Has Hong Kong adopted the wrong COVID-19 strategy?

hongkong7 · 16-11-2021, 05:08 PM

Originally Posted by ByeByeEngland:

are you going to be staying at Ramada North Point then? Or is it doing the rounds in another hotel group? I’m there from 3rd Jan or 31st if (when) I need to do 3 weeks in Dubai again because of a new and dangerous variant being announced in the UK just before Christmas? Actually if that happened again I’d be on a plane to Dubai on Boxing Day

Nt me. a friend currently in quarantine in mira send the message to me

Cornmeal · 17-11-2021, 01:10 PM

Massive mandatory testing drive on 19 locations for 2 IMPORTED cases:

https://www.thestandard.com.hk/break...testing-notice

Wish I owned a lab, they are cleaning up!

njstone9 · 17-11-2021, 01:33 PM

https://news.rthk.hk/rthk/en/compone...5-20211117.htm

I need to get myself into this testing business. Clearly highly lucrative. Imagine how many people were at Disney on a Sunday?

njstone9 · 17-11-2021, 01:34 PM

And now pilots react...

https://www.scmp.com/news/hong-kong/...ot-base-citing

Baklava · 17-11-2021, 01:46 PM

Surely you can already guess the next measures these experts come up with? Here is a preview of what is to come:
- Place keypad locks on the outside of the hotel rooms so they can only be opened from the outside by authorized personnel (that measure will be reconsidered again after a hotelfire kills 10 but it is decided to keep it in place)
- Place airtight seals at the doors as rumor has it that one case of Covid cross contamination occurred (right after the last PCR test) when someone in the opposite hotel room farted which caused Covid to the poor man that was just about to be released.
- Finally: build dedicated quarantine camps (modelled to the latest Chinese facilities). The governement decides to allocate land previously meant for housing to build the first 10.000 room quarantine facility with delivery robots, watch towers and Covid sniffing dogs

... until in 2042 a group of young rebels, kids born and raised in the quarantine camps, hack into those delivery robots and use them to lead the revolt.

(Penny Bay: The Uprising. Coming soon in cinemas near you!)

njstone9 · 17-11-2021, 01:52 PM

And another...

https://www.reuters.com/world/asia-p...es-2021-11-16/

Coolboy · 18-11-2021, 10:46 AM

A common sense suggestion, which I am sure will be ignored by the powers-that-be:

https://www.ejinsight.com/eji/articl...sionate-ground

qhank · 18-11-2021, 11:06 AM

Originally Posted by Edwardstorm:

- Place keypad locks on the outside of the hotel rooms so they can only be opened from the outside by authorized personnel (that measure will be reconsidered again after a hotelfire kills 10 but it is decided to keep it in place)

People have already been killed by fire in quarantine hotels, and they weren't even locked in. Just the mere fact of not being allowed out was enough to keep them in their rooms:

https://www.nytimes.com/2021/07/02/w...otel-fire.html