I have to give this pandemic credit for one thing though. I used to take products such as toilet paper for granted. Who ever imagined the day would come when we would wander through a supermarket and look in grateful satisfaction if we saw shelves piled high with TP?
Many years ago, I remember reading about some people's experience in Russia, when there was a shortage of goods. People would line up just to buy a loaf of bread and one ex pat wrote about how she saw some people rushing down the road in glee after obtaining a coupel of packets of TP.
Whoever thought we would see those sorts of days here?
Although... about a year before the pandemic hit, I read a book by an Australian author, Amanda Hickie. It was called An Ordinary Epidemic. Certainly made me think. Mind you, that was set in Sydney and the worst of it was over in weeks in that novel but the issue of short supplies was certainly there.
