🧻 Remember when shoppers rushed out to panic-buy loo roll in early spring, clearing the supermarket shelves in near-apocalyptic scenes?
That was just silly, wasn’t it? Except, fast forward to now, and history threatens to repeat itself 🤦
~a thread👇
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Have we learnt any lessons from last time? Well, some of us have. Some of us scoffed at the stockpilers last time around; then we arrived at the shops to find them stripped bare of essentials.
The joke, it seemed, was on us. #stockpiling #Lockdown2
It turns out, irrationally collecting resources is a mechanism to deal with uncertainty.
When we’re scared, we react emotionally, and without the cool, calm logic that might help us realise a 16-pack of Andrex won’t save us #stockpiling
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As the general sense of danger ramps up again, and we start to see a repeat of this kind of behaviour, it raises an interesting question:
Is the psychology behind raiding your local Tesco for essentials the same, or different, this time?
The answer appears to be a bit of both
Have you bought items in bulk ahead of further national lockdown restrictions?
#stockpiling #lockdown2 #coronavirus
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