Where I live it's hit-and-miss, but not as bad as it used to be.
When this first started, masks were hard to come by because people were buying out stores to ship to relatives in China.
Today I've been to three places, and two of them had masks. The third was out of hand sanitizer.
One problem is that if masks cant be purchased, and here in Bangkok they are already almost entirely sold out, and someone runs out of masks, and the outbreak is bad, they arent going to leave their house. They wont risk it. I hope they also have enough food at home to last.
I saw a shift in behavior following Trump's conference appointing Mike Pence as the effective coronavirus czar.
Every morning there was a small stash of N95 masks at my local Home Depot until yesterday. Similarly I started seeing specific sorts of non-perishables disappearing from the shelves of Trader Joe's and Safeways. Where it goes next, I don't know. But I think the crowd has spoken on the subject already.
Every morning there was a small stash of N95 masks at my local Home Depot until yesterday
Why do you go to Home Depot every morning?