Posted on 03/13/2020 4:47:20 AM PDT by BuckeyeGOP
What the hell? No store here in Columbus has toilet paper. I'm not looking to hoard the stuff, I just need to be able to wipe my a**. Why toilet paper???? People must have the stuff packed to the rafters in their basements and garages.
Best I can figure the news about no toilet paper during the Venezuela economic meltdown must have scarred our psyche pretty bad.
It's to the point where it might be prudent for the secretary of commerce to hold a news conference and re-assure folks that there is no toilet paper shortage.
...or the NY Times.
We’ve got an online order in that is scheduled for pickup tomorrow. We’ll see how it goes.
Some of the TP madness is explicable, but why the craze for bottled water. Potable Water supplies will be the least effected by a pandemic.
I bought all I need for myself and family weeks ago. I have no idea why some of us foresaw this while others didn’t.
I’ve always got a case and half or more on hand, AND baby wipes, which can be a convenient substitute, and, worst case, remember that the ancient Romans used a piece of wetted wool tied to a stick for that purpose. Which suggests that you could use, and reuse, and old wash cloth. Gross - sure, but you’re clean.
Our local Cub Foods supermarket in Anoka County in the MN suburbs has pallets and pallets of TP blocking the aisles. Nobody was buying it as far as I could tell. This whole thing is getting silly.
Might I recommend The Washington Post.
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Sorry, I wouldn’t want to subject my ‘Schiff extraction center’ to suffer through the WashCompost or NYSlimes.
‘Its’ job is bad enough as it is
Can’t you just hold it till the next shipment?
Morning southernindymom.
Let me begin by saying you are right.
Mostly.
But you're a little too rough on us peasants,as I argue.
Here we are living our lives out here across the fruity plains, carrying this country on our backs.
All of a sudden the highest caste in our system, which would be the elected politicians and their appointees, come up some kind of virus thing. They tell us to wash our hands, don't touch our faces, stop breathing. They tell us there will soon be no antibiotics, much less toilet paper. They bombard us all day with tales of misfortune. Finally, the drive our 401K's into the gutter.
But you know what indymom? It won't last long. Because, as we know, we carry this country on our backs. We don't have their power but we got the numbers.
We have kids and houses and cars and damn I need to get my nails done.
Let's give it one more long weekend. Then we are going back to church, to our weddings, getting our nails done.
We weren't gullible. We kept an open mind and some of us bought a whole lot of toilet paper just to give us peace of mind.
Hey, maybe a long weekend of no crowds and staying home is all is needed to starve the virus, which is really no big deal but they hyped it so much that....we didn't know what to think.
Americans are not going to put up with it much longer. Next week we're going to church, we're getting our nails done, the stock market will go back up.
That's my assessment. I'm sticking to it.
I bet next pandemic you’ll be out early snagging yer stockup rolls, ‘eh?
I have some extra....got any Wild Turkey for trade?
Just like we know that 75% of US drugs come from China, what percentage of TP is not from the US?
I'd like to think that with our vast forests, that our paper plants are here. I hope that is the case.
It’s also a fad. They see everyone doing it and they join the herd
Next up, a run on bidets.
Until the nationwide toilet paper shortage is resolved, all Americans are urged to adhere to the Sheryl Crow rule.
We are stocked up. My wife was at a different store during her lunch break yesterday to buy bread crumbs and she was shocked at the hysterical folks stripping shelves. She said you would have thought that world was ending
All of our stocks say “Made in the USA”
Until then, stay away from the prunes...and eats lots of cheese.;-)
Very early infomation stated there were incidents of diarrhea in only 20% of the known cases. So, I guess, it is a case of “monkey see monkey do”.
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