BBC News reported on people in several countries who are "already preparing for crisis," in a feature that asks whether such preparation is responsible or panicked.

According to the BBC News summary, the report looks at people in the United States, Japan, Sweden and the Netherlands and at what they keep in their emergency stashes. The summary cites filter straws and a disposable toilet as examples of items in those stashes.

The summary does not list the other items, name any of the people, or give the number of households included in the report. It also does not identify the crisis the people are preparing for, and it does not say when their preparations began.

The headline frames the piece around the question of whether such preparation is responsible or panicked. The BBC News summary offers no conclusion on that question.

The summary names four countries, while the headline refers more broadly to people around the world. The summary does not say whether any other countries are included in the full article.

This account relies only on the BBC News headline and summary. The full article was not reviewed for this report, so details that appear only in the full text are not included here.

Readers can find the full BBC News article at BBC News report on people preparing emergency stashes.

Sources: BBC News: Responsible or panicked? Meet the people around the world already preparing for crisis.