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Americans buy a lot from everything, including guns as I just read in the news.
It is possible to go shopping once every ten or twelve days especially if you live on your own. If you have a family is more difficult, more people need more food and other things.
Personally I go shopping as I used to since I am still working and I have to go out and expose to people.
My weight is still the same, though walking is not easily allowed here. Maybe it has to do with the fact that it is our Lent (Easter is next Sunday for us).

Here supermarkets make home deliveries so if someone wishes it can avoid getting out, isn't that so in the US or the UK?

PRINCE WILLIAM wrote: ↑

Fri Apr 10, 2020 5:42 pm

Here supermarkets make home deliveries so if someone wishes it can avoid getting out, isn't that so in the US or the UK?

None near me do. People I've talked to closer to the city say that the wait time for delivery from services like Instacart are a week plus out and often never show up.

PRINCE WILLIAM wrote: ↑

Fri Apr 10, 2020 5:42 pm

Here supermarkets make home deliveries so if someone wishes it can avoid getting out, isn't that so in the US or the UK?

They do, but currently it's being prioritised for the elderly and disabled. If you're neither you're pretty much expected to shop yourself as the capacity just isn't there. Funnily enough I used to be a Tesco delivery driver back in the day. Fun times :). The supermarket delivery networks are being supplemented by the Royal Voluntary Service that are providing extra deliveries for people who need it.

For the elderly and the unable, every municipality has people who deliver to them food, medicine etc.

Is that a new development? We have it for extreme cases in normal times, but most elderly and disabled here are fiercely independent and insist on getting their own shopping when possible. It's only the current situation that is preventing it as they are advised to follow stricter lock down guidance.

In normal time is for the elderly or sick people but in this quarantine time, they had expanded it to help more people who need it.
It seems that old people are very alike in many parts of the world but as here most of the victims are of 67 years old and more, they got quite scared, Not all of them, I mind you.
One old chap when asked why he was so often out of his house he answered that he wasn't eager to return there as he had to face another virus at home, his wife!

New England Fire Squad wrote: ↑

Thu Apr 09, 2020 12:04 pm

Anyone else finding out that their monthly trip to the gym was all that was keeping them from a beer gut? Anyone got any tips on how to reverse this and/or how to avoid it?

There lots of great at home cardio/strength building exercises you can do at home! Just search on YouTube, there's also great yoga lessons