I love food.
My panry is packed of cans normally. I keep a freezer full of half meat / half veggies under normal circumstances.
I had a bowel condition when I was younger, this led to me having an irrational amount of toilet paper in the house at all times.
The ensuing panic here in Australia where a lot of our foods are and household consumables are produced locally is absurd.
Even more so that I restocked the entire house of all things (floor cleaner, cat litter, laundry powder, tinned goods) about three weeks ago. I guess I'm just an early adopter shrug
Australia has a really old population, and I live very close to a whole bunch of retirement homes. The local hospital isn't being used to contain any cases in my suburb, so it will be horrific if there's an outbreak in the local area. There's probably several thousand geriatrics within a five-seven block radius of where I live.
People act very irrationally in face of a crisis. I of course think a certain level of preparation is always a good idea, but thinking we'll suddenly run out of toilet paper and pasta is insane. We have bides in almost every single bathroom in Finland, and pasta isn't very nutritious in the long run.
Our people are old too, and I heard that they will stop allowing visitors in elderly care homes, both to protect the old, and the nursing staff.
Australia just cancelled the F1, limited gatherings of more than 500 people...
It's gonna be a fun few weeks / months / epochs... lol