Reminds me of my time as the Big Boss of Austrade in East Asia back in the 1990s. Had Offices throughout the region, China, Korea, Vietnam, HK. Maybe 300-odd staff. Our best thinkers-outside-the-box were in China, especially Shanghai. Our most “by-the-book”, don’t-step-outside-the-rules, were our staff in Hong Kong. Jing says that’s because how well the Brits trained them be loyal bureaucrats. Whatever. It struck me at the time. And we’re suffering for this lack of flexibility right now in this pandemic.
Related: the so-called “easing” of lockdowns is not much chop, by Michael Rowse. (As I said, in Roadmap to a roundabout).
And…”How fifth wave exposes cracks in HK government”. Click screenshot:
“HK restaurants despair over checking vaccine status”. Why are HK restaurants doing government’s job for it? When we know that vaccine mandates don’t work. The restaurants are abiding by the law. But the law in this case is an ass. We know from many places — Israel, US, Europe and Australia, have tried vaccine passes and given up on them because they don’t work. Either in stopping the spread of the virus or encouraging vaccine take up.
