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Re:Ask HN: Anyone else suddenly become a 'prepper'? by watwut on Wednesday March 23, 2022 @05:53PM (#30783957)
People here made masks for each other, helped elderly and what not. I can totally see people sux in scarcity situation, but all in all, this pandemic was people trying to help and be helping.
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Re:Ask HN: Anyone else suddenly become a 'prepper'? by ux-app on Wednesday March 23, 2022 @06:39PM (#30784482)
>all in all, this pandemic was people trying to help and be helping.

Even here in South Australia where we were had tiny numbers (a few 10s of cases a day), the supermarket shelves were stripped bare of toilet paper, sanitizer, hand towels, food).

People suck

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Re:Ask HN: Anyone else suddenly become a 'prepper'? by empressplay on Wednesday March 23, 2022 @06:48PM (#30784576)
Weirdly, in Bendigo a bunch of Asian tour buses came up from Melbourne explicitly so they could raid the supermarkets. Crazy stuff.
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Re:Ask HN: Anyone else suddenly become a 'prepper'? by ux-app on Wednesday March 23, 2022 @11:45PM (#30786200)
yeah it turned into bizzaro world for a few months, which was especially weird since we were basically Covid free for the majority of the past 2 years.
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Re:Ask HN: Anyone else suddenly become a 'prepper'? by watwut on Thursday March 24, 2022 @10:05AM (#30789933)
I guess I am lucky, but there was no toilet paper shortage.
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