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| My spreadsheet from figures at Worldometer |
What to say today? More of same. More worldwide lockdowns. The US now has ten million 17 million unemployed than it had a month ago. How many of these will get jobs back? World wide it’s over 50 million who have suddenly lost gainful employment. HK Total = 961. New = 25.
Web archived update.
Web archived update.
Listening to the late Leo McKearn, aka Rumpole of the Bailey, reading his own memoir, “Just Resting”, on BBC Radio 4 plus.
Boris still in hospital. Day three. Reportedly “improving”. And Andrew Cuomo says N.Y. figures “improving”.
Wuhan ends 76-day lockdown. Largest quarantine in history just ended.
68% of recent cases tested in China were asymptomatic. That means the virus was silently spreading before anyone had any idea that anything needed hiding or suppressing.
And German study shows “big pool of cases” are undetected.
$20 billion in Hong Kong for 1.5 million workers to get paid. As Australia has $80 b. to help 6 million
WHO slams Trump for “politicising coronavirus”. But who was political when it ignored Taiwanese suspicions in late December that it was transmitting human-to-human? WHO?
Alex Lo says what I’ve been saying. Even given early Chinese apparatchiks suppression of coronavirus information, the West had time to prepare but didn’t. A point also made by Daniel Wagner and Jonathan Rogers here. And Bai Tongdong here. And, by the way, the South China Morning Post, is not particularly “pro-Beijing” as I show here.
Does that look like a downward trend for us here in Hong Kong? It sure does to me. People keep talking about a “second wave”. But as we get better at testing, tracing, isolating, quarantining, is a second wave inevitable? The optimist in me says no.
Boris still in hospital. Day three. Reportedly “improving”. And Andrew Cuomo says N.Y. figures “improving”.
Wuhan ends 76-day lockdown. Largest quarantine in history just ended.
68% of recent cases tested in China were asymptomatic. That means the virus was silently spreading before anyone had any idea that anything needed hiding or suppressing.
And German study shows “big pool of cases” are undetected.
$20 billion in Hong Kong for 1.5 million workers to get paid. As Australia has $80 b. to help 6 million
WHO slams Trump for “politicising coronavirus”. But who was political when it ignored Taiwanese suspicions in late December that it was transmitting human-to-human? WHO?
Alex Lo says what I’ve been saying. Even given early Chinese apparatchiks suppression of coronavirus information, the West had time to prepare but didn’t. A point also made by Daniel Wagner and Jonathan Rogers here. And Bai Tongdong here. And, by the way, the South China Morning Post, is not particularly “pro-Beijing” as I show here.
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| Hong Kong daily new cases, lately largely imported |
