Re:Ask HN: People are panic buying. What to do?
by derekp7 on Saturday March 14, 2020 @01:01PM
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Facebook rumor that TP comes from China, and that the shipments were being blocked. In reality, the stuff come from Wisconsin and we have plenty of pulp.
Re:Ask HN: People are panic buying. What to do?
by distances on Saturday March 14, 2020 @05:41PM
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Are you serious about this? Surely nobody assumes all toilet paper is imported from China?
Re:Ask HN: People are panic buying. What to do?
by emsign on Saturday March 14, 2020 @04:51PM
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I thought the same thing and it must be that when you have a family, you can go through tp pretty quickly. Roughly four times as fast for two adults and two kids, and twice as fast if you live with your partner, compared to just living alone.
All the stuff people buy, most of it isn't for them alone.
Last trip to the grocery store I saw people carrying out 3 year supplies of TP but the stock of fever reducing medication was all untouched.