Posted on 03/19/2022 4:08:03 PM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum
It’s hard to believe that after two years of government policies completely failing to prevent the spread of COVID, there hasn’t been universal acceptance that attempting to control a highly infectious respiratory virus is nearly impossible.
Nearly every country that was once praised for their “response” to COVID has seen their numbers rise dramatically over time.
The mitigation commands — mask mandates, vaccine passports, mandatory vaccinations, lockdowns and lockdowns for the “unvaccinated” have all been disastrous blunders; hopeless flailing borne out of a desire to “do something” and to coerce desired behavior.
So it should come as no surprise that Hong Kong has joined the long list of jurisdictions to see their much praised policies collapse.
Equally unsurprising is that media and Twitter promoted experts have yet again ignored the ramifications of Hong Kong’s startling increases.
Media reports have consistently attempted to credit masking and other interventions with stopping COVID, but Hong Kong provides a brilliant example of premature celebration.
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Not to mention that a true vaccine has yet to be discovered.
As far as China was concerned, it was a benefit either way: more people dying or damaging the economy.
Certainly deserves a massive lock down, eh?
Any indication of the percentage of the positive tested who are seriously ill or even sick? Probably the same small percentage that we have here in the USA, where people have rights.
All the “heroic” measures that have been undertaken to control the spread of the COVID-19 Wuhan virus were never meant to have any degree of success, but the secondary objective, not widely discussed or commented upon, has been wildly successful. Conformity is being pressed upon people who never would have accepted it otherwise.
And for a command-and-control regime, that is a prize well worth attaining.
Idiotic article.
Hong Kong policy was to keep it out.
Control of borders.
It worked.
ChiComs have taken over and border control was lost - ChiComs let comrades move freely.
If the vaccines worked, the border control would have been a great strategy.
But the vaccines don’t work.
It is non-stop fear porn in the local media. Carrie Lam or CLam and her idiot “local experts” change their minds every couple of hours.
The level of incompetence and evil by the human garbage running HK is at science fiction levels. They all need to be hanged for crimes against humanity.
This bitch opened hair salons so she could get a hair weave because she’s going bald.
Worked my ass. I suppose killing thousands of hamsters worked too.
Hong Kong has a popultion of about 7 million.
They have gone from 0 Covid deaths per day to about 250 today, and that happened in about 3 weeks. These numbers are 100 times higher than the worst weeks of the past 2 years.
There old folks are getting smashed. Vax did not work. Masks did not work. Travel restriction did not work.
They have not truly locked down yet, but that won’t work either. The virus is rampant. It’s going to kill a lot of people.
Unless they self isolate. Do not be around people. That means if you can’t work from home, you can’t work. Period. The city thinks it is the Financial hub of the Pacific and the people are terrified of losing that label to Shanghai. If they do, they have nothing else.
So they either find a way to do the finance work from home, or never be in the same room with their parents again.
“Worked my ass. I suppose killing thousands of hamsters worked too.”
Worked in keeping Covid cases low by not letting people in.
I don’t understand your second sentence. I hope it has nothing to do with the first.
[But the vaccines don’t work.]
https://www.covidvaccine.gov.hk/en/dashboard
In the US, the vaccination number for ages 50 and up is ~85%:
https://www.mayoclinic.org/coronavirus-covid-19/vaccine-tracker
It’s a travesty that so many elderly in Hong Kong have been injected with the worthless Chinese vaccine. The under 60’s tend to be vaccinated with the Pfizer shot.
Attempting control is quite doable, not “imposssible.” Succeeding in that control is impossible.
Perfect border control could only delay the virus, at best until the more vicious strain is replaced by the milder one.
“Perfect border control could only delay the virus, at best until the more vicious strain is replaced by the milder one.”
Yes.
If the vaccine had worked isolation would have worked.
But the vaccine doesn’t work.
100% correct. The best course was Sweden - let people who wanted to quarantine do so voluntarily, the rest were free to live their lives. And their death rate has been no worse than CA, NYC and others that had mass lockdowns.
The fools in Australia, NZ, China though they could avoid the pain with continuous lockdowns. Wrong, that only works if the disease is hard to catch, not with a respiratory virus.
You would think Chicoms would have figured this out after 2 years of observation. But nope, still playing the same tune. They will crater their own economy while the rest of the world is recovering. Works for me.
How could you possibly lock down Hong Kong when it is so crowded they have to wash each others arm pits. Over 7,000 people per sq mile. Do the math. A new one added every 10 minutes.
Vaccine? We don` need no stinkin` vaccine!
“JAKARTA (BLOOMBERG) - Indonesia estimates 86.6 per cent of its population has developed antibodies against the coronavirus, even though only about half of them have been fully vaccinated.
The government held a seroprevalence survey in November and December as a basis for setting public policy against the virus, Health Minister Budi Gunadi Sadikin said in a statement on Friday (March 18). Some 99.1 per cent of people who have had two vaccine doses carried Covid-19 antibodies, compared with 73.9 per cent for the unvaccinated.”
https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/se-asia/about-87-indonesians-have-covid-19-antibodies-state-survey-shows
Good point.
The lock downs in Hong Kong worked as intended. It stopped the spread of freedom dead.
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