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Comment by mothsonasloth | Hacker News Reader

Call me paranoid but I have prepared for low to moderate disruption for the next 6 months.

That disruption being financial, career, social and welfare (food). After that time I am hoping we will return to some form of normalcy. Then if we get a vaccine within a year it will be a lot better.

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I don’t see food supplies being affected outside some specialty food. But I don’t see staples being affected such that supplies get constrained.

Production might not be disrupted, but in a quarantine situation distribution could be affected.

Having the National Guard called up in a neighboring county to NYC has a some people panicking a bit and buying up nonperishable food.

I use Amazon Fresh for my groceries and found the times I normally booked it at all booked up.

Plus certain foods that have never been out of stock were out of stock, e.g. beans.

Will it last? Who knows?

Now that's interesting. How the heck could people all buy out dry beans, which are rather mass produced?

Or are we talking convenient cans?

Yeah. I have put my plans for overseas vacations and switching jobs on hold. Not a good time to do so those things.

I also put travel plans on hold, but went ahead with my job change. I’ve been planning it for months and couldn’t bring myself to call it off. Mine was less of a job change and more of leaving an overworked position to go back to small business ownership.

What made you decide to wait? Was it job-specific or are you in a place with an active outbreak?

Did you take the possible second and third wave into account?

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