Zero Covid Zombie Land

Australia opens up

Australia went crazy on its Zero Covid Policy. They’ve changed now to “living with Covid”. Because ZCP didn’t work and was never going to work. John Power explains in “Australia changes tack on Zero Covid… lessons for Hong Kong…”

But here in Hong Kong we carry on with Zero Covid Policy. It’s the Twilight Zone. Nothing changing. Nothing getting worse. Nothing getting better. Never ending.

Interesting that the comments at the article are mostly in favour of opening up. Months ago that was not the case. I can’t count the number of times I’ve been called a “heartless murderer” who “doesn’t care for people dying of Covid” just because I thought we needed to do cost-benefit analysis of strict lockdowns and believed we have to “live with Covid”.  And now, “living with Covid”, previously mocked, is now the default. 

From Power’s article:

Roberto Bruzzone, co-director of the HKU-Pasteur Research Pole in Hong Kong, said populations in “zero-Covid” jurisdictions had been falsely led to see the coronavirus as equivalent to ebola or the plague.

“I may repeat myself, but nobody has objected to the 500-1000 influenza related deaths every year in Hong Kong and now we are told that even one death from Covid is unacceptable,” he said. [Read it all]

ADDED (19/10): “Zero-Covid policies …threaten our hopes and dreams”