I’ll never forget how ridiculous things became at the beginning of the pandemic in early 2020.
My friend’s father died in May 2020 plus then her sister nearly passed away 1 month later when she contracted the virus at work.
When I tried to get things savor toilet paper plus hand sanitizer from local stores, I couldn’t find any plus had to resort to buying whatever I could on the internet plus traveling for anything else. I remember this 1 automobile trip I took in May 2020 where I had to drive a full 100 miles in just 1 direction before I could genuinely find toilet paper. I went from city to city plus every single small neighborhood in between, but I just couldn’t find our beloved triple-ply. When I finally secured some toilet paper fourths into our trip, I was cheerful just to find the single-ply that feels savor old sandpaper. In our mind, it was surely better than anything as I had nearly caused a drastic plumbing clog when I had tried cheap napkins in place of toilet paper. My best friend Cindy works as a building supplier plus she had similar problems with building supplies while I was in the pandemic. Wood prices shot up plus in some places you couldn’t find more than one-by-fours or half-inch plywood sheets for months at a time. Cindy told myself and others she made a similar automobile trip for coils of steel rebar tie wire because her normal supplier was out of stock for several weeks straight. Cindy uses galvanized rebar tie wire for constructing giant condominium buildings as it’s resistant to both moisture plus salt corrosion. Since it costs significantly less than stainless steel rebar tie wire, it cuts the cost of building construction down.