There's a rumour the govt will introduce lock down for the next week?
All business closed except essential services. Similar to Typhoon 8 scenario.
There's a rumour the govt will introduce lock down for the next week?
All business closed except essential services. Similar to Typhoon 8 scenario.
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Ah... so it was just a rumour.
Social moment: People in public housing moving around HK
Risk: The spread the virus to the rest of us
Suggestion: Board up social housing estates like they did in Wuhan. Have the gov launch bags of food over the barriers to keep them going. Release them when the pandemic is under control.
Last edited by mrgoodkat; 24-07-2020 at 07:45 PM.
Serious question: if HK were to go down the "hard lockdown" route, do we just treat the hundreds of thousands in sub-standard housing as potential collateral damage? How does it work if you live in a coffin room or cage bed? I guess you would still need to use the wet bathroom you share with 30+ others, but would people be allowed to use the gas ring in the hall? How about the whole families living in windowless subdivided flats of about 100' sq.? Their only "ventilation" is usally small exhaust fan which pulls the air from the window through all the other "flats" on that floor (could be 4 or 5 flats also inhabited by families of 4 between you and the window in some of the "converted" factory buildings). What do you do with the kids? There are enough issues with domestic violence, mental illness and substance abuse in those places when people can escape outside or to an understanding neighbour.
Even in the older public housing estates many people don't want to use precious space by installing sold doors so they just have curtains over the iron gate - hard to have appropriate social distancing from those in the flats on either side of yours.
Singapore's experience of locking down all the migrant workers in their dorms (most of which at least appear to have better ventilation than many local places I've seen) was a great example of how not to do things ...
How would a lock down even work? Close the borders and keep everyone inside for 2 weeks until the infections have died down and then? Once we open up we'll get new cases and people start panicking again. Rinse and repeat? Until there is a vaccine there is just no way we'll have zero cases. There will always have to be exemptions to a lock down or quarantine, just by virtue of how HK is supplied.