Not sure about other countries in Asia, but here in Thailand every toilet has a sprayer next to it. You get a lot cleaner and use a lot less toilet paper. So no TP panic here. If I ever move back to the US I will definitely install one.

The way I understand it, they're talking about asian (super-)markets, not the marktes of Asia.

At least that's the way here in Germany. While flour, toilet paper, some sorts of canned food and random other stuff is sold out in most super markets, the small turkish shop down the street has everything in stock.

On just toilet paper, or everything? It looks like S.Korea has remained calm pretty much the whole way through.

I think GP means Asian supermarkets in the US, places like H-Mart.

Non-Asian people haven't been raiding them because a) they either never knew or simply forgot these stores even exist or b) because racists think they're more likely to catch covid from anything Asian.

Well let's hope sanity prevails in a few small pockets like that at least. This whole thing is bad enough without further avoidable problems.