The Great ‘Poodemic’: Toilet Paper & Covid-19

Christopher Kelly
4 min readMar 5, 2020

You’d think gastroenteritis was on the rise, not another version of the flu. And yet, toilet paper is flying off the shelves like there’s no tomorrow!

In my home city of Sydney, Australia, a shopper pulled a knife on another person in a bid to buy toilet paper. In fact, standoffs like these are being reported across the western world. And it’s not just toilet paper, but non-perishable…

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Christopher Kelly

Just your friendly gay man setting the record straight.