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Mar 16, 2020, 09:47 PM
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Member Since: Feb 2006
Location: Napa Valley
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Originally Posted by bluebicycle
I think it happened with SARS too, but that was mostly contained in China. This one happens to be more widespread, so the news is reporting it more than SARS. Plus, with the likes of Instagram, Twitter, and Facebook, more people are sharing their experiences online with their friends, inciting more panic than usual.
But yeah, I suppose hoarding could be mentioned, but with reference to how social media impacts how people think about pandemics/viruses. However, this exact situation happened with H1N1 in downtown Boston when I was living there (bare shelves, etc.), but I don't think that is reported in history books though, unless it was maybe a few lines of text? I know that H1N1 isn't as widespread, but people did behave the same way.
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But at some point someone will do their PhD on social media and the panics surrounding epidemics and pandemics. That's when they'll get oral histories of stockists who worked in the stores extra hours to get shelves restocked, or of people who were pulled from stocking shelves so they could run a cash register in an attempt to mitigate the lines of customers.
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