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    The document discusses panic buying that occurred in the Philippines after the announcement of an enhanced community quarantine due to COVID-19. People rushed to stores and hoarded supplies, emptying shelves of groceries. Stores implemented limits on purchases of items like alcohol and face masks to counter hoarding. While people wanted to prepare, hoarding negatively impacts the community by causing artificial shortages and preventing others from accessing essential supplies. Citizens are called to help each other during this crisis rather than just focus on themselves alone.

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    Calm Down People!

    “Why is everyone acting like there’s an impending zombie apocalypse and stocking up
    boxes of supplies was the only thing that mattered?” The first thought that came to mind when
    me and my uncle rushed to the public market. Long lines of people were the first thing I saw on
    groceries, various drug stores, or just anything where basic supplies such as food were on sale.
    Everyone was in a frenzy to buy things in heaps, a day after that first live announcement of the
    President regarding the commencement of enhanced community quarantine for a period of
    almost a whole month. The Filipino consumers went from buyers to hoarders as soon as they
    entered stores, grabbing anything that may be of possible need that groceries eventually had
    empty shelves, forgetting that to-buy list they’ve probably written before leaving the house.
    Companies such as the famous Shoe Mart or more known as SM, did countermeasures
    for this phenomenon, such that here in my province, the branch of SM Hypermarket in Daet,
    Camarines Norte, limits the buying of alcohol bottles to three per person and letting people enter
    the hypermarket by batch. Certain drugstores and pharmacies also did not allow buying of
    facemasks in boxes per person and limits it to 5 facemasks per person. Depending on the
    branch’s discretion.
    People were in a slight panic mode as everyone were in unspoken agreement of the fact
    that the number of confirmed cases of COVID-19 would continue to rise and sooner or later, a
    community quarantine was inevitable and that everyone would be required to stay at the comfort
    of their homes. They had to look out for themselves first. Me and my family weren’t immune to
    that and even bought a month’s worth of food supply. It even got to the point where social
    distancing itself was disregarded with hoards of people present in the public wet market.
    Trade Secretary Ramon Lopez had warned the people against panic-buying. Reminding
    them that a month-long period of quarantine will not result to the block of flow of food and other
    essential needs of the people. He also added that continuous panic-buying and hoarding would
    result to an eventual artificial shortage and assured that supplies will be replenished as
    manufacturers have large stocks.
    Hoarding isn’t the only concern that comes out of panic-buying, even impulsive buying
    of non-FDA approved medical supplies were evident few days before the official announcement
    of the Enhanced Community Quarantine. Vitamins C tonics and vitamins were even out of stock
    with everyone wanting to get ahold of them as information of strengthening the immune system
    was apparently one way to fighting against the virus, which wasn’t entirely untrue.
    But does the spirit of ‘Bayanihan’ stand with this? Panic-buying has its negative effects
    to the community. As stated above, it would cause artificial shortage to which other people who
    are also in need of the out-of-stock supplies cannot acquire the essentials for them and their
    family. In front of this situation people are facing, we are not only called to look for ourselves
    and our safety but for others as well. More than rising as an individual, the country should rise as
    a nation with its citizen to help it as well.

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