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Message: [QUOTE="msf22b, post: 3509510, member: 656"] We're still healthy. My wife still won't let me go shopping with her Up here in NorthEastern Vermont, there's (officially) 8 cases in our county and none in the even more rural county to the North. Our town has 2, large well stocked supermarkets; toilet paper excepted (I don't get the rush on toilet paper) and prices have stayed reasonable ...eggs have gone up...and are the 2nd scarcest item. She shopped yesterday; seemingly fine, the drug store had shields, the supermarket didn't. St J is a good place to be away from it all; quiet streets to take a walk, a railroad trail for more extensive walks and the entire white Mountain system, starting 20 miles away or so. I worry about the townsfolk...There isn't much decent employment in this town in the best of days, most people living hand to mouth, Back in the early 1900's the town was booming, Fairbanks made industrial locks for the world; lovely Vics on every street, for the elite, a main street with set back quasi mansions...All still there but in the poorer blocks somewhat going to seed... The median household income is 47 thousand, lower than the rest of the state and the country (63), I don't know how these people will survive a sharp recession; there just aren't any resources to fall back on...but gun sales are way up...a bit frightening. Is anarchy a real possibility...I certainly hope not. [/QUOTE]