{"id":36730,"date":"2018-04-27T16:50:26","date_gmt":"2018-04-27T20:50:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sidebarforplaintiffs.naomifein.net\/?p=36730"},"modified":"2018-04-27T16:50:26","modified_gmt":"2018-04-27T20:50:26","slug":"mysteries-of-life-taiwans-toilet-paper-panic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sidebarforplaintiffs.naomifein.net\/?p=36730","title":{"rendered":"Mysteries of Life: Taiwan’s toilet paper panic"},"content":{"rendered":"

“Toilet Paper Panic Engulfs Taiwan”!<\/a><\/p>\n

It happened a while ago — the Times article, above, was published late February — and while I tagged this immediately as an important topic to reflect upon, somehow I didn’t get around to it. Until today.<\/p>\n

Why not? Well, Twitter. Which in itself I intend to get to today but maybe won’t.<\/p>\n

So. Back to the Great Taiwanese Toilet Paper Panic. Which has not, to my eagle eye (one of my eyes is eagle, the other eh), been followed up since. A number of articles in various journals at the time but nothing since.<\/p>\n

So what’s the deal? It’s only a guess but you can help me prove its validity right now: word ran around Taiwan that the price of toilet paper was about to go up and everybody rushed out to stock up on toilet paper creating the toilet paper shortage.<\/p>\n

So, tell me. Does merely reading the headline about a toilet paper shortage cause you — especially you older women — to become really squirmy and to rush to the toilet, and then to the store where you overstock on toilet paper?<\/p>\n

Because I’ll tell you, that’s precisely what that headline did for me. Think about it. Can you women imagine anything worse in this world than a toilet paper shortage? I can’t. There are two elements we require for life, and the first is water. Which is sort of…<\/p>\n

Oh you know.<\/p>\n

P.S. Since I’ve made a strong stand about gathering the facts of life, I followed my own advice and double-checked whether there were any follow-up stories on this news. There were not.<\/p>\n

But when I googled “Taiwan toilet paper shortage,” what do you think the first<\/em> link was? No? Can’t guess? OK: it was a link to Quilted Northern, a Georgia Pacific paper product.<\/a> And who owns Georgia Pacific?<\/p>\n

The Koch Brothers. Damn, these guys are evil.<\/p>\n

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