butbutbut, think of the shame dying with a dirty bum!!!
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Thanks for the giveaways and send a few containers of the toilet paper to the UK as shelves here are running out. Cheers :)
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They've started to limit the amount you can buy in the big supermarkets so it is starting to happen. Its the same with hand sanitizer, pasta, powdered milk and such like.
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Hopefully we will not get to the stage of everyone being confined to their residence for two weeks. Even though I work for a supermarket I would struggle to feed myself for more than two days from what is in the pantry - I tend to buy groceries every day.
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Where I live, in the US, it's a struggle to find hand sanitizer and soap due to the high demand. (When it's tornado/storm season, stores run out of bread and milk.)
But I'm just wondering...was everyone not washing their hands before????????????
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lol - but that empty roll?? oh, dear, wonder what is left on the bottom shelf?
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But I'm just wondering...was everyone not washing their hands before????????????
Based on my anecdotal observations as an office worker who sits unfortunately close to the bathroom, I'd say probably less than 50% of my co-workers wash their hands at all after using the toilet, and, of the ones who do, I'd say a very small percentage actually washes thoroughly enough.
I always assumed milk, eggs and bread always run out first because they are fresh items which are delivered frequently and there's no excess inventory to deal with any slight increase in demand. Unlike canned goods where they can have a warehouse full of them sitting there for a year. Either that or people just really want to make french toast while their roof is getting ripped off the house by a twister. :P
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Some grocery stores in California have had the same vanishing of tp.
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Fortunately it is a small minority, they are just more visable due to the large amount of toilet paper they buy. Best line from one of my customers last week - The older chap was buying a newspaper and wanted to withdraw $100 at the same time. When I handed the money to him, he winked and asked if he could have the money in toilet paper. Both the customer in front of him and a couple behind were all clutching massive big packets, lol.
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So in an impending apocalypse, Australians grab toilet paper?
I guess they misunderstood when they heard that "the world is going to shit". Yeah, sorry, I couldn't resist.
On a serious note, I don't think it's as simple as a common cold, but not as bad as they make it sound either.
And definitely not a "new black death" or anything like that.
Sure, a mortality rate of ~3.5% isn't exactly low by modern standards... but they were mostly elder patients with pre-existing health conditions.
In short, if not for this, they could have died from... literally anything else, sooner or later.
And nobody would have batted an eyelid, or, heck, we wouldn't even know in the first place, because news about 4k deaths by flu or something, wouldn't sell as well as 4k deaths tied to a so-called pandemic. But no matter the reason, they'd still be deaths, wouldn't they?
Besides, I believe the global ~55.5% recovery rate to be much more encouraging data, especially considering that we don't even have a proper vaccine yet.
On an end note, do we really need a pandemic, and the underlying precautionary measures, to remind people of basic hygiene and respect?
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True about the hygiene and respect - perhaps us adults have lapsed a bit with teaching our children the basics.
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toilet paper?
you westerner don't use those handheld sprayer?
and cloth rag to wipe your wet ass?
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No, we are savages, although they do sell bidets here, so some must use them :)
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I'll just leave this here.
https://homehacks.co/55-genius-uses-toilet-paper-rolls/
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lol
Although I was impressed with quite a few of the uses. Fairly environmentally friendly use of waste :)
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IGA had toilet paper on special the week before all this hooha started so I bought a couple of packets then. Now I'm sitting back, wiping and smiling.
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Same, bought a 48 roll pack about two weeks ago. But my husband came home today worried that Woolworths and Coles have bare shelves and he wants me to buy some where I work (as well as tissues and handtowel). So do I go down the rabbit hole and buy more? (we do not need more now) or do we have a marital spat (I don't need one of those either, lol)
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At the moment, toilet paper shortage seems to be only in "regions with a certain number of overseas people".
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In the past, there was an incident called the "oil shock", and "toilet paper" was sold out in "hoax information".
Oil and toilet paper were irrelevant.β(Β΄Ξ`)β
Well, panic buying will be a good economic activity.
However, you will have a lot of contact with the rush of shopping.
And the virus ...
If you are worried about purchasing, use mail/web order.(δΊΊΞ'o)
Speaking of which, "the fourth knight of the apocalypse" seems green.
...((o'Ξ'oβ‘o'Ξ'o)) Why do you see me?
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You are too cute to be the fourth horseman of the apocalypse :)
And most of the time I do not think about the virus ... except if someone in the queue coughs. It is interesting though, before, a stranger coughing was nothing. Now, a cough makes people look around. I guess we are all slowly getting a little bit more nervous
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If you cough without a mask, multiple people will look at you with such an expression, "An enemy who killed my parents!"
XD
There will be a certain number of such people in every world.
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Just be glad you don't work at Costco, in Brisbane, 3mths worth of stock went faster than the Flash running to save himself.
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I heard that one of the branches north of us, in Victoria, had a brawl :(
A really stupid reason to end up on charges.
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Daing. This is getting out of hand, just like the idiot selling toilet paper for $10k. I hope karma hits those who are greedy and trying to sell to make a profit.
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Maybe there was a youtube video somewhere about how you could make a hazmat suit with toilet paper?
Just speculating but the survivalist nuts are having almost as much of a ball as the news industry is having spreading panic to make people watch the news and get them paid adverts
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Must be a fine time to be alive if you are a Doomsday prepper :)
I know that there was a photo of some people wrapped in toilet paper and underneath was the wording "how Australians prepare for the virus". One of our younger staff members showed it to me on his phone (I don't own one and should not use a phone whilst working anyway :)
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Or gastroenteritis (in case you've never heard of it, it means you're sick both ends. And it's bad, nearly killed me as a kid)
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agreed,,,but maybe it's time for China to prevent bad practice with animals..and stop spreading new viruses around the world and they should rsstore economie of all other countries and victim's parents
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You/We/I wish. It won't happen, even if we sign petitions etc. It's sad really.
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I don't know why everyone else is buying toilet rolls. I'm just using them to make a fort.
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On the other hand maybe all this panic buying will help bolster economies already ailing due to the truly dangerous panicking taking place in the global financial markets. They're already calling today "Black Monday" and markets are tanking yet again, sparked by OPEC and Russia refusing to come to an agreement regarding oil production in the face of reduced demand due to the virus. This could be more concerning than the pandemic itself, as financial meltdown can lead to the kind of chaos that has impact on everyone, sick and well alike.
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Not sure if it will help ailing economies. I know a lot of our Australian businesses rely on China and they are hurting badly at the moment as China has stopped any exports/imports. Plus our manufacturing industry is almost nonexistant since businesses discovered so many overseas countries could do things for them more cheaply than our own workforce.
And I have no idea how a country can shut things down for two weeks if they have to tell people to stay home.
Well, we will all find out - the media is all over this pandemic (one area that is doing well)
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At least the sales assistant got a giggle out of it :)
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I assume it's a chain reaction. Some morons believe it's the apocalypse and they'll be quarantined for months so they buy a huge amount of toilet paper. Other, more reasonable people see there is hardly any toilet paper left so they buy more than they normally would because they fear there may be none left when they run out of it.
Toilet paper also takes a lot of space compared to its price, so I assume most shops don't stockpile more than absolutely necessary.
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I can think of a few items that I might grab if people were dropping like flies, but toilet paper is not one of them. I work in a local IGA (a supermarket, stands for Independant Grocers of Australia) and I work on the register (serving groceries and liquor). Our customer base is probably evenly split between those loading up on loo paper and those who want to know why there is a panic about the toilet paper. None of us knows - but my bosses are jubilant. Toilet paper is made in Australia and there is no shortage - so our store is selling the paper at full price and the manufacturers are just sending us extra deliveries. With just 70 cases confirmed Australia wide (our population is 25 million) it is not really a worry yet, surely.
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2020-03-08/coronavirus-toilet-paper-fight-at-woolworths-leads-to-charges/12037046
Now my personal view of this virus is that it will become the new flu or common cold. The sooner I catch it the sooner I can get better. And if I have some groceries set aside ... home confinement sort of sounds a little like a holiday for me :)
So for those of you currently in lockdown, home confinement, or just at a loose end this weekend, maybe you can find your next new game in the list below
To enter just place the game link supplied after https://www.steamgifts.com/giveaway
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Level 1
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Level 2
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Level 3
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Level 4
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Level 5
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Am posting this and will deal with any flack tomorrow (should have been in bed hours ago)
Hope everyone stays safe and people try to relax a little over this virus. I know it can be dangerous to those with health issues and the elderly so hopefully the clever medical experts can create some sort of cure or effective treatment for it soon.
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