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Toilet Paper Panic

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Toilet Paper Panic

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This image demonstrates the panic-buying of toilet paper at a Walmart store in Katy, Texas. Attached to the shelves there are signs limiting customers to one pack. However, the customers had taken the toilet paper so quickly there had been no time to remove empty boxes. I'm not sure anyone predicted or fully understood the obsession of toilet paper hoarding at the beginning of the pandemic. Yet, it is one item that I continue to buy often to keep a stock in my garage. I think that internal panic of hoarding toilet paper is something that will always stick with me. It is a piece of the legacy of the COVID-19 pandemic.

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Photograph

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English

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Date Submitted (Dublin Core)

10/04/2021

Date Modified (Dublin Core)

10/10/2021
10/11/2021

Date Created (Dublin Core)

06/09/2021

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This item was submitted on October 4, 2021 by Erika Claspille using the form “Share Your Story” on the site “A Journal of the Plague Year”: https://covid-19archive.org/s/archive

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