We lost two young girls this week.
A four year old and a three year old. Both perfectly healthy. No underlying conditions. Died from Covid.
Dead.
The three year old has a brother, a couple of months old, who is in children's ICU in critical condition with Covid
The over 80's are beginning to drop like flies. Another ten today. Elderly deaths will be rising exponentially soon.
And it's only fucking Wednesday!
I do appreciate that this is all relative to the devastation that's been wrought elsewhere but, here, where for much of last year we had Zero cases for months and society was largely open and functioning (at least internally), this is going to hit us very, very hard.
Omicron is not a "mild" variant when it hits an elderly, unvaccinated, Covid-naive cohort.
Let's face it though, we only had two years to prepare and one year to vaccinate and could, obviously, see what was coming our way ...
... So we were ready, right?
Nah! 'Course not. We've spent the last two years hunting down teenage "terrorists" for laying white flowers on the street and dismantling the whole of society, as it was, in order to subsume HK completely into the mainland system.
While pointing the finger at others mistakes (and misdeeds!), we've been smugly ignoring the tsunami that was heading our way.
Decades of under-funding of the Public Health System, that leaves most hospital beds at close to 100% occupancy in normal times.
And we're Chinese. Oh so proudly Chinese. We do things differently. Zero Covid.
So now, inevitably, we're fucked!
We have elderly patients, sleeping in hospital beds, outside of hospitals, in side-streets, in 14C temperatures, in triage, waiting for their test results.
The virus is completely out of control.
The local puppet government is running around with its head up its arse, indulging in superficial, ineffective, counterproductive, performative measures; a pretense, purely to pander to the the political whims of their masters and little to do with the well-being of the people.
Now they are flailing around, trying to find a site to build a new, emergency hospital. What. The. Fuck? Too little, too fucking late. And there are NO FUCKING STAFF anyway.
So ... What is the solution?
Well, today we've been personally instructed by Pooh to contain the virus. Top Priority. Keep society stable. Control people as required.
So, firstly,
everybody must download the government App, which is now linked to the mainlands "full spectrum surveillance" tracking system (like in Xinjiang). Every individual tracked by name and identity card number, wherever they go, in real time.
Secondly, we're going to ship-in thousands (perhaps tens of 000s,) of mainlanders to take control of the situation.
Third, this ... (But it won't start 'til fucking March? WTF?! We'll be hitting 50,000 cases+ a day by then. This is doubling exponentially - every three days!)
(The comments are worthwhile, instructive and, generally, sane.)
What could possibly go wrong.?
Oh boy! We are going to take a society - already exhausted and shell-shocked for a myriad of reasons - and crush people further and harder.
There's so much more to say. I'm merely conveying the most superficial glimpse of the dark nature of what's coming our way. Apologies for that but I'm just so exhausted.
I dread what's coming. This is really going to hurt us.
I fear it's going to get very, very messy.
Very, very fast.
"When the truth offends, we lie and lie, until we can no longer remember it is ever there. But it is still there. Every lie we tell incurs a debt to the truth. Sooner or later, that debt is paid."
Valery Legasov
Woof
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