The Corona Virus

[Lvl 2 Expert]

I don't really get the toilet paper thing. What's that about?

People are buying it, en masse, as emergency supplies. It's the first thing to run out in every store where panicked people run in to stock up. Not canned foods, not bread, not any non-toilet paper sanitary supplies and certainly not the vegetarian meat substitutes, which were the only place in the store that looked normal by the time I got there for my daily meal yesterday. People want toilet paper.

It's a thing. I wish I had invested in the stuff.

Also @ Raptor: Yeah, with a condition like MS the whole thing must be much scarier. Good on you for taking your own precautions.

Although I wouldn't take stock markets plummeting as a sign that things are going to get bad, they do that all the time. Rising through the roof too. Both often for no reason or because of misinformation. At this point I treat stock market news as information about the world's most expansive game, almost completely detached from any real economic effects. But if you had stock that went down, good call.