This is the exact opposite of what the science tells us we should be doing

I’m noting the plastic dividers above. Blocking in the exhaled breath
of these ladies.

We should have greater ventilation, especially indoors, like here in the coffee shop as I write this. These plastic screens are a defence against droplets. That’s what we thought at the beginning — like early 2020. We’ve known for some time that blocking ventilation, as above, is not what we should be doing. Even the WHO says so, so it must be right.

I told our government this but they didn’t listen!

By the way, the above plastic screens are not the choice of our Uncle Russ Coffee shop. They are mandate by our Hong Kong government. Even as we continue a months-long record of precisely ZERO local covid cases. (We get a couple of cases a day, all imported, caught at the border). That’s in our city of 7.5 million. 

More people have been killed by lightning and by falling off cliffs in our country parks than by Covid in recent months. 

There are plenty of people who remain fearful nonetheless. If you are vaccinated you have only a one in 165 thousand chance of being hospitalised, and far less of dying (Joe Biden says it!), but this doesn’t ally’s fears. I’m no Covid denier and I’m hugely pro vaccines. It’s about time that we had a “vaccine dividend”. In a society, such as ours in HK, where everyone has had a chance to get a free, easy, safe and convenient vaccine, we ought to be free to move about maskless, to travel freely and to gather in groups as large as we wish (in accordance, of course! with the National Security Law).