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Someone at work sent this into the devops channel a few mins ago, saying if more than one of our pis break we would get a shortage also. Should we buy more now?
by ppaagi 5y ago
Someone at work sent this into the devops channel a few mins ago, saying if more than one of our pis break we would get a shortage also. Should we buy more now? Yeah let's worsen the shortage for others that actually need them now, why not... Thankfully the manager agreed wiht me the risk is low enough. It was not us that got them from Pi Hut at least!
Feels similar to the toilet paper situation, my wife did not get them for weeks because we always keep two closed packages to avoid getting short on something like that and we did not want to be a part of the problem so we waited. Because there was no shortage on the production site, we thought stores would ramp up shipping and it would be OK. But the panic buyers just kept getting the stores empty. Then we finally were down to the last rolls and she only found two small rolls in the fourth store she tried at... annoying when you want to stay home (no vaccines yet) and not go out three days later for another ration of paper. It is stories like this that make me think if I should buy like normal and then give without profit to those who actually need them now.
- brokenmachine 5y agoWhere are you that you can't get a vaccine by now?
- ppaagi 5y agoFor us this toilet paper shortage was only during the time when there were no vaccines, I just mentioned this fact as a reminder of context to readers that it was'nt a good idea to just go to the store every day for daily amounts of paper back then. (Alternative response: where are you that you still got a toilet paper shortage?) I assume you're the person that took my first karma point based on this misunderstanding? Note also that around 40% of world population hasn't gotten a single vaccination yet. It's a bit presumptuous to assume these are all personal choice, even if I weren't vaccinated (I am lucky enough to have gotten multiple, even if I wish we could offer everyone the same amount at a similar time -- it stung a little, if you will).