#panic buyers

I absolutely need at least paracetamol and ibuprofen every single day due to my chronic pain, and I do not get them on prescription (apparently you can’t?) and of course, the shelves are getting emptied. If I don’t, my other pain meds aren’t strong enough to keep me going through the day and leave me incapable of getting out of bed, even walking at all. You don’t neeed several back up packs for just in case you get 1 headache at some point this month. If it’s for cramps, you only need them once a month, around a weeks worth, and that can be bought gradually.

I’m expecting the babies nappies to vanish as well as that’s currently been happening in various places. DON’T bulk buy them. Buy one for emergencies, and maybe another but on ANOTHER day. Order them online instead and keep the shop bought ones for in between orders. Babies don’t go through them so fast you need 5 packs in one day and thousands of people have babies who might run out, and absolutely have to get an emergency pack. A baby needs their nappy. Think.

We are also vegetarian, and bits and pieces are beginning to go out of stock. Sure, we can buy loose veg and make something from scratch or we’d just have to “suck it up and eat meat if there’s no vegetarian options” but that would be like us saying yeah well, make a meat feast pizza from scratch if there’s no pizzas. Buy each individual chunk of meat, and cook all of them, and make the base from scratch. Now do that for a week until the meat pizzas are back. Also, don’t dismiss someone being a vegetarian I guess, and care little about them “dealing with eating meat”, because even aside from that being shitty, people who have been raised on or have been a long term vegetarian diet can get sick when putting meat in their system suddenly. Aren’t we all about NOT getting sick right now?

My sister has some extra rolls of toilet paper and she’s going to bring them to us so we have some. That will give us some so we aren’t wiping ourselves with paper towels and newspapers.