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Re:‘I’m not an epidemiologist but’: The rise of the corona i... by wool_gather on Wednesday March 18, 2020 @06:21PM (#22621929)
> Instead of seeing op-eds with "stop raiding stores for toilet paper," all we saw (and still see) is "this president is incompetent."

Well, if one believed that both these things were equally true, which one would be more worthwhile writing about?

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Re:‘I’m not an epidemiologist but’: The rise of the corona i... by AnimalMuppet on Wednesday March 18, 2020 @07:35PM (#22622636)
Toilet paper? Even if one believes the president to be incompetent, that's not news. (The details of how that incompetence plays out today may be...) But toilet paper, last week, was making an actual difference in actual peoples' lives, right then, in a way that was new.
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