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

[Jay E. Morris]

On 3/26/2020 10:49 AM, Phillip Helbig (undress to reply) wrote:
> 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.
> 

https://www.cnbc.com/2020/03/11/heres-why-people-are-panic-buying-and-stockpiling-toilet-paper.html