You think supermarkets are bad now

I went to the grocery store last night around 8 and they were completely out of meat, eggs, all paper products, most fruits, bread of all kinds etc ....

I got up at 6 this morning and went back and they had everything. The key is to go early as they are stocking.

The only embarrassing thing was my wife thanked the check out guy for his service.

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You mean an order to collapse the economy?

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You do realize that there's a large part of our government that would love to do this right? I'm not saying Democrats created the Coronavirus, but they sure are taking advantage of it. They look at this as their way to get Trump out of office so they are doing everything they can to collapse the economy.

Even if you don't believe that, would it really shock you? No one is thinking straight right now. Everyone is panicking and making decisions completely on emotion. And that's especially true for both the federal government and governments at the state and local level.

At this point I absolutely think martial law is coming. Maybe not from the President and Federal Government but I could easily see various state and local governments doing it. People like LaToya Cantrell are having a field day right now knowing they have complete and unchallenged control.

That kid is being exposed to every mouth breather in the metro area for 9 bucks an hour. You should not only thank him, you should tip him.

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It would be absolutely ridiculous to close restaurants for a number of reasons.

Then again, one week ago, I would have told you shutting down and cancelling everything would be ridiculous.

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I wouldn't doubt it but as another poster said I think they'll go to carryout and delivery only first.

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I agree with everything you said but how in the frick would they enforce martial law ? They don’t have the man power to do it

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All police officers on constant duty. Activation of the national guard. They don't have to have someone on every street, mostly just at the certain points, especially around interstates.

Perhaps even an exemption allowing active duty military to perform police functions.

Automatic jail time for anyone who breaks martial law. State borders shut down. They could even use drones for aerial support. The scary thing is I don't think it would be as hard as you think.

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It's already happening in some places. Restaurants can do delivery only and bars are shut down.

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Hence why everyone else was busy buying stupid toilet paper I was getting beer, rum, wine and hurricane mix. I figured this was coming. If I'm going to be stuck inside I'm having alcohol, lol.

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Wait, the Democrats are running the country? Then why is Trump still President?
Honestly, I think some of you people failed Civics in high school!

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They do run Congress last time I checked and Congress controls the purse strings. Plus they have Governors and Mayors in various areas that can help collapse their local economy. Never mind businessmen like Mike Bloomberg who have friends in high places. I don't doubt at all that some of them would be willing to temporarily lose a couple hundred million dollars or more temporarily to get Trump out of office.

A political party doesn't have to be in control of the Executive Branch to be able to crash the economy. They just have to have the right people in the right places.

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Hence why everyone else was busy buying stupid toilet paper I was getting beer, rum, wine and hurricane mix. I figured this was coming. If I'm going to be stuck inside I'm having alcohol, lol.

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Exactly, my wife and I drank on the front porch last night, cool crisp night with a heater going.
It was nice.

We invited a doctor friend over and she declined to adhere to social distancing, she is taking this very seriously

Yeah i agree with the morning thing.

People want to go late in the afternoon like everyone else.

The shelves are restocked by like 4am