Dato Lee Chong Wei (18th March) wrote a humourous post after discovering he couldn’t find any on the shelves. At the checkout, he saw a mamat (guy in Malay) having 10 jumbo packs on his trolley. That would be at least 120 individual rolls going by the dozen to a package.
My question is, “How many toilet rolls does a man (family) need for 2 weeks?” LCW also posed another, “How many buttholes one needs to wash with that many?”
Crunch the math for a family of 4. In the unlikely event that each has to utilise a roll a day, they will use up 4 X 14 days = 56. A month will be 112. There is a balance of 8 left out of the 120 rolls the mamat bought.
Is there a rational reason for this behaviour? Where brains cast off all reasons? LCW and I have some common sense reasons.
Something that we can explain rationally, at the very least. Let’s forget about empirical studies. Who wants to fund research like this?
My logic is my subject title. Toilet paper is civilisation last stand against the worst-case scenario of being viral pandemically back into the Stone Age. Who would like to be caught without it? And without water.
LCW wrote, “Toilet papers are important during the previous pandemic period due to unclean water and psychological effect.” Well, that’s it! Psychological effect! That would include being traumatised. Without roll and only dirty water. I can’t imagine both scenarios without losing my breakfast.
What do all these lead us to conclude? Can’t we bear the thought of losing our quality of life? We are easily susceptible to rumours, fear and panic? Find hard to adapt to change? Consideration for others is low when it comes to protecting our comfort?
