What is it about toilet paper?

Hello all! I know we all are overwhelmed with news about COVID-19. I was thinking of writing about some other things but I feel people won't be ready to read them yet. So today it's  COVID-19-related and it's what I wrote under the subject line about toilet paper ka.

That's right....my niece and I found it so weird when westerners (started from Australians) discussed so seriously toilet tissue scarcity.

We then discussed it further too and the scare has been in countries from Australia to Germany, Canada, and America, from what I follow on Facebook, for example:

.....a café in Australia recently decided to accept toilet paper as currency (three rolls for a coffee, thirty-six rolls for a kilo of beans) from 

https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2020/03/30/what-would-freud-make-of-the-toilet-paper-panic

.... new apartment in a new neighborhood, where local groceries stores have toilet papers! (Canada)

.... Hunting for tissue!....getting some successfully with delight from a supermarket in a smaller town..... one pack per family! (Germany) 

---  I am not worried about tissue because Thailand trained me well!! To me it is not a necessity- like chicken eggs! (US)

 

I then learned that during the energy crisis in 1973, Americans cultivated a “shortage psychology.” 

".....toilet paper scare ignited a communal panic attack....." 

Wisconsin had news reports about the lack of toilet paper and even from an unsubstantiated rumor, people started hoarding it.   

"Slowly but surely, the American public realized that there had never been a shortage to begin with: rather, it had been artificially created by a pop culture frenzy."

https://priceonomics.com/the-great-toilet-paper-scare-of-1973/

The other day, I was watching an 'Impact Theory' program and a question about toilet paper was raised to a professor in psychology. The professor said he was like contagion that spreads far and wide ka.

We also learned from our friends and concluded that bathroom styles and the usage could be a key factor. Modern Thai toilets have health faucets and we don't really mind wet bathroom floors while in other contexts, they may not use the health faucets which could also be due to their infrastructure and preference of dry floor.

Toilet paper can be an issue na ka nia!

In any case, stay clean and healthy ka.