Panic...What Panic? / myLot

March 4, 2020 3:46pm CST

My city probably isn't the best place to get a headache. I've noticed what appears to be panic buying of sanitary items, especially hand sanitisers and headache medicines. No doubt other cities are experiencing the same thing, or maybe we are the only one.

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NJ Chicaa

@NJChicaa (120176)

• United States

4 Mar 20

Hand sanitizer is very difficult to find in this area.

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topffer

@topffer (42156)

• France

4 Mar 20

Everywhere. The price of hand sanitizer exploded in the past days in France. Our government has decided today to fix the sale price by decree, which is something very rare, happening once every 10 years when an item is too expensive.

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BarBaraPrz

@BarBaraPrz (47684)

• St. Catharines, Ontario

7 Mar 20

@topffer That's good.

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youless

@youless (112586)

• Guangzhou, China

5 Mar 20

In fact I think washing hands by a normal soap will be fine enough. Sometimes being panic for something is not reasonable. Here there are enough products in the supermarket and therefore people will not be in panic. I only found some kinds of sausages and bacons are not available in this moment and that's it. Supplies are fine.

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marguicha

@marguicha (223841)

• Chile

14 Mar 20

Doctor friends have told me that hand sanitizers are very bad for our skin.

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much2say

@much2say (56122)

• Los Angeles, California

5 Mar 20

I have seen friends photos on FB that are similar to this

- but it's not quite that bad here - yet. Here, I can definitely sense panic shopping going on, but I can still get most things fairly easily - and this is Los Angeles! But face masks are gone for sure.