I know some people are not taking this coronavirus stuff seriously, but a recent trip to Costco kind of put things in perspective for me. The store was out of Kleenex and their own brand of facial tissue, and were running low on toilet paper.
Is this like when people make a run on milk, bread and bananas before a big snowstorm is predicted? Are people really thinking they’ll hunker down for days and weeks, not going to work or to shop, until the danger is gone? Are we living in the Dark Ages? (Don’t answer that.)
Health officials are begging people to stop buying masks because of fears health professionals won’t have enough to do their jobs. Really? Hospitals buy their masks from Wal-Mart and CVS?
The coronavirus is a scary disease, indeed, but we should all remember not to panic. What we should panic about is the fact that, according to polls, apparently one in three people think the virus is somehow linked to Corona beer. And I thought I had destroyed a lot of my brain cells with all those martinis.
Then I saw a headline saying that Catholic churches are emptying their holy water fonts because of fears of spreading the virus. Um, isn’t this the stuff that supposedly kills vampires? Next you’ll be telling me some fairy tale that bottled spring water isn’t really from some pristine babbling brook but is just filled from an industrial-sized faucet in a factory in Flint.
Well, you can’t say I didn’t warn you about going to Costco; I was pretty sure the panic-buying wasn’t limited to Seattle.
I love this Tim !!!
It’s all so crazy! I have one friend who is not leaving home until this is over; another friend who’s living life like normal. I went to a party on my building today, then went to my neighborhood bar. If I die, I was having great drimks and listening to a great band and will die happy.