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The Best Reactions To Australia’s Extremely Stupid Toilet Paper Crisis

"Apparently our priority in a coronavirus apocalypse is a clean asshole."

by Michelle Rennex  4 March 2020
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A wave of stockpiling has swept over the nation as fears over coronavirus continues to grow.

Following the first death of an Australian at the hands of COVID-19 coronavirus, Aussies have begun clearing out grocery stores of nonperishable and staple household items. Despite Coles and Woolworths confirming that they have more than enough warehouse stock to meet the demand, the panic has not slowed anxious shoppers.

With confused and concerned customers documenting the empty shelves in their local grocery stores on social media, the hysteria has only snowballed. For some unknown reason, the most popular item across all stores appears to be toilet paper — with people clearing shops entirely of the item.

As a result, stores like Woolworths have had to impose a four-pack per customer limit on toilet paper to “ensure more customers can access stock”. Despite COVID-19 coronavirus being a respiratory illness, similar to the common cold or flu, people across the globe have somehow decided that the virus has gastro-like symptoms.

With the way toilet paper is being stockpiled by the trolley-full, it can only be assumed that people expect to shit themselves for two weeks straight if they were to contract the virus.

For those with logical brains, the toilet paper crisis sweeping over Australia has just become a giant shitshow — and like with all other shitshow’s, the only way to cope is through memes.

As #ToiletPaperGate and #ToiletPaperCrisis started to trend on Twitter, people begun poking fun at 2020’s dumbest “crisis” yet: Australia’s Great Toilet Paper Apocalypse. Here are all the best memes so far: