No. This is bullshit. The times in the past few weeks that we’ve gone to the supermarket, we’ve seen multiple people with 2-6+ huge packs of toilet paper in their carts — enough to last a family of four months.

You can’t tell me that’s not hoarding. Contrarianism just to be contrary doesn’t lead to truth. It’s just another, cooler way of being a dumbass.

Of course there is an upsurge in demand. But the hoarding started before the main body of the crisis even hit. What really started it is news out of Australia that toiler paper was short there due to Covid-19 panic-buying. The hoarder types in the US picked up on that and started buying huge amounts in excess. Hoarding begets hoarding so many people followed the initial hoarders.

That is how it happened, and that article is complete bumbaclot.