Not quite. If businesses were 100% closed it would be believable, except this wasn't' the case by any means. Your statement about "manufacturers" making the "same amount" is a gross errant statement.

For example, Kimberly-Clark's profit was up 45 percent in the first three months ending in March of 2020. This is the same trend for all the Big Saw mill/ paper manufacturers. The Big Saw mills have become a cartel in many ways. The logging landowners, the loggers, log-truckers, and the retails did not profit off the toilet paper collusion. Only the Big saw mills/ paper manufacturers did. The rail companies were restricted from shipping raw lumber and the small saw mills were locked-down. Many witnesses reported lumber being stock-pile by the railroad companies to allow other supplies to be shipped.

It was all premeditated and a crime that needs to be prosecuted. We must seek the truth and do our research. We cannot be the following:

"My people are destroyed for lack of knowledge; because you have rejected knowledge, I reject you from being a priest to me. And since you have forgotten the law of your God, I also will forget your children." -- Hosea 4:6