Heh, I've heard another funny story recently. Take it with a pint of salt, though, it's about the toilet paper rush. The source not a scientific paper or anything, just two guys in quarantine in Puerto Rico, one of them has Crohn's disease and is on Humira, and consequently he's a bit obsessed with the topic. They're photographers, they cannot go out and do their job right now so they decided to run a video journal of things happening all around USA and the world with respect to Covid-19. Here's the youtube channel:
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCnvgtzmvlb6d58d9BbOKuMAThe story goes: Supposedly, there's been a run on toilet paper in China as well, before or around the time where the outbreak started. And as it happens, in about 20% of cases, SARS-CoV-2 causes diarrhea. So the guy theorized, when the outbreak started, a lot of people were in dire need of massive amounts of toilet paper, while others were watching and thinking, "what do they know that we don't?" and started hoarding. Now, is this what started the toilet paper run the US? It happened in Germany, too, but I cannot remember anyone mentioning a massive wave of diarrhea that could be responsible
Over here, the shit hasn't hit the fan yet. It's still on its way