The Toilet Paper Mystery

摘要

I still can't get used to going to the grocery store or our local Walmart and seeing empty shelves where paper towels and toilet paper used to always be well stocked. Same goes for cleaners and disinfectants like Clorox Cleanup and Lysol. It's mid-May and although availability has improved, it's nowhere near what it used to be. At the start of the outbreak, the run on toilet paper was a mystery to me — and a little scary to say the least. It really didn't make any sense until one of my friends shed light on the situation and pointed out that all of the toilet paper sold in the U.S. was made in China, and all the toilet paper factories over there were shut down (at the time), and soon there wouldn't be a roll of TP anywhere.