Living, as we do, in Discovery Bay, we’ve been immune from most of the violence around town and only see it if we venture into the city.
We’ve been immune because you can only reach us by tunnel or ferry. You can’t really organise if you have to work out a ferry timetable. And the ferry can simply stop.
But we wake up this morning to find messages from the Police on our iPhones. The MTR is closed throughout Hong Kong. Also the main supermarket chain, Park ‘n Shop. So here it’s only Wellcome and there are hour-long queues and every major staple is sold out, though we still go, Jing and Arlene, and buy what we can.
So that’s what this random violence brings. Closure of shops and trains and the most affected are the poor working class. And the responsibility is absolutely and solely on the protesters. With them and them alone. Despite which many still blame the government. This is just delusion, hysteria, hallucination. No shop closes because the government tells them to. They close because they fear random violence for them or their customers. We’ve seen it with our own eyes.
So I sit at home and watch Australia trounce Uruguay (45-10). We don’t trounce Uruguay by as much as we should if we expect to win the Cup.
We’ve been immune because you can only reach us by tunnel or ferry. You can’t really organise if you have to work out a ferry timetable. And the ferry can simply stop.
But we wake up this morning to find messages from the Police on our iPhones. The MTR is closed throughout Hong Kong. Also the main supermarket chain, Park ‘n Shop. So here it’s only Wellcome and there are hour-long queues and every major staple is sold out, though we still go, Jing and Arlene, and buy what we can.
So that’s what this random violence brings. Closure of shops and trains and the most affected are the poor working class. And the responsibility is absolutely and solely on the protesters. With them and them alone. Despite which many still blame the government. This is just delusion, hysteria, hallucination. No shop closes because the government tells them to. They close because they fear random violence for them or their customers. We’ve seen it with our own eyes.
So I sit at home and watch Australia trounce Uruguay (45-10). We don’t trounce Uruguay by as much as we should if we expect to win the Cup.
