Christmas in Hong Kong

Kowloon, Tsim Sha Tsui east, looking to Central. More photos 

We remain in a kind of lockdown here in Hong Kong, yesterday extended through to January 6th at least. We can still go out and shop, but many things closed, like bars, clubs, gyms, etc... And -- would you believe -- beaches..... 

Australia just had a Covid outbreak that was reported as being in Sydney's “Northern Beaches”, so many people think it’s at the beach. It was not there. It was an outbreak at the local RSL Club at Avalon. Lovely Beach, Avalon, where by the by, my parents used to live. Happy Days. But the virus has nothing to do with Avalon the beach; just with a bunch of folks inside a popular club. Covid remains “not an outdoor virus”.*

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*ADDED [from here] A study of 7,300 Covid patients in China, part-funded by our own HK government, found only one that was contracted outdoors. The study concludes [my emphasis]:

The transmission of respiratory infections such as SARS-CoV-2 from the infected to the susceptible is an indoor phenomenon. [Link]