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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
Howard
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.