Posted on 02/07/2022 8:43:11 PM PST by 11th_VA
HONG KONG, Feb 7 (Reuters) - Hong Kong residents crowded supermarkets and neighbourhood fresh food markets on Monday to stock up on vegetables, noodles and other necessities after a record number of COVID-19 infections in the city and transport disruptions at the border with mainland China.
The city of 7.5 million people reported a record 614 coronavirus cases on Monday, in the biggest test yet for the Chinese territory's zero-COVID strategy.
Hong Kong imports 90% of its food supplies, with the mainland its most important source, especially for fresh food. Consumers have already seen a shortage of some foreign imported goods, including premium seafood, due to stringent flight restrictions.
The government tried to assuage worries of a shortage of food from the mainland after some cross-border truck drivers tested positive for the coronavirus...
At a fresh food market in Tin Shui Wai, in the city's northern New Territories, vendors said there would be no vegetables in coming days, prompting customers to buy up produce.
"Of course you have to buy. There will be no vegetables from tomorrow. The trucks can't come here...so the vegetables are very, very pricey," said a 50 year old woman surnamed Chow.
John Chan, a vegetable vendor, said the disruptions had seen supply drop by 30%, including for products such as Chinese flowering cabbage. He cautioned that hundreds of kilograms of vegetables due to arrive on Tuesday may not be able to arrive.
"I still don't know if they can cross the border. If there is none, the prices will further increase or we have nothing to sell."
Shelves stocking vegetables, tissues and cup noodles were bare at several supermarkets across the former British colony with customers stocking up over concerns that products would be even harder to get in the coming days...
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Humans, take away their accustomed foods and they get surly.
Grrrrrrrrr.
The effects of supply and demand on display. The leftists in our society simply do not comprehend the ideas.
Ping.
Adam Smith’s “invisible hand” has become a clenched fist.
7.5 million people
614 new cases
It’s the end of the world!
614 cases out of 7.5 million people.
TPTB are using the fear to control people.
614 cases is practically nothing.
Where’s the Not This $*** Again guy?
No one believes these folks, anymore.
and still, remarkably...
Statista: Coronavirus (COVID-19) deaths worldwide per one million population as of February 7, 2022, by country
China: #154 out of 155 countries: 4,849 deaths in total.
https://www.statista.com/statistics/1104709/coronavirus-deaths-worldwide-per-million-inhabitants/
no-one ever mentions the alleged # of deaths, and how it never changes.
HK has not reported a single fatality for many months.
Even S. Korea with it’s truly astonishing surveillance, tracking, and quarantines* had a fairly significant surge of Omicron fatalities.
*We have a moderately close acquaintance (American family visiting) in SK, now in quarantine due to a positive test result.
Ping
Hong Kong has put into place Draconian strategies regarding Corona...sort of a Zero Covid policy. I’ve read somewhere that they quarantine people entering HK for like 21 days, I believe they’re forced into quarantine hotels. They are just delaying the inevitable, as their population have little natural immunity and the virus will run rampant once restrictions are loosened. Not as bad, but it will be like releasing the virus on North Sentinel Island.
Fear, panic, supply chain disruption, restrictions....going global with it?
Seems like more of these stories popping up.
Nonetheless, I keep prepping a bit anyways. If only to be ahead of the next run. Just a little bit here and there.
Just need an anti-messiah for ‘Peace and Security’ to return things to normal.
Yeah.... That’ll work...
In a zero tolerance country, it is.
They have watched other entire cities get locked down for weeks on end, people welded into their apartments, monitors delivering them food boxes...and unable to even leave for fresh air for days and weeks.
I do believe “raiding” a store in Hong Kong has a different connotation than it does in American cities.
I think that there will be both a lot more panic buying and some real food shortages this summer and fall.
Whether it is major droughts in S. American, crop failures in China and parts of Africa, there is a lot of bad news associated with the world food supply.
Let me tell you about hew-mons, nephew . . .
You got it.
Hahahah.
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