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Re:Is It a Pandemic Yet? by i_am_nomad on Monday February 24, 2020 @09:52AM (#22404403)
That might be what the other 1.5 million people in my city are counting on. Which means, I’m not going to count on that.
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Re:Is It a Pandemic Yet? by JulianMorrison on Monday February 24, 2020 @09:55AM (#22404441)
If your city's supermarkets can feed people with in-person shopping, they can feed people with deliveries as easily, it's the same number of people buying food.
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Re:Is It a Pandemic Yet? by mishac on Monday February 24, 2020 @10:03AM (#22404538)
That's assuming that every supermarket has enough delivery staff. That's not a valid assumption in many places.
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Re:Is It a Pandemic Yet? by ddtaylor on Monday February 24, 2020 @10:08AM (#22404604)
With an extra layer of logistics that will have failed because the delivery drivers or pickers are sick.
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