What’s working to prevent hoarding of essential supplies during this pandemic?

Many stores have been marking with tape on the floor the distance of 6ft (feet) that every citizen should be spaced apart when they are ready to checkout. Letting a few people at a time will have the store function at a fashion matter rather than looking like the sales during Black Friday. For the whole nation, DHHS (Department of Health and Human Services) Secretary Azar takes steps to prevent hoarding of essentials as an executive order for all during COVID-19.

“I feel like people weren’t being rational about the situation or considerate of people at higher risk. Hoarding items such as toilet paper was absurd because stores did not threaten to close and would continue to restock. I believe it was all very selfish and not reasonable,” reporter’s cousin, Atziry Dom said.

Hoarding isn’t done out of stupidity, it’s caused by a panic that one believes in.

“I think it was unnecessary to do that. I feel like people just acted out of fear…..still it was stupid,” junior student Ariana Sandoval said.

Prevention orders may be seen as a good thing to help the situation, but the way people act during it just proves it’s not effective.

“I get that you’re separated from everyone at a ‘safe’ distance but you’re still in an enclosed space. So I feel distance doesn’t matter if you’re still going to be walking in a confined area that someone else who could’ve been carrying the virus,” senior student Fatima Barajas said.