TP is scarce locally and I saw a run on canned soup in a certain Big Box store that hasn't been reflected so far in the usual grocery stores. This is mostly silliness, IMHO, but if you're truly out of TP it lends a certain, ah, urgency to the matter that wouldn't normally be there. But in defense of people doing the "panic" buying, much of this hysteria isn't anxiety so much as it is people's desires to do something about the thing, anything, and it sure beats watching them sit like baby birds with their beaks open waiting for Momma and Poppa Government to feed them. There will be plenty of that for a while.
This "cooking" business everyone is talking about, though - is that what those circular metal objects in my cupboard are supposed to be used for? They don't seem to fit in the microwave...