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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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And that's it, it's not panic buying anymore really. Any pictures I've seen in the last few days are just people with big trolleys doing a big shop, which hardly anyone (in London anyway) does regularly. So clearly supermarkets just don't have the shelf space or get enough frequent deliveries to cope.
Restricting people to 2 or 3 of a certain item is not going to be what solves the immediate issue. People are likely now doing that anyway, they're just getting a lot of stuff in one hit where they would have done that over the course of 1 week/2weeks. Not hoarding or being excessive.
Supermarkets need more staff to man the tills and restock the shelves, and also more deliveries.
Obvious rant is obvious.
stevo_com
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.