Re: OT:Women charged after fight over toilet paper in Sydney

But why is toilet paper a front runner? Surely food, water, etc. a rather more important than toilet paper. ... and one can improvise toilet paper, food is rather more difficult.

Obviously the ?Spike mentality? is quite common.

Just think how the snowflakes will react when Greta and her ER crowd get their way and the Internet doesn?t work because there is no electricity ;-)

Food can be delivered & left outside before opening the door. Bogroll: if you need a lot you sure don't want to be using an ad-hoc substitute - but of course that can be ordered along with the food... until people panic buy it, then you can't.

NT

Some psychologist was saying that people will hoard whatever makes them feel in control.

It was explained in the bit you snipped. When people are worried or anxious they gravitate towards familiar things.Everyone is familiar with toilet paper from childhood whereas hand sanitiser is a fairly recent innovation which will have been totally unfamiliar to many people a few weeks ago.

This morning a Sainsbury in a fairly upmarket area of West London dripping with luvvies and media types, had two pallets of industrial size packs of toilet rolls by the checkouts. It was interesting to see the more upmarket i.e Non-Iceland types who were picking them up, and putting them into their trollies. Some even two at a time.

michael adams

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I presume most people buy/use toilet paper so enough will get made for everyone to have some. I and I presume many others have never bought an alcohol based hand sanitiser so there will have to be a very bigh increase in production for everyone to have some. The government should have ensured that there is an adequate supply last year when covid-19 first appeared.

the relevant factories are not nationalised.

What's not explained well is that hand washing the 'normal' way with soap and water is probably more effective than 'hand sanitizer'. The only reason for using a hand sanitizer is that it's more practical in places like shops/hospitals/offices. So at home simply wash your hands.

Hard to see that dunny paper and paracetamol does that tho.

But its very far from clear that everyone will want some. Most will presumably use soap and water if they even bother to wash their hands more frequently.

The government

Easier said than done and hard to predict how much would be needed then.

Newspaper won't self-destruct quickly, so it will possibly block the bogs and sewers. Also, don't use kitchen tissue (same reason, but not quite as bad). If you have to, make sure it is used in pretty small pieces.

On 09/03/2020 13:45, Ian Jackson wrote: ... snipped

That's why I said "burn it"

You could just put it in a poythene bag lined bucket and bin it, like your foreigners do.

Aussies get their toilet paper from China.

No we don't, its made locally in this country.

In the 50's my Dad always tore up old newspaper into 6" squares, skewered a hole in the corner and hung it up in with some furry white string in the bog. We all had to use that. Don't ever remember it not flushing. Mind you we had one of those high mounted overhead cisterns whose flush pretty much shifted anything in the pan, not like the wimpy flushes of today. In the 60's we upgraded to the Izal rolls, still made your arse raw but at least it said it was medicated.

news paper of that era was not these same as is used nowadays. Charge of printing technology .

But at least the ink doesn't come off on your bum.

How did you manage to look? ;-)