The incident of the UK government fast becoming a joke first by promoting herd immunity of COVID-19 among its citizens, then with a prince, a prime minister and a health minister tested positive for the virus, has no doubt generated panic among those who under usual conditions tout their connections with that country, now scrambling to flee. As of April 5, 2020, over a quarter of the confirmed SARS-CoV-2 cases in Hong Kong are UK related. Given Hong Kong has already seen months of political strife prior to the coronavirus pandemic, the irony is that, with global production and shipping lines disrupted, the medical-grade 3M respirators celebrated by so-called indigenous groups and local stores as protective measures against tear gas are now in short supply, prompting the POTUS to invoke the Korean War-era Defense Production Act towards 3M.