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Gyro:

--- Quote from: wraper on March 13, 2020, 03:49:18 pm ---Did you miss the last roll and now have nothing to wipe your ass? ;D My sister in UK told me all toilet paper and eggs are gone.

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According to a notice in my local supermarket, the shortage of eggs is down to all the flooding we've had here recently. I'm not sure what that says about the fate of the hens, but in terms of panic, the ass wiping still seems to be key.  :D

The Soulman:
Another viral thread..  :palm:
I'll leave this here:

https://youtu.be/qPpfLiIODRk

bsfeechannel:

--- Quote from: blueskull on March 13, 2020, 05:46:55 pm ---You can wipe your ass with hand under running water and wash your hands, which is essentially what those smart Japanese toilet covers do for you.
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What happened to corn cob for butt wiping?

Siwastaja:

--- Quote from: SiliconWizard on March 13, 2020, 07:29:07 pm ---Anyway, as I said, sure people are often overreacting when there's a possible shortage. But as others have said, you may also see that as just being responsible and anticipating.

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The key is being early. This concerns all kinds of actions, be it the threshold for putting people in quarantine, or stockpiling food. The sooner you do it, the easier it is, and the smaller the consequences. By being early, you can take actions that are, by the standards of that time, considered quite "strong", but they are still objectively quite mild and of small negative consequences. By being early, you always are a step ahead and have the option to take progressively stronger actions, if still needed. And if you did overreact, you didn't go very far, and did little harm.

If the feedback loop has a long delay, the error term keeps increasing despite the feedback actions. Often, feedforward is the answer.

janoc:

--- Quote from: SiliconWizard on March 13, 2020, 05:38:42 pm ---
--- Quote from: ataradov on March 13, 2020, 04:15:13 pm ---But you won't be sitting home 24/7 for 45 days. You still still have to go grocery shopping, may be much less and being more careful, but still. You can pick up some TP at the same time.

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Thing is, nobody knows at this point what we will or won't be allowed to do.
We can just suppose governments will have to find reasonable ways of handling this so people don't starve. And yes we have the example of China, which so far managed to take pretty drastic steps without wreaking complete havoc. But how long would this be sustainable?


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Seriously, if we get to the point where people will not be able to go get food in one way or another, then this would likely be the least of your concern.

It is a serious epidemic but that doesn't mean that everyone will get sick at the same time, that everyone will be out of commission for weeks so you won't have supplies in stores because there won't be anyone to make them or to deliver them or that people won't start revolting if you try to keep them locked down without supplies. If it gets that far then it would make little sense to maintain a quarantine because you would either die due to the disease or because of hunger.

Even the Spanish flu didn't have people running out of food - and that was during a war, to boot.

You are panicking and worrying way too much, IMO.

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