2020 GMO Draft

Was thinking Shenault or Reagor, and then autopick made it simple. I'm okay with that. Washington didn't have a 2nd rd pick when this event started. Acquired pick used on Reagor and a 2021 2nd rd pick in the Trent Williams deal, so this works out pretty well.

 

Yep. It's same where I live. Grocery shopping has become a game of survival.

 

Was chatting (online) with a guy I know who runs the bakery at a grocery store. Trucks are coming in with less and less product at this point. Apparently it's pretty common for trucks to be less than half full now... Keeping the shelves stocked is getting harder and harder. I have taken to shopping at a small neighborhood grocer (They have an onsite butcher so I can get meat there) and bodegas (for some reason they can get produce). When you most need to be able to quickly get in, get what you need and get out... it's become harder to do so.

 

At this point if you make it out of the grocery store without getting in a fight, it’s a good day.

 

I'm hoping someone here can help me connect the dots . . .

What in the hell does a respiratory virus pandemic have to do with fucking toilet paper ???

 

I wish I could give you a better answer Lyman, but the only answer that makes any sense is that people are just kind of stupid.
Apparently their logic goes somewhere along the lines of “if I suddenly can’t get anything at the grocery store what am I going to need most? To wipe my ass.”

 

I've been asking the same question. Wth?

 

General panic is the connection. The problem is when people think they are going to be trapped for a day they have been conditioned to think they need to stock up on bread, Milk and TP. Then because idiots are conditioned to buy large quantities of them they create actual scarcity that takes time to replenish. Because I can't regularly find it I almost HAVE to buy it when I see it. (At this point I am running low -- not dangerously low but give me two weeks and I may be washing my ass in the shower out of necessity...) This create more scarcity and it takes a while before it levels out.

Bread has leveled out around me. I can't necessarily get any kind of bread I could dream of but I can find some bread any time I walk into a store. TP hasn't hit that status yet.

Also some idiot in my neighborhood thinks he is doing everyone a favor (either that or he wants to be a king) and now waits for shipments to come in and buys them all to distribute to people in the neighborhood at cost. It's almost like this asshole doesn't realize that we would all be better off if people just bought what they needed...

Honestly TP scarcity is entirely fabricated by panic buying. It's incredible watching America attempt to function on a day to day basis.

 

I've been joking about the same thing from the start. WRONG END, PEOPLE.

But the best explanation I've heard is that it's because of the whole fear + social isolation thing. If you are not leaving the house for a month or two, what's the #1 thing that immediately comes to mind that you do NOT want to run out of?

Suddenly it makes a lot more sense.

 

I get all of that. But . . . The run on toilet paper started way before any talk of social-distancing / self-isolation even started.

 

Except for the fact that the right answer to that question is food. Don’t eat = you die.
Don’t wipe your ass = a little discomfort.

I’m not following the math of the crowd

 

It is looking like there will be an auto pick here. I am the Colts immediately following that, and we are willing to move back.

Send offers soon if you were interested

 

Started here with the general fear - by the time the first cases hit the metro Atlanta area, everyone in north Georgia was afraid to go out.

That's probably at least partly because with the CDC in Atlanta, the local news had regular interviews with CDC people even in early/mid February.

The head of the CDC was already saying it was a matter of when rather than if it would become a pandemic and hit the US back when the national media was still playing the whole thing down as no big deal, not our problem, etc.

 

Food is still widely available, though some items are tricky. At least here, milk is often a challenge. That's a big one for my specific diet, but I find it often enough to get by. Tea, fruit juices, sodas, beer, sports drinks = piece of cake.

Hamburger meat = haven't seen it in the grocery store in over a week. Other meat isn't as much of a problem. Most produce seems to be readily available here too.

 

Produce being available isn’t much of a surprise though, simply because if people are stocking up that stuff doesn’t last anyway

 

If anyone needs to pass the time try out this draft simulator. You can propose trades and make picks for any team.

https://www.profootballnetwork.com/mockdraft/

 

Via Auto-pick:

The Bears select:

Lloyd Cushenberry, C - LSU

 

First time I went to the grocery store after this started (I went on a Thursday night after work) I walked in and the produce as completely cleaned out. I was shocked. Like why buy all the green peppers? They are not exactly shelf stable... Just seemed like a weird thing to panic buy. Potatoes and onions at least can last a good long time. It hasn't been "cleaned out" since then but definitely more picked over.

 

Colts are OTC