Corona virus Stockpiling
How grocery stores are affecting our view of the pandemic
THE GROCERY STORE PROBLEM. The stay at home in Ohio has been extended to May 1st at the earliest. Everyone has been stocking up for over a month with the supplies that they need such as food. Along with these necessities, others have been stocking up on Toilet paper, and they leave others with nothing. According to a NY Times writer and producer, “An excess of toilet paper will not help protect you against COVID-19, but it will cause a run on supplies that keeps others from getting what they might need.” Everyone buying these excessive amounts of food allows fear to come upon others’ minds if they did not buy enough as other people. Everyone wants their family to prepare and people buy as much as they can, no matter the cost and who it might be hurting.
Coronavirus is not something that happens every day in our world. No one knows how to act upon it, but they think that they do. This means stocking up on food and toilet paper for most people. At least that is how it has been for my family.
There are people fighting over food, and now ordering online two weeks in advance. This is because everyone is trying to get what they need, or at least what they think they need. It is a two-week wait for my family at Kroger now.
There are some people that keep buying more items even if they have enough, which is taking away from the necessities that people truly need.
With almost sold out, empty grocery stores, people think that COVID-19 is worse than it really is. People are getting an excessive amount of supplies for the coronavirus which causes other people to think that they did not prepare enough for this quarantine.
“My mom is freaking out and feels like we need to buy more since her friends have a lot more supplies than we do,” said Lily Danner, 9.
Since we do not have the full knowledge about what to do during this time, we do not know the exact amount of everything that we will need at our homes. Instead of conserving our supplies, everyone has panicked and stocked up on almost everything they could.
I think that this only makes people more nervous, and they think that COVID-19 is so bad that people are not even able to get the supplies that are necessary in their lives.
“An excess of toilet paper will not help protect you against COVID-19, but it will cause a run on supplies that keeps others from getting what they might need,” said Adam Westbrook, writer and producer for NY Times.
Everyone should be acting as a community who conserves our grocery stores so everything will spread equally, but instead, people are taking supplies for their families only during this hard time.
This is a learning experience for everyone, and it shows just how much people will do to get the items that they need or just want for them and their families.
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