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Originally Posted by xor
Panic buying is a completely rational response imo. People rightly don't trust the supply chain to deliver there goods/services so are stocking up. If a plague impacted up to 10-15% of the population then i think it would be pretty hard to convince someone to stack shelves in a supermarket for minimum wage.
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It's understandable in the sense that many people aren't especially engaged with the world and only really have knee-jerk responses when the world starts impinging on whatever niche they've etched out for themselves.
But for anyone thinking things through, panic buying would be too little, too late. If they were really that worried.