Coronavirus and a lack of Toilet Paper

     I'm sure that everyone reading this has heard about the coronavirus. Social media has lots of various memes, school closing statistics, and DIY ideas for essentials that are suddenly rather hard to come by. Like toilet paper, for example.

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Tuesday night I had class. During break, a common topic was the impending coronavirus. 

       "Yeah," one of my classmates said, "I had to go to several different stores before I found one that had common paper supplies. I also didn't realize what kind of demand there is for hand sanitizer!"

I, along with a majority of the class had to chuckle. 

     "A toilet paper shortage?" I thought. "What kind of creative marketing scheme is this?

Just to be on the safe side, I texted dad just before I left and asked him how much toilet paper we had, and if I should stop at Walmart and get more. 

      He responded that I could stop and get a roll or two.

At Walmart, the aisle were quite empty in some departments. All the hand santitizer, even the small travel ones, were entirely sold out. Toilet paper seemed to be almost nonexistent.

       All of the sudden, in the middle of Walmart, I wondered if I was just a gullible person acting off the media scare of "buy it now, or you might not be able to later".

       "Well", I reasoned with myself, "even if this whole thing blows over relatively soon, 10 people do go through large quantities of the stuff."

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Today, with the mandatory school closings, I thought that this meme seemed pretty good:

Well, maybe not mandatory, but for those of us who home-school, no days off for you!