Getting Groceries in the Age of the Corona Virus

I don't trust employees like that much dude.

That is so kind. I am praying for your recovery. :)

Good idea to wipe down / sanitize door knobs and light switches in the home, also.

A good example of that is the husband and wife in Ontario who are still testing positive. I have a feeling they are giving it back and forth to each other. The woman who was on her own, from London Ontario, got better very quickly and tests negative and was freed from quarantine

yep yep, then cough all over them to rebuild a new immunity.

I think we are all immune to everything you described by now. it's been going on for years.

I try to take along my own wipes or the little travel size purell bottle and paper towels/napkins to wipe the cart handle because many times the store has empty wipe containers at the entrance and if you say something about it to a worker they just shrug.

Hopefully only Asians get Coraona Virus, or it's fake. That's the miracle I'm hoping for.

If it's real, then we'll see who is immune to it soon enough.

Its called walmart pickup or delivery

It's best to bring your own clorox wipes or equivalent. The wet wipes they give you at the entrance to the store for the cart handles can't be trusted to be enough.

is this true?

Real scary thoughts considering something like 70% of Walmart's produce is shipped in from china

Yup or even better, carry your own flame thrower. Nothing like 1,000 degree hear to kill those little Corona Virus fuckers!

Or walk around drunk and splash booze to disinfect everything.

Wrap a circular around the grocery cart handle to avoid touching. Have been doing this for years, those things have been touched by 100s of people every day.

Have a glove for pumping gas.

Use card, no cash or change to touch.

Open door handled with your elbow if possible or wrost or fisted hand, no fingers if possible.

Push buttons w knuckles not fingers. Have disinfectant wipes for after shopping, when transferring groceries to car or wherever.

Someone coughs or sneezes hold your breath instantly, move away & breathe out first. Breathe next breath in from under your shirt collar if possible.

That's all I got

No,it emphatically is not. Do your research.

Eat mushrooms

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Yikes! Not good.

and Dollar Tree is entirely from China - despite people advising you to purchase preps there.

Time to be done shopping, folks. Don't know how you missed it! We have a prep thread running ten months now filled with incredible information and advise, and others have put up short ones when a hurricane threatens, etc. The reason we prep is not to need to try when the stuff hits the fan, the prices have gone crazy, availability is hit or miss. Waiting until the stuff is all over the fan blades to start prepping doesn't make a deal of sense, does it?

One thing appears apparent. The viral load in your community (no matter where you are) is going to increase. The longer you wait to stock up, the worse off you are going to be. Time is running out. Eventually the masses are going to wake up and when it does I do not think you are going to want to be with them at the grocery store.

Japanese healthcare officials are now being infected and they were wearing "protection". If you think you can do a better job as a layman, I would urge you to rethink that.

I would suggest doing any shopping asap. Go at 3am to avoid crowds. Quarantine your items in rubber totes for 9 days. Then decontaminate them with 1 cup bleach to 1 gal of water, before bringing them inside. Clean your totes and store water for cleaning in them. At some point you might not want to buy anything that is not in a can.

Walmart should be ok, assuming a 9 day surface life of the virus. Their products arrive on a slow boat.

I am hearing 4 to 6 months to get through this. Today I heard someone speculate 3 years. That's a lot of top ramen!

What say you?

There’s nothing you can do when shopping.

Wearing a mask. Asshole drops an air biscuit. Poof your infected. dead
Wearing a mask and goggles. Asshole drops an air biscuit. Poof your infected. dead
Wearing a mask, goggles and gloves. Asshole drops an air biscuit. Poof your infected. dead

There’s nothing you can do when shopping.

Wearing a mask. Asshole drops an air biscuit. Poof your infected.
Wearing a mask and goggles. Asshole drops an air biscuit. Poof your infected.
Wearing a mask, goggles and gloves. Asshole drops an air biscuit. Poof your infected.

I’m not one to share ‘dreams’, .....cuz it’s a FKN dream. I dream all kinds of crazy stuff like going to work forgetting to put on my pants. Etc. You get the drift.

HOWEVER.

A few years ago I had one of those vivid dreams and I actually shared with my family a few times over the years.

In my dream, I went to the grocery store, there was the normal automatic doors, but at the top side of the door was a machine..... it didn’t do anything exciting, but it took your temperature ( I believe). If the light flashed green, you were good to go.

I remember the anxiety as I stood there for a second that seemed like 5 min as I knew in the back of my mind if the light was red it was super no bueno.

Light turned green, doors opened to go in the grocery store. Everything looked ‘normal’ , but before to try a cart, there was a large round basin that looked like a water fountain, for the lack of a better term, with about 12 faucets where you needed to wash your hands before shopping.


I dunno, this thread sparked that.... Wouldn’t be surprised if that’s implemented....someday.

I'm heading to Walmart at 2am later tonight to make a grocery run, and this is exactly the protocol I'll be using:


Do it in the middle of the night when there will be the fewest people.

Prepare a 5gal bucket about 1/3 full with 10% bleach/water solution. Leave it at home.

Prepare a small tupperware container of the same solution (like in an old Cool Whip container). Take it in the vehicle with you.

When you get to the store, get out, open the tupperware (set it on your seat), put a 1gal ziploc baggie over each hand, dunk some paper towels in the bleach solution, go over to a shopping cart in the parking lot, and slather it thoroughly with the bleach mixture. Work it for at least a minute or two, keeping the surfaces wet with bleach. Now you've got a relatively safe cart.

Leave your wallet/purse in the car and only take in the debit/credit card you intend to use. Put it in your right pocket.

Drop the 1st set of 'baggie gloves' into a biowaste bucket (i.e. an empty 5gal bucket from home) or into a trash can. Put on a fresh set of 1gal baggies over your hands.

Go in and do your shopping. Carefully remove items from the shelves and place them in your cart making sure that you only touch them with your baggie gloves.

Go through a self-checkout station. When it is time to pay, take off your right baggie glove (using your left hand to pinch the end and allow you to pull out your right hand). Put your naked right hand into your pocket, grab your card, and insert it. If you have to touch the pad (such as to enter a pin number), then do so with your baggie-covered left hand. Put baggie glove back on right hand. Remove card and drop it into one of the sacks.

Push cart back out to your vehicle. Once there, remove both baggie gloves in a safe manner (use one to take off the other, then remove the last one by rolling it off inside out--easier to do than to describe).

Get the keys out of your pocket and open your vehicle. Open your tupperware container of bleach solution. Put on fresh baggie gloves. Grab your credit/debit card, and drop it into the bleach solution. Then grab the sacks and put them in the back/trunk. Then remove both baggie gloves in a safe manner and dispose of them. Then close your back door/trunk. Then grab your card out of the bleach solution. Then sanitize your hands with the bleach solution, and rinse off with some clean water after a minute or so (you can suck some water up a straw from a 32oz cup of water in your console, then spit it slowly over your hands to wash off the bleach solution).

Drive home.

Get the 5gal bucket that is 1/3 full of bleach solution. Set it by your car. Put on fresh baggie gloves. Dunk every dunkable item into the bleach solution, and then set it off to the side on the ground to drain. For items that cannot be dunked, dip paper towels into the bleach solution and slather the product thoroughly. Proceed in this way until all items have been sterilized. Take off the baggie gloves and drop them into the 5gal bucket with the bleach solution. Take your groceries inside.

Shower, and wash all of your clothes immediately.

If possible, set this entire load of groceries in a separate area. The outsides are sterilized, but the insides may harbor viable virus for a couple of weeks, so try not to open them for that long if you can avoid it.

What are you going to do when tilling under manure in your garden? Put in a series of cloches and get a jump on the garden. That is how to cope.

That's BULLSHIT!!! But you're right, the grocery store is gross.

I dunno, it’s a big fkn crap shoot—

I’m going to fight this corona shit the only way I know how. Alcohol, little sleep, bacon and a moderately unhealthy lifestyle.

Only advice I give is if you’re gonna get sick....try and be one of the first

I am just going to go ahead and lay out in my front yard and die. You all can have my stuff. Don't care.

Don't you dare!!!

Do we really know what's bullshit or not, at this point?