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My last trip to a supermarket was two weeks ago. General quarantine had not been declared yet but various measures were being taken, so there were long lines and some items were missing.

I still have enough food to last me approximately another week, but there are things I would appreciate restocking on (snacks, some breakfast options, liquid soap rather than bars) even if I am not risking starvation. Ideally I would like to time this for some point where I spend the least amount of time stuck inside the supermarket, both for convenience and contagion reasons, but I have no idea how the lines look like now. Better? Worse?

I mean, if people rushed to make big purchases initially but still eat the same amount of food then we should expect that after an initial 'hoarding' period they would have less need to make shopping trips, right? but there are complications. People aren't eating at restaurants, some delivery places are closed, schools aren't providing lunch, etc. So people eat the same amount of food but buy more of it from supermarkets. Are they still doing large purchases? that presumably adds up to fewer total trips but each trip takes longer, how does that factor in? Is anybody just going shopping regularly because that's one of the reasons you're allowed to leave the house and not everybody has a dog to walk?

So IDK. Officially quarantine ends on Tuesday, but there are talks of it extending until April 12th (for Easter). I've been tracking the official published stats and if there's a slowdown in the number of cases it's only the slightest of hints; this is expected from a quarantine lasting so far eight days and a virus with a long incubation period, but it still means nobody knows what we have actually accomplished with quarantine so far. I expect it will be extended.

If it isn't, well, I'll have to go back to work so that limits my ability to isolate, much as I'd like to.