greggerypeccary wrote on Mar 24
th, 2020 at 9:24am:
Carl D wrote on Mar 24
th, 2020 at 9:22am:
All of this panic buying BS probably starts with one person or a few people in a certain area who notice a shortage of a particular item in the stores.
Then, they're straight onto Facebook, Twitter, etc. with their "OMG!!! There's no toilet paper/eggs/pasta/whatever at our local store. Has anyone else noticed that?" panic messages.
And, just like a virus (worse, actually), the messages spread all around Australia and before you know it , the store shelves are emptied.
Facebook, Twitter and all of the other social media should have been shut down as "non essential services". I would consider them more of a threat to national security at this point - same as the media.
1000% agree.
They need to be shut down asap.
They've caused this problem, which otherwise would never have existed.
No no no 😔
I’m a fan of Facebook, has kept me in touch with overseas relatives in Italy and California, it’s easy and free.
Relatives in California are in their 80s and 90s and isolated, and they have the knack for using Facebook and keeps us all in touch effortlessly.
I understand there can be negatives with fb for some, but not for all.
But it’s like that with anything, both the good and not so good find a place to occupy itself amidst humans.
I recall, ages ago, when the lockdown happened in China, after some weeks, where many Chinese were not prepared with much warning of lockdown, they didn’t get a chance to ‘panic buy’.
I distinctly recall, the first complaints being at the fore from within their locked apartments, was, they ran out of toilet paper.
But within their apartments in lockdown only, not, on the whole from stockists.
Then, the frenzy started from that, as the rest of the world watched how China’s situation advanced.
We need to watch Italy now, and they did do a video weeks ago, saying they were talking to the rest of the world in our future to come.
I put up a heading in a new post about it, for anyone that wishes to see it.
So we know how it will be once we get to level 4, just like NZ has now.