It depends on how many you use for breakfast, if you're making a cake or cookies, pancakes etc. There are lots of things that use eggs. I usually hard boil 6 at a time, then take 1 or 2 to work for a mid morning snack. That's half a carton right there.

Who needs three cartons of eggs? The Duggar family?

Rationing is an attempt to be 'fair' in the allocation of scarce resources.
For a good exposition of what the word 'fair' means see very early in Atlas Shrugged when Dagny talks to Jim Taggert about buying rail, Jim says 'It isn't fair'.

This story, may, possibly be true- 1950-era Eastern Europe.

There is a rumor that meat is available, a long line forms outside the meat market.
At 8 in the morning the market door opens, and a man steps out.
He announces, "There is not enough meat for everyone.
If you are Jewish, you might as well go home." Several people leave.

At 10 the door opens, the man steps out and says,
"I'm sorry, but there is not enough meat.
If you are not a Party member, you might as well go home."
Most of the people leave.

At 4 PM the man appears again and says,
"I'm so terribly sorry. There isn't any meat at all."
One Party member turns to another and grumbles,
"Isn't that the way it always is? The Jews get the best of everything!"

See? That's the kind of business altruism that I applaud. The chain has CHOSEN (do you understand that word, members of the ruling class?) to restrict sales so individual households can get some eggs. That's the kind of ethos that I like to see!

But is the flu real? Or is it a gov't-mandated killing, engineered to induce an artificial shortage & thus raise prices for poultry & eggs? The price of beef is going up, now poultry & eggs. Medical care, food in general, college education...I mean come on already. It getting so out of control.