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Along with perfectly healthy people wearing face masks, another coronavirus-related issue is the amount of people who are hoarding groceries and home supplies. By now, we’ve all seen videos of panicked individuals fighting over toilet paper and masses of people scrambling to buy what they need. According to CNBC, it’s even led to some grocers limiting the number of food people can buy and urging shoppers to stop hoarding. As the article notes, “The panic buying has challenged grocery stores’ supply chains, as shelves are cleared more quickly than usual and workers must race to keep up.”
One individual who didn’t get the “stop stockpiling toilet paper” memo? O.J. Simpson. Taking to Twitter, the former football star posted a photo of himself walking out of Costco with a full trolley of supplies, including two 30-packs of toilet paper, multiple packs of bottled water, paper cups, and paper towels. He captioned the photo with, “Coronavirus? Who’s afraid?”
While some users responded to Simpson’s tweet with reminders that there are less-fortunate people who now cannot buy what they need because shelves are empty, others took a more comedic approach, including one user, who quipped, “Good grief, Juice. It’s coronavirus. Not dysentery. You having some stomach problems?”
Written by: Nicki
