During the week I flew to Canberra for a training seminar at the National Press Club.
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Walking into the airport terminal on Tuesday morning, I couldn't help but notice how many people were wearing masks as they struggled with those giant luggage trolleys that airports all seem to have.
Most of the trolleys were loaded two or three suitcases high, and as I watched one weary traveller struggle to regain control of a trolley that had a mind of its own, I couldn't help but draw a comparison to scenes I encountered in the supermarket just the night before.
After calling into grab a few (edible) supplies after work on Monday, I thought I'd chance my arm and see if the toilet paper stocks had been replenished.
My timing was spot on - there were heaps of rolls when I wandered past the first time, but oddly, they were in packs of 32 rolls.
Who needs to buy toilet paper in packs of 32 rolls?
Or for that matter 128 rolls like the person I saw trying to load up a trolley and then get past the eagle-eyed supermarket staff enforcing the one pack per customer policy?
And for what it's worth - why can't we buy toilet paper in the smaller packs most of us are more used to?
I walked back past the shelves at the back of the supermarket about ten minutes later and just one or two packs remained.
There'd been a frenzy at the back of the store, and I reckon more than 3200 rolls had been snapped up in record time.
Why, you may well ask?
I don't know either.
The fear and ignorance that had been the trademark of the original stampede to grab any and all supplies a week or so ago may have abated, but there's a lot of us who are part of the second wave that just want to buy what we would normally buy, and that's not a jumbo-sized 32 rolls.
Tempted though I was for a few seconds, I resisted and left them for someone else.
Earlier on Monday, we had a delivery of all sorts of goodies here at the Addy.
Chief among them was a stack of toilet paper rolls - so many of them that someone quipped up and asked if we were going to be paid in toilet paper this week!
Boarding my flight, I noticed there were quite a few of my fellow passengers wearing masks, but this is something we are all going to have to become accustomed to as the Coronavirus continues to tighten its grip on the community.
When I got to Canberra and lined up to check in at my hotel, there was a box I had to tick on the form asking me to declare whether I'd just travelled from some of the overseas destinations where the virus is more prevalent.
Thankfully I haven't, and again, I presume (and hope) the three people in the queue to check in before and after me hadn't either.
Same goes for the delivery guy who dropped off a stack of boxes - maybe it was toilet paper as well - before getting a signature from a hotel staff member before bolting out the door.
Training seminar done, and barely 36 hours later, I made my way back through security at Canberra's sparkling clean and pristine airport and waited to board my flight home.
This time, there were a lot more people donning masks.
If this is an indicator of people's fear about the virus, then concerns would appear to have increased significantly this week.
And while a lot of people are quick to lay the blame for this at the feet of the media, to do so means dismissing the serious messages about the threat to the health and safety of people across the world.
As the past week has continued to unfold, those concerns have gained a new intensity, culminating in the declaration of a pandemic by the WHO (preempted by the Australian government) and the announcement of a multi-billion dollar stimulus package designed to stave off a Coronavirus induced recession.
Personally, I admit to feeling a tad uncomfortable sitting in an elongated metal cylinder with a bunch of people who each have no idea where most of those around them have been, or who they have been spending time with.
Sitting next to a person wearing a mask is not a fun experience, but it reinforced what authorities have been saying all week.
Day after day, the level of concern from health authorities and community leaders has lifted just a bit more, seemingly in unison with the 24-hour news cycle.
Their message is simple.
The Coronavirus spread is becoming more relevant and more serious for more of Australia, even as I pen this column and more poignantly, most likely even more so by the time you read it.