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It looks like the number of visits to Amazon the 2nd week of March increased the same % as it did the 3rd week of Feb (year to year). why would this be true if
by AznHisoka 7y ago
It looks like the number of visits to Amazon the 2nd week of March increased the same % as it did the 3rd week of Feb (year to year). why would this be true if the pandemic only became more urgent in Mid March?
- pampa 7y agoSome people looked at China and Italy, extrapolated, and sarted preparing before SHTF?
- AznHisoka 7y agoThat might be true but my guess is that the Comscore data is wildly inaccurate. it would have been helpful if they included January traffic data as a benchmark. A real shame they didn’t.
- davidw 7y agoThat is exactly what I did. I have friends and family in Italy (they're doing ok so far). I saw what was happening and that there was no reason to think "it can't happen here".
- dboreham 7y agoI began buying things on Feb 24th. Pulse oximeter, nebulizer, spent some time researching O2 concentrators before concluding too difficult to do supplementary O2 at home. Anyway, even then those things were getting hard to find on Amazon.
- delfinom 7y agoMany people have brains and use them as well as not drinking the America #1 koolaid. The end result is realizing we were going to get hit with the virus pretty early on, even in January once China did their lockdown.