Food shortages and toilet paper shortages, explained

The sudden shift in the way Americans shop is stunning – we used a marble machine to unpack what's going wrong.

[bradgamwell]

This explanation makes perfect sense. But I also believe there was an initial bout of panic buying. At least where I live, the toilet paper aisle was cleared out in a day. You don’t start working from home and all of a sudden need four mega roll 72 packs of tp. 😂

[DougGrinbergs]

I've seen various articles explaining the vastly different supply chains of commercial toilet paper vs. consumer side - eye-opening.

[HeavyK.]

They could try to pay people a little bit more money to help with the farming and the meat packing? Obviously there's a number of people that have been fired and put on unemployment.

[KJSvitko]

The federal government and the con man in Chief were too slow to respond to the problem.
We need leaders that believe in science and scientists. Climate deniers were the same people that did not believe the scientists about the corona virus. Voting matters.

[krajaram]

Don't be panic on toilet paper, try Indian ways