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The first sign that experts are being ignored is toilet paper hoarding. The one and only question here is why? What do people expect from COVID-19 – explosive diarrhoea? Spontaneous combustion? Or do they see themselves as survivors of an imagined post-pandemic future where toilet paper becomes a universally accepted currency?
Fight to the death for bog roll
I could understand it if there was a sudden outbreak of amoebic dysentery but for a respiratory disease it makes no sense. Tissues, sure. Paper towel, all right but only for frontal use, OK?
Have we reached the stage where people who have seen too many movies of the end times, have started to think, “I’ve got a shopping trolley full of 48-packs of four-ply. With that kind of post-apocalyptic coin, I could end up being Queen of the Thunderdome where people fight to the death and the victor is swathed in bog roll.”
If people are going to firmly press the panic button, they should be aware that where there’s hoarding there will always be profiteering. An illicit distribution of scarce resources at exorbitant prices. A brown market, in this case.
The Great Toilet Paper Reckoning is upon us and it is only a matter of time before we see dodgy looking characters stepping out from shop fronts.
“Psst. I got half a roll of Quilton Soft and Sanitary. Yours for a monkey. Feel the quality.”
And don’t get me started on hand sanitisers. You might have seen them before they disappeared from supermarket shelves in a rush of panic buying. These products proudly boast that they kill 99 per cent of germs. What, like 99 per cent of bacteria? All but one per cent of microbes? The overwhelming majority of bacterium? Maybe. But they don’t kill COVID-19. You can check the label if you don’t believe me.

Great post Baz...yes, it never ceases to amaze the mentality of some people. It's like when the pubs are shut on Christmas Day you see people in the bottlo's on Christmas Eve with a trolley full of grog even though the bloody thing opens again on Boxing Day.

Perhaps thanks should also be sent to my cousin, Jack the Insider, who actually wrote it.

You beat me to it Baz. Did anyone, I mean anyone say this virus causes diahorea? FMD people are stupid. All they have ensured is there will be no specials on dunny paper for months so well done you morons you just drove up the price of dunny paper and increased profits.

Ditto hand sanitiser. Dare I say it, shit for brains!

The world has gone mad!

BC wrote: Great post Baz...yes, it never ceases to amaze the mentality of some people. It's like when the pubs are shut on Christmas Day you see people in the bottlo's on Christmas Eve with a trolley full of grog even though the bloody thing opens again on Boxing Day.

Same thing happens Holy Thursday night before Good Friday...lol, its like people cannot make it through 24 hrs without supplies.

My wife just called me and she was in the local chemist and they've taken their supply of face masks and put 2 into a Glad lunch bag and are selling them for $10 a pack. Can you believe it? People don't realise that you only need a mask if you're sick to stop the spread as they're pretty much useless as a defence mechanism unless you have a fully sealed respirator on your face. We just need to regularly wash our hands and not touch our faces and mouths, and leave the rest to the professionals.

BC wrote: My wife just called me and she was in the local chemist and they've taken their supply of face masks and put 2 into a Glad lunch bag and are selling them for $10 a pack. Can you believe it? People don't realise that you only need a mask if you're sick to stop the spread as they're pretty much useless as a defence mechanism unless you have a fully sealed respirator on your face. We just need to regularly wash our hands and not touch our faces and mouths, and leave the rest to the professionals.

Bunnings dont have any face masks in Wa.And believe they can't restock for over a month.They sent 10,000 boxes of masks east for the bushfires.And have sold another 20,000 boxes in the last 2 weeks.

Your ordinary run of the mill face mask is useless anyway. The one's rated N95 will help but they have to be properly fitted and become a problem if you have to constantly adjust them as you're at risk of touching your mouth, nose or eyes which is the primary way the virus is transmitted according to current knowledge.

Bazza wrote: The first sign that experts are being ignored is toilet paper hoarding. The one and only question here is why? What do people expect from COVID-19 – explosive diarrhoea? Spontaneous combustion? Or do they see themselves as survivors of an imagined post-pandemic future where toilet paper becomes a universally accepted currency?
Fight to the death for bog roll
I could understand it if there was a sudden outbreak of amoebic dysentery but for a respiratory disease it makes no sense. Tissues, sure. Paper towel, all right but only for frontal use, OK?
Have we reached the stage where people who have seen too many movies of the end times, have started to think, “I’ve got a shopping trolley full of 48-packs of four-ply. With that kind of post-apocalyptic coin, I could end up being Queen of the Thunderdome where people fight to the death and the victor is swathed in bog roll.”
If people are going to firmly press the panic button, they should be aware that where there’s hoarding there will always be profiteering. An illicit distribution of scarce resources at exorbitant prices. A brown market, in this case.
The Great Toilet Paper Reckoning is upon us and it is only a matter of time before we see dodgy looking characters stepping out from shop fronts.
“Psst. I got half a roll of Quilton Soft and Sanitary. Yours for a monkey. Feel the quality.”
And don’t get me started on hand sanitisers. You might have seen them before they disappeared from supermarket shelves in a rush of panic buying. These products proudly boast that they kill 99 per cent of germs. What, like 99 per cent of bacteria? All but one per cent of microbes? The overwhelming majority of bacterium? Maybe. But they don’t kill COVID-19. You can check the label if you don’t believe me.

might be easier to buy a Japanese dunny now