Panic Buying
Just read trends on twitter. #panicbuying was one trend. the hoarding of goods to "weather" the plague. I thought it quite odd.Buying up TP instead of papertowels? Is just an alarmist point of view. How about the guys garage that is full of hand-sanitizer? Seems he doesnt have a place to park his car. At least it will not go bad. The neighborhood seems quiet tonight because at least "social distancing" is working.
Seems to me that social distancing would work better than panic buying. The current coronavirus situation is very much like the five-stages of grief. No one in Europe took the virus seriously until Italy came up with a huge jump in coronavirus cases. The current situation in Italy is at worldometer. So how do we look at the "Virus", like a joke or take it seriously? The 1918 Flu epidemic was the same with soldiers coming home from the War. The flu was H1N1 and no one really understands how it spread so much (50 million deaths worldwide; 675 thousand deaths inside the United States). The biggest threat was the latency... the time it took to catch the full blown flu compared to just having the flu. Sounds familiar to this flu virus, doesnt it. People buying up all the TP in a store compared to running out is wise yet foolish.
A pandemic,rampant and rife, is only what you make of it.
UPDATE: 24 March 2020 - Panic buying has virtually stopped in the U.S. I think it was because of the media stigmatizing buyers.
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