RE: The Effects of Pandemic Panic in Australia.
Haha...I can just imagine people getting home to take stock of their emergency lock down stores...
9 months worth of toilet paper: Check
10 months worth of Spam: Check
Ridiculous.
I have been told people are rushing out to buy chest freezers and filling them with meat and frozen stuff...With this additional spending they won't be able to afford their normal daily costs...Chest freezers burn a lot of power...Hmm.
My receptionist is fielding call after call from tenants who can't pay their rent...Commercial and residential tenants...Hmm...But they got 9 months worth of toilet paper though...No rent from tenants means landlords don't get paid...It's a fairly small leap to total breakdown from there.
Big problems on the horizon. Just wait until someone in America starts trouble...Civil unrest there, reported by the media will incite the same here, and everywhere...Come to think of it, the way I've seen people behave in supermarkets on TV here...Maybe we'll be the ones to start that trend.
Human nature at its finest worst.
Planning ahead is obviously not something that comes naturally to most. Any amount of that in the majority of people and none of those things you mentioned would be an issue.
I to heard about sales of freezers going through the roof. If you never had the need for extra freezer space before this, then what are you going to do with it when this is over?! We have a chest freezer as well as our side by side and we most certainly use it. Whether we will when the kids move out is a different matter, though.
It's all upside down with worse to come....And yet, when we come out the other side those same people panic-buying to be prepared will lapse back into their irresponsible ways until next time...Seen it before.
I have my two 70L ARB fridge/freezers running off solar right now...Not that we have much meat as Faith doesn't eat it and I rarely do...Still, pays to have some cold-storage and why not if powered by the sun huh?