Was at Costco Casula in the arvo and it seems like every second person had toilet paper in their carts. I'm wondering if the news about shortages in Melbourne has forced people to start loading up again? Thoughts?
Toilet Paper Shortages Soon?
isthatallyougot on 24/06/2020 - 15:35
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guaranteed everyones gonna be shitting themselves now… Literally and figuratively.
The media already beat him to it .. đ¤Śââď¸
and they get paid to shitpost. living the dream
My thoughts are to total banned on these type of social media comments.
Ban this in the News too
I agree. Total ban on toilet paper.
people are panic buying Meanwhile apple store forces everyone to wear mask when they enter the store.
apple store forces everyone to wear mask
really?
care to share?
A second wave is coming. We've already cashed in our super to short when it hits.
No, not the second wave that everyone seems to be talking about!
there is a second wave super cash outs july 1 all timeline checks out
Australians caught attempting to withdraw their super without meeting the eligibility requirements will face fines of $12,600 :-)
https://au.finance.yahoo.com/news/ineligible-aussies-withdraâŚThe boss said to take one day off a week (20%).
after the first fine you should be elegible for second withdraw
20% income loss due to fine lol
Clueless its still the 1st wave and under control , bad move !
freaking news.com.au telling people not to panic buy. bunch of idiots
Well informed?
…fine, have your upvote!
if only
bunch of idiots
I blame schools - about half of all school leavers have below average marks.
OTOH, look at what they have to work with - about half of their students have an IQ less than 100.
"…about half of all school leavers have below average marks…"
By definition, about half of all school leavers will have above average marks as well
You're being upvoted by people who dont know the difference between an average and a MEDIAN
50% of school leavers would be above the median, and 50% below.
Averages are always skewed by outliers and it is absolutely not true that 50% could be above or below the average
@jnewau: If weâre being technical, a median value is an average. (Although granted, the mean (another kind of average) is what most people here refer to when talking about average.)
@jnewau: Assuming it's roughly a normal distribution, the median is expected to roughly correlate to the mean. On such a large scale as a whole state/country, I'd expect the mean to be the same as the median, unless there's some other factor causing a non-normal distribution of grades.
100 ? You're being very generous here !
I was going to post the same thing but… Best me to it.
Meh. Havenât heard of anyone having to wipe with their hands during the last panic buy.
Mediaâs at it again, posts like these donât help either.You think spreading made up news helps the community?
Because it creates a false sense of urgency, people will legit see posts like yours and say "Huh damn people are sure going a bit crazy over toilet-paper/rice/pasta etc. again, better stock up so I don't miss out on any when I need some" and the cycle goes on.
Only morons do this.
The post is meant to highlight the fact that people are already doing it.
It's not a false sense if the toilet paper really will be gone when I get there and need some. People calling out those who go buy some as stupid or irrational seem to not be thinking it through properly themselves or else being disingenuous. As I said in part of another reply here: if I possibly/probably can't get some when I need it if I wait, then it behooves me (selfishly perhaps, not ethically; but rationally) to get some (and maybe extra) now - and if I don't, and then can't get it and needa take a dump and can't wipe, then it's kindof irrelevant to me whether all those other people who bought it all up before I got there were doing it for good reasons or bad, or were being fair or unfair. Of course I think the FIRST people who go and who buy excessive amounts, who are the root cause, are being grossly unfair and shouldn't do it, but someone who hears about it happening and is almost out, who maybe is someone who for whatever reason can't drive from supermarket to supermarket looking for it; they're hardly being crazy or stupid
People calling out those who go buy some as stupid or irrational seem to not be thinking it through properly themselves
They are thinking it through properly, but it's panic-buyers, like you, that are missing the whole point and so are failing to understand what the more rational people are thinking.
It's a self-fulfilling prophecy that panic buyers are creating. There is and was no actual shortage, the problem was people panicking and buying 4x what they actually needed and the supply lines can't account for the new uptake overnight, and so it took time for the supply to return to the store. If everyone could suppress the emotions that you are feeling right now about "missing out" then there will be no shortage. By going out and "stocking up" right now because you think there will be a shortage then you are creating the shortage by buying more than you need.
@Popid: There is nothing wrong with grabbing an extra pack or two for this exact reason.
Just no need to stockpile a six month supply like some idiots will do.
We don't live in Asia.
I like Japanese system though.. kinda fills the voids of having to deal with pail/ mug or even cold water. Nice and cleaner.
Different continent but technically we are in the Asia region of the world. It amazes me when people try to draw a big distinction. Look at a map, the distance from Australia to New Guinea is around 150 km
it's winter and it's cold lol.
please don't touch anything, mmmk?
ps: you gotta have a lot of faith over there in Asia.
All you get is a small pail for splashing water and a bar of soap everyone else touched. Better make sure you get all that stuff under your fingernails when you're done, pray to God the bottom of your footwear isn't contaminated with little bits of … somebody else's product.Because nobody ever caught an illness from Asia, right?
I'll waddle over to the sink, splash some water on my hands and wipe arse, drip my shitty arse water all over the floor as I rinse my hand to repeat. Don't see anything wrong this method!
We were down to 2 half rolls. It was a real issue for a lot of people.
May be sponsored news by supermarkets?! They should be making hell lotta money! There was another news recently about heaps of sanitizer stock but no demand :-(
having to wipe with their hands
= Washing with water? Probably a cleaner option anyway, at least not the worse option in lieu of tissue rolls. I agree with you - it wasn't that people didn't even have water even if the tissue shortage was severe.
Crazy, but I don't think we can blame the 'media' for this one. According to an earlier report today, Woolworths has re-introduced limits on certain products in Victoria:
"Toilet paper, hand sanitiser, paper towel, flour, sugar, pasta, mince meat, long-life milk, eggs and rice will be return to their two per person limit at all Woolworthsâ Victorian stores from Wednesday afternoon. The company said it was a preventative move made in response to âsignificantly elevated demandâ.The supermarket's managing director Claire Peters assured customers stores would remain open and the company had plenty of stock in its warehouses."
Good
I've never understood the panic with toilet paper. There are so many other things that I'd find it harder to live without. Not having toilet paper seems more like an inconvenience than a dire situation.
Logical thinking didn't stop the toilet paper shortage the first time around. It won't stop it this time either.
Wonder if the logic could be as simple as 3 months ago everyone stockpiled 3 months worth of toilet paper.. and now are in need again
True, just goes to show there hasn't been a dire situation in Australia. Covid has been just an inconvenience for most but sadly people don't realise that. They think they've managed to survive some major crisis and hardship. I really hope Australia doesn't face any real crisis as the vast majority are totally unprepared.
Tell me about it. Worst case scenario you hop straight into the shower after doing your business. Big deal.
Everytime this happens India laughs
It's because people want to maintain their level of comfort and there is no alternative to toilet paper.
You would never find that we would run out of food, because there is always something to eat. If there is no chicken, buy beef, if there is no beef, buy pork, lamb, kangaroo, fish, squid, tofu, etc.
There will always be an alternative to a food. It is very unlikely we will have a shortage, because you can't hoard that much perishable food, without the risk of it going off.
No hand wash? Buy bar-soap.
Everything else has alternatives.
I'm not saying it's right, I'm just suggesting why this is happening.
I guess you could suggest using cloth wipes, but that goes back to maintaining a level of comfort.
There was no eggs in coles I went to yesterday, so annoying, I didnât check the toilet paper isle though, but yea panick buying is probably back.
Pretty sure they don't keep eggs in the toilet paper aisle so you didn't miss 'em.
I don't get the logic behind hoarding things like this either. Surely if you actually thought not leaving your house for a period of time was a possibility you'd get foods which are dense in nutrition, go fairly far for their physical size, don't require refrigeration and keep for a long time. I don't think eggs are one of those things.
Me (vegetarian though), I have like 2 or 3kgs of dried lentils and some rice etc that I can make into curries in the event I legitimately had to self quarantine for some time. Fairly dense in calories and not at all unhealthy.
You'd need a shitload of eggs, pasta etc for the same nutritional value. Although admittedly you can't go past the protein density in eggs by comparison, but it's not like that's going to be a major concern while self quarantining.
Yup its back here in melb, you people are animals
If we were animals we wouldn't need TP.
nah uh
Trampoline
Bloody Victorians……..
đ are we the nu yawkaz of Oz
Sounds like Sydney
/facepalm
If COVID caused diarrhoea Id understand but damn people are stupid. How do they exist?
Why do you think it's stupid? Community infections are ramping up, lockdowns are coming back, people want to limit their exposure to the public so they're stocking up their bunkers.
Except you can be guaranteed all of the people stocking up on TP are still going to the supermarket every second day
To look for more toilet paper?
The problem is COVID-19 can be spread by faeces. So while having large stockpiles of toilet paper is of questionable utility to the individual, it is undoubtedly detrimental to the community if people who miss out on toilet paper are forced to resort to unorthodox methods.
It's got nothing to do with diarrhoea.
It's all about personal hygiene if factories and supply chains break down.
How can you possibly have learnt nothing from last time? The only reason they had trouble with the supply line is because people were buying 4x more than they actually needed. If everyone just bought what they normally did then there never would have been a shortage.
So the whole point that COVID doesn't cause diarrhoea is important, because then there is no reason for people to be buying so much extra TP. But here I am trying to talk logic into irrational people so I'm probably wasting my time explaining this…
facepalm
Not sure if you're being serious or just trolling.
I shouldn't have to explain the blindingly obvious here.
I mean, leaving aside the issue of panic buying, diarrhoea is actually a symptom of coronavirus.
Three sources:
https://www.hopkinsmedicine.org/health/conditions-and-diseasâŚ
https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jamanetworkopen/fullarticleâŚ
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S221074012âŚ
why do people panic, at worst you now have a purpose for the million odd socks you own
just use fingers. they're reusable and washable.
why wash, bit of fragance for when you snneeze is nice
Why do I smell shit after reading this thread đ¤˘
I am conflicted about the fact you didn't specify whose fingers.
toiletpaper is just the start, up next: pasta, canned food, meats, long-life foodstuff, cleaning products, rice, freezers, the works
Actually, is there a link between this panic buying of toilet paper and the ongoing spread of COVID-19? Do you think it is the same moronic people who can't listen to instructions to save their own (and other) lives, and now think the best thing they can do is go out and buy heaps of TP?
there a link between this panic buying of toilet paper and the ongoing spread of COVID-19
Don't give conspiracy theorist ideas.
Depends on the individual.
If they're buying extra to avoid having to go to the shops again in the near future (i.e. minimizing their exposure to the public) then they're obviously not increasing the spread.
But if they're just panicking driving around to 5 different stores in one afternoon trying to buy all they can before it disappears they're a f'ing idiot.
not sure about melbourne, the post like this certainly will create panic