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Shops on Green Lanes (overground station bit) were busy last night but not crazy and still had lots of things: rice, pasta, fresh fruit + veg etc. I can actually cook proper meals for the next couple of days at least.
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Can't use soap when you are in Superdrug. And you will need to go to Superdrug so you can restock on hand sanitiser.
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Indoors one doesn't realise the mayhem occurring outside.
I have been indoors too since Monday evening and envisioning a lawless wasteland has left me feeling very anxious. Similarly, imagining the opposite has had the same effect.
Really worrying about the shopping/grocery situation not sorting itself out anytime soon and having difficulty finding formula for my daughter. My rational brain says we're fine, we have about a week's worth (normal supply, not hoarded), but do I go out now to try and get more in case I can't when we run out? It's not like I can ask her to wait a day and "try again tomorrow". She doesn't eat enough solid food to sustain her and she isn't breastfed. Then thinking about all that brings home (even more so than usual) that this is a struggle that far too many deal with regularly anyway, which then ramps up the guilt which feeds the anxiety and around and around and around....
I often find myself just thinking I'll go for a walk/drive just to see what the shops are like, but then worried I'll see carnage/empty shelves and worry more or if it's all fine, I will be being irresponsible about social distancing when I didn't have to go out at all.
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The things that stumped me: The massive queue for hand sanitizer in Superdrug... but if people are home and washing hands with soap, why do they need it?!
Because not everyone is confining themselves to home and there's no easy access to soap and sinks when not at home.
Hand sanitiser gives you access to that peace of mind at any point.
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I went outside, the world is crazy... don't go outside.
In Crouch End there were queues to get in most shops, with shops rationing the number of people allowed inside so that everyone has lots of space around them. Some shops asking people to present the barcodes of items so that they can be scanned without cashiers touching the items. Most staff wearing gloves but none wearing masks. Perhaps 10% of people wearing masks, some badly fitting. No cash payments anywhere anymore, everything was card only.
The things that stumped me: The massive queue for hand sanitizer in Superdrug... but if people are home and washing hands with soap, why do they need it?! The totally empty shelves in the co-op (lots of panic buying happening).
Then there's the hints of economic impact. Signs in some shop windows, nearly all restaurants and pubs, and the cinemas... they have all temporarily closed. The place was dead.
I hadn't been out in a week, this is wow. Indoors one doesn't realise the mayhem occurring outside.