I am surprised at the hand sanitizer being out of stock lately.

It is absolutely amazing that people are going into panic mode even if there is nobody within 100 miles of them who has tested positive for Covid-19. You can bet your bottom dollar that there plenty of people much closer than that who can infect you with other varieties of flu, some of which have much more severe effects.

Use common sense and hunker down. That is what I am doing.

I think people are acting crazy and panicking instead of using common sense.

My nephew who works at Wal Mart is surprised that hand cleaning supplied are gone from the stores.

Its crazy

We are stocked up and aren't panicking. FEMA says "Prepared, not scared."

To avoid contracting the virus,wearing a mask is must if go out , apart from washing hands regularly and others.

Yes lucky I managed to order them sometime back. It is now toilet paper which is what most people are hoarding now. As a hoarder, I have 80 rolls of toilet paper even before the virus. I hate not to have any around when I truly need them.

I am glad we always have a big bottle of hand sanitize in the house. At Costco they were having a limit of four cases on the water. We already have two cases at home so we did not buy any.

I never bought excess of anything. We only have enough for a month's supply. Its lock down so its home for us. Going out is only when very necessary.

Yeah here in the UK the news said today Supermarkets like Tesco's have now put a rationing system in place that means customers can only purchase so much of certain items and the top two listed on the news said hand sanitizer and UHT long life milk. I'm in luck because I drink non dairy mylk and we have a few cartons in the cupboard that are I suppose considered 'long life'. Also you know whats great about a lot of vegan ready to eat foods or easy prepare foods. They have MUCH LONGER dates on them often before they have to be eaten that's not always the case of course but because it's not dairy or egg filled or meat based quite often the alternatives do last longer. So it is quite nice in that aspect. Also even though veganism is on the rise it is not so much so on the rise that I'll have half as much trouble as the general meat eating population if we ever were to need to stock up on food items. Aside from generic items that are not specific to vegans but rather vegan friendly. Oh that reminds me they are also apparently limiting how much dry pasta one can buy. I think I'm fine on that front as my thrifty scrooge of a brother couldn't buy the normal size of own brand pasta he gets and refused to pay more than what he thought fair for a bag of pasta at the same size as the store branded one. So he comes home with what must be well I don't' know it was a giant bag of pasta like giant giant. So we'll be stocked up on that for awhile. Although he likes his pasta quite a lot and he always cooks it in batches that last him two days roughly makes up most of his meals for those two days. Which means it's already probably been used up a reasonable amount but still gotta have enough to last a month maybe. And I have packets of gluten free pasta too. Alongside cans of beans that I've hoarded and not used because I am dumb like that haha. Actually I could quite easily survive. What is going to be even better is next time something like this comes along we'll have had our greenhouse in place by then and up and going so all we'd have to do is stock up on seeds and bam we've got veggies fruits and legumes to last us all year round! All we'd need is bread pasta and such. Which is easy enough to stock up on! You are right though people could just wash their hands with soap I think it's because its viewed that hand sanitizer is better at killing germs than hand soap since its used in hospitals and the like. I suppose also because its easy to take the small bottles out and about with you so you can use it constantly if youre OTT about not becoming infected with COVID-19.