I think it's funny how everyone uses leisure travel as the measuring stick to justify zero covid--saving lives vs a trip to Paris. Everyone I know who hates the policy has been ripped away from their families for years. The diaspora is real, students are still studying abroad and even more have moved away completely. My friend lives alone and mourns that her kids haven't come to visit her in two years and have no prospect of coming again. On the business side I can't tell you the number of my friends whose businesses are on life support from the policy. Omicron is providing a little respite as the western autocrats are overjoyed to ruin people's lives again for another holiday season and giving a little more undeserved patience towards the zero covid model, but everyone I know running a business here (including ourselves) are trying to find how to keep their business from being smothered or planning their business closure to relocate somewhere that isn't being crazy about covid (unfortunately there are suddenly very few choices)
Zero covid's casualties are families, businesses, mental health and economies, and the fatality rate is much higher than the 0.018% global covid fatality rate.
And when omicron eventually does take a hold in hk--as it inevitably will, the shut downs and measures will put the last nail in our businesses coffins.