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by bcrosby95 2288 days ago
It helps reduce the number of potential exposures. For those with a high risk factor, the CDC actually recommends stockpiling.

https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/specific-groups/hi...

FEMA also recommends you always have days or weeks of supplies stockpiled in case of unpredictable natural disasters. Everyone in my main circle of friends knows you should have a stockpile for this reason, and the lack of one is talked about more as an embarrassment. But online not having one seems more like a badge of honor. Its just weird to me.
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hef19898 2288 days ago
So we went from "everybody should stockpile" to " high risk people should stockpile" and "general FEMA and similar guidelines may have a reason". Which sounds a lot less dramatic already, doesn't it?
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lliamander 2288 days ago
If you get sick, the recommendation is to quarantine yourself. If you do not have a stockpile of food already, how will you be able to keep quarantine?
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hef19898 2288 days ago
By calling people in your social network, offline not online, to go grocery shopping for you? Just an idea that popped to my mind, I am sure there are other means. If just someone would have started, you know like company or so, a kind of service that would allow you to order food online and they deliver it to you...
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whatshisface 2288 days ago
Needing your friends to bring you food is exactly the kind of "stress on the system" that stockpiling can prevent.
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lliamander 2288 days ago
Yeah, so long as the people delivering the groceries are able to completely avoid contact with the infected, then that can work. However, having reasonable reserves at home and not needing others to delivery your groceries in the first place is going to be more effective.
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hef19898 2287 days ago
I never aruedagainst having food at home, did I? But going out to stores now and emty shelves is the opposite of that. especially since over night the majority of stuff will be back in shelves anyway.

Also, if you have grocceries delivered overall demand stays the same. So no additional stress. Also it is way easier to protect and monitor delivery drivers. The group is much smaller than all shoppers.

Fun fact, delivery personnel can only be protected if enough PTE gear is available for them and not horded in someones garage or wherever.

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