*facepalm*
Talk about tone deaf. There's a fucking pandemic sweeping the planet, dude!
People need food, medicines, diapers, and soap. Amazon and a lot of other retailers that are still running are fulfilling necessity orders first.
And you know something? I'm okay with that. It took two weeks for my specialty color retaining shampoo and conditioner to get here. Those weren't an emergency, just a helpful tool to make my Midnight Amethyst color last longer.
It took a week for a drawing comics book to get here. Again, it's okay. It's a skill I'm working on in the age of corona. But it's definitely not an emergency.
An emergency is when you can't find formula anywhere for your infant. An emergency is when you can't feed peanut butter to your allergy-plagued toddler. An emergency is when your grandmother needs her insulin and grandpa his high blood pressure meds.
So, to all the folks working in warehouses, in shipping and delivering necessary items, in restocking shelves with food, THANK YOU FROM THE BOTTOM OF OUR HEARTS.
Yes, this.
ReplyDeleteI put in an Amazon order last night for some art supplies. They'll be arriving piecemeal, over the next week to week and a half. That's fine. I'd like to have them, but don't need them, and other people's necessities should absolutely get priority. And folks who don't get that are in dire need of some percussive adjustments.
Retail employees at the grocery store and the pharmacy and similar places, and people who work delivery, are heroes right now just as much as medical personnel IMO. They're the ones who make it possible for those of us who are staying home to do so, which is what's flattening the curve.
Angie
So the next thing you need to order is a sledge hammer for those percussive adjustments. *grin*
DeleteOr a chunk of 2x4 -- I'm not picky. :)
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