Can ebay please, delete all the ads for toilet paper because the big hype,

[annwillems-0]

To whom it may concern, 

Because the big hype, regarding toilet paper, and some people buying ridiculous amounts and than try to make money out of this on ebay , is not something to exept!  Please can you delete these ads? It is not fair, these people are buying so much, so other people are not able to do their normal shopping anymore! 

Thank you 

Kind regards A. Willems 

[countessalmirena]

Personal protective equipment.

It's used when referring to the usual protective equipment in a medical environment, and also in construction etc., when protective gear is required by law.

Various sorts of masks (to the required rating), protective eye glasses, entire hoods if needed, hard shoes, disposable gloves or reusable gloves made to required rating, etc. - these all come under that heading.

Much more about PPE: Safe Work Australia website.

[countessalmirena]

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@beautbots01 wrote:

Yes had that when living on a fruitblock.  Trouble was you had to be careful you weren't caught on the pan when the dunny man came.  

Change of topic.  My husband has just returned from shopping and said "No toilet paper in Woolworths".  But ok for pasta.

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I am NOT going to be wiping that particular region with pasta!

[brerrabbit585]

That could be what you'd call a sticky situation.

[brerrabbit585]

My fabric sales have been better recently. I wonder whether it's because paper is in short supply?

[countessalmirena]

dustyattic, I had a horrible moment at the doctor's today. (Family member with lung condition was presenting with blood in sputum. I provisionally identified as infection, but of course took him to the doctor for diagnosis and prescription of broad-spectrum antibiotics.)

There, sitting with smooth fat complacency upon the doctor's desk, was a large bottle of Aqium - the blue one.

For a split second, I envisaged grabbing it and running off. (More in jest than anything else.)

There's surely a story there... Apocalyptic world, dessicated desperate people driven mad by fears of a coronavirus long since conquered, desperately scrubbing at their hands in the OCD acquired from the time of terror... ganging up to break into doctors' surgeries and pharmacies to steal - not drugs, not scripts, not creams, not patient notes... but hand sanitiser.

Oh! And since I had gingerly driven for the first time today, I thought I'd amble over to the supermarket to pick up some replacement flour and semolina. NONE LEFT! There were some packets of tipo "00" but I have more than 5 kg of that (stored elsewhere where the moths couldn't get at it). I need flour for biscuits and flour for cake. (Different protein content.) I have had to throw out the semolina... Who is buying up all the semolina?

Grrrr.

[countessalmirena]

The mind frankly boggles.

[brerrabbit585]

Maybe all the trucks are too busy transporting toilet paper to be able to transport the food we need. I was beginning to wonder about that yesterday when I was in Aldi. I noticed a few empty spaces on shelves but I don't think I've ever seen any gaps in stock in that particular store before. If it's because the trucks are all carting paper then I hope the people who are over-buying it can't buy their favourite foods for a while!

Maybe it was because it was the first day after a long weekend (Warrnambool is a pretty popular tourist destination). Maybe the staff have been too busy breaking up brawls to restock the shelves. (Insert rolling eye emoti)

I wanted cacao powder and I don't know what was missing around it but there was a pretty big space. I was a bit selfish in taking the last three packets of cacao but I figured most of their other customers probably live a lot closer than me and can go back in again sooner than I can.

[countessalmirena]

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@davewil1964 wrote:

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@countessalmirena wrote:

I generally don't buy pasta because it's so easy to make and it gives me satisfaction to roll the pasta dough through my beautiful (red) Marcato Atlas machine. If there's a risk of tipo "00" flour and durum flour becoming harder to source, I might buy up some pasta... but I could just make some fresh and let it dry and store that at this stage.

Toilet paper is another issue. I don't see this becoming scarce except through people's panicking and stocking up. Am I correct in saying that the manufacture of toilet paper doesn't require any components that are likely to become hard to obtain? And that it is manufactured locally?

Some food and medicine are the major things we may find becoming genuinely hard to get. I hope that PPE manufacture ramps up at this point too, before global contagion interferes with production to a wider and more calamitous degree. 

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Yes - wood.

Yes - SA, NSW, VIC, WA and QLD.

I might have mentioned this before, but it's a RESPIRATORY illness, so rooms full of toilet paper just mean the idiots will not have to buy any for several years. I buy mine when it's on special, which I suspect will be in a few weeks time.

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Some of the chemicals used in the process (dissolving the wood) seem to be produced by quite a few Chinese chemical corporations. That's not to say that Australia couldn't produce those chemicals; I did wonder whether there might be a delay in the set-up if it turned out that the corporations weren't able to produce as much at some stage.

However, the mad buying of enough toilet paper to clothe ten thousand mummies seems ludicrous to me.

[padi*0409]

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@countessalmirena wrote:

I am NOT going to be wiping that particular region with pasta!

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Best start soaking the pasta countess :-

                                

[davewil1964]

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@countessalmirena wrote:

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@davewil1964 wrote:

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@countessalmirena wrote:

I generally don't buy pasta because it's so easy to make and it gives me satisfaction to roll the pasta dough through my beautiful (red) Marcato Atlas machine. If there's a risk of tipo "00" flour and durum flour becoming harder to source, I might buy up some pasta... but I could just make some fresh and let it dry and store that at this stage.

Toilet paper is another issue. I don't see this becoming scarce except through people's panicking and stocking up. Am I correct in saying that the manufacture of toilet paper doesn't require any components that are likely to become hard to obtain? And that it is manufactured locally?

Some food and medicine are the major things we may find becoming genuinely hard to get. I hope that PPE manufacture ramps up at this point too, before global contagion interferes with production to a wider and more calamitous degree. 

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Yes - wood.

Yes - SA, NSW, VIC, WA and QLD.

I might have mentioned this before, but it's a RESPIRATORY illness, so rooms full of toilet paper just mean the idiots will not have to buy any for several years. I buy mine when it's on special, which I suspect will be in a few weeks time.

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Some of the chemicals used in the process (dissolving the wood) seem to be produced by quite a few Chinese chemical corporations. That's not to say that Australia couldn't produce those chemicals; I did wonder whether there might be a delay in the set-up if it turned out that the corporations weren't able to produce as much at some stage.

However, the mad buying of enough toilet paper to clothe ten thousand mummies seems ludicrous to me.

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