Lakeaffect, thank you for the link. My son is coming home for spring break tomorrow, and his university hasn't given any indication that classes will not resume after the break. Its web site has information and updates on the coronavirus, and indicates it's working with the city's health department to monitor outbreaks, which so far, have not reached the city. I'm an adjunct at a community college in a major metropolitan area that has seen a few cases. My college has not mentioned anything. Nothing. I just did a search at its web site, my inbox... nada. Our spring break is in a few weeks, so perhaps our officials are working on a plan. I'm surprised by the lack of information because they're usually excellent facilitators of information to our community.

Tipping on takeout is super important! Gosh, back in the day my sister and I did some waitressing for Friday fish fry, and there was a woman who ordered takeout meals every single week and never, ever tipped, even at the holidays. Seriously, that sticks with me. We ordered pizza delivery last night and always give a good tip. They have NY style and are really good! If there are any mom and pop local restaurants near you, support them. I do plan to go to the nail salon because I'm sure because they are Asian their business is down. I can go during the week for a mani-pedi. I'm going to take my bike for a tuneup because I can ride the new greenway!

I shopped at our local supermarket here in SoCal yesterday afternoon. They are reducing the number of shoppers in the store by lining up outside. I waited for less than 5 minutes. They wiped down the cart for me. It was nice shopping with so few people in the store. I got most everything on my list. I'm good on paper and cleaning products, so I didn't even go down those aisles. The eggs were sold out. This morning I went to Sprouts which is our local organic market to get eggs. They had plenty. I have this secret addiction to their fresh cornbread which is displayed along with their to go soups. No soups, so no cornbread. I am willing to sacrifice just so much... no cornbread.. oh no! LOL.

Mtn, I went to the larger market chain after I wrote my post and still a lot of empty shelves. No eggs, limited supply of milk, no paper goods (limited to one package if there are any) . No chicken. Limited variety of canned soups. Plenty of vegetables and fruit, and this time they had a "normal" selection of bread. I also found some fresh turkey thighs that DH loves and will be happy to cook in his Green Egg. So I think part of the problem is that I would need to stop in at the 4 local supermarkets to get everything I would normally use, which isn't a great idea at the moment. The expensive market has a good selection of beef, but you will pay $32/lb for a steak, so not in the budget for many. I think it is just a matter of population density and some hoarding. But OMG, there was a woman at the supermarket with 4 kids. A baby in a stroller, maybe a 6 and 10 year old and an older teen girl. No masks or gloves on any of them. Why wouldn't you leave the kids with the older teen, even if you just left them all in the car outside? Everyone else was keeping their distance, most were wearing masks and a fair number also had gloves on. They had a line outside to limit people in the store and to give everyone a cart that had been wiped down.