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Toilet paper blues: coronavirus and pandemic pantries : Comments

By Binoy Kampmark, published 13/3/2020

In Japan, toilets for customers are replete with threatening language promising to punish the paper pinchers.

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So the proletariat are being criticized for their choices by socialist governments and their media mouthpieces.
What's different to normal?
Isn't this just what it always is?
Posted by jamo, Friday, 13 March 2020 3:15:01 PM
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Dear SteeleRedux,

In regards to Covid-19, indeed this is not a matter for politicians, but rather for each and every one of us - let us all keep physical distance from others and avoid places where we might be infected and/or infect others. Just be responsible yourself and don't listen to them: if politicians like to get the disease, then let them get it themselves.

And yes, this also means that you need to, if you have not done so already, have enough toilet paper and other necessary commodities at home, for a few months stay without having to go outside to the shops and risk yourself, your family and others.
Posted by Yuyutsu, Friday, 13 March 2020 3:22:01 PM
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Mass stupidity is an amazing thing.
Big Nana,
Imagine if it was taxable/exportable, we'd be wealthy beyond our wildest dreams.
Our education system appears to think the same way & appears to be working towards this new industry !
Posted by individual, Friday, 13 March 2020 4:59:18 PM
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Don't listen to Yuyustu's good advice. But Scomo's and just go about your normal business as if there wasn't a killer pandemic on the loose.

I mean, in Italy, we learnt that a few cases had been diagnosed and within literal weeks there were a thousand dead!

But don't you worry about that, we will not stop this virus, and once it's done its job and emptied out the nursing homes and bumped off the most vulnerable, those that cannot afford doctors, medicine and hospitals, are no longer a drain on the budget!

The rest of us with stronger immune systems will probably survive?

Winter is the season for coughs colds, flu and viral infections partly because we close up our domiciles and keep breathing the same stale air.

And keep the joint warm enough for the virus to survive for a week outside a human host. And do not go out in full sunlight, so you can avoid upping your vitamin D intake and with it, boost your immune response!

Remember that your guest doesn't survive in the cold and doesn't care for alcohol wipes on phones and such where it may survive for up to a week. It loves face touches and you touching yours out of habit!

And hates good hygiene and regular hand washing! If we all avoid close contact, choose not to congregate and work or study from home whenever possible, wear gloves and face masks when forced to use public transport?

We might not bump off enough old, sick and unemployed poor folk? All of who are a waste of space and a drain on the taxpayer.

So let's not get too efficient in refusing to spread this very opportunistic bug.

After all, it's the economy stupid!
Alan B.
Posted by Alan B., Friday, 13 March 2020 5:02:13 PM
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Alan B lets hope you are one of the bludgers who dies. I take that back Alan because at 73 I am a likely contender for that crown. If we lost a large cohort of my contemporaries (Not me of course) it would do wonders for our economy in so many ways.
Posted by JBowyer, Friday, 13 March 2020 8:21:17 PM
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I just look at this as the inevitable happening now ! I'm not at all surprised when I look at how the World's been running in the past 50 years.
What will make it bad for many is the realisation that for once, money will not open a safe door this time round !
Posted by individual, Friday, 13 March 2020 9:18:10 PM
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