Well, if you had completely ignored the news circa Feb 2020, you would have had an unpleasant shock when you ran out of toilet paper and tried to buy more.

Forewarned is forearmed.

Funny, because I mostly heard about the state of store shelves by my friends and neighbors who visited those stores, rather than national news outlets trumpeting a bunch of irrelevant crap.

to contribute to the architecture of solutions is hard indeed... However, to contribute small everyone in most countries can, simply by choosing what and how to consume and by voting, wherever that is possible