People concerned about the outbreak of coronavirus are clearing shelves at their local grocery stores, stocking up on frozen and canned food, filtered water, and toilet paper.
Numerous Twitter accounts have posted pictures of sparsely stocked stores after crowds of coronavirus preppers began hoarding supplies this week. At least one person was seen buying a cream-colored coffin.
Too advance. ?♀️. #panicbuying pic.twitter.com/S0VJ9SUY8V
— Kenneth Sullano (@keennn00) March 13, 2020
Me: “Why are people hoarding water??”
Grocery store worker restocking shelves comments to me: “Because people are stupid!” pic.twitter.com/UxikBPdX1b— Emily Larsen (@emilyelarsen) March 12, 2020
#TraderJoes in downtown Manhattan, on 6th Ave & Spring St. Ppl have lost their goddamn minds. I’ve never seen anything like this. #Covid_19 #CoronavirusPandemic #panicbuying #apocalypse2020 #NYC #masshysteria #GodHelpUs #coronavirus pic.twitter.com/PUwXQVuqyd
— Tiffany Chantel (@tiffchanteuse) March 13, 2020
Twitter users have complained about shortages of toilet paper, food, cold and flu medicine, and other supplies. Videos of fights breaking out between customers grabbing the last item of whatever is in stock have also surfaced.
#Covid_19 #panicbuying #coronavirus #COVID19
People, please don’t be like this. We’re all in this together. Okay?pic.twitter.com/h8uXraYXrX— McSpocky™ ??? #VoteBlue2020 (@mcspocky) March 13, 2020
A hospital worker put out a plea for donations of face masks and hand sanitizer. The hospital’s supplies are running low amid the coronavirus-inspired rush on suppliers.
PSA: PLEASE, if you have been hoarding #masks and #sanitizer, consider donating them to the hospitals and doctors who need them most. Offices (including mine) are running out of supplies – and the average age of my patients is well over 65. ???? #COVID2019 #PanicBuying pic.twitter.com/xx39ecRjGD
— Ilene W. (@IWGregorio) March 13, 2020
One user shopping for baby wipes in Colorado found the store aisle all but empty, saying, “I legit got a whole baby who needs his ass wiped. Greedy ass people buy what you need and think of others.”
Whoever bought all the wipes in #Colorado can you sell me a pack I legit got a whole baby who needs his ass wiped. Greedy ass people buy what you need and think of others that’s why this world is so fucked up everyone looking out for them selves #panicbuying God is watching you. pic.twitter.com/e5t8N30vNJ
— C Tello (@ciara_tello) March 13, 2020
The outbreak of the coronavirus has sparked a rush of people buying spots in the Hollywood Forever Cemetery. The graveyard’s co-founder Yogu Kanthiah said of the influx of orders for predeath plots, “Never seen anything like this before. It’s crazy,” according to TMZ.
