Why are People Stockpiling Toilet Paper?

1finny said:
Series of events - something like
Q ‘Will people panic buy - if so what’?
A. (From a source) ‘Toilet paper and pasta would be key if you self isolate
Someone is then seen stocking up
A shelf is then seen empty
Pictures emerge
Hey presto we have a shortage.

Funny - we didn’t have a bog roll shortage with the novovirus...
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Exactly! Keep em down, keep em dumb...
 
SmallTown said:
Not all anti bacterial gels contain alcohol though. It's really irritating me now, we've genuinely ran out of normal hand wash in the kitchen yet due to idiots I now can't buy any. Luckily, again due to ignorance probably, they have left the soap.
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Majority of them do though, and that wasn't what you said - the link details an expert saying most antibacterial products will deal with virals as well so people are justified in buying this protection. fairly rare you see alcohol free ones they are there but most of them have it in them. Most shops have plenty of soap, but for me soap isn't the problem as its not at home people are wanting to use stuff like antibac, it's things like after going to the toilet given that many people are dirty cnuts and dont wash their hands so even if you have used soap. touching the door makes that useless.
 
RandySavage said:
unless you hope yourself away in the middle of nowhere with ZERO contact with the outside world or its contents you WILL catch covid-19 this year.
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Except even in the worst pandemics no more than 80% of the population is infected. As the disease takes hold more and more people become immune, so inevitably eventually the virus cannot find a host.

Makes you wonder whether it wouldn't be better just to let it take its course, while providing protection for the over 65's or those with health conditions.
 
There is panic buying for sure but I also think some folks will be making sure they have an extra week or two of essential good in case they have to self isolate. Better that than them going out to shop when they have the virus.
 
RandySavage said:
No it isn't. Hell you could be carrying it and only have mild symptoms similar to a heavy cold. Is every man and his dog now going to ring the NHS when they get the sniffles? Puts a daft amount of strain on an already struggling NHS.
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Well it is still a good idea to self-isolate so as not to pass it on to old people who it could kill. No need to act all hard about it.
 
RandySavage said:
But unless you hope yourself away in the middle of nowhere with ZERO contact with the outside world or its contents you WILL catch covid-19 this year.
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This is exactly the type of fake news ignorant nonsense that we don't need.

Sorry mate but you're just wrong and before you spout shiyte like that - back it up with some evidence. Oh you can't, can you. :rolleyes:
 
Assuming there hasn’t been a local outbreak of dysentery there is no need for this. Coronavirus does not cause diarrhoea. Sometimes the ignorance and gullibility of the British public is astounding.
 
Was in the Boro today, parked in Sainsburys - on the way in we decided to count up the number of people with loads of loo roll. Got to 11 by the time we hit Forbidden Planet...saw more but didn't count further.
Ridiculous
 
The shortage of masks is going to be a problem very soon for the police crime scene officers as well as the healthcare professionals.
 
I suppose its easy to mock people buying loo roll on a footy forum, but its a knock on effect; today I've been around various shops buying essentials for my weekly slow cooking and almost every shop I have been to has been sold out of bog roll, or been left with the expensive varieties. I went to Makro and they were sold out of everything except the large blue varieties; the trouble here is do you say "I'm not going to panic buy, I'm just going to buy a 6 pack and restock when that is used up as per BAU" or do you consider the fact that everyone is panic buying, and by not buying a good amount you are going to run out? What are you going to do if you do run out? wipe your **** with towels?

The shortage is not cause by people thinking that we are going to run out of bog roll, incidentally - people saying this have not grasped the reality of the situation. As Millbrook said, people are trying to supply themselves with what they will need to hole themselves up for 2 weeks+ for self isolation for themselves and their family, likewise with food. You cant self isolate if you need to go to the shops to buy another pack of bog roll.

I don't think there are going to be food shortages and the like, but I've bought a few KG of brown rice, baked beans, tinned tomatoes, whole grain pasta, tuna etc so that if we do have to self isolate, we aren't having to pop to tesco in the middle of it to survive, which defeats the point of doing so.
 
TheFair86 said:
I suppose its easy to mock people buying loo roll on a footy forum, but its a knock on effect; today I've been around various shops buying essentials for my weekly slow cooking and almost every shop I have been to has been sold out of bog roll, or been left with the expensive varieties. I went to Makro and they were sold out of everything except the large blue varieties; the trouble here is do you say "I'm not going to panic buy, I'm just going to buy a 6 pack and restock when that is used up as per BAU" or do you consider the fact that everyone is panic buying, and by not buying a good amount you are going to run out? What are you going to do if you do run out? wipe your **** with towels?

The shortage is not cause by people thinking that we are going to run out of bog roll, incidentally - people saying this have not grasped the reality of the situation. As Millbrook said, people are trying to supply themselves with what they will need to hole themselves up for 2 weeks+ for self isolation for themselves and their family, likewise with food. You cant self isolate if you need to go to the shops to buy another pack of bog roll.

I don't think there are going to be food shortages and the like, but I've bought a few KG of brown rice, baked beans, tinned tomatoes, whole grain pasta, tuna etc so that if we do have to self isolate, we aren't having to pop to tesco in the middle of it to survive, which defeats the point of doing so.
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Seriously, why not go the whole hog and go ‘off grid’. There is absolutely no need for such panic. Do you do the same every winter when influenzas are about? Everything we know about coronavirus isthat if everyone washed there hands appropriately and didn’t sneeze over everyone the vast majority of people will be fine. Prevent cross infection by all means but buying every bog roll in sight is stupid.
 
starplayer said:
Seriously, why not go the whole hog and go ‘off grid’. There is absolutely no need for such panic. Do you do the same every winter when influenzas are about? Everything we know about coronavirus isthat if everyone washed there hands appropriately and didn’t sneeze over everyone the vast majority of people will be fine. Prevent cross infection by all means but buying every bog roll in sight is stupid.
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Nope, because influenza is a completely different ballgame. Not panicking, Medical advice for flu isn’t to self isolate for 2 weeks. Flu has visible symptoms. Your comment suggests that if people follow instructions everything will be fine, but people don’t and won’t, many will not sag their hands, children won’t, lazy people won’t. Government forecasts for flu isn’t saying a fifth of the workforce could be off sick at the same time in one go; no one is buying “every bog roll in sight”, but buying enough to last you the 2 weeks needed to self isolate for you and your family should medical advice tell you to do so isnt the same as being a prepper or going off grid. It’s just common sense really?

Bought nothing that we wouldn’t have bought anyway over that period of time, just enough to last through the recommended period of self isolation in line with medical advice, which I definitely put more weight in than random blokes opinions on a boro forum.
 
TheFair86 said:
Nope, because influenza is a completely different ballgame. Not panicking, Medical advice for flu isn’t to self isolate for 2 weeks. Flu has visible symptoms. Your comment suggests that if people follow instructions everything will be fine, but people don’t and won’t, many will not sag their hands, children won’t, lazy people won’t. Government forecasts for flu isn’t saying a fifth of the workforce could be off sick at the same time in one go; no one is buying “every bog roll in sight”, but buying enough to last you the 2 weeks needed to self isolate for you and your family should medical advice tell you to do so isnt the same as being a prepper or going off grid. It’s just common sense really?

Bought nothing that we wouldn’t have bought anyway over that period of time, just enough to last through the recommended period of self isolation in line with medical advice, which I definitely put more weight in than random blokes opinions on a boro forum.
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So I take it you or a member of your family has symptoms. Temperature, sore throat? Are you doing all this preparation for an undefined period in the future? Are you locking yourself away until the end of the year? When you go out to work or meet some random person who might have coronavirus but show no symptoms how does having 2 weeks supply of toilet roll help when it could take 2 weeks for the symptoms to manifest. It doesn’t make any sense. I could understand if people were buying single use rubber gloves to put on for pushing supermarket trolleys etc. But loo roll is nothing more than stupid. Prevention is what people should be focussing on and not filling cupboards with toilet roll, rice and beans.
 
People are panic buying because they’ve been told not to.
Don’t you remember as a child if you were told not to do something
You went & did it anyway.
 
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