Underwhelming. The much-signalled reduction of quarantine, from 14 days to seven. And removing nine countries, including Australia, UK and the US, from a banned travel list. Then a slooooow opening of other businesses, but only staring next month. Going round and round the roundabout...
Look at the highlighted bit above
and it’s a recipe for forever restrictions and fear. We are actually told by government advisers that we should “not stop worrying”. Oh dear.
The “advisers" keep talking about having reached a plateau. But have a look at the 7-day rolling average of cases per million. Look like a plateau?
Australia is going up, mainly because WA has just opened up. For the rest they’ve been through the Omicron wave, earlier than we in Hong Kong. All other countries in
Our World in Data show similar patterns. There is no reason we should be any different. IOW, our Omicron wave is nearly finished.
