So, corona virus is all over the place. Went to the supermarket nearby us to buy some stuff. I had to stop for a minute and collect my self as some old memories started, or at least tryed to, flow back. People running around with packed grociery carts, grabing non perishables, loading cars and comming back for more, empty shelfs. No canned food, no pasta, no diapers, no toilet papers, no baby food, almost empty meat shelf, no canned soup...you got the picture. Or maybe you dont. The whole scene looked, don't know how to put it, familiar yes, very much so. What was missing was the war, of course, but seeing people stockpiling like this and coming back to buy more...Ridiculous? Sad? Stupid? I don't know. I get it if people buy few extra things in case they get quarantined, but this rush on the grociery stores looks over the top. Is it the hysteria and the survival instinct, me only and to hell with the rest? Looked like that in many people. And then the profiteers. Oh yes. These scum of the earth and vultures always appear. We had them in Croatia too. Some of them got the justice. Some guy here bought stuff for $70000 and sold everything for $100000, making $30000 in cash. No tax. Don't know who is worse, the guy who was selling or the panicky people who were buying from him.
Times like this bring the best and worst out of the people. The me only mentality and the I'll buy just few so that the rest can have some too. I took 2 boxes of pasta but the woman behind me grabed all the rest, just shoved it in her cart. I hope she has children and it is her mother survival instinct. Then again, I have kids too. There are no enemy tanks and bombers to disrupt the food supply chain. No gangs of well armed unregulated and undisciplined self styled "soldiers" roaming the ground taking food. This is not war people, most of you have seen it only on TV and video games. People really need to calm down, take few deep breaths and just re evaluate the situations. Maybe watch less tv, read less internet news and just tune out a bit, not entierly, just a bit from being constantly bombarded with corona news.
This is my evening thought. I'll have a liquid corona now, bought a bottle just for sh... and gigls. Walked into the house and said to my wife that I have corona. She knowes me well enough to fall for BS like this, but we had a laugh. And that is what we need.