Re: Look at the super markets.
Personally, I think some people are spending way, wayyyy to much time playing disaster/ survival games and want their little virtual world to become a reality because they are level whatever in it, and a big player in that virtual world. Then IRL they aren't a big shaker and mover, and are basically fantasizing about the real world becoming their game where they will be huge.
ROFL. Yeah, the problem with that is that I'm a much bigger "shaker and mover" in the real world than I ever was in any virtual one. I'm doing well financially (very well 4 weeks ago), my career has taken me further than I ever dreamed it would (and I still have 20 years to work), I have a happy home life, and despite the fact that I'm more capable in a fight than many, I'm no where near good enough to survive a post-apocalyptic world; I'd be the guy that gets killed in the opening credits.
None of that, however, makes what is happening out there any less real. People are literally fighting over toilet paper when there's plenty of viable alternatives and near infinite stock of it anyway. That's before they get hungry. Before they lose their parents to the virus. Before they lose their job to the recession. Before they're locked up in their homes all summer, watching other parts of the world moving on without them.
As much as I'd love the world to be a peaceful, rational place, it isn't. It never was.
Except of course, they won't be because clicking buttons on a screen doesn't actually give you any useful skills.
And yet we're in a world where e-sports is the only sports, and where the players earn millions. Whodathunkit?
Food chains are perfectly secure
Maybe they are, maybe they aren't, but you're confusing what is with what is perceived to be. The latter is what starts riots, not the former. The fact is that no armed policeman wants to shoot anyone, even a drug dealing scrote. The perception that this was not true is what triggered the rioting, which then became self sustaining. Facts, and perception.
If they end up either limiting the amounts that people can buy, or telling people that if they self isolate the government will deliver food packages then the food problem ends overnight.
That trigger gets abated every time the food arrives, sure, but it only needs one missed delivery.... There's going to be other triggers too. A lot of other triggers. People don't like being locked up in their homes, especially the young. People won't like not earning any money and having to claim welfare. People who have always worked will want an opportunity to do so. They won't get those things until the restrictions end, and will start to push back on them - that is the reason why we didn't lock everything down weeks ago.
If people are self isolating at home and avoiding any contact with people who might be infected, they aren't going to be inclined to participate in mass riots since by definition that requires people to group together with people who may be infected.
Which is fine as long as there isn't a group prone to rash decisions who feel like they have effective immunity to the virus and will most resent the lock down. Oh, wait..... there is. They're called "millennial's".
Even a cursory look at St Patricks day up and down the land would reveal that they're not doing the lock down voluntarily. They'll probably not do it by diktat either. The pressure builds, a trigger gets pulled (real or metaphorical) and the whole thing explodes.
Alternately:
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Keep Calm
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Carry On
Always a good idea, but then so are safe sex and seat belts..... Not always what people do though, is it?
You're in for a very rude awakening this summer because you haven't got a clue. When reality comes and bites you on the arse, it'll be no good having a moan on the groan, and braying on about the unfairness of it all.
Keeping calm doesn't mean don't prepare. Carrying on doesn't involve sticking your head up your ass in the absence of enough sand to put it in.
25% of the countries in the world had civil unrest last year. This years pre-virus prediction was for 40% to have unrest. Surely the bubble you seem to live in isn't so opaque that you can't see the odds have risen a tad lately?
https://www.cnbc.com/2020/01/16/40percent-of-countries-will-witness-civil-unrest-in-2020-report-claims.html
You're confusing what people want and what reality is. We want the same clam and carry on life that we had last year - I want it and you want it. The only difference is that I can see we ain't gonna get it.