In the “how we doin’” category, apart from “OK, but bored”, now add cranky and frustrated. As in that’s how other people are getting, at the coffee shop. At the supermarket, people getting cranky at each other more than I’ve seen before.
As the rest of the world continues with its downhill trend of cases and hospitalisations. You can see that looking at any of America, Britain, the EU, Australia, on Worldometer or The World in Data.
Here it’s a self-made “crisis”. They still call people testing positive “patients” who then call ambulances and want to go to hospital. Crazy. The ambulance people say “over 80%” of people calling an ambulance have no or minor symptoms.
But still, our wise leaders in Beijing have laid down the law.
And so we are caught between a Rock and a Hard Place. The Rock: Zero Covid policy (or “dynamic zero” as they now call it), as they’ve done on the mainland but… The Hard Place: not having the surveillance society to carry it out, as they have on the mainland, with its Neighbourhood Committees, ubiquitous cameras, obligatory health Apps, and the rest of it.
