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from the sign-me-up-for-the-next-hermit-convention dept.
The nation's nerds woke up in a utopia this morning, one where everyone stays inside, sporting events are being canceled, and all social interaction is forbidden.
All types of nerds, from social introverts to hardcore PC gamers, welcomed the dawn of this new era, privately from their own homes.
"I have been waiting my whole life for this moment," said Ned Pendleton, 32 -- via text message, of course -- as he fired up League of Legends on his beefy gaming PC. "They told me to take up a sport and that the kids playing basketball and stuff were gonna be way more successful than us nerds who played Counter-Strike at LAN parties every weekend."
Always look on the bright side of life.
[Certainly an element of gallows humor, but it does offer a different perspective from the incessant drumbeat of gloom and doom surrounding the current SARS-CoV-2 pandemic. What "positives" have you seen? --martyb]
(Score: 1) by khallow on Sunday March 15 2020, @04:18PM (1 child)
It probably started somewhere with the Chinese (since I've read of toilet paper outages in Hong Kong) someone sparked a rumor that diarrhea was a part of the disease sparking a first run on toilet paper, locally. Then when people in other countries read of the epidemic, the toilet paper shortage story was prominent enough to encourage outliers to hoard toilet paper, generating a dynamic that resulted in TP0. Since, the story has taken on a life of its own with shortages in places that have yet to see the disease (such as rural Montana, for example).
(Score: 2) by toddestan on Sunday March 15 2020, @07:41PM
Toilet paper is also fairly cheap. Grabbing a case of it is not a big investment. It also keeps forever, and it's something that you'll use up one way or another. Because of that, I'm guessing that even reasonable people, if they are out shopping and see that there happens to be some TP stocked on the shelf - might decide to throw a pack in their cart even if they don't need it.
At least the toilet paper will get used up eventually. I have to wonder how much of the food that people panic-buy just ends up sitting around because it's not something they would normally eat, and then eventually it gets old and they throw it out.