Toilet paper here as well.

Last weekend we went to Costco for our usual Saturday shopping. Showed up early (before opening) because we knew it would be busy. By the time the opened, the lot was full. Looked like Christmas with people lined up halfway around the building to get in. We waited the 15 to 20 minutes for the line to diminish before going in. By that time all the toilet paper was gone. People were grabbing the 40 roll packs and filling their carts. I saw several with 7 of those 40 roll packs. I kept thinking 'What the hell, people, COVID-19 doesn't make you shit!'

Paracetamol! I've got a cold but I'm pregnant so there's not much else I can take and I can't get any because everyone has bought it all just in case they might need it sometime in the future. Took us about 5 trips to the shops to find any soap too. There's also no loo roll or tissues anywhere.

I always found it weird that in vast majority of post apo videogames food is nothing important.
In Fallout it's the cheapest item available.

The only game where food was valuable commodity was Marauder/Man of Prey and that was Mad Max 1-esque reality so no bombs/zombies/other cataclysm. A jar with cereal was worth more that AK gun in full condition.

Oh yes, good point, forgot that, salt was out when I went last evening too. Also, canned tomatoes.

after reading all the horror stories I was thoroughly disappointed that there was still plenty of toilet paper when I went to the store yesterday. No fights in the hallway, no nothing.
noodle and rice shelves were more empty than usual. Only the cheap stuff though. Seems nobody is touching the expensive bio-vegan-organic stuff, even during a pandemic :p from what my sister told me they limit the amount of people that can be in the supermarket simultaneously, which causes these long lines. No sign of food shortage.

But not the tomato paste? These panic buys are puzzling me to no end. It looks like the majority doesn't know how to cook and has a terrible digestion and therefore need enormous amounts of toiletpaper.

But you can clean your gloves with bleach without it harming your skin but they start getting sweaty after a while.

I think you you can even make bleach from salt with household equipment.

Just came home from shopping and can report that people don't seem to panic around here. Nothing was sold out, all shelves were well-stocked.

Poop. Poop never changes. Italy and Portugal use bidés to clean their asses. Japan built an empire around advanced toilets for flaunting and honor. Scandinavia cut down their trees to shape their countries into economic superpowers based on the production of paper to wipe shit. But poop never changes.

The only possible logical mindset behind that kind of hording would be for either 1)salt-curing meat/fish 2)use as a disinfectant/antiseptic-bacterial (small cuts/wounds) if nothing else at hand.

Same here this morning for TP in visited shops (curiosity check on my part on this as was not on my shopping list). Saw quite a bit of emptiness on some shelves but admitting I didn't bother to check on (lack of) contents, noticed frozen veggies freezers running low. Had a hard time getting eggs though, took 4 shop visits.

Fallout got it wrong, but Paraíso Filmes got it right 20 years ago.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RhzCB3FHDdE

Portuguese only. You're missing out.

To me that is like saying "food" would be the currency during an apocalypse.

I don't consider stuff that people need and use (like food, water, toilet paper) as currency. They are goods that certainly can be traded to other goods (or currency, or a blowjob)... but currency they are not.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Currency

So in that sence, bottle caps are currency because they can't be used for anything else but being a currency. A currency can also lose its value, like in Fallout 2. You couldn't really use those useless bottle caps for anything after that, like eating them or wiping your arse with them. Or technically you can, but it is not a pretty sight.

I understood that, as far as I know they only let a single person in at once. But do you really want to wait for hours in such a line among people possibly infected with Covid-19? All the more so if you're elderly or at special risk due to other medical conditions.
Better to be prepared, nothing wrong with having food, toilet paper etc. for a few weeks.
Don't get why people think it's strange salt is in high demand...it's needed after all for cooking rice and noodles. And if your cooking skills are rather limited like mine, buying canned tomatoes and the like doesn't strike me as silly either, that way you can at least add some flavour to rice etc.
I honestly don't get what's supposed to be so crazy about buying supplies for a few weeks, I certainly wouldn't want to be caught by a sudden lockdown like in Italy without them. That's the real issue, not any fear that there'll be famine (which few people believe imo).