[djh]

It's ironic that people are calling other people "idiots" for panic-buying.

Do you realise panic-buying happens because of other people reporting there are shortages of goods on shelves?

If you post photos of empty shelves, people will...panic.

So maybe don't accentuate the 'drama' by posting salacious images of empty shelves.

I literally didn't know there were shortages of goods in (some) supermarkets until I came to this thread and read all of this talk. My instinctive reaction was "ooh, maybe there's something happening here, I should get ahead of this and go buy a bunch of stuff". Then I realised it's only because of what I'm seeing here. My local shops are not out of goods. But seeing people talking about it raises the panic buy instinct.
And if it's doing that to me, you can be sure others here have felt the same thing.

Stop feeding the frenzy. Don't post pictures that will incite panic. Don't talk about "the shortages", it'll incite panic. It's salacious, it's tabloid, it's unproductive. And then you lose the right to complain about people's stupid behaviour if you're part of causing the panic.