What is up with the run on bottled water? Do people think their sinks will stop working due to covid-19? Or that people are coughing into the water after it has been treated?

They do add chlorine to sanitize the water. Not the tastiest, but I'd buy soap or food or something first. Also, why tf are people wiping out toilet paper? I had to make sure to buy extra because people are clearing the store out, so I don't run out. I don't know what the purpose of stockpiling either of these things are, but it's annoying. It reminds me of the "gas scare" here in San Antonio right after that hurricane hit Houston. I wasn't worried, but when everyone else got worried, I was forced to find gas just because everyone was freaked out, no stations had gas, and I was running on almost empty thinking everyone was dumb. Drove a few miles out of the city, surprise! No gas shortage. I went to pick up a friend from the Houston airport a few days later. All the stations I saw there had gas, no one was freaked out.

https://fox40.com/news/coronavirus/deputies-respond-to-socal-costco-after-shoppers-become-upset-over-bottled-water-shortage/