I’ve often been to the Hong Kong Rugby Sevens. A great event, time to catch up with mates for a bit of a binge. Cause Covid it’s been postponed five times. Now proposed to go ahead in November but in a “closed loop” like the Beijing Winter Games. Ain’t gonna work. At least, it will be a pale imitation. More like HK government is in a Bubble, believing it’ll work. They don’t seem to realise that people are not going to come even if quarantine is down to 3+4 or 4+2 or even 0+7 (hotel + home) or whatever. Only zero quarantine — like the whole rest of the world — and eating + drinking like it used to be, will draw foreigners. It was always the foreign contingents that made it a great event.
until there is zero quarantine for inbound travellers there will be no "normal life"
You cannot signal 'openness to the world' without opening up. Half measures like 4+3, 3+4 etc will not work when most overseas attendees to the Sevens only come to HK for a week at most. The return of the tournament is a positive for sport in HK but let's not kid ourselves that it's not going to be a very different event this time with the vast majority of attendees being HK based and the 'fun police' out in full force fining people for mask violations..........
