The new crown epidemic has begun to break out in many parts of the world. Affected by the epidemic, masks and disinfectants have long become scarce materials.
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However, people in all regions of the world have set off a wave of "grabbing toilet paper" .
First of all, we look at our neighboring country, Japan. has been discussed most frequently on Japanese social networking websites in the past few days. once became the second hot search for Twitter:
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Recently, Japanese people went to supermarkets, drugstores and other places. The first thing many people need to do is to rush to the toilet paper container, and get as much as they can:
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recently checkout places in shopping malls and supermarkets. Everyone is carrying large bags of toilet paper in their hands. If you grab it, you will make a profit:
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For a time, people have long been bought on the shelves of these supermarkets and drugstores:
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Faced with the sudden crowd of people grabbing toilet paper, some merchants have introduced purchase restrictions, from one person to only buy one bag of toilet Only one bag can be bought when you get a paper:
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But this still cannot stop the Japanese people from grabbing toilet paper. Many merchants have been sold out on the counters:
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Many merchants have hung notices that toilet paper was sold out:
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and the otakus who grabbed piles of toilet paper seemed to have reached the peak of his life at this moment:
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faced with the crowd of people snatching toilet paper, at first some merchants didn't know what happened. later learned that since the outbreak of the epidemic, all kinds of rumors on the Internet have been flying all over the sky.
and these messages are probably like this: "Because the raw materials of masks and toilet paper are the same, toilet paper may be short of." "The production of Chinese factories may be short of toilet paper."
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But then someone denied the rumor that 98% of Japanese toilet paper is made in Japan. The raw materials for toilet paper imported from China are only about 2%, which is almost negligible . Moreover, there will be no shortage of goods at this stage, and we call on everyone to buy rationally.
As for the raw materials of toilet paper and the raw materials of masks, the main raw materials of masks are non-woven , and more than 70% of the main raw materials of toilet paper are staple fiber pulp. Moreover, toilet paper and masks seem to be not used in the same place...
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But some friends are puzzled. Japan's smart toilets have such a high penetration rate, don't the toilet rings have the function of flushing PP? Why buy toilet paper?
It is said that after the Japanese people have filled with water, they will still habitually wipe it with toilet paper, and they will feel relieved.
Of course, in addition to these reasons, due to frequent earthquakes and tsunamis in Japan, Japan officially issued a notice in 2015 to reserve toilet paper for one month.
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It feels understandable to store some toilet paper a little, but because of the rumors, it turns into grabbing toilet paper, which is a bit confusing.
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However, the rumor that "masks and toilet paper are the same raw materials" is not a "first" in Japan. As early as early February, such rumors began to spread in Daiwan Province, my country, so that in Daiwan Province, it also triggered a wave of robbing toilet paper.
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Then, various TV stations in Taiwan Province quickly came out to refute the rumor that "the raw materials of masks and toilet paper are different":
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no It still cannot stop the craze of people in Taiwan to buy toilet paper:
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It is worth mentioning that in 2018, Taiwan Province, because some media jointly said that the international pulp raw materials prices would rise by 30%, and would be reflected in the retail price (that is, toilet paper will increase!), which immediately triggered a wave of people in Taiwan to buy toilet paper.
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was also investigated and dealt with later. The incident was due to improper marketing methods of the manufacturer and rumors spread by media reports. The toilet paper storm in 2018 was also called the Anshi Rebellion.
Of course, everyone still understands the posture level of Taiwanese media.
Similarly, rumors about "Chinese factories are about to be shut down" have also happened in Hong Kong, SAR:
Someone posted an internal message from Wellcome (a chain supermarket in Hong Kong) on a Hong Kong forum: said that the mainland production line was shut down, and many things, including toilet paper, would be out of stock.
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So in the supermarket in Hong Kong, young and old started grabbing toilet paper:
It is said that someone almost fought to grab toilet paper:
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soon disappeared on the toilet paper shelves in Hong Kong supermarkets and shopping malls:
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What makes people even more uncomprehensible is that because toilet paper cannot be bought, a robbery occurred in Hong Kong a while ago. I didn’t rob anything else, but only toilet paper: Three gangsters robbed 50 pieces of deliverymen with knives, a total of 600 rolls of toilet paper.
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toilet paper suddenly became a scarce material like masks. Even the SAR government has long since refuted the rumors:
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The same situation also happens in Singapore :
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so much so that Bloomberg published an article titled "Toilet paper is now a new hard currency in Hong Kong and Singapore" :
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However, the situation of grabbing toilet paper does not simply occur in countries and regions in Asia. Today, Hawaii, the United States also began to rush to buy toilet paper:
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It is said that Costco supermarkets in Hawaii have begun to stipulate that each customer can only purchase 5 bags of toilet paper:
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According to reports, some supermarkets in Australia have low toilet paper stocks:
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Of course, we have nothing to laugh at them. After all, when the epidemic started, didn’t we also buy things such as Shuanghuanglian?
In the face of the epidemic, human fears are the same, and in this era of information explosion, many people in are rushing to buy supplies, sometimes just to buy peace of mind.
However, in these eras of information, learns to distinguish and face it calmly. Sometimes it is much better than joining the rush to buy craze like this.
