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| My spreadsheet from figures at Worldometer |
Downward tick, but not going to be fooled again by this virus, which may spike tomorrow. Waiting for settled downward shift in numbers. Hong Kong Total = 1026. New = 2. Singapore has 596 new, mostly in dormitories for foreign workers. We don’t have foreign workers’ dormitories in Hong Kong.
John in the US tells us his final interview for a summer job was cancelled. Disappointing, but not surprising. A mate of his had an actual offer withdrawn and that would be even tougher. It’s time to be tough minded.
Dinner at Moofish last night. Had to book to get an outside table, which are now spread out to keep social distances. People, kids, bikes, dogs out and about.
Yesterday I wondered why the police would arrest 15 high profile Pan-Dems, including the veteran lawmaker, Martin Lee. It could only provoke the anti government forces. Alex Lo makes the same point today in ‘Arrests a propaganda coup for pan-Dems’. He makes the point that Carrie Lam and Beijing would also know this and so — presumably — would not have wanted the police to make the arrests. Instead, he speculates, the police simply had to act, given overwhelming evidence. And so, ironically, it’s only the police who are not playing politics. Maybe. Or maybe Carrie Lam and Beijing just don’t care what it looks like. They’re about sending a message.
Meantime Mike Rowse raises some important issues about an increasingly polarised Hong Kong, in ‘Police watchdog key to bridging HK’s protest divide’
John in the US tells us his final interview for a summer job was cancelled. Disappointing, but not surprising. A mate of his had an actual offer withdrawn and that would be even tougher. It’s time to be tough minded.
Dinner at Moofish last night. Had to book to get an outside table, which are now spread out to keep social distances. People, kids, bikes, dogs out and about.
Yesterday I wondered why the police would arrest 15 high profile Pan-Dems, including the veteran lawmaker, Martin Lee. It could only provoke the anti government forces. Alex Lo makes the same point today in ‘Arrests a propaganda coup for pan-Dems’. He makes the point that Carrie Lam and Beijing would also know this and so — presumably — would not have wanted the police to make the arrests. Instead, he speculates, the police simply had to act, given overwhelming evidence. And so, ironically, it’s only the police who are not playing politics. Maybe. Or maybe Carrie Lam and Beijing just don’t care what it looks like. They’re about sending a message.
Meantime Mike Rowse raises some important issues about an increasingly polarised Hong Kong, in ‘Police watchdog key to bridging HK’s protest divide’
The division of Hong Kong into “blue” and “yellow” camps, which arguably began with the Occupy movement in 2014, has certainly accelerated since the extradition bill protests began last year. Hardcore blues can see no action by the police requiring censure or even investigation, while their yellow counterparts take as gospel truth every rumour, however wild and lacking in evidence. Read on…
