Posted on 02/09/2022 9:30:51 PM PST by 11th_VA
Hong Kong reported two deaths in Covid-positive patients, the first fatalities in the city since September, as a record outbreak overwhelms hospitals and testing resources.
A 73-year-old man who had received two doses of Sinovac Biotech Ltd.’s vaccine in September died Tuesday, and an unvaccinated 76-year-old man died on Wednesday, health officials said. Both men had chronic illnesses.
Hong Kong is battling to contain an unprecedented outbreak that’s pushed its health system to the brink. The city had managed to live for months with no local transmission due to onerous anti-virus measures -- including flight bans, up to 21 days of quarantine and mandatory hospital admission -- but the arrival of the more-transmissible omicron risks shattering its steadfast push for Covid Zero.
Public hospitals are being overwhelmed, with cases almost doubling in one day to a record 1,161, forcing officials to ask people who have tested positive not to go to emergency units. While most hospitalized cases are still mild in Hong Kong because the dominant variant is omicron, a breakdown in health-care resources has invariably presaged a wave of death in most countries through the pandemic’s history.
Authorities are especially concerned about its large elderly population, with only about half of residents aged 70 and above receiving a first dose so far. The virus has now been found in more than 10 aged-care facilities.
The explosive rise in case numbers has prompted a series of U-turns from the government, including a request for anyone with mild Covid-like symptoms to go to a private doctor to get tested, rather than go to emergency departments in public hospitals to have their diagnosis confirmed. The city has also seen long lines of people snaking through a growing number of neighborhoods to be tested at community facilities due to compulsory notices…
(Excerpt) Read more at thestandard.com.hk ...
Only two measly cases? Well, not ‘Measles-measly’.
That would be yet another reason to Mask Up.
prepare to see a lot more of these stories as the dems try to desperately keep their tyrannical rules going- and prepare ot see gthem crop up again after the next mid term elections-
What about deaths of people that have carrot in their digestive system? Or deaths of people that have worn chicken suits? Or deaths related to canoes? Or any other stupid random statistical association of death that we can obsess over beyond all reason?
Two deaths. Time to start welding the doors shut and go full commie on Hong Kong then.
HK has had only 28 deaths per million population from early 2020 to now. They are one of those Asian countries in which the virus just isn’t killing people. Taiwan is another. Densely packed but the people don’t die.
In contrast the US has 2700 deaths per million since day 1. Peru leads the world at 6000 deaths per million. Lambda was like a scythe through Peru.
No one knows why some countries with strict restrictions have no deaths and other countries with strict restrictions have many deaths.
It’s a police state full of self proclaimed “experts” spewing fear porn at every chance.
Plotting my exit as we speak. Eff this shithole.
The hospitals are “overwhelmed” because they are checking people’s shit for the virus and shipping entire buildings of asymptomatic people to hospitals for testing. Then they are given panadol and cough medicine and shipped to a gulag for a month.
I expect they will eventually find a nutrition/metabolic connection. I have already seen theoretic connection to Vitamin D deficiency. It may be less a matter of Covid restrictions and more a matter of lifestyle and culture which explains the differences among countries.
Hong Kong is a part of China.
Only this month the Johns Hopkins University's Coronavirus Resource Center has "revised" its China data.
That "official" data?
As of 10 February 2022, a nation of 1.4 billion people over twenty-five months has reported 4,851 deaths from Covid.
https://coronavirus.jhu.edu/region/china
China Covid as of 10 February 2022:
( 4,851 "official" Covid deaths in two years / 1,439,323,776 Chinese citizens ) x 100 = mortality rate of 0.00033 per cent.
Remember the panic-filled videos from China at the beginning of 2020 with people falling over "dead" on the street?
This has been a huge Chinese psy-op, if the "official" data are to be believed.
But a comment posted to this thread says, "No one knows why some countries with strict restrictions have no deaths and other countries with strict restrictions have many deaths."
Over two years, and "no one knows why?" Such a statement seems quite in line with a participant in the psy-op. Or at least unwittingly aligned with it.
As of 10 February 2022, a nation of 1.4 billion people over twenty-five months has reported 4,851 deaths from Covid. "No one knows why?" Oy.
Nod. A maybe. I know someone from HK and my impression is they have essentially no obesity there. Car ownership does not happen so there’s a lot of walking to bus and train.
Could be a wrong impression.
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