Just went to the bulk food store and bought about $1k worth of food (mainly meat) and vitamins.
They were out of freezers otherwise I would have bought one (and more meat).
Things like this are why I did bitcoin. Not to buy a lambo.
One downside to my current status that I have noted is the lack of freezer space. A good deep freezer doesn't use much power and should be able to run on the solar/battery arrays. I'll keep that in mind and get one later when things are more normal, live and learn.
Why are you people hoarding food?
At lest where I live there is no shortage of anything except hand sanitizer and masks, and that is getting back in stock slowly as well.
I go shopping every third day, because that's when its time to buy more milk, I usually shop right before closing to avoid crowds, but I have done some daytime shopping too and it wasn't so bad, people were distancing.
Exponential growth. The largest number of infected will happen towards the end of the process.
We don't know how bad things are going to get. Not just because of the virus but because of what the state will use it as an excuse to do. There is just no good reason not to have a stockpile, just in case.
My country happen to be a food producing country and so far we have not done anything draconian so I'm not worried. But for most of the world? Yeah, stock up. On toilet paper too. It's not the joke people like to pretend it is.