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Lets say people use bathroom facilities to do their drop, 2x per day. One at home, and another at a workplace. Being under a quarantine or 'shelter in place'
by imchillyb 7y ago
Lets say people use bathroom facilities to do their drop, 2x per day. One at home, and another at a workplace.
Being under a quarantine or 'shelter in place' order, people are now utilizing their own facilities 2x more than they were before.
This isn't a linear increase, but an exponential increase in usage patterns. As more persons in the home stay home, more TP will be required to fulfill needs that were, up until this point in time, served by employers / schools / other facilities than their home.
Add to the increase issue: Humans are generally -horrible- at making estimates. Budgets even if increased to account for additional usage may not account for things like wrapping sanitary napkins in a wad of tissue.
Add to this that the children, who were at school all day and using the school facilities, are now home and using more TP than is normally required (if you have kids you know what I mean).
Add to that the panic purchasers...
and now we have a real problem that is not easily solved; unless by magic.