Thread by @Telegraph

🧻 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