More than 200,000 infections have been recorded in the last two months, compared with just 12,000 for the rest of the pandemic - while its death rate is currently four times Singapore's.
For two years, Hong Kong kept infections largely at bay using a strict zero-COVID strategy but an outbreak of the highly infectious Omicron variant has been tearing through the city since January....
In recent weeks, Hong Kong has seen overflowing hospitals and morgues, shortages of medics and ambulances, panic buying and a frantic expansion, with mainland China's help, of spartan quarantine camps and temporary hospitals to house the infected. CNA
Singapore is also have a surge with more than 20,000 cases a day. The latest was 24,000 in an island of less than 6m people. If Hong Kong is left alone to its own doing, without China putting its foot down to stick to zero Covid policy, Hong Kong is likely to shoot pass Singapore in infection rate given the density of its population. Latest Hong Kong had 50,000 daily cases. Clever, very clever.
China is getting angry with the situation in Hong Kong. Perhaps China can rethink its strategy about Hong Kong and apply the one country two systems policy, let Hong Kong has its way and do what it likes. It would be a win win situation. Hong Kongers would love to have their freedom and this would be something they could cheer for. They could then try to outdo China by curbing the virus the Hong Kong way. Maybe they could follow Singapore and promote the use of mRNA vaccines as the main vaccine to fight the virus, with boosters, and hopefully lower the infection rate and do better than China.
The other advantage is the economy. Hong Kong could be as free as Singapore and resume its key role as the gateway to China, adopts Singapore's live with the Covid policy, open the gate wide wide to do more business with the rest of the world. And compete with Singapore to see who is freer, who opens the gate wider, or else it would lose out to Singapore like what the western media said.
China can maintain its zero Covid policy as this serves China very well with its factories all running in full steam, no need to open up to all Tom, Dick and Harry to come in to infect the whole country. But anyone coming into China from Hong Kong must go through the stringent control protocols. Hong Kong could be a hot bed for the virus as the virus would also enjoy the freedom like Hong Kongers in a western style democratic system.
When Hong Kong opens up like Singapore, Singapore would have a hard time chasing after Hong Kong again. Both would try to outdo the other.
HK will follow its master and lockdown this month. This is great news for Singapore. Even before a total lockdown, HK's GDP is already negative while Singapore's is growing in the high single digits.
ReplyDeleteSingapore is already ahead of HK as a financial centre, thanks to covid.
Singapore’s statistics are massaged. Not reliable.
ReplyDeleteEven the Covid-19 reports by moh are not reliable. Many significant things have been hidden.
ReplyDeleteSingapore’s Covid-19 infections and deaths are actually much higher than Hongkong's. There are many cases went unreported, especially those recuperating at home.
ReplyDeleteOne family member gets infected, means the whole family get infected.
And after 7 days of infection, MOH simply declared that the have recovered. In fact, most of them are still Covid-19 Positive. This gives the public a false sense of well-being.
When you have cunning, unscrupulous and insincere people managing the Pandemic, these are what happened.
The COVID Pandemic shall bring the Sin
ReplyDeleteCharlatans down to their bended knees soon.
HONG KONG: One of Hong Kong's top coronavirus experts on Thursday (Mar 3) joined a growing chorus of criticism over plans to test the entire city, saying doing so during its worst-ever outbreak would have little impact.
ReplyDeleteFully agree with this expert. When one's body is full of sores, no need to do anything anymore. Just join the West, let the virus flood across the whole Hong Kong like the USA and all will be immuned. So easy to achieve with so little cost, just a few more bodies in the mortuary.
Rest assure that Hong Kong is no match for Sin. With the close brotherhood with the US, Sin is invincible in all aspects of survival. It is even stronger than lsrael.
ReplyDeleteDo celebrate that Sin is run by top talents.
A few hundred thousand Hongkies are moving to Singapore. Already around 100,000 of them have flown to S'pore in the last 3 months.
ReplyDeleteMost are here just temporarily to avoid the situation in HK. But more & more are planning to permanently migrate here & take up PR or even new citizenship.
This is a win-win move as SG govt is trying to ramp up working population growth, as well as maintain the ratio of the largest racial category.
NOTHING CONFIRMS A CITY'S SUCCESS AS THE NUMBER OF PEOPLE MOVING TO IT!