NY Coronavirus: 3/4 Workforce Stay Home; Mortgage Payments Waived

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1. Yesterday I went to a grocery store

and noticed on the way there that several businesses were closed. But stiil open, with people entering, were a beauty spa (open sign in the window lit and a woman entering), and a pizza parlor, where a man left with a large box of pizza in hand and entered an insurance office across the street.

At the grocery store, I was surprised to see a shelf of individual rolls of Scott toilet paper. There were 2 young guys (about late teens/early 20's) wearing masks and gloves, filling a cart up with the tp. No other items in the
cart. The manager stopped them. They insisted that they needed it, but he said, " So do other people," would not let him take more, and had them put some back. There have been reports of people buying up essentials in order to resell them at inflated prices.

Churches have cancelled all activities and weekly services, which is unfortunate because some of them run food banks, and allow people to use their facilties for fund-raising benefit dinners for medical treatments and equipment. The ones that run day care centers are keeping the centers open.