Narratives of this (now) ongoing incident is running hot on Chinese language Facebook. It reflects a number of things:

1. The Hong Kong public does NOT trust its Government and its lackeys with supplies that are intended for victims. It reflects the fact that the years of distrust which culminated in the 2019 protests has not gone away despite 5 years of national security crackdown, media censorship and constant pro-Government propaganda.
   
   
2. The Hong Kong Government and its lackeys are not acting in good faith. If this was merely a case of them believing that they have the resources and logistics to do things on a larger scale and more efficiently, they could have chosen to work with the citizen-led cohorts of volunteers, rather than reporting the volunteers to the police for unlawful assembly. At best this is an act of revenge for Government lackeys having been shown up in the last day or so for being only interested in photo opportunities for performative purposes rather than actually helping victims. At worst this is yet another sign of the Government and its lackeys treating civic-minded ordinary Hong Kong people as enemies.
   
   
3. These moves to monopolise the narrative and the audio visuals (let’s face it these lackeys aren’t really into helping people) is yet another reminder for ordinary Hong Kong people that their city is now subject to Mainland Chinese official malpractice in the aftermath of disasters (ie all political and PR show all about self-benefit no real assistance to victims). In other words, even in times of disaster and grief, it is now made known to Hong Kong people in no uncertain terms than they are now subject to a bad faith colonial master.