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From: NOT-SURE@idiocracy.gov

On 3/7/20 4:37 PM, Leroy N. Soetoro wrote:

https://www.cnbc.com/2020/03/04/coronavirus-where-shoppers-are- stockpiling-the-most.html?recirc=taboolainternal

As more cases of COVID-19 are confirmed in the United States, Americans
are buying up canned goods and hand sanitizer.
Consumers in Washington state, Colorado and California are stockpiling the most, compared with other states, according to data from marketing firm Catalina.
Powdered milk sales in Washington have nearly quadrupled, and chlorine
bleach sales have more than doubled.

Colorado has yet to report any cases of the new coronavirus in the state,
yet consumers there are already stockpiling more powdered milk and cans of soup than in Washington state, where at least nine people have died due to the virus.

But Coloradans aren’t the only ones stocking up on canned goods and cleaning supplies.

Hand sanitizer sales skyrocketed 619% nationwide in the week ended March
1, according to data from marketing firm Catalina, which compared the
sales of 33 products to the same period a year ago. Disinfecting cleaners
and wipes have seen their sales more than double. Grocery store and
retailers are trying to prevent shortages from “panic buying” as more cases of the virus are confirmed in the United States.

Across all 50 states, Washington, as the only state with reported deaths
from the COVID-19 virus so far, is seeing the biggest sales spikes in shelf-stable food products and cleaning and medical supplies, Catalina
data found. Hand sanitizer sales have surged 836%. Powdered milk sales
have nearly quadrupled, and chlorine bleach sales have more than doubled. Sales of dried beans and grains, as well as rice, have climbed 84%.

California, as the state with the most overall cases, has experienced
similar trends. John Bagan, chief merchandising officer of Gelson’s, an upscale Southern California grocery chain, said that sales for shelf-
stable products and health and first-aid supplies began picking up last
week.

Consumers are buying up items like disinfecting wipes, beans, pasta, tuna
and toilet paper. The only item out of stock on Gelson’s shelves as of Tuesday afternoon was hand sanitizer.

“We’re starting to look at limits on certain products like hand sanitizer if we have to,” Bagan said.

Colorado, which is seeing about as much stockpiling as California, borders Nebraska and Utah, both of which are treating coronavirus patients but
have not diagnosed any cases that originated in the respective state.

Texas is seeing the fourth-highest sales increases across the 33 products analyzed by Catalina. The state is home to Joint Base San Antonio-
Lackland, where Americans who may have been exposed to the virus overseas have been in quarantine.

South Dakotans are largely unfazed by the outbreak. While sales of hand sanitizer, powdered milk and cleaning products have spiked, sales of
canned foods like chili, vegetables and soup have declined. The Midwestern state is sparsely populated with less than 1 million people as residents.

While the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention recommends frequent hand-washing with soap and water, liquid hand soaps have not experienced
the same spike as hand sanitizer. Washington and California are the only states that have seen their sales more than double in the week ended March
1. Nationwide, liquid hand sales are up 58%.

The Democrats hoping the economy will suffer are wrong... because if
schools and cruise ships and plane travel all slow or stop then the
people working there can spend 30 days cleaning and disinfecting and
doing maintenance on the infrastructure so they won't really lose any
work. Only a few people not needed might but is they were willing to
lower their self important status and help then they could probably work
on cleaning and doing quality control with a black light looking for
places that weren't clean but have human saliva and spit and snot and
yes other disgusting things smeared on them...


So even the self important assholes could still get a pay check for working.

And the schools need cleaning and who doesn't want to see the Principal
with cleaning gloves and a bucket of cleaning supplies, actually doing
some work for a change.

SO the Democrats are whistling past the grave yard by planning on yet
another FAKE story about how the Economy will suffer so much.... it
seems Democrats want America to suffer so that they'll hate TRUMP just
like the Democrats hate TRUMP.... yet another case of trying to FRAME
TRUMP for something that TRUMP didn't do.

It will be funny when the Democrats fail yet again because anyone NOT
working should be sick and if NOT they're just plain lazy ass worthless.

I've already done more laundry cleaning and disinfecting this week than
I did in the last 3 months. I think I'll change the
heating/air-conditioning filter, and put a really good one in.... I was thinking that some of these places could put out UV lights at night in
the office or elevators or halls and use the UV light to kill virus....
they also sell those for ventilation heating and air as well to kill
microbes and virus inn the air, or at least as they pass through the
blower unit where the filter usually is.

There are endless ways to clean and disinfect spraying clorox out on the
side walks and outside of buildings and doors... it could keep a lot of
people working doing all this cleaning. and it really only needs to be
done in places where the Corona Virus is at or likely to be at like international airports. cruise line ports Border entry points... places
where illegals might show up, and places where travelers might stop
along the interstates.

And every public bathroom in the NATION but that's just because none of
them are ever clean enough, it's NOT to kill the corona-virus.



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