Posted on 10/03/2024 9:18:30 AM PDT by DallasBiff
The dockworkers strike that has shut down dozens of ports on the East and Gulf Coasts has reportedly triggered panic buying of toilet paper and paper towels at a Costco on Staten Island — despite experts’ insistence that paper products won’t be affected by the strike.
Video footage on Wednesday showed vast, empty shelves of toilet paper, paper towels and facial tissues. One segment posted by FreedomNews.TV shows just a few pallets of Kleenex at the Costco on Richmond Avenue near the Staten Island Mall.
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Paper products are made in the USA and trucked to stores. No filthy dockworker involved
Yep, or Canada and some Mexico.
The idiots who didn't learn from Covid.
Some people are congenitally stupid.
Just bought a bale last month. Decided that I don’t like it.
Right hand food hand.
Left hand dung hand.
The problem is, it’s almost too late for serious prepping.
Between Helene, the longshoreman’s strike, and the potential un rest around the election, people should have been prepped long ago.
One more major event and I can see it all collapsing, whether the democrats want it to or not.
Totally irrational.
Most TP is manufactured in the northeast US.
Yes proof again people are to stupid to learn plan ahead before chaos happens join the rush and pay more.
Stupid people need to be isolated for the sake of the sane.
I’ll never run out. I’m collecting leaves. When fall comes, I can color coordinate with my bathroom.
Yea it’s the East Coast and TX ports so walmart and harborfeight, menard’s etc will still have plenty of chinajunk that comes in through CA.
I happen to need coffee and sugar right now so I’ll buy plenty. Whole chickens are on sale for $1.79/lb so I’ll grab a couple.
Regardless of where it comes from, people panic buying can still drain the JIT system in a few days.
I did good for covid. As soon as I saw the news showing empty shelves in Italy, I new it would happen here. Bought a little deep freezer which is something we’d wanted for years. Then I filled it with meat and frozen veggies. Bought plenty of dry goods, TP and PT.
Two weeks later, store shelves were empty here and there were no freezers to be found.
I traveled throughout Southeast Asia. There is the equivalent to a sink sprayer at most toilets to wash your butt. No paper.
Yes! We were on the same threads, preparing while many were mocking us (FRiends/family, etc).
I even talked my DD into buying a small freezer, and, to vacuum seal meats, veggies, etc. And, to stock up on meds, etc.
We were fine, but, so many had to do without.
Horrific what these DS minions are causing.
It isn’t. It comes mainly from Georgia and Wisconsin.
I didn’t know it was made overseas.....................
I work at Sam’s Club. 90% of it does not use ports they are made here, Canada and Mexico. The first wave of shoppers is based on false premise. But they will cause a shortage because the second and third waves will be to beat the others before it’s gone again.
With the Covid panic in 2020 I walked into a Walmart and all the toilet paper was gone! In the bath supplies I found wash clothes 10 for $1. I bought several. Anyone who has changed a diaper knows how to clean such wash clothes.
The bleach isle was empty. All gone. Right next to it was the Hydrogen Peroxide bottles untouched.
We both know though that being prepared is relative and the more non-preppers that get started with a few days, or a week, and then 2 weeks of emergency food, the better off they are and once they get started then they usually start paying attention to the practice and start listening to the articles and the conversations about it.
I agree that with all the shortages and true national emergencies and nationally empty shelves that every person in America has seen in the last several years, and all the countless news and mention about the supply system breakdowns and interdependency and foreign products and so on, why isn’t everyone in America a prepper, I don’t get that.
“Some people are congenitally stupid.”
Remember to be nice to Komrade Kommie, she may soon be your “leader”......
https://www.forest2market.com/blog/toilet-paper-production-its-impact-on-north-american-forests-0
This is a pretty detailed study about where TP raw product comes from. I didn’t wade through it all - it focuses on trees/pulp from Northern Canada - which seems to me would be best put on a ship to the USA.
It said 53% of TP uses Eyuclaptic pulp. I figure that would come in via west coast. All the raw products of that type (and grains, etc.) probably are shipped in bulk (like oil) and aren’t affected by the strike I don’t think - which is the containers??
But - what about the critical piece of equipment that is broken at the TP factory that needs to be replaced from China? Or any number of items. I know during the pandemic I had a hard time finding an oil filter. (When they did come in I bought three.)
Democrats can resort to using the US Constitution and the Bill of Rights.
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