I do now. Not local to me, but in Indiana.

I'm afraid to ask about this since we have some mutual friends there, iirc.

Nope, it's a SCAdian. I don't know him super well, but his wife and mine are reasonably close.

Your insight on the 'damned if you do' aspect of this is accurate in my opinion as is your assessment of the financial and vocational impact.

I didn't see anything that said 10x, but I am intentionally keeping my head out of the 24hr news cycle.

Did the experts tell people to buy ALL the toilet paper?

No. I'm still wondering who and how that started.

Estimates vary from 10 to 30x,i went on the conservative side.

Humanity and not the better angels of their nature.

'A person is smart. People are dumb, panicky, dangerous creatures ' - K - Men In Black

Can you give me a link?

This is curiosity, not a challenge.

It came from a fake post out of Japan, then my moronic nation grabbed it and went to town, its still going on here.

We have factories producing the toilet rolls, and trucks delivering it straight to the shops where more morons buy it and stash it.

Here's one I just googled. In casual reading, I've been seeing between 1% and 3%, and the flu is .1%.

https://www.businessinsider.com/coro...o-cases-2020-3

We'll know better in hindsight of course, but these numbers are pretty serious. A couple of big factors are whether a country's hospitals are overwhelmed (like Italy) and how far into the spread a country is (which si why I think those Nordic countries are low-- their cases are mostly in early stages).

Thanks! You're the first person ANYWHERE (several news sources included) to give me a decent reason for what seemed to be an overreaction until now. That second part about hospitals being overwhelmed totally makes total sense and news sources and government officials should be leading with it.

I just came from the grocery store.

Frozen potatoes are following right behind toilet paper. Also, I got held up at checkout for having more than 4 canned goods. There's a limit to 4 per family per day. I guess they let me off because I bought several small can s and I guess they could tell that I was shopping for the week and not the day.

At my local store, they're spraying your hands with disenfectant when you enter, they have pre-disinfected the shopping carts, they are limiting almost everything to 2 per person, the first hour of shopping is for seniors, and they're still out of things like toilet paper, disenfectant, isopropyl alcohol, etc.