Saturday 25 April 2020

Covid-19 virus update, 25 April

My spreadsheet from figures at Worldometer 
Big jump in cases perhaps because more testing. HK Total = 1036. New = zero

Anzac Day. Mutti (98) has just done the one minutes silence at her front door at 11:00 AEST. Hope to get a photo. Listen to some of her reminiscences, with me, about her time with the NZ Air Force and immediately post-war Japan

Historian Niall Ferguson talks to John Anderson about the pandemic warmings he gave back in January, how was ignored and  now American, European and Chinese all had major screw ups. Result of slow action is overreaction. He thinks we, the west, have overreacted. So a lockdown Sceptic.
[yet again, like so many commenters, when talking of who has done well, Ferguson ignores Hong Kong, which has the best record in the world. Statistically].
Japan, EU and the US luring companies out of China
Having run a medium enterprise here in Hong Kong, it’s the SMEs — Small and Medium Enterprises — I worry about. Can they survive?
Gilead Sciences will be delighted with WHO. Rendesivr fails, trial results posted accidentally.

Protest fallout: in the category of “what did you expect?”  Cabinet reshuffle brings in hardliners. So protests are only limiting the very broad freedoms we have enjoyed since handover. Grrr…