[hef19898]

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...

[whatshisface]

Needing your friends to bring you food is exactly the kind of "stress on the system" that stockpiling can prevent.

[lliamander]

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.

[hef19898]

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.