Survivalists in America have all sorts of strange beliefs about how to know when the ‘End’ is coming i.e. the time to go underground to wait out whatever the catastrophe happens to be.

The wonderfully stupid headline on a latest email is “Toilet Paper – the DEADLY sign that America will run out of food”.

Lots of warnings of course as always in this type of email e.g. “The greatest crisis any of us have seen is coming”.

As usual the email is to get you to watch a video clip for which the sender gets paid and will claim anything they think will get people to click that link.

In early March 202, shortly after the start of the Covid pandemic, there were clips of several women inside an Australian supermarket fighting over toilet paper.  The clips went viral over much of the English speaking world and sparked panic buying of toilet rolls.

It is also true that people at home rather than at work use more toilet paper at home so there was some reason to buy more but of course there would be less use of toilet rolls by companies so overall the demand should have stayed the same – but panic buying isn’t based on common sense, just other people’s behaviour.

The scammer’s email claims that a shortage of toilet paper or lots of ‘hiring now’ signs point to impending collapse of society and mass starvation apparently.

All fantasy of course.

The only connection between toilet paper and food supplies is the obvious one that what goes in must also come out.

There’s also a third but secret sign so you have to click to watch the video for that one apparently.

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