[AGL] report from the front lines

[Hans-Peter OTTO]

Nice Report Mike, 
similar situation Berlin. Not grim yet. Pubs closed; social experience diminished.
Political sanity prevails. Merkel is a good Head of State. After all she is a scientist.
Thanks for your infos. hans


> On 17. Mar 2020, at 11:16, Michael Eisenstadt <eisenstadt0 at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> So yesterday I got my junker car waived by the Dept. of Public Safety Motor Vehicles.
> This takes place at the tail end of an enormous DPS complex on Dennison between Waller Creek
> and Airport Blvd. Then down Airport Blvd to the Travis County buildings to get the renewal.
> What the county did was to separate the chairs and make the overflow wait outside. Most of
> others were Mexican. Apparently white folks nowadays get reregistered on the Internet.
> Then off to the HEB on E. 41st street. No outside lines. No busyier than usual. Many shelves
> bare, other shelves not. All the cans of tuna fish were gone but there were some sardines
> and kippers. All cans of tomatoes gone. Canned tomato juice available. I bought 2 somewhat
> pricy cans of sardines and passed on the smoked kippers. All the parsley was gone but plenty
> of cilantro. Is that not weird? You can't sustain life by eating parsley. All the white potatoes
> were gone except 4 little fingerling potatoes. Vast heaps of yams/sweet potatoes. Dairy
> products/eggs fully stocked. Extrapolate!
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