This just came in the mail, an Austria Covid-19 stamp made from actual toilet paper! A parody to the hysterical panic-buying of toilet paper during the outbreak of the pandemic. I am guessing the scale is there because people were resistant to the idea of social distancing?
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| Most expensive toilet paper I have come across. |
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| A closeup shot of the paper fibres. |
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| An odd-shaped stamp in the form of a face mask. |
As the world is bracing for the Omicron variant, this set of stamps do take me back almost 2 years ago when the dreaded virus first arrived at our shores. Prior to that, we have only heard about it on the news, about Chinese folks suddenly and mysteriously dropping dead on the streets in China and later, how the virus devastated entire communities in Italy to the point where they kept their dead in churches because there wasn’t enough space in the hospitals. It was all so surreal. When it finally came to Singapore, many of us, myself included, were in a panic-buying frenzy. Nobody had heard or experienced a lockdown before, we didn’t know what to expect. All we could do was to think of our families and prepare for the worse. It was as if we were preparing for a war of sorts. But I made it a point not to hoard and just buy enough food and essentials for my family to last through the entire period of the lockdown, which was 2.5 months. I think almost everyone is feeling fatigue from Covid-19 now after 2 years, it’s like we are slipping up and slowly letting our guard down. I just hope that we have a permanent vaccine soon that could solve this problem once and for all, like smallpox or polio.
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One thing that united the entire world was toilet paper.
Image source: TODAYonline |
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