Talk:2020 toilet paper shortage

In the year 2020, there was a disease started in Wuhan, China known as SARS-CoV-2, Covid-19, Covid, Coronavirus, Or Corona. In early January of 2020 China started to worry about this. On March 13, 2020, it was officially announced by the World Health Organization that this was a global pandemic and there would be a mandatory stay at home order across many countries. People didn’t know how to react to this, obviously because most of them haven’t been in a global pandemic before. Some people didn’t feel the need to worry, while others freaked out. People started to panic buy food, water, batteries, and many things due to the fact that they didn’t know how long this would last. While things like that seemed normal, there was one thing that people felt it was necessary to buy. This was toilet paper. Now, on paper toilet paper doesn’t seem to weird to buy, but when people would buy loads of toilet paper, it was odd. Every store you went to, the toilet paper aisle would be empty. People would buy hundreds of rolls and others would fight to get at least one. People known as the internet meme “Karens” would fight there way to the top to get various stacks of toilet paper. Many people did not have toilet paper and had nothing to wipe with. This was very strange.

Written by Luke — Preceding unsigned comment added by 73.252.164.83 (talk) 03:58, 28 February 2021 (UTC)

Contested deletion
This page should not be speedy deleted as pure vandalism or a blatant hoax, because... (I have changed the original article and included supporting arguments for it. Further more the article is not finished, and will be probably be extended with more facts as events unravel in the coming weeks ) --Spejic88 (talk) 17:08, 13 March 2020 (UTC)
 * Maybe this should be moved to the Draft namespaace? Mattx8y (talk) 18:58, 22 March 2020 (UTC)
 * I would say that at this time the article should probably be deleted. There are no sources cited, the article naturally has very little information, and it's pretty contentious whether this is even notable enough at this stage to warrant an entire article. Alex the weeb (talk) 23:43, 23 March 2020 (UTC)
 * Without citations, this article (currently full of weasel words) is going to cause nothing but problems, and will be a disservice to WP users. For the interested, here's what happened when Johnny Carson joked about such a thing in 1973. KConWiki (talk) 14:45, 24 March 2020 (UTC)


 * This is definitely a thing here in the UK (I guess that people still want to be able to wipe their bums even if they're spreading a virus) but surely it should be merged to a more general article about panic buying/prudent stockpiling during this pandemic? Phil Bridger (talk) 19:41, 24 March 2020 (UTC)