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[Cnasty]

246 new case jump since yesterday in the US.

But a 2nd straight day where the percentage increase is low comparably to the past couple of weeks.

Largest single increase yet, where are you seeing otherwise?

[shel311]

On a percentage basis, not raw numbers.

25% jump yesterday, 24% the day before. Biggest 2 day jump in terms of % since 2/27, when we have 15 total cases.

Not saying we're clear, but that's better than the what we've seen the past couple of weeks with 40% jumps.

[DRWebs]

Did you try going as soon as the store opens George? I had an off day and went to get fruit for my daughter and they had partially stocked shelves very early in the day

[Cnasty]

Italy 2,158 dead out of 27,980 infected. 7.7% mortality rate. Youngest 39

Granted the infected number is much higher as they are only testing the high risk/critical cases at this point.

[GeorgesGoons]

Did you try going as soon as the store opens George? I had an off day and went to get fruit for my daughter and they had partially stocked shelves very early in the day

I haven't yet. A buddy of mine went at 5am when he got off work and there was nothing (this was last Wednesday though). Gonna have to try to find out when they stock shelves. Another buddy went to Costco and they had 3 pallets of TP when he got to the store, said it was down to 1 when he left. People are assholes. I hope they get explosive diarrhea and a case of the sneezes

I'm assuming it'll get better.

[DRWebs]

I'm fairly certain they are stocking daily at this point. And there are certainly assholes out there, when I went people were manually opening the doors 15 prior to opening and then came out with two full carts.

[dakshdar]

Costco is limiting to two packages of TP here - makes perfect sense.

We tried Instacart yesterday. Got some stuff from a Costco order, some stuff just wasn't available.

Our Instacart order from the regular grocery store said delivered but it never showed up. Spent 90 minutes on hold to get through to their customer service for reimbursement.

[Cnasty]

Instacart has been a savior during all this in our area.

Super convenient and everything available. Only a 2 day lag at this point so far too.

[shel311]

I do basically 0% of the shopping for my family, but my wife still goes to the local Kroger every couple of days, and there hasn't been a single thing yet that she's had on her list that she didn't come home with.


Basically, from a grocery shopping standpoint, not a single thing has changed in the Shel311 household.

[GeorgesGoons]

I do basically 0% of the shopping for my family, but my wife still goes to the local Kroger every couple of days, and there hasn't been a single thing yet that she's had on her list that she didn't come home with.


Basically, from a grocery shopping standpoint, not a single thing has changed in the Shel311 household.

You need to introduce her to H.E.B. the best grocery store in Texas, especially the ones in the nice areas of town

[shel311]

Those are a bit too far out of the way for where we live. I think they may have em around in the Dallas area, but we're 30 minutes from there.

[Cnasty]

Market Street is basically the same as HEB.

Kroger sucks but its all we got.

I miss Publix

[GeorgesGoons]

I'd put the higher end HEB above Publix. But I've never been to a great location Publix

[DRWebs]

Learn something new everyday... Never heard of HEB before

[Cnasty]

Been to both and Publix is easily the best in the biz but my grading is simply on the deli and extracurricular items

Which is why even Whole Foods beats HEB imo.

[nick]

confirmed/deaths on John Hopkins site are over 4% (4.05%). Italy is getting.. man.. its bad. At 8am they had 27 900 confirmed.. at 3pm they have 31 506 confirmed.

[nick]

yellow is just 300+ more. might start doing 300-999 as yellow and 1000+ as red

[nick]

whats wild

Hubei - 67 999 confirmed (3111 deaths) - most deaths
Italy - 31506 (2503 deaths)

based on the math, if Italy got to 68 000 confirms, they will have 5402 deaths.

[shel311]

https://twitter.com/gnuman1979/status/1 ... 92387?s=19

[Cnasty]

This is going to obliterate India and Africa isnt it?