Here’s What I’m Stock-Piling

Coffee. Tuna Fish. And One More Very Important Thing

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Being a student of history who has always been hyper-aware of the impact of disasters like the 1918 Influenza Pandemic, when I first read about the emergence of COVID-19 in China, I knew exactly what to do.

I ordered in a month’s worth of Starbucks Organic French Roast coffee.

Coffee is what motivates me to get out of bed each morning and I didn’t want to face a crisis without it.

Over the next week, I added the following to my Coronapocaplyse Pantry:

Low salt tuna. Low salt chickpeas. (I’ve got Meniere’s Disease, which means that even during a pandemic I’ve got to severely limit my sodium intake or I’ll start walking into walls.)

Frozen vegetables and brown rice.

And, of course, 10 boxes of Girl Scout Cookies.

(Although, technically, I didn’t stockpile cookies in anticipation of a crisis. I already had 10 boxes of Thin Mints in my freezer. I usually do. (Don’t judge me.)

The one thing I neglected to hoard?

Toilet paper.

As of yesterday, I was down to my last roll. And everybody online was lamenting that all the stores were all out.