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March 4, 2020 at 6:28 PM #815130March 4, 2020 at 6:55 PM #815131CoronitaParticipant
Costco is going to do well. I was just there and oh my god, people are all freaked out and stocking up on lysol , hand sanitizer, toilet paper, food, as if people are preparing for a natural disaster. I’m not even kidding. I was there when the store just opened, and they had aisles of toilet paper. When I was leaving about 45 minutes later, all the toilet paper was gone.
Can someone explain to me why people are hoarding toilet paper? I mean, I would think it’s not the most important supply to stock up on. I just don’t get it.
March 4, 2020 at 7:22 PM #815132
svelteParticipant[quote=flu]
Can someone explain to me why people are hoarding toilet paper? I mean, I would think it’s not the most important supply to stock up on. I just don’t get it.[/quote]
Have you ever been out of toilet paper?
And your explanation of a bidet in your house…well I’m not buying that you don’t still need TP…that’s just a gross thought…
March 4, 2020 at 7:50 PM #815133CoronitaParticipant[quote=svelte][quote=flu]
Can someone explain to me why people are hoarding toilet paper? I mean, I would think it’s not the most important supply to stock up on. I just don’t get it.[/quote]
Have you ever been out of toilet paper?
And your explanation of a bidet in your house…well I’m not buying that you don’t still need TP…that’s just a gross thought…[/quote]
Yeah, but you could use paper napkins, or tissues if you had to, if there was really going to be a shortage. Or just hop in the shower. There’s so many alternatives. Do people typically carry toilet people to work and and when they go shopping too in case they run out outside? I’m being serious.
Actually if you get a bidet, some have an air dryer on them. I got one for medical reasons because for some time I had to go to the bathroom a lot an using toilet paper that often created abrasions and blisters. Ewe. Dont need it anymore, but the bidet was kinda interesting, so I just kept it.
March 4, 2020 at 8:40 PM #815135svelteParticipant[quote=flu]
Yeah, but you could use paper napkins, or tissues if you had to, if there was really going to be a shortage. Or just hop in the shower. There’s so many alternatives. Do people typically carry toilet people to work and and when they go shopping too in case they run out outside? I’m being serious.
[/quote]Here’s a serious reply. When I was young and foolish I had just moved to CA from another state. My friend “A” talked me into going to NV to find his friend (person “B”)’s house who was holding some stuff (I still don’t know what) for him. So friend A borrowed his other friend’s (call him person C) dad’s car and friend A and I took off for Nevada on I-80 during heavy snow. We arrived in the dead of night, fresh fallen snow covered everything, and friend A can’t remember which house person B lives in. So he stops and starts walking around houses at 3 AM in Sparks, NV leaving footprints all the way around several houses. I stay in the car, I’m not THAT stupid.
I look in the side mirror and up pulls a cop car. Great. Asks for my license. It is from state C. Asks where I live. I say California. He asks who’s car it is. I say I’m not sure. He asks what I’m doing with a license from one state, living in another, sitting in a car I know nothing about, looking for the house of a person I don’t know and can’t give the name of in a state in which I don’t live.
Man, this looks baaaaaaad and I know it.
I just tell him I have no answers for him. So he asks me if there is a gun in the glove box. I say I have no idea. He tells me to open it. So I do. Very slowing.
It has two rolls of toilet paper.
So yeah, people do carry toilet paper around with them.
Apparently most of them live in Northern California.
By the way, I didn’t spend the night in jail but I have no idea why not.
March 4, 2020 at 8:55 PM #815136zk
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It has two rolls of toilet paper.
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Wow. I was so engrossed in the story, I forgot we were talking about toilet paper. Who knew the coronavirus could turn that line into a punch line of sorts? A cool story (not sarcastic), that the coronavirus suddenly made funnier and more relevant.
March 4, 2020 at 8:59 PM #815137svelteParticipant[quote=PCinSD][quote=FlyerInHi]Trump preciously disbanded the epidemic monitoring groups at NSC in the white house and DHS.[/quote]
Is it your suggestion that Trump has done things that caused the spread of coronavirus?[/quote]
Trump is blaming Obama!
‘The Obama administration made a decision on testing that turned out to be very detrimental to what we’re doing and we undid that decision a few days ago so that testing can take place in a much more accurate and rapid fashion,’ Trump said at the White House during a coronavirus meeting with airline executives.
Trump has been in office since 2017!!! I’d say if that “decision” was bad, he should have reversed it sometime in, oh say, the last thousand days like he did with so much else of what Obama did!
So don’t get your panties in a bunch if folks insinuate Trump is making things worse, he sure doesn’t hesitate to point the finger himself!
March 4, 2020 at 10:06 PM #815139CoronitaParticipant[quote=svelte][quote=flu]
Yeah, but you could use paper napkins, or tissues if you had to, if there was really going to be a shortage. Or just hop in the shower. There’s so many alternatives. Do people typically carry toilet people to work and and when they go shopping too in case they run out outside? I’m being serious.
[/quote]Here’s a serious reply. When I was young and foolish I had just moved to CA from another state. My friend “A” talked me into going to NV to find his friend (person “B”)’s house who was holding some stuff (I still don’t know what) for him. So friend A borrowed his other friend’s (call him person C) dad’s car and friend A and I took off for Nevada on I-80 during heavy snow. We arrived in the dead of night, fresh fallen snow covered everything, and friend A can’t remember which house person B lives in. So he stops and starts walking around houses at 3 AM in Sparks, NV leaving footprints all the way around several houses. I stay in the car, I’m not THAT stupid.
I look in the side mirror and up pulls a cop car. Great. Asks for my license. It is from state C. Asks where I live. I say California. He asks who’s car it is. I say I’m not sure. He asks what I’m doing with a license from one state, living in another, sitting in a car I know nothing about, looking for the house of a person I don’t know and can’t give the name of in a state in which I don’t live.
Man, this looks baaaaaaad and I know it.
I just tell him I have no answers for him. So he asks me if there is a gun in the glove box. I say I have no idea. He tells me to open it. So I do. Very slowing.
It has two rolls of toilet paper.
So yeah, people do carry toilet paper around with them.
Apparently most of them live in Northern California.
By the way, I didn’t spend the night in jail but I have no idea why not.[/quote]
You win. The next time I’m hoarding toilet paper, and someone asks, I’ll tell them I need to restock the toilet paper in the glovebox after I finished using the ones in there to cleanup the mess I made in the back seat last night.
March 4, 2020 at 10:41 PM #815140Reality
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Can someone explain to me why people are hoarding toilet paper? I mean, I would think it’s not the most important supply to stock up on. I just don’t get it.[/quote]
People are imbeciles.
March 4, 2020 at 11:04 PM #815142Anonymous
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Can someone explain to me why people are hoarding toilet paper? I mean, I would think it’s not the most important supply to stock up on. I just don’t get it.[/quote]
People are imbeciles.[/quote]
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March 5, 2020 at 6:28 AM #815144ocrenter
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people figured out this is the best way to protect against the corona virus.
March 5, 2020 at 6:31 AM #815145Participant“Pence said in an off-camera briefing at the White House that there was new guidance from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention that any American could be tested — “no restrictions, subject to doctors’ orders.””
https://www.cnn.com/2020/03/03/politics/pence-coronavirus-any-american-tested/index.html
PSA: please DO NOT call your doctor’s office and request corona virus testing. NO doctor’s office have any lab testing available. Please revert to toilet paper mummies as the best measure of protection.
March 5, 2020 at 8:41 AM #815149CoronitaParticipant[quote=ocrenter][img_assist|nid=26975|title=toilet paper mummies|desc=|link=node|align=left|width=466|height=543]
people figured out this is the best way to protect against the corona virus.[/quote]
ha ha ha.
March 5, 2020 at 9:35 AM #815155CoronitaParticipantOn a more serious note. If you or someone you care about relies on long term medication, you might want to give them a friendly reminder to have a nice stash of medicine 90-120 days.
The pharma supply chain too, is completely or partially dependent on facilities and ingredients from China and India, and that supply chain has been disrupted by the coronavirus. India just put an export restriction on drug exports, and many of the common medication that people depend on are generics made in India with ingredients manufactured from China.
So get your refills in now. Short term pain of offshoring drug manufacturing overseas. Pharma companies will learn the hard way and eventually some of it probably will come back to North America, which is a good thing.
March 5, 2020 at 10:29 AM #815156The-Shoveler
Participant[quote=flu]On a more serious note. If you or someone you care about relies on long term medication, you might want to give them a friendly reminder to have a nice stash of medicine 90-120 days.
The pharma supply chain too, is completely or partially dependent on facilities and ingredients from China and India, and that supply chain has been disrupted by the coronavirus. India just put an export restriction on drug exports, and many of the common medication that people depend on are generics made in India with ingredients manufactured from China.
So get your refills in now. Short term pain of offshoring drug manufacturing overseas. Pharma companies will learn the hard way and eventually some of it probably will come back to North America, which is a good thing.
https://www.bbc.com/news/business-51731719%5B/quote%5D
Fortunately my mothers a smart lady, she was on this several weeks ago when this first started catching fire and ordered a > 90 day supply with OK of doc.
I wounder how many will die (not of disease) but from running out of prescriptions etc…
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