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    Covid paper trail

    Jan 30, 2022 2 minutes
    BILL RALSTON

    Why do people panic-buy rolls of toilet paper? The supermarket I went to the other day had a strict limit on how many you could buy and the shelves were very depleted. To the best of my knowledge, diarrhoea is not one of the symptoms of Covid-19.

    At home, I did a quick stocktake and found more

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