From my experience people are spanners and will believe anything given the right situation. From the story the immediate circle of friends found it funny but the wider it went the more seriously people took it.
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From my experience people are spanners and will believe anything given the right situation. From the story the immediate circle of friends found it funny but the wider it went the more seriously people took it.
Toilet paper is the new Fortisip bulk buy....
Yep people do weird things when they get scared and the more coddled they are the more easily frightened they will be by all this. Its self worsening as well, the government saying "don't stockpile food" is interpreted as "food is scarce I must stockpile". The more you try to reassure them the more heavily you plant the idea there's a food problem beyond the one they are creating.
Force is the only thing that'll work, hence the cops being deployed to supermarkets to supervise shoppers this morning (reportedly big pinch of salt it was the Daily Panic). Quarantine will have to be enforced the same way.
I can't wait for airborne food drops. Not because I'd get food, but because I'm a bit of a plane spotter. Toilet roll half full and all that...
I threw the rabbit anecdote in to show add a bit of humour and colour to my post, it was mostly irrelevant.
The key bit I'm trying to get across is:
You're right about the not freaking out thing, but what I'm trying to get across with that anecdote is that the fairly affluent folk (vs their costs of living) are more inclined to panic buying stuff in bulk because they live a day by day consumer lifestyle and have no framing regarding priorities vs. people who are less well off, but are sensible and are able to cope as they budget and plan.
What worries me is how much larger (based of what we're seeing) as a % people in that first category are in regards to the general population.
A blander less vibrant example of what I'm trying to get across is their different approaches to coffee.
Both are java-fiends, however my ex will be absolutely stressing out because she basically lives on starbucks, costa et all (as they're all a stones throw away from her home and pretty much available all the time when open), whereas my father will always have a full jar of cheap coffee in the house.
You, sir, are not wrong.
You are right about the quarantine, the only way the government is keeping me indoors is at gun point
True, I live in the middle of nowhere and keep my own chickens. There's a farm up the road that does really good veg out of their back shed massive sacks of spuds for a couple of quid. No chance of starving round here. Also plenty of rabbits and rifles if it comes to that.
I was chatting to the girl who served me today in the supermarket and she told me they've noticed the panic buyers wait outside for them to open then rush in and swipe all the bog roll and pasta and such. After the first couple of hours it calms down and its like a normal day. So what they've started doing is putting out some stuff out for the eejits to fight over at opening time wait for them to scuttle off then properly stock the shelves for all the normal people after a couple of hours
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In other emergencies, you have a fire to put out, or a war to fight, there's things to do with other people. And some kind of end condition we can visualize. Our biologic stress response is made for that.
Enforced isolation and indefinite inactivity is not helpful for our stress. Part of the panic buying is just mental adjustment to loss of control. People need to DO something to achieve a tangible sign of progress.
The converse is taking place in Iran. Loss of control is preached weekly, and fatalism is prayed 5 times a day. Surrender to externalities with no effort at fixing it is wiping the population out. .
Enforced isolation and indefinite inactivity is not helpful for our stress. Part of the panic buying is just mental adjustment to loss of control. People need to DO something to achieve a tangible sign of progress.
The converse is taking place in Iran. Loss of control is preached weekly, and fatalism is prayed 5 times a day. Surrender to externalities with no effort at fixing it is wiping the population out. .
True, I live in the middle of nowhere and keep my own chickens. There's a farm up the road that does really good veg out of their back shed massive sacks of spuds for a couple of quid. No chance of starving round here. Also plenty of rabbits and rifles if it comes to that.
I was chatting to the girl who served me today in the supermarket and she told me they've noticed the panic buyers wait outside for them to open then rush in and swipe all the bog roll and pasta and such. After the first couple of hours it calms down and its like a normal day. So what they've started doing is putting out some stuff out for the eejits to fight over at opening time wait for them to scuttle off then properly stock the shelves for all the normal people after a couple of hours
Genius.
What they should do is put a big sign point to the rear of the store in the car park "Toilet rolls this way - minimum 2 giant multi-packs per person" Have a couple of pallets out there but with one person serving. But first they have to go to the desk to register the purchase by filling a form - because we're only allowing 2 giant packs per person/day.
That would keep the numpties tied up in queue for hours - meanwhile everyone can go inside get other stuff and a normal pack of bog paper.
Track the panic buyers by their tecso clubcard points and then get the army to raid their houses for the good of the nation
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Italy updated it's stats. Almost 800 deaths in the last 24 hours, an increase of 70% compared with Wednesday.
Also, things are escalating rapidly in North-America. As-of-yet unconfirmed reports are coming in Canadians have stopped apologizing to the virus.
Also, things are escalating rapidly in North-America. As-of-yet unconfirmed reports are coming in Canadians have stopped apologizing to the virus.
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Track the panic buyers by their tecso clubcard points and then get the army to raid their houses for the good of the nation
This was a good one.
Bog roll profit
In the comments - one suggested the revenue might want to make a few notes - another mentioned that it probably wouldn't be long before some interested parties turned up and "liberated" his stock.
Italy updated it's stats. Most 800 deaths in the last 24 hours, an increase of 70% compared with Wednesday.
Also, things are escalating rapidly in North-America. As-of-yet unconfirmed reports are coming in Canadians have stopped apologizing to the virus.
Horrible.
Saw reports earlier that about 40% in some badly affected areas are still showing up as away from home based on apparently anonymized tracking data from mobile companies.
Presumably some of those must be for legit reasons but anecdotally some still aren't getting the message.
This was a good one.
Bog roll profit
In the comments - one suggested the revenue might want to make a few notes - another mentioned that it probably wouldn't be long before some interested parties turned up and "liberated" his stock.
There's already a profiteering taskforce being set up specifically to target businesses marking stuff up for the crisis according to the BBC. Since he's popped his face in papers along with his prices he's probably going to get an official visit.
During the last big fuel crisis some filling stations did the same people bought the overpriced fuel but as soon as the crisis was over boycotted those garages and they went bust. It wasn't even an orchestrated boycott just people voting with their wallets.
Italy updated it's stats. Most 800 deaths in the last 24 hours, an increase of 70% compared with Wednesday.
Poor Italy. There are no words.
Especially since these stars advocate the respect for the confinement.
The day that the temporary cancellation of the NHL was announced, we didn't just stop apologizing... we started to go all WW1 shock trooper Canadian on it. Like, grizzled farmers crawling through no man's land with knives in our teeth. Our prime minister's wife got it, and knowing how often those two go at it, he certainly has it now too. The stakes are high up here in the great white north...
Here in France they are used to crazed shoppers, the 2018 Nutella Riots were good training..
www.bbc.com
Nutella 'riots' spread across French supermarkets
Police respond to violent scenes in French supermarkets as shoppers rush to grab cut-price Nutella.
www.bbc.com
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