The first question for me is are people starving in Wuhan due to the outbreak?
Answer is no, as of now, though food situation is uncomfortable. (my wife has relatives there she’s in contact with). Trucks come to apartment complexes and people pick up.
I’m not sure the analogy translates well to US though. For better or worse us people are less organized. Also large % population live in suburbs where such deliveries are not feasible.
OTOH we have an excellent general delivery system in Amazon, UPS etc.
I’m suburban and at least one of the local grocers has a delivery—some of the others offer online order and then pickup from a locker or they will bring to the car.
I think the other thing is that in the suburban setting you already mitigate some of the risk because you simply don’t get as close to each other as is the case with urban living—I don’t get on the same elevator as everyone else on the floor or in the building generally. (Though the condo residential-retail-commercial model is starting to appear.)
I think if you live in any of the big US cities and this starts spreading you need to think a bit more about preparing for quarantine and general dealing with things. Standard, single family home suburban USA and rural USA is going to see much less impact.
Answer is no, as of now, though food situation is uncomfortable. (my wife has relatives there she’s in contact with). Trucks come to apartment complexes and people pick up.
I’m not sure the analogy translates well to US though. For better or worse us people are less organized. Also large % population live in suburbs where such deliveries are not feasible.
OTOH we have an excellent general delivery system in Amazon, UPS etc.
I’m slightly worried.
I’m suburban and at least one of the local grocers has a delivery—some of the others offer online order and then pickup from a locker or they will bring to the car.
I think the other thing is that in the suburban setting you already mitigate some of the risk because you simply don’t get as close to each other as is the case with urban living—I don’t get on the same elevator as everyone else on the floor or in the building generally. (Though the condo residential-retail-commercial model is starting to appear.)
I think if you live in any of the big US cities and this starts spreading you need to think a bit more about preparing for quarantine and general dealing with things. Standard, single family home suburban USA and rural USA is going to see much less impact.