Panic Buying!

[wenrob]

I guess I'm the only person in the country who doesn't use hand sanitizer and who doesn't care it's unavailable.

Kimberly Clark thanks everyone hyping up the hysteria about TP.

My kids are in middle school so get very little chance to actually use soap and water. I prefer hand wipes for when you can’t use soap and water but they prefer hand sanitizer. I’ve told them to wash their hands with soap and water whenever they have the opportunity and use the hand sanitizer when they can’t. I don’t necessarily care about hand sanitizer but I do care about them having the option to clean up.

 

[SaintsManiac]

I guess I'm the only person in the country who doesn't use hand sanitizer and who doesn't care it's unavailable.

Kimberly Clark thanks everyone hyping up the hysteria about TP.

Nope. I actually hate it. It took us a year to use a tiny bottle of Purell. I would much rather use wipes in a pinch. Soap and water is not readily available during Mardi Gras.

 

[barkley]

I'm with you there. Hand sanitizer is a last resort, for when soap and water are not available. It should not be a substitute for washing hands .

i agree it's not a substitute but it's awfully useful to use when running errands and being forced to enter a pin on a keypad or use one of those attached 'pens' to electronically sign for something (i carry my own pen with me for traditional writing). i use hand sanitizer after these activities and i also like to after i've done my grocery shopping b/c people take items off shelves, put them back on shelves, put them near their faces (to sniff for scents)....produce is the worst b/c people pick it up, squeeze it, dig through it for what they are searching for.....

 

[NYCgrrl]

They almost always hand out personalized (name of the company) mini bottles of hand sanitizers at conventions and that's where I get them from. Comes in handy for camping but that's about it for our needs. I'm sure they would be useful for a long car trip too.

 

[Cogswel_Cogs]

I admit I did some panic buying today
4 bottles of wine
2 bottles of vodka
a couple sampler bottles too
If I'm stuck in the house for 2 weeks with dh we are both going to need it

You're my hero. How could I have forgotten the essentials

 

[ShirikiUtundu]

The use of hand sanitizer leads to complacency in my experience, particularly at doctor's office/hospitals.

 

[Moliphino]

I guess I'm the only person in the country who doesn't use hand sanitizer and who doesn't care it's unavailable.

I don't either. I got a little bottle that hangs on my purse from our health insurance meetings last fall, but I have never used it.

 

[Mackenzie Click-Mickelson]

They did have employees wiping down carts before you take them. That's definitely new.

Went to Costco today and an employee was there wiping everyone's carts mostly in the handle area.

 

[bcla]

I guess I'm the only person in the country who doesn't use hand sanitizer and who doesn't care it's unavailable.

Kimberly Clark thanks everyone hyping up the hysteria about TP.

I'm pretty sure Georgia-Pacific and Proctor and Gamble are doing pretty well these days despite people generally staying home. Strangely enough, Clorox stock is remaining pretty flat.

 

[BuckeyeBama]

I am a runner and have to use porta-potties all the time, so hand sanitizer is something that I have used for a long time - long before it became a thing. I mean, those porta-potties can get nasty. But I have never used them outside of that, and we have not bought any more with this out there.

That said, some sort of wipes are pretty important when using public facilities of all kinds during cold/flu season. I just have never used hand sanitizer for that purpose.

 

[Cogswel_Cogs]

I starting to wonder if smoking big factor in severity of cases. Top 5 or 6 countries all look to be big smoking countries.
Or at least hope so, you know not for them but maybe it help here.

 

[ShirikiUtundu]

I starting to wonder if smoking big factor in severity of cases. Top 5 or 6 countries all look to be big smoking countries.
Or at least hope so, you know not for them but maybe it help here.

Smoking impacts the severity of ALL respiratory illnesses.

 

[DuskKodesh]

i agree it's not a substitute but it's awfully useful to use when running errands and being forced to enter a pin on a keypad or use one of those attached 'pens' to electronically sign for something (i carry my own pen with me for traditional writing). i use hand sanitizer after these activities and i also like to after i've done my grocery shopping b/c people take items off shelves, put them back on shelves, put them near their faces (to sniff for scents)....produce is the worst b/c people pick it up, squeeze it, dig through it for what they are searching for.....

While produce gets touched it's in general not so bad. Produce section at least gets cleaned out a lot and the water sprayers over some items keep down some of the transmission... but toys, let me tell you about working toys section. Just about any couple with a baby comes in, gives them a toy to keep the baby quiet. After forty-five minutes of the kid drooling on it and pressing buttons on it they put it back on the shelf. I've seen families have toddlers that sneezed right into their hands then went around to 'try' out everything. And yes, there are some great clean kids, but they don't make a difference if the toy they just decided to buy was literally in a kid's mouth five minutes ago.

Though realistically if you ask anyone that works retail we'd caution you to wash your hands after touching anything in a store. The lobby gets cleaned, the floor gets cleaned, but shelves are never ever wiped down, and neither is the backroom. Every truck delivery bottles break. Bleach, detergent, sauces, wine. It's swept up but nothing is sanitized. If you ever see black marks on a store floor 9/10 times it came from the backroom floor and could be substances from years ago. The trucks themselves are also filthy although they sometimes get hosed out. You go shopping the best habit you can have is to stop in the bathroom afterwards and wash your hands (Mine are usually black at the end of a shift, the dirt colors the soap grey). And this is coming from me, a very non-germaphobe that kisses all my pets on the mouth.

 

[Cogswel_Cogs]

I ate the inside of my bagel this morning cause the guy who buttered it looked a little queezy...
It not nearly as enjoyable as the whole thing...

 

[jo-jo]

I found a 12 pack of 8oz Purell at Staples online. I feel like I won the lottery.

I usually only use the stuff at Disney..,..but times have changed.


I will share with son's family and maybe a neighbor or two




Update 3/ 17 GRRRRRRR This morning, this morning as the day I was SUPPOSE to get the dozen bottles, I get an email, they can't fill the order. Why did it take three full days to tell me. I left what hand sanitizer I had with DD since I was getting a dozen bottles. I told my DDIL, you can stop looking I have all these bottles coming. I repeat GRRRRR I do have some at home (less than a bottle) but I still feel upset.

 

[dclpluto]

I didn’t think I will ever panic buy. But I just ordered some dog food off of chewy. They had enough for a few weeks. I guess I panic buy when it comes to my babies.

 

[Mackenzie Click-Mickelson]

I didn’t think I will ever panic buy. But I just ordered some dog food off of chewy. They had enough for a few weeks. I guess I panic buy when it comes to my babies.

I've got 8 cans of wet food left for my cat, though plenty of dry food (had bought that when we were low back in mid-February not related to this whole mess).

I'm going to wait probably 4 to 5 more days before I go about searching for the canned food but I do need to get some.

Always a great reminder when posters have mentioned pets because that can easily be missed when it comes to ensuring you have adequate supply of things.

 

[DuskKodesh]

I didn’t think I will ever panic buy. But I just ordered some dog food off of chewy. They had enough for a few weeks. I guess I panic buy when it comes to my babies.

I'm the same way. Last week when this was getting serious I did a major order with them. 20lb bag of rat food, a flat of canned dog food, huge bag of aspen bedding. My furbabies are set for weeks provided I can get fresh veggies for the rats.

 

[SaintsManiac]

Not sure if anyone posted this yet, but the Facebook "experts" are saying only Tylenol (acetaminophen) is safe to take if you have the virus. So now everyone is panic buying that.

 

[RamblingMad]

Not sure if anyone posted this yet, but the Facebook "experts" are saying only Tylenol (acetaminophen) is safe to take if you have the virus. So now everyone is panic buying that.

I read that today as well. I haven't seen the science behind that claim.