IL Closes all Rstaurants and Bars.

All bars, restaurants in Illinois to close their doors for 2 weeks due to COVID-19 concerns

 

Being in a small village on VAN ISLE Canada, we have a shopping day coming this tue.
I'll be donned ,, gloves/mask/eyes..If it gets bad here, full coverage off the ranch ..

Sloth

 

Got word that our local SAMs Club was getting 53' full trailer delivery of paper towels at 3pm today. Had to see it for myself so geared up and made the drive. They had a strict 2 per SAMs Member limit. And Store security present. It was slow to take off about 5 minutes before people realized what was being brought out on the pallet jacks. ANd then WHOOSH just like that it was all gone in another 5-7 minutes.

Yeah I am guilty I and the wife scored the first four 16 packs off the first pallet Then took a stroll around the store Frozen stuff at about 50% of normal, GIANT Milk Case completely empty other than busted jug on the floor under the racks. Meat Cases totally Empty. Bread racks had 2 loaves of some vegan gluten free crap. Where normally sat the honey bunns, danishes etc..... only the crap that no one would eat even if they were starving sat.

Now here is where it got weird for me. The 10 pound, 25 pound, and 50 pound bags of Rice, Sugar, Flour, and Corn Meal near full pallets. 10 Pound bags of Pancake Mix the same. #10 cans of everything full racks. Bulk Bottles of Honey fully stocked. Yep[ grabbed some cans on the chance that my farmers market will be allowed to open and I will be able to run the Chuck Wagon at it. I go through a lot of Bushes Best Baked Beans in the Chuck Wagon. Also loaded up on some mayo, honey and celery seed for making the slaw dressing and couple hundred pounds of flour and 5 pounds of yeast for the garlic knots and breads I make. Figure its stuff we will use if we are prohibited from opening the market and can't run the Wagon.

Now here is where I tie this rambling in with your post The Governor had just made his speech closing all restaurants and bars while we were in the store. The news was spreading fast from smart phone to smart phone. A news blurb this morning said "Governor Prickster is seriously considering closing all bars and restaurants in IL" It did not take long after he was elected to figure out if the slug is seriously considering something that translates to it is going to happen. Anyway saw the panic in folks eyes but only briefly........ It changed to a Feral Look very fast. Pairs of people were splitting up with one staying to guard their cart and the other running to the front to get a second and sometimes 3rd cart and making a mad dash back to their partner with it/them. The tension and hostility that was non existent prior to the Governor Edicts was what I would call Concern and disappointment..... raised to tension and hostile in minutes. We decided then was the time to get the Doge out of hell. Checked out loaded up the stuff, de-geared and got back to the safe zone. MRs T5R on the drive back said "OMG I have never seen peoples mental states and attitudes change that fast!" I said "Sadly I have and this is going to get real ugly before it gets better."

I don't know if Governor Prickster intent was to start a State wide instant panic that sent otherwise intelligent people over ledge, but he sure did accomplish it. If not State wide at least in the Southern 24 Counties. I have always hoped I would never see that look in peoples eyes here in the USA. Today I did. Time for us to Hunker Down with no more trips to town and keep the powder dry for at least the next 6-8 weeks. We are seriously debating jumping across the river much earlier than planned but there are major logistical problems with that and despite it being IL. we have a very isolated and secure location.

 

Step up your plans

 

I've seen that "look" in the states once before. I was stationed in NOLA during Katrina: people would quite literally beat you to death without thinking over that last case of bottled water.

 

Looters were getting 5bucks a bottle from what I hear.
Fights over generators,Gasoline etc....Welcome to hurricane country,But without the hurricane!

 

Keep those crazy people down south,we have no use for them up here.

 

Interesting though - yesterday, that is Sun. AM @ ~0900 I ventured out to hit up a Fresh Mkt for 10lb of coffee beans, and a couple pork loins for the freezer. Fully stocked with everything, and the few customers were calm as could be. Just a normal grocery run. Same at a Lowes Foods an hour later. I even ventured into a Lowes Home improvement for some plumbing stuff and a new chain for one of the saws. Some of the cleaning stuff was gone, but case lots of the same products on the high shelves.
So it begs the question: which part of the population is weird? The ones I call "normal" that are just getting on with their business? Or the crazies we have news articles about?

 

the closing in the various states of the restaurants & bars are to cut the possible contamination by close contact among patrons >>> the problem comes with the restaurant staff - who is checking them daily for Virus? - some of these low paid workers will keep coming to work half dead - not only contaminate the actual food but some are being sent out to homes with deliveries ...

more BS than actual credibility there - how you decontaminate a cold subway sandwich?

 

Oregon has closed all restaurants and bars but does allow drive through and delivery. You can still go into a store and buy pot, though.

Also in violation of the First Amendment has made it a crime for more than 25 people to gather.

No gatherings of more than 25 people in Oregon for at least 4 weeks, Gov. Kate Brown says

IMO they are testing the waters to see if the frog has begun to notice the raising temperature.

 

Stores here is Wetern Washington were striped no pasta, flour, rice,beans, canned goods, Went to 4 today the funny part is canned fruits and vegetables are available, Funny part was Line at Winco was 30 to 45 minutes, Walmart check out 1 or 2 people

 

Stores here are stripped bare, Wallywirld and Winco was hit especially hard, store security and local popo are really hammering the population limits, and they still only have self check out! The parking lot was a tense scene with folks obviously ready to rumble at the slightest trigger! Shit's getting real out there folks! Not hearing gunshots yet, but................

I expect things to get a lot worse!
Stopped in for a chat with the local Nat, Guard commander and he says they have orders, but didn't say what those orders were, but gave me the wink and nod!

 

Anyone know why WA state has the highest rate of the virus? they beat CA for numbers and NY.

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