Hand sanitizers are nearly impossible to find in many parts of the country now. Same with face masks of just about any type.
Quite a few states have declared a state of emergency. Yesterday Trump declared a national emergency over this virus. People are now waving red flags all over the place, and people are starting to open up their eyes to see what is going on around the world. And now it is coming to their own neighborhood.
The more people who realize what is going on, the more are going to figure out that there is a very great likelihood that they might wind up being locked down, either voluntarily or involuntarily, in their homes when quarantines are put into place. Not to mention that eventually truck drivers will either be sick or afraid of becoming sick, and deliveries to grocery stores might taper off to a trickle. Got the gas tanks in your vehicles topped off? Gasoline supplies can vanish too. Not that you want to be taking pleasure cruises now, but you might have to go out for an emergency and find the gas stations all closed. Too bad for you if you only have under a quarter tank of gasoline.
If you haven't already begun to prepare, you may find that some things you just took for granted you could buy are just no longer available. Imagine fighting with someone in the parking lot over a pack of toilet paper. Imagine people breaking into your home just to steal toilet paper. Think it can't happen? People have become used to getting what they want, whenever they want it. So if you are prepared, I suggest not widely advertising that fact to your neighbors. They might be great people in normal times, but we are rapidly approaching very abnormal times, and they could become very different people then.
Hope for the best, but plan for the worst.
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