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UltimatePistachio 3 points ago +3 / -0

I agree. I don't get where the fuck tp even came to play unless the paper industry set out some rumor about how it's needed... It's so damn stupid!

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zujar_man 4 points ago +4 / -0

Movies and shows like the walking dead pre-programmed them how to think. All by design by the way.

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Harambe 2 points ago +3 / -1

Paper products are made in china.

I stocked up weeks ago. Not stupid.

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UltimatePistachio 2 points ago +2 / -0

It is dumb. Lots of paper products are made here in USA. I guess you can eat the tp if a real disaster were to happen and you're desperate.

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Tryhardneckbeard 2 points ago +2 / -0

Its a conspiricy promoted by big bidet

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amiartemis 2 points ago +2 / -0

It started in Hong Kong. I read that in China and Hong Kong people get a lot of news through social media and by word of mouth and they are also very prone to crazy rumors taking off. There was a post on Wuhan_Flu about this. So the rumor got started pretty early on that there would be a shortage of TP in HK because supposedly they got all their toilet paper from Wuhan. So because of that rumor there was a run on TP there, there was a robbery of a huge amount of TP, crazy stories like that. I think the only reason why we're seeing the run on TP everywhere else is just due to those stories lol

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Dirk_Diggler [S] 2 points ago +2 / -0

I dunno, man. I have lived through some pretty bad cold and flu seasons, on top of other past "trendy" viruses and diseases. I don't remember a run on paper products like there is now. It's a retarded phenomenon.

Now, on the other hand, I can at least understand a run on disinfectants and those cheap masks, but it's still a tad bit ridiculous. The lines of caution have been catapulted into irrational hysteria.

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hulda824 1 point ago +1 / -0

you're right ab this being hysteria. but I think many, as some friends, and even myself, are thinking ab self-isolation or being quarantined, not being able to go to stores. I'm a grannypede, and if I am quarantined (I live in WA), I have all I need... stocked up when Trump closed travel flight. am now glad. so there's that.

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UltimatePistachio 1 point ago +1 / -0

You can use a handkerchief/rags/leaves/newspapers to excrete all your phlegm and whatever you're coughing out you can just spit out in the garbage or toilet. Also you can simply wash yourself, assuming your water still runs or you have access to a lake or something...

Tp is a pretty dumb thing to hoard over other things like canned foods or other shit if a real disaster happens.

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Cjsmith87 1 point ago +1 / -0

People hear that they could be quarantined for two weeks and need to stock up. You know how much I shit in two weeks.

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Dirk_Diggler [S] 1 point ago +1 / -0

Well, if you "must" be quarantined, Amazon that shit, I guess. Then you don't have to be around people to buy it anyways. Hoarding TP and/or scalping it is retarded. This whole deal is a non sequitur.

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WayneMHK 1 point ago +1 / -0

People are dumb. And we allow most of them to vote.

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MAK90 1 point ago +2 / -1

Because most people are sheep and cant think for themselves. They hear from the media that there is a run on TP so they figure they should do the same. We are ultimately doomed as a species.

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inquimouse 0 points ago +1 / -1

Drippy nose, I go through two rolls with a cold. Plus I think people were impressed when that was the first thing Venezuela ran out of.