Americans, it turns out, love their toilet paper. As the coronavirus pandemic intensified across the country, supermarket shelves stripped of eggs, hand sanitizer, and bread produced a phrase that may end up defining our increasingly warped year: panic buying.
Immigrants Know All About Disaster Preparedness,
Liana Aghajanian, The Nation, April 6, 2020
https://www.thenation.com/article/culture/covid-toilet-paper-panic/