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| Uncle Russ Coffee in a quiet moment. For my bi-weekly doppio |
That’s the same angle, above, I took a photo the other day, commenting on the plastic dividers. Today I’ve waited till everyone’s gone and I can see out to the bus stop. People in here have all been unmasked. It’s hard to drink your frappo or doppjo through medical gauze. Outside it’s breezy. And it’s…outside. And we have Zero Covid in Hong Kong. For over a month. Not a single local case. But everyone masked, outside.
Summary: Masks outside, where it's not the science to wear masks; no masks inside, where there is the science to wear masks (save for the fact we have no virus in HK). And such as the science is.
If there is any danger of catching Covid, (which here there isn’t — to repeat, zero Covid for over a month) it’s inside. Where the aerosols can gather. In poor ventilation. Chinese studies early in the pandemic, right back to March last year, showed it’s a virus caught indoors. Nothing has changed. Yet we continue with nonsensical mandates to wear masks outdoors. Our hapless Chief Executive, Carrie Lam was asked on. Indy when the public bbq facilities will be reopened. “We have to be careful” she said. Of what? That’s safetyism, our recent scourge.
Those folks in the photo above, waiting outside at the bus stop face more risk of being hit by a runaway bus. Or taxi. Literally literally.
