Visited WalMart today. It was one of the ones that has a full grocery store inside. Well, there was (of course) no toilet paper, no meat (of ANY kind), no milk, and in general, the shelves were about half empty. People rumbled by with shopping carts stacked absurdly high.
I looked at the goods people had in the carts. One man had 24 jumbo jars of spaghetti sauce. A woman staggered by, carrying six large boxes of tampons--48 to a box. Another woman had over 200 bananas (I estimated) in her cart, atop eight 50 lb. bags of potatoes.
I didn't dream of being able to find any hand sanitizer or alcohol wipes, but I did need some plain old bar soap. No chance. Everything that could be remotely associated with personal hygiene was gone. I decided to pick up a cheapo bottle of shampoo, reasoning that it was pretty much just liquid soap and would do in a pinch. There were only a few bottles of that left.
In Tennessee, that home of Trumpers and inbreeding, two brothers were accosted by authorities after buying up 17,700 bottles of hand sanitizer and other critical supplies and trying to sell them on Amazon and EBay for hugely inflated prices. They decided to (as in, "were forced to") donate the stash to first responders and a local church. The brothers were surprised to learn that their actions, in addition to being the acts of total scumbags, were illegal.
Now, I don't know. Maybe scooping up all that's available of something, far more than you need, and leaving nothing for the next person is socially irresponsible. Or maybe it's just me, and that's perfectly OK. I'm sure that Two Hundred Banana Woman would think so.
