby went to post office and checked out Coles while he was there - Toilet paper! We live like Kings today!

He didnt buy any as we have heaps but they had 2 x pallets and people were still scrambling for it.

All our local supermarkets are fully stocked again of everything, only thing still a bit light on is pasta but who needs empty refined carbs anyway

Our neighbourhood is eerily calm, people still friendly but at a distance of course. Very happy I live here.

 

[Lawrage]

All our local supermarkets are fully stocked again of everything, only thing still a bit light on is pasta but who needs empty refined carbs anyway

Our neighbourhood is eerily calm, people still friendly but at a distance of course. Very happy I live here.

Its a strange feeling. I take the little one and dog for a walk every day at lunch just to get out of the house for a bit. Streets are empty, park down the road empty.

 

[p--and--t]

Hubby went to post office and checked out Coles while he was there - Toilet paper! We live like Kings today!

He didnt buy any as we have heaps but they had 2 x pallets and people were still scrambling for it.

Neighbour said he went to nearby woollies yesterday. T/P aisle was full to the brim and overflowing. People just walking by and not buying.

No tissues though.

 

[Flashback]

Neighbour said he went to nearby woollies yesterday. T/P aisle was full to the brim and overflowing. People just walking by and not buying.

No tissues though.

No face tissues, right? As opposed to cough tissues.

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Its a strange feeling. I take the little one and dog for a walk every day at lunch just to get out of the house for a bit. Streets are empty, park down the road empty.

That's good, that's how it should be, right? Or so we're told....

 

[Denali]

Apropos my point that, known in advance, that powerful song can invoke deeply positive things.

Found out about after the event, it can conjure distress, as noted by @straitman.

Not distress, its a different type of mourning. Sometimes we mourn the parents we didnt get/wished we had.

Mum in law asked me to change her Woolies order to include Spam.

 

[Cossie]

No toilet paper at my local woolies, I was there at 09:15, probably an hour or so too late.