Corona Virus in the Netherlands

[stormdog]

I was filling an online shopping basket when Danae told me that the entire Netherlands have adopted social-distancing and minimal contact policies that previously had been in force in just one province. She saw it in a post online and the news conference (which I'm not watching since I don't speak Dutch) is ongoing. When I looked back at the order screen for the grocery store, there was a new message: "It is busy ordering online, please try again later." I suspect this is not a coincidence.

But I can still put stuff in my shopping cart. I can make the order once things settle down.

Comments

[cmcmck]

The online ordering grocery companies here are now swamped and panic buying has begun.

I fail to understand why people do this!

Social distancing simply fails to understand that human beings are social animals.

[stormdog]

It really is frustrating. But people are just irrational; there seems to be no way around that.