Another topic that fits with the theme "absurdity gone wild" has anyone else been to Costco over the past few days?
I was at the Richmond Costco 20 minutes after opening time on Saturday to buy a bag of frozen strawberries and a case of Macadamia Nut Milk. Everyone else appeared to be panic shopping in preparation for the apocalypse.
It reminds me of the "salt panic" in Vancouver like 2 or 3 years ago. The City of Vancouver offered free de-icing salt to people (instead of them just buying it themnselves), and people went berserk. Little old Chinese ladies shoving each other out of the way just to get to the salt pile, and so on. It was like watching starving Africans going after an air-drop of relief supplies, only at least there it literally could mean life or death.
I bought a little extra of something (rice) at the store last week, but only because I figured the other people "prepping" for a shortage might clean the store out. It comes from Asia, the ports are jammed with idle ships due to the rail blockade, so why wait another 2-3 weeks until I actually run out ?
But this isn't like an earthquake or something, where things would be legitimately fucked. The power is still on, the water is running, communications are not down.
And toilet paper is manufactured in Canada, so it's not like we're going to run out.
