IN one sense, panic buyers should be so lucky, with money to panic-buy with. No money to panic-buy with is the plight of many of our marginalized countrymen, adversely affected by the no-work-no-pay rule, which many high-profile personalities abroad are mitigating from their own personal resources. Locals are following suit, to supplement whatever government could give.

Very good, but lockdowns, willy-nilly, may punish the poorest of the poor most, given our inadequate welfare system. They may die quickly due to the coronavirus disease 2019 (Covid-19), or slowly, via painful starvation, or fatal malnutrition.

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