Ask HN: Share your virus apocalypse stories
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My wife's observations:
Preface: I live in a small US county (geographically) with nearly 2 million people and all schools here were cancelled yesterday in a single uniform announcement for the next 2 weeks.
* Eggs and milk are not impossible to find, but are out of the major grocery stores so she had to look for these at small convenience stores.
* Fortunately, the produce section of each grocery store she visited remains fully stocked.
* Toilet paper, feminine hygiene products, and anything snack foods/drinks mostly containing sugar are gone.
* My home gigabit internet is normally around 890-920mbps up and down, but today its hovering at 500mbps.
* Traffic is really light on the roads.
* My wife's searches have so far been limited to larger urban grocery stories and the neighborhood gas station. We have a major grocery store here about every 3 miles.