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Flat White

Coronavirus: a political disease

6 March 2020

5:00 AM

6 March 2020

5:00 AM

Hong Kong.

When I got to the pharmacy at 9 am, I realised there was no hope of getting a box of masks. The masks would be allotted to the first 380 in the queue when the pharmacy opened at 11 am. But the queue was already a mile down Nathan Road, zigzagging into the side streets.

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