California and Illinois shutting down private establishments.
Yeah man.... Necessary, or fear mongering. You be the judge.
I don't know enough to be able to be 100% certain, but I think the mouth breathers lined up at Costco et al, should be the first thing to be looked at.
I think that there's huge pressure to not be the guy/girl that didn't do enough, so it's going to be overreact or nothing.
And yeah, then there's the prepper-panic buyers kicking off waves panic buying because people are worried that the prepper-panic buyers are going to pick the carcass clean before they can buy their regular Tues night spaghetti. Eesh.