30 Times People Spotted Total Jerks During The Coronavirus Crisis And Shamed Them Online
Some people are reacting to the coronavirus in a mature, responsible way. While others are panic-buying, hoarding supplies, leaving nothing to buy for everyone else, and flaunting how much they don’t care about social distancing. And a select few are even hoping to scalp others by reselling basic supplies like toilet paper.
But the internet isn’t standing for this kind of behavior. People are shaming jerks online who are making the corona-crisis more difficult for us all. Scroll down for Bored Panda’s list about corona-jerks getting outed and let us know in the comments below if this made you lose a bit of faith in humanity. Be sure to read on for our interview with Sam Dogen, founder of the Financial Samurai website, about price gouging.
Most people you talk to will be able to tell you that they’ve already seen small examples of price-gouging. Like selling face masks for exorbitant prices. It looks like some individuals see the crisis as an opportunity. An opportunity to fill their pockets with quick cash in exchange for their moral integrity.
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Bored Panda spoke with Sam Dogen, founder of the Financial Samurai website, about price gouging and scalping in the wake of the corona-crisis. We wanted to find out why we're already seeing people pay huge prices for hygiene products.
"Panic makes people do things irrationally," Dogen said. "There is no need to have a year's supply of toilet paper or hand sanitizer. Supply will come back within a couple months as we are currently experiencing a supply shock as well."
"So if you must hoard, then buy for not more than two months of supply. Most people buy one month's supply of personal hygiene products, so two months is not that much more."
Just.... Man, [screw] Her. I’ll Never Understand Why People Are Such Assh*les
![Just.... Man, [screw] Her. I’ll Never Understand Why People Are Such Assh*les](https://static.boredpanda.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/shaming-coronavirus-jerks-10-5e6f6d5850f4e__700.jpg "Just.... Man, [screw] Her. I’ll Never Understand Why People Are Such Assh*les")
This woman in Taylor Mill, Kentucky has hoarded toilet paper to sell out the back of her car for $5.00 a roll. How can people have this much greed? GET HER FACE OUT THERE...So the World can know what a true LOW LIFE looks like.
If This Is You: [Screw] You
![If This Is You: [Screw] You](https://static.boredpanda.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/shaming-coronavirus-jerks-9-5e6f6c3dbaf5c__700.jpg "If This Is You: [Screw] You")
Dogen reiterated that it's vital that people don't give in to price gouging. "Price gouging is a pure indication of panic buying. If you do not panic buy, then you will not succumb to paying inflated prices. People who price gouge during a global pandemic should be fined and banned from reselling things online again. Instead of price gouging, they should be doing something to help their fellow brothers and sisters."
He also mentioned that price gouging is nothing new during times of distress. "Price gouging happened during the 2008–2009 financial crisis, after many devastating storms, and other tragedies."
"I understand the desire to profit to take care of your own finances, but when there is a large tragedy, it is incumbent on all of us to step up and help each other out."
Which One Are You?
There are 2 types of people in the world
Seriously...
My co-worker has been coming into office because he feels "fine" and shows no symptom. Now my senior manager still want to have all hands meeting where bunch of people (+20) crammed into conference room to discuss telecommuting plan.
Update: Now my a-hole manager wants doctor's note if you are calling in sick. If employees are self quarantining for any suspicious symptoms, last thing you want to do is go outside to get a [frikinn] doctor's note!
Whoever You Are, [Screw] You!
![Whoever You Are, [Screw] You!](https://static.boredpanda.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/shaming-coronavirus-jerks-14-5e6f7006c8417__700.jpg "Whoever You Are, [Screw] You!")
To be fair, you can’t jump to conclusions. They might be stocking a food bank.
CBS4 found out about an underground scalper and gouger network in Denver that resells personal hygiene products at greatly increased prices. One of these men was selling packages of (yup, you guessed it) toilet paper for 4 to 5 dollars per 4-pack on Craigslist. Even though they cost around 1 dollar per pack in stores.
“If you want more, it will be gone by tomorrow,” the man told undercover CBS4 reporters when he met them. According to the scalper, he’s been making good money and sold around 100 rolls already. When the man realized that he was being filmed, he refused to talk to the reporters further.online.
The undercover reporters met another man who sold 4 to 5 dollar-worth bottles of hand sanitizer for 20 dollars each. He explained that most of his customers are worried about the coronavirus.
“I just wanted to cash in and make a few bucks,” he said. Fortunately, in this case, the man realized that he was acting wrong, returned the money, and reduced the cost of his products to their usual price.
In the US, over 30 states have laws that make it illegal for people to price gouge during a state of emergency or a disaster. However, other states, like Colorado, don’t have such restrictions.
Which makes it easy for jerks to hoard supplies and then resell them for people who are in panic-mode. The good news is, the majority of folks are fighting back, even if, for now, it mostly means shaming these jerks
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![[Screw] This Person, Too](https://static.boredpanda.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/5e6f2c40d0e5b_ycnpiysatpm41__700.jpg "[Screw] This Person, Too")
Seattle Has Chosen Its Food Of Choice For Corona Catastrophe 2020
Dried beans. Dried [frikinn] beans.
Everytime we have external stresses, people in the Seattle area choose a weird food item to stock up on. For Snowpocalypse in February 2019, it was bread and milk. Now, it's dried beans. Most of the people who purchased these have probably never even cooked with dried beans!
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This Person Is Buying Three Pallets Of Disinfectant Wipes. Don’t Be This Person. [Screw] This Person
![This Person Is Buying Three Pallets Of Disinfectant Wipes. Don’t Be This Person. [Screw] This Person](https://static.boredpanda.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/5e6f2c289f53b_q5jji6u13nm41__700.jpg "This Person Is Buying Three Pallets Of Disinfectant Wipes. Don’t Be This Person. [Screw] This Person")
Assh*le In My County Bought All Of This Toilet Paper And Is Now Trying To Sell It In Various Facebook Groups
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Entitled Woman Goes To Red Robin
How can you indeed? Let me spend ooh, five freaking seconds checking that out and realizing that's exactly what is happening. Moron.
that is why they teach you biology in middle school. What a moron...
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Katie, I'm one of the "at-risk" folks. I don't have the virus either and I am trying very hard to avoid it because it may kill me. Halfwits like you don't realize that you can be positive for COVID19 and show no symptoms. You could be spreading it to someone who might be in contact with someone like me and cause a death. Have fun doing what you want.
I agree with you - that bitch must really be a hate filled character - having no one to love or care about - and there are a lot of them out there - be safe - I.m a senior diabetic - not panicking but I am scared
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Middle school science will answer her question. Do people really not know how viruses work?!
Anyone who uses the 'because this is America' line should be shot.
" And I'll do what I want". One sentence summed up everything wrong with America.
The sad part is that most of us aren’t like this, and are keeping our social distance as best as we can, depending on our situation. We understand that this isn’t permanent, it’s temporary. You can put up with just about anything, if you understand it’s not going to last forever.
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TWO WEEKS. That is how long some one can appear healthy and symptomless - but contagious.
I read on Twitter that she was stripped of her Nevada state title because of this! Karma is a bitch!!! She is also running for school board and many people are pissed.
she was actually stripped of her Ms Nevada title for something else, but I guess she just loves being dumb and causing a ruckus
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It will (unfortunately) become serious in your country as well, and then you will freak out. Be careful greetings from Lombardy, Italy
I guess she hasn't heard of asymptomatic spreaders... seriously?!?
30 year old woman sounding like Cartman on Maury. Good job Katie!
America is NOT TESTING 'healthy' people. You could have it, and be spreading it for weeks before showing any symptoms. Even when you do it may just be a dry throat and mild temperature. In the meantime your neighbor's asthmatic child, the babysitters charges, elderly wait staff at that restaurant, senior school instructors, and your own grandmother or mother might die because you 'are in America' and are too misinformed or stupid to care.
I taught my boys that we live in a free country. You can do anything you want UNLESS IT HURTS SOMEBODY ELSE.
Oh...please tell me that Bored Panda isn’t the only place this self-centered, uneducated, snotty little girl has been named and shamed.
What I want to do is hang out at home so I don't get sick and so I don't share what I don't know I have, if I have it.
She is utter trash. I don't wish anything bad on anyone, but I'm not going to be upset if she comes down with COVID and ends up in a hospital bed.
I do want bad things on this kind of people. They are putting many other people at risk. Sorry, but I hope she gets it and ends up in intensive care. For many days.
Load More Replies... You arrogant, stupid, selfish and spoiled cu*t! Go and read some fu*king articles and educate yourself!
Are you sure she can read? With her level of imbecility, I doubt it.
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Katie Williams, you really need to educate yourself before you're responsible for killing someone!
It's spread by entitled, inconsiderate people who think that they are above everyone.........Oh wait a minute, that's YOU isn't it !, I hope you don't get it and pass it on to your loved ones.....think about it.
@realkatiejow Not only are you one of the stupidest humans on earth right now, you are encouraging people to put themselves and others in danger... I bet your cunt looks like 10-gallon trash bag. Your face sure does.
Yall wanna talk about something really awful? My grandparents live in a retirement community next to a hotel. The government is putting all the homeless people with corona virus in that hotel.
Blood boiling. She is an absolute idiot. I read this one somewhere. Checked out her page and she’s soliciting donations for her “campaign.” I’d hate to have her in charge of anything!
like the same way people do with HIV princess, google with us being asymptomatic.
But that’s the thing, you wouldn’t know if you’re healthy but carrying it anyway. You would be fine, other people who are elderly or with less efficient immune system, will become very ill and possibly die. But sure, you having a fun night out is way more important than the lives of millions of innocent people.
You really have no clue, do you? Your ignorance is dumbfounding, and incredibly selfish! Not only that you made a fool out of yourself posting your ignorance. Please, before you kill someone, do some research.
You may have it and don’t realize it! How stupid can you be! Karma bitch!
You can be infected and able to spread this virus before you have symptoms or feel sick. Now do us all a favor and stay home.
restaurants are closed now- i just wonder where the entitled will be eating or will they starve. Maybe gather at a friends house to socialize and eat and share the virus so they can share it with their neighbors etc.. dont need to become hysterical but when countries close down - you might think that something serious is going on that is more important than your dining happiness .. can't fix stupid....
Oh just take the virus wherever you can then girl, after all it's only our older population it's hurting (you know those that gave us life!) and our vulnerable and I say OURS because I as we all should claim them as those who I want to shield and help..
In the ocean of stupid people, it takes something special to stand out. "This is America" and "I'll do what I want" will get you there.
Next post you'll see is katie complaining about how people are shunning her, no one will date her and she doesn't understand how she got sick, because she wasn't around anyone who looked sick. Atta girl!
Just because you CAN do something does not mean you SHOULD do something. Selfish, self absorbed.
Katie Williams is what’s wrong with the world. An entitled insufferable millennial brat. You can be a carrier and be healthy. It’s not uncommon to be the host while people with compromised immune systems catch it. She should choke on her Red Robin for her insensitive comments. And this is America-were supposedly civilized yet she’s acting like a barbaric ignorant twat.
Another anti vaccine Karen that even with so much information out there, still having no idea.
It amazes me how some people are so eager to post things that prove they're stupid
You can have the virus but not have any symptoms and still be spreading it without knowing
You could be spreading it even if you don't have symptoms...Get yourself educated about this virus and how it spreads. How entitled and freaking selfish. You don't know who has a compromised immune system, they don't wear a sign..
Postscript: the above tweeter has just tested positive for stupidity. Please keep a respectable two-county distance. Known fact: stupidity is extremely contagious.
Since there is a 2 week incubation period before you realize you are sick, you go out in public alot and you can expose a lot of people in those two weeks. That isn't freaking out, that is being a compassionate member of your home community. You are only 30, so there is a fair chance you would survive. However, do you ever come within distance of grannies, aunties, or people who have any chronic illnesses? You can pass it to them if you are not taking basic precautions, and they might not survive.
Hey, employers, take names so you don't employ people who are clearly that stupid.
Ever heard of Typhoid Mary? Maybe the virus ate your brain..Stupid twat.
Ahh how do you know that? Did you get that rare commodity know as a coronavirus test?
She just wants the attention and look... 19k people are tweeting / retweeting her stupidity.
A quoted Christian, conservative and republican.... so who gives a flying f**k....
You have to be Trumps daughter..who else could be such a self centered narcissist cunt?
OH YES AMERICA IS GREAT. What is the connection? Katie Williams, the virus spread by itself, how you can say such insanity. Heat can kill it, have too wait until summer hear? And we are not sure about that. Just make some research, a very long list of virus is there explaining it all. You are 30? And that ignorant? Not surprised.
This girl just doesn't GET it does she? She must have had a very poor education,
Healthy or not, COVID-19 can live inside the body. When you eat the foods and left the bone or anything that left on the plate then you are spreading it. When you threw em in the trash, you are also spreading it. When you walked through the crowd then you are spreading the crowd. It's a continuous virus, not just kind of a cold.
Covid Katie is running for a seat on the Clatk County NV School board. How ironic. Betsy DeVos must be her personal hero.
Why does "The Media" want you to freak out? It's amazing how much power people ascribe to "The Media" as if it's a huge powerful conglomerate of people trying to tell everyone what to do all the time.
Typical American. Screw the rest of the world is your motto. Hope nobody you care about gets ill. Total American arrogance.
Not ALL Americans are ignorant twats, you know. Some of us would like to kick her entitled ass!
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You are just trying to stir up crap. You are an instigator. I don’t care what you do. You don’t live near me.
People are being so dumb. I'm planning to invite enough people to my house so that there'll be 11 people there and then we'll stand in my yard holding signs that show the truth. The "deadly coronavirus" is a hoax. People are overreacting because they don't have anything better to do because they're uneducated imbeciles who can't do anything beyond their comfort zone.
AOC is the dopiest dingbat in my party. Super bangable but dumb as a box of my Depends diapers.
People Are Panic-Buying Eggs Now? You Assh*les Know You Can’t Grow Chickens With Those Right?
Eggs keep for ages at room temperatures, though. Or they do if you're not in the USA where they wash the protective coat off, which shortens their storage life and means they need refridgerating.
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Stupid assholes! And a school dance?! At least go somewhere worth leaving the house for :P
This Picture Was Taken At My Local Costco. We're Doomed Folks
I hope these people go home and set those masks on the counter they use to prepare food.
Empty And Messy Shelves At A Tesco Supermarket After Panic Buying
British Shoppers Are Being Urged Not To Panic
I read that the guy who looks like Trump's illegitimate younger brother wants them spread it around to try and develop herd immunity.
Today's Line As Soon As Costco Opened. People Fighting For Water, Toilet Paper, Rice, And Other Essentials
I just renewed my dang membership to that place. I can hardly stand the crowds on a normal day. Definitely not going now.
You’re Part Of The Problem!
Blessing in disguise that I came home this weekend and I live next to the largest grocery store in Illinois. That said, even they are running out of stuff. Still grateful that for at least a few weeks we will be stocked up.
To be fair that's not a whole lot; they might have a big family...or the shits?!
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There's an easy way to solve this issue...criminal prosecution to the hoarders and price gougers. They do it all the time when there are natural disasters like hurricanes. That's what the declaration of the state of emergencies are...an attempt to freeze prices and open prosecutions for hoarding and to release funds to help with such crisis. This is no different. Prosecute the little B**tards.
Make them go pick up trash at the side of the road. In orange vests that say "Hoarder" on the back.
Nah, don’t. A lot of people might “accidentally” hit them.
Make them donate the items .
I agree with you but then we run into the problem that many jails/prisons are encountering. The overpopulation is having to deal with exposure. Correction Officers do not live at the prisons and run a risk of exposure and then take it with them back to the prisons and the inmates. So when we prosecute the price gougers, where do we take them? The only thing I can think of is that the cities/counties that want to prosecute will keep an eye on the offenders and when this has cleared up, then arrest them. Oh and AlphaPuck, price gouging is against the law once the President declares a pandemic. It's not supply and demand dipshit, it's just being greedy and an asshole!
They don't need to be jailed just heavily fined.
@Carol Emory First we don't know if visitations were cut off in time to prevent exposure. Second, any incoming inmates may have already been exposed thus spreading it to others in the prisons. Third, if there aren't enough test kits to go around for the general public, what makes you think that a Warden in any prison is going to have enough to test the guards that many times during the duration of this pandemic? Fourth, here in the US the punishment must fit the crime and putting anyone into isolation without probable cause is a direct violation of the 8th Amendment. Another thing to remember is that people who are arrested but haven't been to court for entering a plea and sentencing will sit in a jail. People come and go in a jail and that is truly where the most exposure will exist. Just going to court will risk exposure there too.
The prisons are an isolated community. It is going to be one of the guards contracting the virus on the outside and taking it into the prison. Those prisoners aren't going to 'Magically' get the virus & pass it on to a guard.
Jim King what
@Mama Panda the overpopulation is not dealing with exposure because they've cut off visitations and access to the prisoners during this time to prevent the spread. Only the guards are allowed to come and go. Any Warden worth his salt will have the guards tested at each shift exchange to assure everyone is safe. As for the hoarders and price gougers..all they need to do is keep them isolated from the rest of the prison for 14 days. Maybe a short stint in isolation will be enough to make them realize what a truly jerkish thing they've done.
@drarry you must have majored in Drama because that was a stellar performance. There is no blood when someone hoards TP. Plus if you need that much TP then you should see a doctor. Unless stores limit purchases then these people are not breaking any laws.
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So you are saying that those who act like idiots should be prosecuted? And the rest of us should have laws that restrict our Liberties as a result? Come On Carol! These fools will learn that their impulse is their loss, and all over the two most basic human drives around: Fear & Greed.
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Supply and Demand Carol... not hard to understand. While I agree they are assholes who normally arent prepared for a crisis, its a free country. So