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I think the toilet paper hysteria started here in the beautiful Sandwich Islands. A number of years (~30) ago we underwent a longshoremen strike, and being an island state, thousands of miles from any manufacturing we are utterly dependent on ocean cargo for nearly everything.
One of the first things that disappeared from the store shelves was necessary paper, and it was a disgusting few weeks until the strike was settled. People became desperate! And they remembered.
Not only that but our dilemma became widely known across the globe so now anytime there appears to be any interruption of ocean shipping folks stock up on TP... and bottled water.
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