Thankfully things are gradually improving, grocery stores now have food and even food you are looking for from time to time, but you have to really have a plan to be able to walk in and buy toilet paper.
I think back to the 70s and how we were shown pictures of long ass lines for whatever kind of food the store happened to have at the time in the Soviet Union. I understand panic buyers are the cause, but seriously are we saying Charmin can't handle any kind of demand?
You would think this would be a dream come true for a company that has a never ending demand for their product. You would think ramping up production would be easy and what they have been waiting on all this time. Supply and demand should easily cover increased production even if that means round the clock shifts and additional production facilities no?
I bet if there were a similar, sudden demand for printer paper, paper mills would spring up like weeds in your yard. So how did we actually come to this? This isn't anything new, it is just the latest evolution of things like SARS and MERS. I get that they are trying not to crash the medical response systems in the country but I'm still mystified by the no toilet paper on the shelves thing.
And more importantly, if corona is so dangerous that people shouldn't go to work, to restaurants and things like that...how is everyone buying ALL the toilet paper? Seems to me that Wal Mart aisle would be like ground zero for most likely source of infection. Apparently EVERYONE has been there today.
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