21 December

The toilet paper ‘panic buying’ idea to me shows something entirely different to what people say. There’s very little panic, and most people aren’t buying truckloads of toilet paper. Just a bit more, they’re stockpiling. Last time they did that, the nation had to lockdown within weeks. People knew, collectively, it’s called the wisdom of the crowd. A crowd is smarter than any individual within it, with the right conditions, it knows things no individual in the crowd knows. We’re populists, we don’t understand collective things. We should see toilet paper disappearing as a sign something is possibly coming.