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Panic buying 09:18 - Mar 21 with 8893 viewsGuthrum

Is this a symptom of the nation's poor/fragile mental health?

After the shocks of Credit Crunch, Austerity, Brexit and now Covid-19 (that last dropping like a bolt out of the blue), was it all too much for people to take?

Discuss.

Good Lord! Whatever is it?
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Panic buying on 19:48 - Mar 22 with 683 viewsWeWereZombies

Panic buying on 19:38 - Mar 22 by stonojnr

no they dont, they do have credit cards though.


I think you might be surprised on that count, a lot of the disenfranchised do not have credit cards - hence the uptake of alternatives such as prepaid cards (Monese, Transferwise, Pockit and Optimum) as well as debit cards. If you have no credit history or a poor credit rating that may be your lot.

And then there are the cash only geezers. You never know how much they have tucked away, and sometimes they don't either and come a cropper.

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Panic buying on 20:05 - Mar 22 with 658 viewsBlueForYou

Was there a bog roll crisis during the war years? How did people cope back then?
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Panic buying on 20:10 - Mar 22 with 643 viewsRyorry

Panic buying on 16:04 - Mar 22 by WeWereZombies

Well the uptake has not been very encouraging so far.

And I am cantankerous enough already...

(There must be a word for stroppy that has more then four syllables)


"Well the uptake has not been very encouraging so far."

Might help to start at the beginning, not the end!

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Panic buying on 20:17 - Mar 22 with 631 viewsMarinerisGod

From a psychological point of view, it is the survival mode kicking in. This is lizard brain taking over. Not everyone has the capacity to remain calm and level headed in the face of adversity. We have discovered who. Factor in on top of that opportunistic souls who will look to profit from lack. Every Xmas you have such souls who will buy up all a certain toy just so they can sell them on.
They think it matters

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Panic buying on 20:19 - Mar 22 with 629 viewsjeera

Panic buying on 20:05 - Mar 22 by BlueForYou

Was there a bog roll crisis during the war years? How did people cope back then?


Is that how it works?

How did people cope throughout the Black Death and the Great Plague?

They died, mostly.

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Panic buying on 20:24 - Mar 22 with 618 viewsRyorry

Panic buying on 20:19 - Mar 22 by jeera

Is that how it works?

How did people cope throughout the Black Death and the Great Plague?

They died, mostly.




Jeera, I could hug you (from 2m social distance, obvs) - that's the first good belly-laugh I've had in 24 hours!

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Panic buying on 21:56 - Mar 22 with 581 viewsWeWereZombies

Panic buying on 20:17 - Mar 22 by MarinerisGod

From a psychological point of view, it is the survival mode kicking in. This is lizard brain taking over. Not everyone has the capacity to remain calm and level headed in the face of adversity. We have discovered who. Factor in on top of that opportunistic souls who will look to profit from lack. Every Xmas you have such souls who will buy up all a certain toy just so they can sell them on.
They think it matters


That accounts for a minority, albeit a sizeable minority, of individuals behaving badly but do you think that Guthrum is onto something regarding a nation (or nations) having a collective 'madness'?

And, if so, has this given us a propensity to just accept draconian measures or are the panic buyers, hoarders, pub goers and public park congregators a vanguard of rebellious behaviour that most of us will be indulging in next week?

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Panic buying on 09:04 - Mar 23 with 529 viewsAndrew4445

Panic buying on 20:17 - Mar 22 by MarinerisGod

From a psychological point of view, it is the survival mode kicking in. This is lizard brain taking over. Not everyone has the capacity to remain calm and level headed in the face of adversity. We have discovered who. Factor in on top of that opportunistic souls who will look to profit from lack. Every Xmas you have such souls who will buy up all a certain toy just so they can sell them on.
They think it matters


Isn't it also a symptom of a lack of decisive leadership at a national level. We watch the news from around the world of people locked in their houses for weeks at a time, we see the hospitals of countries with better funded systems than ours groaning and breaking under the weight and then our 'Prime Minister' appears. He provides no confidence that he understands the scale of the issue let alone is able to deal with the difficulties that we all know are coming. He cannot muster gravitas so instead it freightens people more and they take their own care into their own hands.
This is why it was so interesting to see the PM juxtaposed against the Chancellor. The Chancellor came across as informed, authoratative and ready to act. The PM sends mixed messages by the day - go to the park, see your monther, don't see your mother, don't go out.
Electing a clown is funny when everything is ticking along but now is the time for serious people and serious leaders and we are stuck with this.

It is a vaccuum of authority and as we all know, nature abhors a vaccuum.
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Panic buying on 15:43 - Mar 23 with 483 viewsRyorry

Panic buying on 21:56 - Mar 22 by WeWereZombies

That accounts for a minority, albeit a sizeable minority, of individuals behaving badly but do you think that Guthrum is onto something regarding a nation (or nations) having a collective 'madness'?

And, if so, has this given us a propensity to just accept draconian measures or are the panic buyers, hoarders, pub goers and public park congregators a vanguard of rebellious behaviour that most of us will be indulging in next week?


Seems to be 2 extremes atm - on the one hand, greedy selfish morons driving over 100 miles, loading up their Chelsea tractors (or even vans, I had one reliable source say) with bog rolls etc & commenting as they left "same run again tomorrow".

On the other, lovely neighbours looking out for each other & offering to help if they can.

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