My biggest problem at the moment is finding sealed containers to store
what I have. With the warmer weather soon to arrive, insects will eat through
the thin plastic bags. I haven't found any lately in the thrift stores.
Another thing is price gouging. Two weeks ago I bought some zinc/copper
capsules on evilBay to keep my immune system healthy. Today I saw that the
price for them has tripled. They are available on Amazon, evilBay, and Walmart.
A daily multi tablet available from Costco has the needed daily allowance
of zinc and copper plus potassium, which you rarely see in a multivitamin.
>
>> That sounds like stupid greed and selfishness. If people shop rationally,
>>there should be no shortages. When I go to the supermarket, things are
>>almost normal. Yesterday they had no Brussels sprouts which I happened to
>>want for dinner, but that was the extent of my deprivation.
>>>
>
>I think the concept of "Costco" is probably a little foreign to some
>people. Also, the culture is a bit different too. There is no picking
>up just one or two of something for tonight's meal. Everything you get
>will get divided out for multiple meals. It's a bulk purchase thing.
>You can't go into Costco without spending $200, but you only need to
>do that once in a while. Unlike the local grocer, you can't just pick
>up one of something, it all comes in bulk.
>
Chris
When the going gets weird, the weird turn pro
- Hunter S. Thompson
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>From: Ken Norton <ken@xxxxxxxxxxx>
>Sent: Mar 26, 2020 4:51 PM
>To: Olympus Camera Discussion <olympus@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>Subject: Re: [OM] self-isolating
>When I say that we can survive for the next month, it's because we've
>got two large containers of Peanut Butter, two large boxes of
>Cheerios, an entire pork loin divided up into meal-sized portions, 20
>cans of Campbells soup, a brick of cheese, 10 bowls of Pho, a box of
>shrimp, and enough soup veggies to choke a horse. And a case of V8
>juice, a box of 10 tubes of Ritz crackers and five pounds of butter.
>Oh, and Almond Milk, Bisquick, tins of mini hotdogs, and five pounds
>of rice.
>
>Basically, every time we buy an item at Costco, we are actually buying
>months' or even a year's worth of that item. It's not greed and
>selfishness, it's just how the system works. For most things. But we
>have the space too.
>
>AK Schnozz
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