Question: Why are people stocking up on toilet paper?

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132. Reading this thread has been informative and given me some good chuckles.

I must be either "weird" or "different" or just a laid back, not anxiety ridden sort of person because it hasn't even crossed my mind to stock up on anything. I live alone now, but in the past I have lived through one hurricane where as a family of four at the time, we were without power for two weeks and I don't remember either starving to death or not being able to buy t.p.

Maybe it's just me, but doesn't all this hoarding and worrying just make your emotional health worse? Do people who stock up like this really feel like whew, I can now just go about my life and not worry about this virus? Or are they only temporarily satisfied; i.e. have a sense of control (even though we know that there's very little we control in this life) and then they start to worry about what happens when they've used up that month's supply of t.p.? I always keep clean, bleached rags and laundry soap on hand, so if I had to I could use those and rewash them if need be. Or just old washcloths. As someone up thread has already said, washing that area with soap and water is more effective anyway.

I guess I'm just not the worrier type. I'm so glad I have never had that issue.