The Covid-19 crisis is teaching us many things about personal hygiene. How to wear masks, how we’ve been washing our hands wrong all this while… and just how important toilet paper is to us.
You see it in the panic-buying sprees happening all over the world as the coronavirus spreads. It played out like a Hollywood disaster movie first in Hongkong last month where people were snapping up essentials. Among the items flying off the shelves: surgical masks and hand sanitisers (perfectly understandable), rice and cup noodles (of course), and toilet paper (but why though). Then we experienced it ourselves in Singapore in February, the fateful day when DORSCON Orange was announced. And now, people in Australia, the US and Japan are hoarding so much toilet paper, you’d be forgiven for thinking that they’d just licked food off the floor.
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1/91/9The big question: Why? -
2/92/9Literally fighting over toilet rolls in Australia. -
3/93/9Getting tasered in Australia over toilet rolls. -
4/94/9Pulling knives in the toilet roll aisle in Australia -
5/95/9Printing empty newspaper pages in Australia -
6/96/9Keeping loo rolls under lock and key in Japan -
7/97/9Armed heist in Hongkong -
8/98/9Finding love over toilet roll shortages in Japan. -
9/99/9If all else fails, there’s always the bidet.