Empty Shelves At Walmart

Above, a lot of empty shelves where cold and flu remedies are usually kept. Photo by Armand Vaquer.

"This is nuts!" - Richard Dreyfuss in Close Encounters of the Third Kind (1977)

Today, I saw first hand the panic (and outright stupidity) of what the media-driven hysteria over the coronavirus has caused people. 

I had to go to Walmart in Gallup to pick up my prescriptions and the store was packed with people. Most of them had stacks of packages of paper towels in their shopping carts.

While in line to get my prescriptions, I noticed a lot of empty shelves where cold and flu medicines are kept. I took a picture of them.

After getting my prescriptions, I decided to wander over to where the paper towels and bathroom tissue (the polite term for toilet paper or ass wipe) are kept to take a look. The shelves were completely devoid of any. 

Above, empty shelves that usually hold bathroom tissue. Photo by Armand Vaquer.

These are the kinds of scenes that are commonplace in socialist countries. (Any of you jackasses still want to live under socialism?)  It's a wonder governors haven't ordered an odd/even system (corresponding to birthdays) for defecating to conserve toilet paper.

The sad part about it is that this whole mess is ridiculous and totally unnecessary. Welcome to Venezuela!

It is a good thing that I bought toilet paper last week and have packages of RV toilet paper in The Beast. So, I'm good.

One the bright side, I saw that unleaded regular gasoline at the Flying J is priced at $2.099 a gallon.