[...] Panic buying started last week with the inexplicable bogocalypse. Since then, it has spread to rice, pasta, flour, tinned and frozen food… even seedlings. As if these idiots imagine that they’ll be reaping their harvest in just a few weeks. Country towns are seeing city-based hoarders hire buses in order to literally raid small-town supermarkets. Home delivery has also been overwhelmed.

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Punk rock philosopher. Liberalist contrarian. Grumpy old bastard. I grew up in a generational-Labor-voting family. I kept the faith long after the political left had abandoned it. In the last decade...