[Info-vax] [Totally OT] Covid-19, was: Re: Creating an open source version of VMS, was: Re: OpenVMS Hobbyist Notification

[Phillip Helbig undress to reply]

In article <cb8ce49b-a890-4c8f-8008-1c7aa50c8660 at googlegroups.com>,
Andrew Shaw <andrew at feeandl.com> writes: 

> Down here on the other side of the world - Australia, we have panic buying 
> going on in epidemic proportions. In some supermarkets we have police 
> rationing the distribution of toilet paper, which by now you pretty much 
> just cannot get - at all.

I don't understand the toilet-paper hoarding.  OK, if one expects to be
at home more, one buys more in general, since one neither eats nor shits
as much away from home.  But why is everything else only, say, a factor
of 2 more or whatever, and toilet paper a factor of 8? 

There is a vicious circle, of course: if toilet paper is sold out, when 
it is available again even the non-hoarders will stock up, because they 
(correctly) assume that the hoarders will be back.

The scatalogical vicious circle reminded me of this:  A company wanted 
to use Johnny Cash's "Ring of Fire" for an advertisement.  His heirs 
didn't allow them.  It was for medication for hemorrhoids.