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Re:Ask HN: People are panic buying. What to do? by nmfisher on Saturday March 14, 2020 @11:10AM (#22575824)
> I hate it when people call it panic buying. It's not a panic. People are preparing themselves to have food for 2 weeks. That's what you should do as well.

People have been loading up shopping trolleys with literally hundreds of rolls of toilet paper. Easily enough to last a year. If that's not panic buying, I don't know what is!

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Re:Ask HN: People are panic buying. What to do? by Fnoord on Saturday March 14, 2020 @04:37PM (#22578483)
Yes, some people are "prepping" or "panic buying". There's various degrees. The complaint is that some people do it over the top which affects us all. Though how exactly over the top is defined isn't clear.
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