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Coronavirus - COLLAPSE?!
Coronavirus - COLLAPSE?!
Grocery
runs in Asia’s financial powerhouse have begun to remind me of
shopping in Russia in the chaotic summer of 1998. You grab what you
can find, and if there is a queue, you consider joining it. Surgical
masks and sanitizer gel are bartered for; detergent shelves are bare.
A run on toilet paper last week, after an online rumor, was
reminiscent of Venezuela.
Crowds
are irrational everywhere, and social media hardly helps. Yet the
palpable anxiety in coronavirus-hit Hong Kong these days suggests
worrying levels of distrust in a city where citizens have always
expected private enterprise at least, if not the state, to keep
things ticking over. Both have failed miserably, preparing
inadequately even after the SARS outbreak that killed almost 300
people in the city in 2003.
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