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Now here's today's news, discerned differently.

Joe Biden won primaries in Michigan, Idaho, Mississippi, and Missouri last night,

and is now marching to the Democratic presidential nomination, as CNN reports. However, today's

news is dominated not by politics, but by the escalating coronavirus epidemic. Here's an odd example.

Security personnel in Australia are guarding racks of toilet paper.

An Australian newspaper even printed eight extra pages in a recent edition.

Emergency toilet paper, it explained.

Retailers in the US and Canada have also begun limiting the number of toilet paper packs

customers can buy in one trip. Toilet paper doesn't provide extra protection against coronavirus.

It's not typically a staple of impending emergencies. So, why the hoarding?

Psychologists explain that people resort to extremes in times of panic.

Images of empty shelves cause us to think we need to rush out and buy what is selling out.

It's also natural to want to over-prepare, and such preparations allow us to feel a sense of control over what feels like an uncontrollable crisis.

As one counselor says, hoarding toilet paper gives people the feeling that they had done everything

they could do.

Toilet paper hoarding is not the only way people are attempting to gain control over this crisis.

The CDC tells us to wash our hands frequently, lathering soap on our

hands for at least 20 seconds. To track the time, they suggest that we hum the happy birthday song

twice. CNN has improved their advice with a list of songs from each decade we can sing while

washing. It begins with Jailhouse Rock by Elvis Presley,

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