Why COVID-19 Is Clogging Your Toilet — and What You Can Do about It

Brett Pelham
5 min readApr 14, 2020
Image by Anna Shvets, courtesy of Unsplash

If you feel like your toilet is doing a crappy job during the COVID-19 pandemic, you are not alone. In the past few weeks, lots of other Americans are also fighting with their toilets — as the toilets simply refuse to do their jobs. But your toilet doesn’t have anything against you. You’re just overworking it.

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Brett Pelham

Brett is a social psychologist at Montgomery College, MD. Brett studies health, gender, culture, religion, identity, and stereotypes.