By FILE PHOTO: An employee operates a forklift to move pallets of toilet paper at a warehouse of the Syassky Pulp & Paper Mill, as the company increases production due to high demand amid the outbreak of coronavirus disease (COVID-19), in the town of Syasstroy in Leningrad region, Russia March 20, 2020. REUTERS/Anton Vaganov/File Photo
FRANKFURT (Reuters) – Worried about whether you have enough toilet paper for the coronavirus lockdown? A German website can tell you how long your supply will last.
Toilet paper has become one of the commodities shoppers across the world have hoarded as the coronavirus crisis forces people to stay indoors.
The website Blitzrechner.de can help reassure shoppers that they have enough. Just tell it how many rolls you have and how often you go to the toilet. You can adjust the settings for the number of wipes per trip, the number of paper squares per wipe, the number of family members in your household and how long you plan to stay home.
A person with a stockpile of 10 rolls, who uses the typical amount of paper three times a day, should survive for 53 days, it says. A message notes that this is 39 days longer than the recommended 14-day quarantine for those with symptoms.
The website, whose name means “Lightning Calculator”, has added the toilet paper number cruncher to a list of applications that can work out anything from your meat consumption to the due date of a baby.
Reporting by Hakan Ersen; Writing by Joseph Nasr in Berlin; Editing by Peter Graff
