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The panic buying and hoarding is a consequence of the vacuum of effective communication. The government should have explained on very clear terms and consistently repeated the communication that there was no risk of food shortage and no risk of disruption to supply chains. They didn't say that clearly until yesterday.
They need to over communicate, and educate people about what this is really about, i.e. probable massive shortage of NHS capacity to deal with crisis and the consequences of that.
Instead they let people engage in a bout of panic buying that has probably accelerated spread of the virus.
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Agree - the official reassurances have come too late. And the "hard hitting consequences" stuff is left to social media which is not a good/controlled way to inform people, and more likely to lead to both panic and denial.
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Boris has been banging on about the food chain being fine for about a week now - 'food to fork' as he calls it.
People panic when they are scared, leading to all kinds of destructive behaviours. The government being super honest and transparent will lead to more of these behaviours.
hoefla
Bainbridge
Just look at the hoarding going on now. Imagine what that world be like if there was imminent and gruesome death being talked about?
And who would be effected worst? Yeah, you'd be ok probably but what if you're old, disabled or something else. You're fucked.