Posted on 03/13/2020 11:49:01 AM PDT by Kaslin
Actually, in areas with older water treatment and delivery systems, there is a danger of that - not long term, really, but it would be possible for enough people to simply be out sick that a totally or largely manually operated system could shut down in the short term from lack of staff to operate it. A more modern automated system will keep going without staff until a problem occurs that requires human intervention, which in good quality systems can take quite some time. Same thing goes for electric power systems.
If your area was cheap and didn’t modernize or automate their systems, you could be in for a bad month or so.
“But who the Hell knows what this panic will create in terms of totally irrational shortages of essential products? “
Selling in the Stock Market the last few days indicates a shortage of money fears by many.
Hubby drove to work today at 6:30 am and passed several supermarkets. Said all the parking lots were jammed. I went to the store this morning: no turlet paper, paper towels, hand soap or sanitizer, bleach, and the fresh meat cases were mostly empty.
I naively went to the store this morning to pick up blue cheese . Total insanity ! I grabbed my blue cheese and decided I better stock up on wine . Won’t be going back until people get a grip .
Ladies need TP no matter if it’s No. 1 or No. 2. Taking 6 or 8 showers a day makes no sense.
My local Super Walmart has a isle of toilet paper that must hold 50 pallets of toilet paper and it was totally empty, zip, nothing.
People were filling their carts with paper towels and they were almost gone.
I’ve never seen it like this, even Y2K wasn’t this bad.
Fair point
I naively went to the store this morning to pick up blue cheese . Total insanity ! I grabbed my blue cheese and decided I better stock up on wine . Won’t be going back until people get a grip.
The store was fully stocked with everything, TP included. No panic. There was a huge delivery of everything on Monday and the aisles were blocked with huge boxes of stuff to be stocked. Maybe a big shipment came in from China. Here in Seattle we are very close to where Asian shipping comes in.
I bought a bidet as a “backup plan”. I think I’ll install it anyways.
If only I lived in an area with corn fields.
Erick Erickson can go to hell as far as I am concerned.
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Going to the bathroom 6 to 8 times a day means your problem isnt toilet paper. You are sick with a UTI or have IBS or some similar conditions or you drink too much beer. A worst case scenario of two to three additional 1 minute bottom wash showers a day in the age of pandemics seems reasonable to me if you run short. Also short of Armageddon grocery stores will remain open because very few people have food to last longer than a package of 24 rolls of TP and starvation is not an option. This run on toilet paper is stupid.
You probably meant to write “Hard to believe that FR has ONLY two threads on Toilet paper!!!!!!”
On average, a person who drinks 64 ounces of fluid will pee approximately seven times a day. It’s irresponsible to suggest someone is sick or has a disease if they pee more than you do.
Do people buy one at a time??
I also have a gallon of Soft soap, 5 containers of wipes, clorox, hand soap, 5 tubes of toothpaste and 5 tooth brushes.
7 pkgs Peet's coffee and about 300 mini moos.
Just need bread for my peanut butter and banana sandwiches. Bananas in the fridge last forever.
I’m not sure it’s acting.
The panic started in Australia - which is a bit more sensible - since there is no forestry industry in Australia, toilet paper is all imported. So if it runs out, you have to wait for more to come. So the Ozzies snapped it all up.
We don't have that problem in America, but people saw the toilet paper hoarders on TV - in Australia - and did the same thing even though it makes no sense in the USA.
At our small local Harris Teeter in Northern Virginia, they had run out of toilet paper in the early evening. I bought some good quality paper napkins as a back up because I’m suffering major complications from cancer surgery, chemo, Cellulist, etc.
Then one of the really good workers at HT came by a few of us and said that he had some TP on his pallet and we were welcome to it. There were more hands at the pallet than in a herd of octopi at an all you can eat squid dinner. However, each person only took one packet.
Then he said that they had just deposited a pallet full of disinfectant wipes (in the frozen food file). There were several varieties and a generic brand so I got out my car key and ripped open the plastic wrap and took two generics, leaving the bigger containers for people who needed them (more than me).
No rush to the pallets. More like a nice saunder over to it. People were very calm and polite, and the staff was great. I nominate Ken as “Harris Teeter Tushy Saver” of the Month.
Now, if you can’t find TP in your immediate area, try your local newspaper. I have a lot of Washington Posts that I clip so I’m in good shape re using the Washington Compost as a paper substitute.
As we used to say about the WP, “Read it and weep”. Now we say “Read it and WIPE”.
Never let a leftist paper go to waste, unless it has been used to clean your butt. A most fitting end to an end-user.
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