Gov't urges public not to hoard disaster kits amid megaquake fear

However people are responsible to fulfill their needs, just check other survivors complaint from past earthquake.

https://mainichi.jp/english/articles/20240427/p2a/00m/0na/019000c

https://www.japantimes.co.jp/commentary/2024/04/15/japan/women-gender-issues-disasters-japan/

First they want to scare people with their imminent "predictions" of a megaquake (that no human can do), then they warn people not to hoard emergency supplies.

Please stay home, here are some tickets for free food at restaurants, but please stay home, here are some hotel vouchers, but please don't go out.

@Garthgoyle

Exactly that attitude, just keep happening.

Some of those kits still in stock with normal price, some of them even in time sale. Just try to find 防災バッグ,防災セットin any only shop or store nearby.

Tis is so bad, that's why the government should have coordinated with manufacturers and retailors PRIOR to issuing the warning.

Or may be this was planned or a HOAX to move the economy and increase sales!???

I remember when COVID arrived how one Seven Eleven sold a toilet paper roll for 10,000jpy. so here we go again scammer must be busy now online and at stores.

By the way, why are people buying drinking water??

Japan water is as clean as it gets, but if you are still concerned just boil it, let it cool, pour it in bottles cap it tight and keep it in the fridge up to 1 week or just keep refilling.

Just make sure you wash the thoroughly with soup between cycles.

something the water companies doesn't want you to know or do of course.

Japan water is as clean as it gets, but if you are still concerned just boil it, let it cool, pour it in bottles cap it tight and keep it in the fridge up to 1 week or just keep refilling.

And if you have no gas or electricity with which to boil the water?

Too late for that! Hoarding started the very second the JMA announced the mega quake alert!

Yep this was inevitable. Amazon water prices are way up. Sick of the price gouging. And feel sorry for the delivery people. You can bet they don't get a raise. A lot of backs are gonna be put out.

Toilet rolls people! Toilet rolls.... I'm going to get as many as I can fit in the car. Just in case.

""And if you have no gas or electricity with which to boil the water?""

Still drinkable without boiling, LOL.

The members of the panel said the biggest debate in the first meeting was whether or not to make the announcement because it would cause panic buying.

They erred on the side of caution.

This is the first time the system has been used since its introduction in 2017. I think if it causes more people to prepare, then making the announcement was worth it.

Still drinkable without boiling, LOL.

Even after an earthquake?

https://www.usgs.gov/faqs/how-does-earthquake-affect-groundwater-levels-and-water-quality-wells

By the way, why are people buying drinking water??

Because the water supply infrastructure can be damaged resulting in no water supply

Prepare.

Don't prepare.

Covers all eventualities!

Dont think I'll be needing "an Emergency Toilet "

Tends to happen after a megaquake warning is issued and becomes a media topic.

@gurumick

"Tends to happen after a megaquake warning is issued"

This is the first time it has been issued.

I meant @ burgers and beers

Is so sad to see the Japanese people being so guilible and getting into panic mode so easily without doing any thinking for themselves. Even if they issued that retarded panic alert, they did mention is possible for the next 30 years, not 30 days!!

Why the people are so weak minded and always panicking so easily, on anything this Government is saying!?

This warning seems like a good chance to remind people to be both prepared but not crazy prepared for any and all disasters.

I just finished a long morning walk around central Osaka, and I popped into several different kinds of shops to see especially the TP situation. All the shops’ shelves are full of our favorite kind of paper.

I remember when COVID arrived how one Seven Eleven sold a toilet paper roll for 10,000jpy. so here we go again scammer must be busy now online and at stores.

You actually saw this? One roll for ¥10,000?

I remember the stores (including 7/11) being out of TP for about 3 days in early 2020, but when it came back it was the same usual price.

After two weeks, this panic buying will die down. It always does.

One roll of toilet paper lasts me about a year. Barely need it due to that fancy washet contraption.

Will keep a spare roll around for if electricity goes out after a disaster though.

ok so question is-what gov did to prepare for this megaquake except public warning in media?let me guess that they did-NOTHING?

WoodyLee: "I remember when COVID arrived how one Seven Eleven sold a toilet paper roll for 10,000jpy. so here we go again scammer must be busy now online and at stores."

A guy like you takes a photo, so feel free to post it and give us a link.

7-11 has never and will never do that. Now, many people may have BOUGHT all the toilet paper from 7-11 and elsewhere and then took to Rakuten, Mercari, and Amazon Market Place to sell it for that much, but not 7-11.

Anyway, people get lazy. I've had a few kits ready for a long time. I'm even a bit lazy myself to change the contents every few years like you should (if even that long). This panicked buying will pass. But, if you are genuinely worried, just wait a bit and buy little by little, and store. Toilet paper doesn't spoil. Water lasts quite a while. Stockpile, but then you can always use that stockpile in daily life if it becomes too much.

As for the government asking people not to hoard, give it a rest. How about providing each and every citizen with an emergency pack? Maybe lessen the defense budget to do so, since a mega quake would make Japan defenseless anyway.

woodylee:

By the way, why are people buying drinking water??

Japan water is as clean as it gets

It doesn't matter how clean the water is. If it's not coming out of the faucet, then it's of no use to anyone.

WoodyLeeToday 08:13 am JST

By the way, why are people buying drinking water??

Japan water is as clean as it gets, but if you are still concerned just boil it, let it cool, pour it in bottles cap it tight and keep it in the fridge up to 1 week or just keep refilling.

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Pukey2Today 02:40 pm JST

woodylee:

By the way, why are people buying drinking water??

Japan water is as clean as it gets

It doesn't matter how clean the water is. If it's not coming out of the faucet, then it's of no use to anyone.

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They buy it so they will have something to drink in the case of the failure of main water supply as said by Pukey2Today.

In the UK bottled water (in plastic bottles) sold has an expire date of two years.

Carbonated (fizzy) water expire date of one year.

Depending on what container material is used, the water can keep for years.