At least one change is good: if you test positive or have a close contact, you can isolate at home, not at a crappy quarantine facility. And for only a week if you’re double jabbed. (Article below the fold)
But HK officials continue to talk as if there’s no experience of Omicron anywhere in the world, since mid December. Which of course there is, beginning with South Africa. And every place since shows rapid rise and equally rapid decline in cases, with minimal hospitalised and deaths.
So talking of having to get control of the virus within two months, as Health Secretary Sophia Chan, said today: well, that’s going to happen anyway. No matter what we do. Maybe she’s just setting the table, knowing that it will happen and she/they can take credit for it.
