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MeghanIsMe ([personal profile] stormdog) wrote2020-03-12 06:23 pm
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Corona Virus in the Netherlands

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.
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[personal profile] cmcmck 2020-03-12 06:05 pm (UTC)(link)
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.
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[personal profile] stormdog 2020-03-16 03:11 pm (UTC)(link)
It really is frustrating. But people are just irrational; there seems to be no way around that.
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