The Weekend Shopping In the Time of Covid-19...
Covid-19, aka Corona virus, or the beer virus as I like to call it is being hyped 24/7 by the cable news outlets. While it is good, as well as absolutely necessary, to equip the public with as much information and knowledge possible so people can better protect themselves from the virus the sense of hysteria created by the networks is unnecessary and foolish. Fear makes folks do things they otherwise wouldn't do. So, the networks constant over hyped non-stop chatter beyond just the facts and what best to do to protect yourself (mostly all common sense stuff) is nothing short of fostering fear in folks. The result, for one we find out toilet paper is more important to folks in a crises than food apparently is. Let me explain. Yesterday was the regular shopping day for the better half and me. After breakfast we went to our usual stores for food, paper products, and items from the pharmacy. Much to our annoyance a lot of stuff was out of stock. Now food and water was not a proble...