Quarantine Diaries: Day 138
Here in Minnesota, a statewide executive order by the governor went into effect yesterday mandating masks when indoors at public spaces such as all stores and the common areas of apartment buildings. We just got back from a short vacation; my little bit of anecdotal evidence from the towns of Sauk Centre (where the boyhood home of Sinclair Lewis was closed to public tours due to Covid) and Melrose suggests that most people were complying, albeit sometimes casually.
Closing in on five months now, and I’m still seeing supply chain issues, sometimes for the most basic things. Before leaving on vacation, I had been looking for ammonia. Two grocery stores (different chains) and a hardware store — bare shelves all around. But I found some up north and bought three bottles just in case. I’m starting to feel like a shopper in the old Soviet Union. You never know what might be in stock at the store, so better to buy whatever you can, when you can. Ten kilos of collective farm beets? Sold! Take my soon to be worthless rubles.
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I am seeing hand sanitizer everywhere - like they overcompensated for the run on it - but a friend just posted that she still can't find Lysol. The only thing I had issues with for a few months was cream for some odd reason - several different groceries were out entirely, of any cream at all, but then I finally found it at Vitamin Cottage. It's weird where the odd shortages lie.
This is a helluva chart. Absolutely amazing how the 1% stays the 1% these days. Really cool find
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So the rich got richer, while more people got poor. Big surprise. Thanks for the links.
Lets hope American dollars don't turn into rubles!
Strange how most stuff is available up here fairly regularly. Maybe just less population density and a more level head on the median citizen?
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