Every Govt, state and federal in Australia is now guilty of not warning everyone to prepare for some serious disruptions.

Everyone should be well on their way to having 2-3 weeks per person in non-perishable food items because there will be mass closures and isolation orders coming.

If you think you can get by on Uber eats or get a supermarket delivery when it really gets going, good luck with that.

Better to have some mass buying and hording now before people start getting sick.

Also, by doing all the shopping now then keeping away from the shops later, that will slow down transmission, less people will be sick at once, more ICU beds available, less people dead.

Marla wrote on Mar 10^th, 2020 at 6:01pm:



dear Marla,
I hope you've stocked up?

JaS, I stocked up 3 weeks ago and now I'm just replacing what I use. Toilet paper, meh. If I rum out I'll ask Aussie to upload a tutorial how he gets the job done.

Good article.

Here’s my stash. It’s not massive in comparison to what I’ve seen and heard but it’s mine and I can rely on it if I need to. It’s not only toilet paper (36 rolls by the way). I have two kilos of rice, several packets of lentils and chickpeas. Paracetamol. Any member of my immediate family who uses prescription drugs has two repeats. There are a few other things too, maybe too embarrassing to share. OK, weirdly I have enough floss to last me three months. So much soap.

My thoughtful self says I’m being ridiculous. My friends and family concur.

But in my household, there are four adults and one tiny baby (who has sent my desire to both defend and protect into complete sooky overdrive). I’ve stored enough to ensure that if we have to self-isolate, we can look after ourselves. It’s not prepper madness in its entirety. I don’t fear that our society will dissolve and decay, not this month anyhow. But I don’t trust the systems to protect my family and me.


https://www.smh.com.au/lifestyle/health-and-wellness/confessions-of-a-toilet-pap...

One week for Coles delivery.

When everyone's sick you won't get a delivery at all.

Due to all this rain we have 46 thousand liters of fresh water.
Still have a freezer full of coral trout, bluebone, red throat, 2 decent fillets of red emperor, shyte loads of Spanish mackerel and e few whole hussar...which are normally bait but if we need them they're good on the fork as well....oh and cant forget zooper doopers.   

Garden has fresh lettuce, tomato, capsicum, corn and cucumber. The way the cucumber grows I don't think we will have to worry for a while. Bloody delicious when it's home grown too.

Cupboards have tinned tuna, cruskits, cerial for the kids, variety of tinned, pasta, rice, and uht milk.


And this is before we have stocked up....

Sir Spot of Borg wrote on Mar 11^th, 2020 at 4:52am:



What do you expect?
I agree that a lot of people are selfish today....but that shouldn't have snuck up on you.
The media has sent the world into a spin with this virus.
If you didn't realise throughout your life that the majority of Aussies are scared weak individuals then egg on your face I guess. Just look at the nutcases hoarding toilet paper.



Way to boost the spending for budget time though. No wonder our traitorous politicians are doing fkkk all on both sides. Spending is up.....GST revenue in the last 4 weeks is at an all time high. Lovely.
Watch for them to vote themselves a pay rise for all the hard work....or should I say, lack there of.

plenty of supplies