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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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Personally - I don't think having 2 weeks worth of food in the house, especially for your daughter, is at all overkill. It's weird I've got so used to being able to pick up a little bit of shopping every other day, but remembering when i was a kid it was just normal to have about 2 months worth of supplies in the house. Nuclear anxiety and all that.
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do I go out now to try and get more in case I can't when we run out?
Yes!
Especially if you are in London.
Get yourself to 2 weeks worth of absolute essentials like this. Do it today if you can as things are changing too rapidly. Most shops have stock, I think Co-Op just has poor supply chain, but most other shops have enough of most things.
Why go today? If a lock down comes, you may not be able to go tomorrow.
Just get the basics, don't go over the top, but definitely go get formula for your daughter.
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FWIW I went to the shops this morning and it just made me really angry. Did manage to get milk and bananas though.
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If you have a motor drive out to store somewhere more remote. You might have to go a long way though.
Local, smaller stores might still have the things you need
Hit up other parents in your street and see if you can barter toilet roll in exchange for baby food
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I've been to crystal palace twice this week.
What I've learned is that it'll all change now kids are off school.
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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.