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Why the title?  It all started with a chance meeting, and the opportunity to help a stranger and a response that left me feeling the need to write about it.

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Article: 20200319 (Thu, 19-Mar-2020, 17:01)

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Dystopia meets suburbia

Stripped (mined) bare

Idiocracy responds to a public health scare - and it's not pretty.

Just been out.  My own local little supermarket is stripped of all sorts of silly things, even stuff which is perishable.  Bread; fruit and vegetables; all the meat and fish; most of the dairy products; most of the tinned goods; crisps; soup...  I mean what are people doing?  Refrigerating their spare bedrooms?

And people on the front line at the pharmacy, trying to be as courteous as they can and serve people as quickly as possible despite being suddenly overwhelmed - they are unprotected, in close contact with hundreds of people a day, and getting abuse over things they have no control over.

People, people, people... settle the FUCK DOWN.  This behaviour is only making things worse than they need to be.  The supply chain would be fine if 10% of the population wasn't strip-mining every store they can find.

And people wonder why I have a love-hate relationship with the human race, and such a cynical outlook...