A result of government policy:
(a) Failure to get the elderly vaccinated. Only about 30% are fully vaccinated and our average age of death is 85. The government had plenty of chances to get them vaccinated including two cash give aways ($HK10,000 each) which were not made contingent on having a vaccine. Paul Chan, our Financial Secretary, “explained it” along the lines of “the elderly are in dire need of financial assistance”. I’d thought that perhaps there might be some legal reason they could not tie free handouts to having had the vaccine, but no, it’s just “they really, really need the money” an explanation both true and ludicrous at the same time.
And (b) the Zero Covid policy, so our whole population has been naive to the earlier variants which have conferred immunity in other countries . For example, a recent Israel study which I reported here.
Here’s a Brief global pandemic update, covers HK from around 3’50”, showing the startling, extraordinary rise in HK cases and deaths, highlighted against other countries.
