I don't know what the situation is like in Texas but there is a real concern in rural communities here in Minnesota about people from the urban areas going to rural areas to find things that are running low in the city or to get away from more people. Minnesotans like to ice fish and there are lakes up north that are still frozen. Many communities there have said in the past week they've seen a surge of people from the Twin Cities going there treating this is a vacation with the argument that it's easy to practice social distance on a sheet of ice near Canada. The problem with that is that these communities have much fewer supplies and much smaller medical facilities. If someone a lot of people from the Twin Cities go there they could easily overwhelm the local services and supplies.
Go ahead and order everything they need online from HEB and have it delivered to them. If your parents are elderly, please don't let them go grocery hunting.
I don’t get all this hoarding of toilet paper “I’m low on food, but at least I’ll be able to wipe my ass for the next 5 months”
Toilet paper gets hoarded because it's a relative necessity that there's no drawback to hoarding - you'll use it eventually, so if you have the money, there's no individual harm in buying an excess. And then once it gets hoarded and in limited supply, everyone else starts hoarding it when they see it because they don't know if other people will keep hoarding it. It's stupid, but it's actually all fairly rational behavior.
What's irrational about it? All those people that hoarded toilet paper early on spent the same money they'd spend regardless, and they don't have to worry about looking for it for a long time. It seems like it worked out for them. People that hoard it now again have no downside.
the hoarding of toilet paper is incredibly stupid and makes no sense. if someone goes through that much toilet paper that fast, you have much bigger problems then worrying about toilet paper running out. its running out bc of idiots like this.
On the tp thing this is annoying. I didnt hoard and have about a weeks worth. Whole foods opened an hour early and all the old people got all the tp
50 customers had their power turned off one day before the city stated shutoffs would be discontinued. wow
I'm screenshotting this and sending it to my wife. I still get b****ed about the girls that liked me in high school like it's my fault. Never mind, she did just bring me chic-fil-a and 7 cookies to my job.
I can only use one brand of TP. I won’t settle for other brands. I’d rather walk around with dirty excrement seeping into my shorts and smelling like a full time fart. So, GTFO of my way so I can get my brand of TP you f@cking toilet paper binging butt junkies.
Just take a shower man. This whole TP thing is dumb. If you have a real dirty butthole you should rinse your ass anyway. It gets you much cleaner.
I used to be with you on this one but I see the logic in the hoarding. I think what sparked it was the viral videos from Australia of people fighting in the store off TP based on a rumor that supply was short. There are reports that all this craziness could last 18 months. If that's true, nobody is hoarding. They actually need that amount. Also, in the grand scheme, the person that goes to the store everyday or two is harming the situation more than the hoarders, because the non hoarders are spreaders. It's a lose/lose situation because you're either a hoarder or a spreader. This virus affects the unhealthy and let's face it, most of America is unhealthy. Some people have to hoard to avoid this wave for an indefinite amount of time. TP is pretty cheap and has no expiration date. Would you rather go to the store to get TP in February when 1% of the store has the virus, or March when 10% of the store has the virus, or April when 25% of the store has the virus. Again I used to see it your way black and white, but now I don't think there is an easy side to take. I'm not pro hoarding, but I understand it. The grocery stores are going to be ground zero for the virus spreading over the next few months and if I had a chance now to buy something to avoid them for a few months, it seems illogical, and in a weird way, unselfish to do so.
No I’m good on TP stock. Just saying. There’s plenty of TP out there. It’s a distribution and butt junkie problem.
