It is times like this that make it quite salient how inefficient our systems can be when competition is the primary economic motivator. With things like climate

It is times like this that make it quite salient how inefficient our systems can be when competition is the primary economic motivator. With things like climate change or space travel, the ill effects of competition over cooperation can be easier to hide from. A global pandemic forces the issue though, and petty nationalism and self-serving competitiveness are exposed plainly as detrimental to the species as a whole. On a smaller scale the TP hoarding is of a similar phenomenon. Scarcity, even when it isn't actually there, drives us all and thus we fulfill the scarcity we were afraid of.