[Granny Bear]

My daughter works as a manager in a large grocery store in Maryland. Starting tomorrow they are going to begin limiting sales of items like rice to two boxes. They cannot restock shelves fast enough with toilet paper, water, hand sanitizer, or anything else that the public thinks they will need the next few weeks. The store had done over half a million dollars in sales with several hours left before closing. Customers have been stealing open containers of hand sanitizer from checkout lines belonging to cashiers.

I have never seen people panic over a disease the way that they have the past few days.

I've heard a lot of folks say that they don't trust the information being given to them. I can understand that. Media outlets are tremendously biased toward one political party or another and have allowed that bias to be first and foremost. Then you have the government telling you that we will get through this, wash your hands, stay out of public gatherings and stay six feet away from everyone.

Personally I believe that we are getting the expert's best guess, even if it is educated, about what to do and what not to do. This is a brand new strain, and the simple truth is, NOBODY knows what to do. The virus simply hasn't been here long enough to adequately study and draw definitive conclusions as what will happen.

So, I intend to follow the expert's best guess. I have a lot of predisposing issues that wouldn't bode well should I catch COVID19. I am retired and live alone, so it's not difficult to self isolate. That's pretty much my life now.

The last group activity I attended was at the Bijou Theater in Knoxville when my friends and I went to see Menopause The Musical. Fabulous!!!! Highly recommend it to anyone who wants to laugh and would enjoy a musical that's entirely 60s music.