The Second Wave of Hoarding
Matt Golding
It has been termed the ‘Toilet Paper Index’ — a measure for the level of panic in the community. When the second wave of the coronavirus started to emerge in Melbourne mid-year, alarmed shoppers as far away as Canberra and Bathurst in New South Wales began emptying supermarket shelves of basic supplies.
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