Front page, South China Morning Post. Click to enlarge |
ADDED: From Our World in Data, today. For these countries, hospitalisations are 20% of what they were in previous peaks. Will the trend continue up? Or go back down, as has happened before? Who knows? This virus and its variants continues to surprise, sometimes on the upside, sometimes on the downside. Hong Kong doesn’t publish hospitalisation stats that OWID captures. So I’m just going by what they say in articles like the one above. On that basis, it seems that Hong Kong is performing about the same as all these other counties, none of which have anything like the restrictions we have. I’ll go further: Hong Kong Covid waves appear to be independent of our restrictions, many and complex and inconvenient and harmful to the economy as they are.