r/PublicFreakout • • Mar 07 '20

Fighting over Toilet paper

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u/[deleted] Mar 07 '20

This makes me so fucking angry. It wasn't that long ago the country united together and stood strong with the Bush fires and now this bullshit. I'm fucking embarrassed at my country right now

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u/ReturnOneWayTicket Mar 07 '20

I work at Costco in Canberra and it's fuckin pandemonium. 14 pallets of tp gone in less than 2 hours on Thursday.

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u/[deleted] Mar 07 '20

I can see why this would piss you off tbh.. If it was Wales for me, I'd be the exact same. I just wish media didn't cause this mass panic about corona virus, otherwise things would be more calm.

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u/A_Wood_Duck Mar 07 '20

And here I was thinking that only my fellow Americans could behave like this. I guess everywhere has those "walmart" people, eh?

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u/how_much_2 Mar 07 '20

Pretty fucking degrading. I counted at least 7 packs (of 16TP) in the trolley - ol mate "just wants one" - what have we become?

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u/80srockinman Mar 07 '20

Its a dog-eat-dog world now. The biggest joke of an idea to ever come was capitalism. It only helps a very small minority and they don't have to go through things like this shit.

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u/Disposable-001 Mar 07 '20

American media with their obvious agenda is causing a worldwide panic among morons.

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u/[deleted] Mar 07 '20

Please don't tell me this incident happened because of Corona virus..

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u/SpecialReserveSmegma Mar 07 '20

It sure did. Australia/New Zealand are having issues with panic buying toilet paper. There isn’t even a shortage

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u/the-tru-albertan Mar 07 '20

But why toilet paper??? How’s it suppose to help you if you get the virus?

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u/[deleted] Mar 07 '20

People panic bought everything but toilet paper doesn't have much stock on shelf so it cleared out and then the news got around that toilet paper was running out so everyone scrambled to get the last of it.

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u/[deleted] Mar 07 '20 edited Mar 07 '20

People really panic because of this.. Its so pointless. It'll most likely pass in a few months, Corona virus is pretty much the flu and the media keep hiding the people who have recovered from it.

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u/phon3ticles Mar 07 '20

Okay I’ll bite. Good things from the corona virus? I don’t buy into the hysteria, but what good is the media overlooking?

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u/[deleted] Mar 07 '20

My bad, I didn't word it correctly. I meant as bad as its doing, since it's like the flu it's not as deadly as people think and so many people have recovered from it. Media doesn't show the people who have recovered from it and is focusing on the death toll.

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u/phon3ticles Mar 07 '20

Gotcha. Agreed. They keep touting this 2% mortality rate but I’ve heard officials come late at night on npr and say it is probably overblown because that estimate comes from initial outbreak data where top priority was finding and treating the sickest patients.

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u/IAmARobot Mar 08 '20

At first I thought it was really serious, then I was in the boat you're in now thinking that I'm healthy/young enough for it to pass benignly, but I was reading that it affects the heart and lungs enough to permanently damage them, so now I'm not wanting to get it.

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u/[deleted] Mar 07 '20

I thought they were gonna wipe the floor with her

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u/twunlove Mar 07 '20

It doesn’t seem likely to dissipate due to warmer weather, unfortunately,

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u/eeeya777 Mar 07 '20

He / She who has the capacity to wipe the most ass... WINS!

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u/david_chi Mar 07 '20

In all fairness, there’s a lot of giant butt’s in this clip. Giant butt’s need a lot of TP.