It’s no secret that the spread of COVID-19 has a lot of people freaking out.
You’ve heard the stories of stores selling out of hand sanitizer and toilet paper. But until you’ve battled the crowds and seen those empty shelves for yourself, you really can’t begin to comprehend how truly ridiculous so many people are being.
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Yes, it’s good to stock up on things in the event of a sudden lockdown. But officials are predicting these lockdowns will only last a few weeks, not months.
Still, you can always count on fear and stupidity to go viral at the same time as a disease. So please enjoy these examples of some of the dumbest “coronavirus preppers” the world currently has to offer. And deal with.
Cart size isn’t going to stop these preppers.
Even Costco-sized carts, which we all know are definitely way bigger than the average kind, aren’t enough to hold people’s stockpiles.
That should be a good indication that you are buying way too much .
Is the virus going to start shooting at us?
I guess I can understand lineups outside of grocery stores. But a gun shop? Really?
According to this article from Buzzfeed News , survivalists are stocking up on various weaponry and armor because they think things are going to suddenly go so damn south that they’ll need to protect themselves.
Nothing left behind.
Look, it’s not just hand sanitizer and toilet paper that are getting stockpiled. People are genuinely going into stores and wiping them clean of all their products. They’re buying up everything!
Well, almost everything…
Hey, it’s not *that* big of an emergency yet.
In the midst of all this crazy panic-buying, one thing remains the same: people still don’t want to drink Dasani water .
Yes, they might be buying paper towel to cut up into little squares and use as toilet paper, but apparently they can still afford to be picky when it comes to their bottled water.
Hope Costco has a really good return policy.
Buying one or two packs of toilet paper is one thing. But buying this much is just ridiculous. Not only is this person making sure that they have enough tp to last them for the next year and a half, they’re also pretty much making sure no one else gets to buy any.
And that’s just unacceptably selfish.
Oh look at that, the toilet paper thing somehow got WORSE.
Yes, people are actually stocking up on toilet paper and then taking advantage of the sudden shortage plaguing the entire country by scamming people out of their money just so they can get their hands on a few rolls.
This is just disgusting.
Forget reusable bags, people are out here using suitcases apparently.
This Twitter user described the scene at their local Trader Joes, where people are showing up with actual suitcases in order to make sure they get as much food as possible.
They’ll put this photo in history books one day, I’m sure of it.
Children in the year 2150 will learn about this period in time, and they’ll be quizzed on the ridiculous lengths people went to in order to protect themselves from the coronavirus.
Question #10: what plastic product did citizens inexplicably cut and put over their own heads?
Congratulations, you’re officially the worst person in the country.
Meet Matt Colvin . He and his brother, Noah, spent several days cleaning out their local and surrounding stores of hand sanitizer, ending up with a stockpile of 17,700 bottles. What did they plan on doing with all that stuff? Why, sell it for a profit of course! And it actually worked for a while.
But then Amazon got wise to the brothers’ scam and pulled all their items off the site. Ebay also won’t let them sell anything. So now they’re stuck with thousands of bottles of hand sanitizer with nowhere to sell it.
Oh, and the entire world hates them and wants to see them charged . So there’s that.
Just when I thought things couldn’t get any more ridiculous.
I suppose these people who are actually buying caskets are the same ones who are anticipating the absolute worst out of this pandemic.
I just hope they’re proven wrong, and they realize just how silly they once were.
That’s just so, so unnecessarily excessive.
I’m not sure how a Costco retailer ever allowed something like this to happen. But here’s a person with three entire pallets of disinfecting wipes.
The only plus side to all of this is once the coronavirus has died down, this person is going to be stuck with three entire pallets of disinfecting wipes .
If you’ve been looking for some Monster energy drinks in stores, well, here they are.
Note that, just because you’re spending the next few weeks social distancing doesn’t mean you have to stay awake for the entire period.
I guess somebody has decided to get diabetes instead of coronavirus.
Or at least give their dentist a little something extra to celebrate when the epidemic is finally over.
For ranch dressing? Well…
Which begs the question: where do you even get a hazmat suit these days? Do they sell them on Amazon?
They’ll be eating hummus for the next decade.
They must have gotten a pallet or two of toilet paper in a previous run. At least, with that much fiber in their upcoming diet, they had best hope they got the TP first.
This guy has a plan. Not sure what that plan is, but he definitely has a plan.
The thing about ear thermometers is that you can basically only use one at a time, so maybe just buy one more as a backup in case the first one breaks? Just a thought.
Not so sure this person has a plan, however.
At least stocking up on non-perishables makes some logical sense, but milk ?
An attempt was made.
Sure, elevator buttons can be a spot where lots of different dirty fingers touch. However, replacing them with toothpicks doesn’t 100% clear up the issue. It’s pretty easy for toothpicks to get contaminated, too, and not everybody will remember to toss them out.
But are they Flamin’ Hot Cheetos?
Some folks stock up on TP, while others have different priorities. Hope nobody else wanted any Cheetos though.
This pandemic is bringing out lots of loyal brand fans.
Monster, Cheetos, NOT Dasani, and apparently Modelo have some dedicated fans out there. Who knew?
Somebody’s planning on doing the Dew, and nothing else.
Let’s be honest, though: this is pretty much a standard supply for a long weekend on Fortnite and not much more. Seriously though, dentists must be rubbing their hands in glee at these pics.
This is what hoarding leads to.
It’s hard to blame this person for using a public dispenser to fill up their own little bottle of hand sanitizer when there’s none on stores shelves thanks to people like Matt Colvin.
And this, too.
Personally, I would sooner take a shower after every bathroom trip. But maybe that’s just me.
