With this post I'm trying to get some none Steem/HIVE content published on our Steem (and per tomorrow: HIVE) chain. I hope you can appreciate my effort :)

It's so funny to see everywhere in the world people trying to stock their homes with tremendous amounts of food and other products. As I, many seem not to understand why so many people are stocking up on toilet paper, fresh food, and cleaning products. The country is full of food!

Supermarkets are bought empty, while the street markets are loaded with food and lacking people. One of those street markets I have around the corner of my place in Amsterdam. Loving it, since every morning and/or afternoon I get my daily groceries done with all fresh products!

Both photographs below show some of my most favourite stalls. The vegetable and fruit one has every single day, new fresh food. Some of it is imported, but the rest comes from farmers close to Amsterdam.

These three stalls are unique in itself in my honest opinion:

1. To the left: a place of humus of many different kinds; Owned and run by an Iranian and a Syrian bringing their local flavours to us; Such great tasting humus...much much better than what we can buy in our supermarkets; Still many Dutch people buy the supermarket/factory humus; Have not clue why! Just bought some humus supply for two days; So yummy; So Fresh; They prepare the humus at the stall as well, so we know for sure what we get and how fresh it all is.
2. The one in the middle: cheeses and meat; Mostly fresh; All products with better to best quality we have in my tiny country.
3. To the right: fresh bread and cakes all day long; They bring in freshly backed products every hour or two; I just bought a bread that came from the oven 10 minutes before.

Other favourite stalls that I didn't capture in a photograph included fresh nuts, fresh fish and a cheese only one.

Where are the people?

Our government didn't go for a total lockdown and even encourages people to take a walk around the block since working from home can be a lot of pressure to people who do not like to work from home. And yeah, most office people work from home since this week. Schools are closed. Places of entertainment including restaurants and bars are closed. Shops are open though, at least all the food related shops. Restaurants are allowed to serve take-out and food delivery is also allowed.

Given these facts, I still cannot grasp why people are still stocking up?

I do feel responsible products are still available for all those people who need to go to work like all those who take care of the people becoming ill from this Corona thingy. Due to their duties and obligations, they cannot simply go to the shops whenever they like. How selfish are those people who stock up on whatever they feel they need to stock up with. And how ignorant - or maybe even stupid - these people are.

While the stockers will eat from the can, or end up with old food, I eat fresh food every single day!

You should know, my tiny country produces so much food, we export a lot of it. When worse come to worse, the supply chain comes to an halt, we will have tremendous amount of food - originally meant for export - available for all people in the Netherlands to consume; We'll be living in total abundance!

A few days ago, this guy recorded a little video showing the enormous stock of toilet paper we have in our warehouses. The video is in Dutch, hence I'll translate the key message: we have enough toilet paper in our warehouses for the entire population of the country to have enough for the whole year.

But how we get the people to start thinking rationally?

Yesterday a social scientist informed me what happens with people in times of pressure and crisis. Apparently we literally become more dumb. In terms of IQ, a crisis can lead to a reduction of 10 to 15 points.

WOW! Thats Major!

Could this be the reason for the mass 'plundering' of our supermarkets? Could this be the reason we can only find our ways to supermarkets and leave the street markets for what they are?

Whatever the reason, I think our governments shall enforce rules to make sure all the products we need on a daily bases is distributed more or less fairly. But how this can be done?

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In Denmark they found a fantastic solution! Stores and supermarkets are adopting a great method to leave all the freedom to the individual while controling excessiveness and abuse.

The example that went viral across the globe is the method they adopt for little bottles of hand sanitiser. One bottle goes for the normal price of around 5 Euro. Two bottles - however - go for the price of 135 Euro each! (source)

FANTASTIC way to Control Stockers!

I think we shall introduce this as a government rule for all products we require on a daily bases! No invasion of the freedom of the individual, but a great way of getting the mass behave rational, although they may not think rational.

Now I can spin the Denmark anti-stock methods to the blockchain and crypto world - and in more particular to the soon to be launched HIVE chain - but I'll leave the proposals for changes and enhancements - we so desperately need to let the ex-Steem / HIVE community flourish - for a later time and will likely use more structured communication channels than just another post only a very few will actually notice, read and digest.

CU at HIVES