Jaicee on 14 March 2020
| NightlyPoe said: I really wish that these stores had instituted strict limits on purchases early on. Now we've got lines out the door to supermarkets. And it's not even like we'll realistically use all that much more of most of the products that are now in scarce supply. |
It's self-reinforcing at this point. Everyone sees everyone else emptying out the stores and worries there won't be anything left by their next shopping trip, so maybe they too should go ahead and stock up while there's still stuff on the shelf...and so, in this way, the panic becomes a vicious cycle where everyone responds to everyone else's panic endlessly.
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