{"id":6118,"date":"2024-03-19T20:48:20","date_gmt":"2024-03-20T01:48:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/?p=6118"},"modified":"2024-03-19T20:48:25","modified_gmt":"2024-03-20T01:48:25","slug":"they-panic-bought-bidets-during-the-pandemic-it-changed-their-lives","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/2024\/03\/19\/they-panic-bought-bidets-during-the-pandemic-it-changed-their-lives\/","title":{"rendered":"They panic-bought bidets during the pandemic. It changed their lives."},"content":{"rendered":"
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While the toilet paper shortages<\/a> that hit the United States during pandemic lockdowns in the spring of 2020 ultimately eased up, they\u2019ve had a lasting impact on one industry: the bidet business.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cThe industry here in the U.S. just blew up. You couldn\u2019t get a bidet if you wanted to,\u201d says James Lin, founder of BidetKing.com<\/a>, an online marketplace for all varieties of the bathroom appliance. \u201cWe all sold out. \u2026 There was a huge scramble to get more.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Bidets \u2014 which clean you up with a stream of water, reducing the need for tissue \u2014 certainly weren\u2019t the only items that people waited months for during that strange time. But while many have\u00a0regretted buying their Pelotons<\/a>\u00a0or even\u00a0their homes<\/a>, those who installed the bathroom fixture at the height of the Great Toilet Paper Shortage of 2020 are far from remorseful. Instead, they\u2019ve become true believers, evangelizing to family and friends and trying to help the United States catch up with the rest of the world on bidet use. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Rosanne Orgill, who lives outside Salt Lake City, bought three bidet attachments for her toilets in spring 2020. (Bidet attachments and bidet seats get installed directly onto existing toilets, whereas bidets are stand-alone appliances.) Orgill\u2019s husband, who had traveled to dozens of countries before they got together, \u201coften talked about how wonderful bidets are and \u2026 how weird it is that America doesn\u2019t have any because there\u2019s really no other way to clean yourself,\u201d she says. So, with the supply of toilet paper dwindling, she saw bidet advertisements and decided to take the plunge. She installed the attachments herself, which wasn\u2019t without its challenges. One of them leaked water all over the floor, and she had to call a plumber.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Even that didn\u2019t sour her on the bidet experience. \u201cI just love them now,\u201d says Orgill. \u201cI just don\u2019t know how people survive without them.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Washington Post While the toilet paper shortages that hit the United States during pandemic lockdowns in the spring of 2020 ultimately eased up, they\u2019ve had a lasting impact on one industry: the bidet business. \u201cThe industry here in the U.S. just blew up. You couldn\u2019t get a bidet if you wanted to,\u201d says James Lin, founder of BidetKing.com, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":6119,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6118","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-coping-with-covid"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/Screenshot-2024-03-19-at-21.44.40.png","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6118","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6118"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6118\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6120,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6118\/revisions\/6120"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6119"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6118"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6118"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6118"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}