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The tension under the COVID-19 pandemic has created a hotbed for spread of rumors and fake news.
Recently, Japanese society has also suffered greatly.
, I believe that many friends in Japan have suddenly experienced the fear of not being able to grab toilet paper overnight.
The recent daily greetings of major Chinese people in Japan have also suddenly changed from "Did you grab a mask today?" to "Did you grab a toilet paper today?"
It turns out that in recent days, rumors such as "Because China's toilet paper factories are shut down, it will be difficult to buy toilet paper in the future" and "Because toilet paper and masks use the same raw materials, the production of masks is given priority, so toilet paper is out of stock."
So, the Japanese people staged a farce of snatching toilet paper. When you walk into a store, you can see rows of empty toilet paper shelves.
However, the rumors were opened and the rumors were broken. The crazy refutation of toilet paper manufacturers in various places did not discourage the people's enthusiasm for shopping. Some people who could not buy toilet paper even came up with a trick - steal!
News of stolen from public toilets and shop toilets in various places have been heard one after another. In order to prevent toilet paper from being stolen, some toilets have even taken "weird" anti-theft measures.
Toilet paper: Are you in trouble?
Hand sanitizer: What am I doing wrong again?
finally, with the cooperation of the government and manufacturers to refute the rumors, everyone began to let go of toilet paper, and granite was targeted again.
Recently, someone suddenly began to advocate that granite has a "strong" anti-epidemic effect.
Those people said, "The rays released by granite have a strong bactericidal effect and are harmless to the human body, but they can kill the lowest-level organisms, such as viruses." "So they are forced to push granite as a weapon to deal with the new coronavirus."
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In fact, this kind of incident that caused the society to fall into a madness due to rumors has happened many times in Japanese history. The most famous one is the " Toyochuan Credit Vault Incident" in 1973.
1973, in Toyagawa City, Aichi Prefecture, Japan, three female high school students were chatting on the tram.
When talking about the way out after graduation, the female high school student A told two other classmates that she decided to work in Fengchuan Credit Vault after graduation.
At this time, B said to the two: "The future of Fengchuan Credit Vault seems to be very bad!"
At first, B just believed that Toyota Credit Vault was a local small financial organization, and perhaps there was more development prospects without national banks.
And she just expressed her concern to her friend A.
But C who was present at the same time misunderstood the meaning of B. Afterwards, she asked her aunt D: "I heard that Fengchuan Credit Vault seems to be bad, is this true?"
D didn't know the specific situation, so she called and asked her sister-in-law E who lived near Fengchuan Credit Vault in a suspicious tone: "I heard that Fengchuan Credit Vault is bad, is it true?"
At this time, E was running a beauty treatment with her. F from the hospital was together, so she said to F in a speculative tone: "Fengchuan Credit Vault seems to be very bad."
And F talked about this topic again when helping the boss of the laundry shop G do his hair: "Do you know, the future of Fengchuan Credit Vault seems to be very bad."
Coincidentally, this G had lost a lot of money because of other banks.
G was deeply uneasy and said to everyone: "The Toyochuan Credit Vault seems to be bad!" The rumor of
gradually spread. Not long after, everyone nearby knew it, and this sentence also changed from the original question to the affirmative sentence "
In the next few days, this news continued to spread. At first, it was peaceful, but then, a common move by a gas store owner H who was unaware of the rumors unexpectedly ignited the spark of the rumors.
On December 13, 1973, the gas store owner H came to G's laundry to borrow a phone call and asked someone to withdraw 1.2 million yen from the Toyochuan Credit Vault.
In fact, his intention to withdraw this money is actually just a work need.
But G, the laundry owner, was frightened when she heard it.
She hurriedly contacted her husband and relatives and friends, and immediately went to Fengchuan Credit Vault to withdraw all the money.
At a moment, news that Fengchuan Credit Vault was about to go bankrupt broke out, and banks also suffered a serious run.
Rumors are like a flood discharge, becoming more and more intense, and exaggerated rumors such as "the reason for the bankruptcy is that some employees misappropriate 500 million deposits", "the chairman committed suicide", etc. have also appeared.
Overnight, the bank was awarded 2.6 billion yen in cash.
At this time, it was only 7 days since A, B and C chatted on the tram.
After many investigations, the police who learned the truth were amused and crying. Who would have thought that the cause of this farce with such a great influence was actually an unintentional chat between high school girls?
In fact, coincidentally, in 1973, there was also a toilet paper chaos in Japan.
1973, the first oil crisis of broke out.
At that time, the International Petroleum Organization led by Arab countries launched a vigorous oil revolution and announced an oil embargo in order to regain control of Middle Eastern oil from European and American people.
Oil prices continue to soar, economies of countries around the world have been severely impacted, and Japan's GDP has dropped by 7%.
At that time, a Japanese toilet paper company had just developed a new type of toilet paper. In order to open up the market, they were putting on many advertisements. At the end of the advertisement, a woman hurried to a convenience store to buy toilet paper, but the clerk told her that the toilet paper was sold out and she would be available next week.
was originally just an ordinary TV advertisement, but under the rush of national purchases, toilet paper suddenly surrounded the seats of shortage of supplies.
On the afternoon of the day when the advertisement was broadcast, panicked Japanese people began to rush to buy toilet paper, causing the price of toilet paper to double.
Later, the government denied the rumors many times, but still could not stop the public from rushing to buy them in a crazy manner. In the end, I had no choice but to solve the problem through special means - purchase restrictions!
Seeing this, the editor couldn't help but sigh: History is indeed similar!
In special times, because of the fear of viruses, people are prone to sensitivity and nervousness.
However, for this reason, everyone should improve their recognition of false news and avoid being exploited by bad media and bad merchants. Don’t be deceived by rumors, don’t follow the trend blindly, and don’t over-stock up.
After all, some people's homes have not used up the toilet paper stocked up by their grandmother in 1973.
