You always feel like reports of people around the world behaving like morons are exaggerated… but then you witness it for yourself, and you lose a bit of faith in humanity.
This whole pandemic thing is quite worrying… not for the disease itself, but for the way people are behaving. The most major issue by far has to be the panic-buying; I went over to our local Tesco the other day and saw a middle-aged woman walking out with three huge packs of toilet paper from the already mostly depleted stock; no-one needs twenty-seven rolls of toilet paper at that short notice.
I went again yesterday and happened to overhear some of the Tesco employees quite openly expressing their understandable frustration with people decimating their shelves. And this is just a tiny little local Tesco Express; I shudder to think what the larger stores are having to deal with.
Panicking doesn't help anyone, and acting in an inconsiderate manner just makes matters worse. I like to try and believe that I'm someone who can assume the best intentions from people, but it feels like it gets harder and harder to do that every day.
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