Hey, @whatsup.

The paper product part of this (particularly toilet paper, and to somewhat lesser degrees, kleenex and paper towels) were already not meeting demand before all of this hit, according to someone I know who actually works at a plant here that supplies Costco with toilet paper, among other things.

So, with the added strain, they're way behind, but it's not at a point where they really want to add on a lot more equipment to produce more to try to catch up because at some point, sales of paper products start to drop down to at least normal levels (or worse, since people will be buying week to week rather than trying to pick up extra as they can in order to have money to pay a bill or something else as needful but not have the resources to do it all because they were off work out of work).

There apparently is another grade of paper products producers who sell to hotel chains and the like that haven't seen an uptick—it's been a while since I read about this so I don't know where they're at right now, but with the hotels and such closed down, I can't imagine there's been a high demand there. I understand the grades are little different, so I'm not sure if it behooves them to change whatever it is they need to in order to make money off of supplying stores for residential use, but anyway, at least not without some kind of wartime executive order like Trump is threatening with (or doing) with ventilators and other medical equipment/clothing, etc.

Of course, here in the US, the Federal Government is going to spend its way out of it, which always works so well (that we eventually have to go to war and ramp up production on things we can quickly blow up and then replace).