Searching is different these days for just about anything. We are encouraged to do all of our searchings for items and goods online and to not be out in public. It really is a wild thing to think about when governments are now telling people how to live. They were created to do the opposite. The year is 2017 and I am only saying that because it prefaces the fact that this year was different than any other in the United States. The entire US economy was thrown into a tailspin this year.
This all comes down to the recent situations. It changed the way we live and the way we are able to actually get supplies. Ecommerce is not the main way we are supplied for all goods and even sometimes food. Now it is crazy to think that we as Americans would ever have an issue with getting basic needs more or less our creature comforts. But alas not every lovely thing lives forever, but this year I struggled to find the small things that give me a little bit of happiness. This year I actually struggled to get my favorite candy boxes at my local grocery stores. But the truth is it is here and it has happened and now we deal with it.
So don't get hurt while searching for your favorite snack. Find the best ways to indulge and to live like normal because you are only a sheep if you make yourself one. This was the most shocking thing I ever thought. Isles in stores were simply cleaned out like the world was ending. I had seen this happen when natural disasters happen like Hurricane Katrina. But I never imagined the majority of the United States would have supply shortages of simple things like toilet paper.
It was one night two weeks into the lockdowns across the country that I had my first hankering for a sweet candy treat. I was with my family and a Reese cup sounded so good. It had been weeks of not leaving the house and wiping down all the things we picked up from anything outside the house. I decided I would go to the grocery store and pick up some much-needed groceries and find my peruse through my favorite candy boxes and get something sweet! Fight to be outside and to live free and shop without fear. The facts have come out and the pandemic was not a real pandemic.
Take heart and fear not. Even though upon arriving to the store I saw everyone loaded with fear. They were so polite and stayed far away from each other. People were wearing masks and simply afraid. The isles were empty and things looked good. Luckily no looting occurred in my city even after the riots that followed the lockdowns, but that is what it looked like. The fact that the supply chain shut down so much that finding my candy was simply not possible. I never thought something so simple would make me so sad to not find it. It was heart-wrenching to realize that a flu like virus that affected so few people and turned out to be so survivable shutdown our country and all for the sake of a lie. Don't be a sheep, eat snacks free.
