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1. Stephen Sekula (steve)'s status on Saturday, 14-Mar-2020 22:30:47 EDT Stephen Sekula

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   "Fear and shopping in the time of coronavirus" â**sold out of bottled water?â** by Klara Kim is licensed under CC BY-NC-SA 2.0 Things people panic-buy (and stores seem to have run out of) when faced with a serious respiratory virus: Toilet paperTissuePaper towelsCleaning suppliesOatmealFresh BeefFresh ChickenPastaMilkFresh vegetables, including avocadosFrozen vegetables…
   1. Joshua Judson Rosen (rozzin)'s status on Tuesday, 17-Mar-2020 08:21:19 EDT Joshua Judson Rosen

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      @steve another class of items that seem to be conspicuously not sold out is #birth-control. Expect to see a spike in births around December/January....
      "Stuck indoors, scared and bored and frustrated and in need of human contact" is the sort of situation that breeds....
   2. Joshua Judson Rosen (rozzin)'s status on Tuesday, 17-Mar-2020 11:41:42 EDT Joshua Judson Rosen

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      @steve I really wonder about the rush on things like #eggs..., and REALLY hope nobody's got the bright idea to try to #DIY #vaccine after reading one of those "if you're allergic to eggs" flu-vaccine pamphlets....