Oh boy | Compulsory mass testing

 

Mass testing: For three times 7.4 million. And “stricter measures to bring city to virtual standstill” until at least mid April. By which time England, at least, and maybe Australia too, will be fully free of any Covid restrictions, let alone the strictest lockdown in the world. One of these strategies is going to be better than the other. And I don’t think it’s going to be ours here in Hong Kong. Never answered is what we do about opening to the rest of the world if and when we manage to get to Zero virus. 

While in other news: Putin goes full Sudetenland on Donetsk and Luhansk while Joe Biden goes full Chamberlain. I guess this is the “limited incursion” of Ukraine Joe said he’d do nothing about and pretty much offered Putin to do. I keep remembering Obama’s warning: “never underestimate the ability of Joe to f*** things up”. It was another Joe, the Stalin one, that screwed up Ukraine nearly 100 years ago. And no another Joe to do it all over. 

Note how this “incursion” comes right after America self-defeated by giving up on Afghanistan. Showing weakness has consequences. Of which Joe was repeatedly warned. But chose to ignore, the arrogant buffoon. 

Meantime: Foreigners selling up and leaving “desperately”. Today’s Property news: