Despite today's grim Covid stats, one particular shade of grey seems to be the apparent lack of reported panic-buying due to this third lockdown.

Well you all remember what happened last March, in the run-up to the very first lockdown, and to a much lesser extent in the run-up to the second lockdown in November, especially with the toilet rolls!

Have most people now come to their senses and started to realise that it was all a big unnecessary overreaction to issues that never really existed in the first place, or have the mainstream media now started to get more sensible and tone down their sensationalism and scaremongering stories which were partly responsible for fuelling the panic-buying hysteria in the first place, or both?