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  • Hello.

  • This is zero Buchanan, your host for guns and politics.

  • Last night, the governor of Oklahoma, this state I live in, announced that Oklahoma had its first Corona virus covert 19 Patient.

  • That patient is here in Tulsa, Oklahoma, where I live.

  • I wanted to do a short video on what the reactions of the local population will be to this announcement.

  • My wife and I are going out to the local Costco to pick up a prescription and get some pet food.

  • And a couple of other items will probably also be stopping by the local WalMart neighborhood market.

  • And I'm just going to document a bit as to what happens to a city like Tulsa, which has a population of around 3/4 of a 1,000,000 people in the metropolitan area.

  • What happens here after an announcement of the Corona virus?

  • At this point, I don't expect to really see too much.

  • Maybe maybe a little water gone off the shelves and what not?

  • The announcement was made last night, so it's only really hit Lee Morning news here.

  • Just today is Saturday, March 7th.

  • It's about 12 30 in the afternoon, and we're about to head off to the local Costco.

  • So here we are in a local super Walmart about to go in.

  • It's about 1 p.m. On Saturday afternoon.

  • This is kind of the first somewhat shortage of sane rice, which is a popular stable.

  • Those shelves air normally full.

  • It's not severely low, but there it is.

  • First evidence of stuff disappearing off the shelves.

  • This is the toilet paper section, large gaps in the supply for the paper here.

  • Normally, this stuff is kept stocked right to the ground.

  • Looks like water is going fast on.

  • Looks like the shelves are just about cleaned out of bleach.

  • We're leaving Wal Mart right now on our way to Costco.

  • There were some noticeable shortages of some stuff, things like bleach and a a shortage of toilet paper.

  • I overheard one of the patrons in There's mentioning, Get your toilet paper here.

  • They're completely out of Costco.

  • Well, we're on our way to Costco, so I'll verify that there was a slight shortage of water bottles and it's about 1 45 in the afternoon here.

  • So we just pulled in the parking lot at Costco.

  • We're actually in kind of some overflow parking out here and and this section is normally empty.

  • So in that section over there, you can normally find parking fairly easily.

  • But it's pretty full right now, so it's about two o'clock now on.

  • We're about to hit on end to Costco.

  • So we just walked in the door at the Costco Way, have a lady with a sign at the front saying they're limiting purchases, toilet paper, rice and a few other things to two per customer.

  • Interesting.

  • Just walking through the store here, I notice quite a few more customers than a normal who have a couple of cases of water bottles in their baskets.

  • Lady right in front of me has one.

  • Interesting.

  • We had heard the Costco was not going to have their normal little kiosks set up where they have hand out food samples, and I can verify that they don't have those store here today.

  • Normally they have quite a few of them around the floor.

  • Here we are in the back row of Costco, and they have stack after stack after stack of water bottles.

  • This is many times what they normally have in store, and even at this I would estimate that it won't last all that long because, as you can see here, almost every other person coming out of the store has a least one or two cases of water.

  • Normally, Costco has a long road of toilet paper right in here.

  • There is not a single a bag of toilet paper to be had.

  • So here we are at our local neighborhood.

  • Walmart seems just a little more crowded than normal, but nothing way out of the ordinary.

  • So park.

  • So the neighborhood WalMart ISS sold out of all of the big name brands of toilet paper, but they still do have about half their normal stock toilet paper on Michelle's.

  • I came in here to get some hand sanitizer, and that is all gone.

  • So we're back home now.

  • Um, it's about 3 10 in the afternoon.

  • The news hit Oklahoma.

  • Like I said last night, I first saw it online about midnight.

  • Ah, a lot of people in town probably don't even know what's going on.

  • Um, in general, what I found was that Costco, Walmart and the neighborhood Walmart toilet paper was at a premium.

  • The local Costco was completely out.

  • Ah, and the Wal Marts just had maybe 1/4 of their normal stock.

  • And it was the chief, the cheapest and the most expensive stuff.

  • All of the name brand stuff is all gone.

  • Bottled water was, uh, going out.

  • Every other card had a case or two of bottled water in it.

  • Um, most of the other stuff.

  • There was plenty of stuff on the shelves.

  • Aside from a few of the basics, bleach was selling out fast.

  • Like I said, toilet paper is at a premium.

  • As I was leaving the neighborhood, Walmart a mother was leaving with some kids and she had a shopping cart piled to the brim with toilet paper.

  • And I stopped in at the neighborhood market just trying to find a little bottle of hand sanitizer, and they were completely out of hand sanitizer.

  • So and a lot of people still haven't even heard what's going on.

  • Um, the crowds that stores were noticeably bigger than normal.

  • Uh, it wasn't a mob or anything.

  • They were.

  • Business was brisk, and the crowds were bigger than normal.

  • Um, but, uh, so far, everything but the basics like that.

  • There's still plenty of stuff on the shelves normal stock.

  • It's just just Thea stuff like water and toilet paper and stuff that is so far.

  • And bleach.

  • Uh uh.

  • Selling out quickly when the six o'clock news comes on Tonight, I would be interested to know what happens.

  • That the look of Walmarts and stuff.

  • Seven or eight o'clock this evening.

  • So that's it for now.

  • Goodbye and good luck.

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