To the Editor: Why are our market shelves clean out of toilet paper? Understandably people don't want to be caught with their pants down in the event they are quarantined, but the frantic and irrational pursuit of this bathroom item goes beyond the bounds of good taste and reasonable precaution.
It's a defining moment for mass psychology in an emergency and is also a test of what we're made of. Lessons on failed civility should be taught across the curriculum once our schools re-open.
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