Recently, @realDonaldTrump stated that he would help all Americans, even if their state governors fail them. Denying citizens basic rights would definitely fall under the definition of failing the very people who elected them. So far today I've seen bans on gardening and pet

food posted on Twitter. Went to the store earlier and guess what there is almost NOTHING of? Pet food. Now, the reports I'm seeing are coming out of Michigan. Enacted by their governor. But here I am in upstate South Carolina watching dog food disappearing like a magic trick

and, despite there being no announced national shortage of pet food, nothing is being restocked to replace it. I happen to know that pet food is almost always one of the things retail stores have constant overstock of. Yet the shelves sit empty. And today, people are

hoarding pet food. All of the stores here sit practically empty of product. Much like the hospitals, devoid of patients and closed due to low census. If there is no threat, then why the continued panic buying? Why are grocery stores in rural upstate South Carolina, a farm

rich locale, completely and totally out of perishable items like milk, cheese, eggs and yogurt? What kind of people rush out during a possible impending lockdown situation and buy up all the dairy and bread, the things that will go bad the fastest? Especially people who

routinely experience power outages due to severe weather like ice storms, where they may actually be unable to travel the roads to buy food for several days? I can see a few ignorant transplants to the area doing that. But not enough to warrant all stores being wiped out

No. These people are doing it because they are being directed to do it. And the retailers being slow to get replacement product on the shelves is no accident either. And regular folks around here are starting to loudly question why. I've heard them, when I'm out and about.

I sincerely hope the few I've heard are simply the vocal minority and that millions more regular people out there are also questioning why we are slowly being forced into accepting a level of scarcity that logically does not actually exist. They won't get away with this

for much longer, but I am genuinely curious to know how many out there can see what is being done here. And that major retailers are in on the scam, just as surely as the filthy politicians are. They could have helped avoid this by putting strict purchase limits from the

eginning, and doubling up on their trucks the moment they realized their sales on certain items were becoming disproportionally high. They regularly put purchase limits on ordinary sales items, so WHY not during a crisis scenario? This is being engineered. It is quite

obvious. I wonder how many of the big retail and grocery chains have a stake in all of this that people aren't aware of? Walmart and Target are obvious ones, but there are so many chain stores out there. Here, the chains are not nationwide but that does not mean they are

out of the loop of the big nationally known grocers/retailers. If anything, it would give them more opportunity to hide any corrupt practices or connections. I also find it bizarre that the retail giants like Walmart and Dollar General are running out of not only hand

sanitizer, TP and bleach at what -impossibly- seems to be an ever increasing rate, but are also empty of milk, eggs and bread. That makes no sense, because these very same companies are the ones out there saying they have limited their store hours nationwide for the sole

purpose of cleaning and restocking their shelves. What does this also accomplish? Scarcity, folks. Now your essential goods have a time limit. Good luck if you work swing shift or overnight. You can either sleep or spend your normal bedtime hours out fighting traffic in

a futile search for basic things you need. Accident? Coincidence that after the big chains announced limited hours, the regional chains immediately followed suit? Yet NONE of them restock much, if anything, on their shelves. Does that make sense at all? Why are huge discount

chains like Dollar General still not putting firm purchase limits on items that are being made scarce? Why a "suggested item limit" instead? Because they are just super polite folks? I assure you, they are not doing it to be timid. They're doing it to create the illusion

that they are trying to prevent further unnecessary shortage, by holding both panic shoppers and bad actors taking advantage of a health crisis to the "honor system". The opposite of stepping up and assisting the greater good with responsible business practices. I am truly

curious to see how many of these big money machines end up getting slapped into oblivion with antitrust violations when this is all over with. And how many lesser-known chain operations will quietly suffer a similar fate. All I know right now is, this doesn't smell right

to me and I am not now, nor have I ever been, a believer in coincidence. Just wanted to share my thoughts on this, as I've been watching this unfold.