UPS has brought me some powder, a new extractor, some cat food and litter, and that's about all I'd be asking for these days.
My view is that the worst panic buying was earlier this past week, and we appear to have weathered that intact. I expect shortages, but nothing like what recent, and not so recent history has already shown us. I think that as far as the high desert country I live in goes, we've found a new normal, and we're coping. There are a lot of people with old values and old guns sitting at the ready around here, and this heartens me.
We got ten of us old friends and families together at the VFW last evening for a final drink together before the Canteen shuts down til April first, as strictly the decision of the Post Leadership. Most of our membership is in the higher risk catgeory, and we feel it makes good sense to limit the opportunity to add more risk of contagion to their daily lives. This added isolation adds to the strain, but it's necessary in our view.
The talking heads at Fox are saying that the real peak stress is still about 7-10 days out, and I see that as applying far more to the urban zones than up here. If I'm wrong, I'm wrong.
Our Sheriffs are good people, and we'd be looking to them for guidance. If they need and want help, we'll respond as they advise us to. In any and all case; none of us would be looking for any trouble.
Anybody else coming looking to 'take charge' might find themselves in compromising positions. Their choices, not ours.
Beyond that; I don't know, I just live here...
Greg