If that were the case, and amazon was sufficiently interested, they'd do the trivial/intelligent thing and simply prioritize essentials for shipping over other things. For example, by disabling 1-2 day shipping for anything not considered an essential.

Rather than blaming people for using amazon for precisely its intended usecase, ,despite individuals having next to zero information on what was actually up with amazon's backend causing the slowdown (are there simply no essentials left to deliver, and the backlog is due to other issues..? I dunno, I'm not amazon, and probably you aren't either.)

Hell, it might already be the case.. which would mean you're attacking people for buying normal goods for no particular reason.

Well that can't be true since Amazon seems to not have any toilet paper in stock. And they seem to have turned off fresh groceries, at least in my area.