Coronavirus and the 2020 toilet paper crisis

[Platy767]

I'd just like to get some toilet rolls, that's how I see it 

I tried on Wednesday, and then actually lined up on Friday morning before opening time at the supermarket and missed out both times.

I think I will have to revert to online order and home delivery!

I took my frustration out on the layout - lifted all the track, points and stripped off the old cork. Just finished gluing the new cork in position for the new track layout.

[Mr Sprue]

I'd just like to get some toilet rolls, that's how I see it 

LOL.... They are selling out big time at Aldi's.  I think the fad is now moving towards buying and stocking up  canned food. You would think world war 3 is about to erupt, pathetic isn't it!

[tutenkhamunsleeping]

I'd just like to get some toilet rolls, that's how I see it 

At some point you may have to consider buying secondhand 

[njee20]

The toilet roll thing is utterly bizarre. There should be a 1 million percent tax on multiple packs, at least any idiots 'stockpiling' can contribute positively to the economy.

[Bealman]

I know an ancient joke about a loo with no paper, but being a family friendly forum, cannot reproduce it here. 

[Bealman]

Personally, I think the footage of those women fighting over toilet roll in the supermarket is hilarious.

[Chuffington]

I'd just like to get some toilet rolls, that's how I see it 

In the local Lidl store on Friday they were limiting customers to 2 packs each...so the 36 roll packs went first, then the 24 roll packs, then the 18 roll packs...I'm sure you can guess the 4 roll packs were the last to sell out.
Plenty of kitchen paper towels left for some reason...

[Graham]

it was reported over the weekend that the Kimberly Clarke plant in SA have upped production, so should be back to normal on the shelves shortly. Just means those who panicked will not have to buy any for many months, and hopefully don't make a profit out of fighting to get more than they need.

[honestjudge]

I'd just like to get some toilet rolls, that's how I see it 

I've started to use both sides.

[Delboy]

I'd just like to get some toilet rolls, that's how I see it 

I've started to use both sides.

[Jon898]

I remember during the "3-day week" in the early 70's the paper companies largely shut down as their power supply was not reliable enough to warrant the risk of having to clear a paper machine that stopped half way through a run.  As a result, loo paper was almost unobtainable.  At the time I had a temporary job as a Customer Service Clerk at Sterling Winthrop in Suburbiton; they had a company store in the basement where they would sell you double packs of loo paper one-per-week at cost.  Going home on the bus clutching my rolls, I was approached by a man offering a pound for the treasure...no sale!

Meanwhile in Texas:
Jon

[acko22]

Hi all,

So that virus and models (or anything coming from China really), during my former military career I did do courses at the Defense CBRN (Chemical, Biological, radio logical and nuclear) School which well is on the same complex as Porton Down (The place where they worked out what the Russians had been spraying around Salisbury) and some how some of what they taught has stayed in my head!

So the virus and shipping, well honestly there is no chance of catching the virus off anything that has gone by sea, the metabolic rate of a virus is so great it needs a living host outside of a host living in sneeze or cough droplets it would be a matter of hours before it begins to significantly degrade and even the hardiest of viruses at this stage last no longer than 96 hours! Then add into it the environments that container would go through, the middle east at this time of year creates the perfect cleansing environment with heat in the day effectively cooking the containers and at night been close to freezing.
In layman's terms there is no way a person could survive 6 weeks with no more than a days supply of food then been cooked and finally frozen, so a virus that does depend on a living host has zero chance of surviving long enough, however maybe not as much now but air freighted good can pose an issue if not quarantined for a person so some tips I remember as i am sure not many have access to military decontamination materials on here for any air freighted good you are not sure of:

1) Mycota foot powder - The powder drys but it also has anti bacterial active ingredients which kills off said bacteria but also viruses!

2) Don't want to use that well a cloth and Malt Vinegar viruses are extremely PH sensitive and malt vinegar is highly acidic and will easily kill off anything on there!

[Bob Tidbury]

My eldest son says he has allready had enough Corona beer so has built up an immunity to and as a young boy I drank a few bottles of Corona fizzy pop so I must be immune as well .
Bob Tidbury

[railsquid]

I experience the Great Japanese Toilet Paper Shortage of 2011, which in part was due to genuine supply chain issues following the earthquake (but mainly due to panic buying) and am bemused to see the rest of the world follow suit this time (it hit us last week when a rumour went round that raw material supplies from China were being interrupted, except it turns out 97% of all toilet paper sold in Japan is sourced entirely within Japan).

I do however sleep smug in the knowledge of a loft containing a reasonable (non-recently acquired ) reserve of toilet paper, tissue paper, face masks, hand sanitizer and other non-perishable Useful Stuff laid in after 2011 in the anticipation of another posterior-clenching crisis 

[Jon898]

There is also the patriotic approach to mask shortages:


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZjZ24uU05bY

Jon