Following on from the 'it would be funny, if it weren't so sad' tale of the idiotic panic buying of table salt (see last post), Liuzhou media are now reporting that the wave of panic has subsided and that supermarkets etc are adequately stocked with salt. Certainly, I have seen it over the last few [...]
With Japan seemingly heading towards a literal meltdown, the good old Chinese population are reaching for their wallets and seeking to protect themselves from some imagined radiation threat by panic buying… Iodine tablets? No. Fallout shelters? No. Table salt. Yes, you read that correctly. Table salt. All across China people have been buying it like it's going [...]
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