Quarantine = Panic Buying

By Padma Dolma

Where Corona virus had reached at a height where we called it a ‘Pendamic’ and super nation like America itself had fallen for it with out any cure. Meanwhile India announcing the lockdown had created a panic wave over the citizens which resulting a huge mass doing panic buying.

BUT THE QUESTION RISES, SHOULD WE REALLY BE DOING PANIC BUYING IN THIS SITUATION?

Answer is a clearly ‘NO’

WHY?

The reason is as simple as it looks

For example : In a middle man house there are 2 people living and during a quarantine this house buys groceries for almost 8 people and if every middle man house does this when there is a lockdown, the demand goes pitched hieght and the supply is not enough for everyone so some gets and some doesn’t.

And in a country like India there are more below poverty line families then middle man families, so the BPL people suffers for every grain to fill their stomachs. There are people who suffer daily with the lockdown and the lockdown had made them jobless, shelterless and an empty stomach with no money to buy food or any medical backup. With the schools, colleges, offices and industries closed they don’t even have any reason to stay at the places where they came to work for and already facing difficulties of being shelterless, joblessness they are traveling by foot to reach their houses. With the people buying in a bulk in order to keep themselves away from ranning out of groceries they do a lot of panic buying and it’s really not necessary when the government is keeping a lenient lockdown.