1. "Panic buying" and "prepping" are two different things.

2. No government can repeal the Law of Supply and Demand. They all try, and they all fail. If you want to solve the problem of empty shelves and shortages, repeal all those stupid price gouging laws.

Yes, I've seen idiots grabbing cartloads of toilet paper at Walmart. Honestly, I thought it was funny, I wasn't angry about it at all. What would happen if Walmart was allowed to raise the prices of toilet paper? People who really needed toilet paper could still find it on the shelf, and all those panic buyers, faced with higher prices, would be less inclined to load up their cart with the suddenly expensive rolls. At the same time, manufacturers - taking advantage of the higher prices - would increase production and ship more toilet paper to the stores, driving prices back down.

It's just basic economics. They should be teaching this stuff in schools, but they don't.

Onward and upward,
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