In sparking panic buying and lockdown fear, Carrie Lam has again failed Xi’s remit

We haven’t come very far since the beginning of Covid-19. Last week’s empty supermarket shelves looked like we had gone back to February 2020, when panic buying and stockpiling toilet paper got us on international headlines. Back then, it even got a Singaporean minister to call Hongkongers “idiots”.Most of the world, even Singapore, has got the “idiot” bug since, so much so that studies have been conducted on toilet paper hoarding. And now that Hong Kong is riding our fifth and worst wave yet,…

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