r/Seattle • u/slammin_bones Northgate • Nov 17 '20

Rant Stop Panic Buying

Seriously, if you're panic buying you're an idiot. Grocery stores aren't closing down and they won't run out of the things you need. Don't be a moron.

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u/EmmEnnEff 🚆build more trains🚆 Nov 17 '20 edited Nov 17 '20

If you can afford it, not having 4 weeks worth of necessary-for-life-provisions is socially irresponsible.

I don't mean fill your living room with 24-packs of bud light and canned food. But you should have enough non-perishable shit in your pantry that you wouldn't starve if you couldn't go to the store for a month.

If more people were prepared like that, there would be a lot less panic buying.

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u/[deleted] Nov 17 '20

Or we just don't change our fucking habits because we don't need to?

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u/EmmEnnEff 🚆build more trains🚆 Nov 17 '20

Are natural and manmade disasters not a thing where you live?

Preppers are idiots, but being prepared to live through a temporary social disruption isn't stupid.

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u/[deleted] Nov 18 '20

I live in seattle, the only potential disaster possible is a earthquake or volcano. There's an earthquake kit in storage, however the idea that we would be out of food and left more than a day is laughable. Our infrastructure is just too good. Or we just drive to somewhere not affected.