What's the official excuse for why people can't just self-isolate at home? Have they even bothered to give one?
There is no "official excuse".
Officially, we need to perpetuate the fantasy of "Dynamic Zerooooooo Covid". Our officials are puppets and must follow the diktats of Beijing (the representatives of which are in Hong Kong and in control,) and sing the praises of the motherland's "help". No more. No less.
In reality, we spent two years devoting every resource to hunting down and jailing democrats rather than preparing for this.
Untold billions of increases in spending on policing, security, surveillance, repression.
Cuts in spending for healthcare, hospitals, social care and public health.
So here we are. Hospitals in crisis. A&E Departments overrun (with cadavers stored in A&E waiting areas). All morgues full. Care homes abandoned by staff (GBP 3.75p per hour and 12 hour days, six day weeks (but only paid for 48 hours a week, just doesn't seem to work any more). Schools and much else closed and far, far worse on the way.
And, in fact (as the government acknowledges), there are already 100,000+ people who've tested positive that are at home "waiting to be transferred to hospitals or isolation facilities, which will be expedited ASAP through the building of more camps". And refusals to answer any questions on the estimates of how many more (hundreds of thousands?) infected but UNTESTED people are living at home, working, shopping etc. And all of these (tested or otherwise,) in tiny apartments with multiple occupants. De-facto home isolation but this can never be "official".
"Officially", it's dynamic zeroooooo all the way.
In the meantime, rather than vaccinating the elderly and properly buttressing and then triaging hospital beds and ICU care, we're "officially" going to spend our time shipping in tens of thousands of mainlanders building camps to house 150,000+ people and dozens of high-ranking Cadres to direct them and ensure full compilance locally, while watching our elderly perish and our healthcare system collapsing.
Hong Kong will never recover from what's coming. Hong Kong will not be Hong Kong ever again. The very heart and soul of this place; everything that's made it what it is, is being torn asunder and replaced.
Omicron is burning through society and will kill many thousands over the coming weeks. Infections will likely peak in mid-March with @ 35% of the population infected and then drift fairly rapidly downwards, naturally, to low numbers of new cases, with @ 50% of the population infected.
By then, there will be total control by the CCP. There already is! Everything else is just a charade. A grotesque mascaraed.
Tens (perhaps hundreds,) of thousands of HongKongers will be locked in camps. Many hundreds of thousands of others, confined to their homes.
Brutal enforcement will ensure compliance. The exodus of those who can flee will continue to rise exponentially.
Before the end of May, the Omicron wave will have naturally peaked and declined.
Millions of people in Hong Kong will be ragged and tired and broken and penniless and hopeless.
China will wave and cheer and declare victory in the war on COVID, and hail the "China way" of saving lives as far superior to any filthy western ideas.
China will claim a victory for "Zero Covid"!
This is about far, FAR more than just COVID.
The CCP now runs Hong Kong, from within Hong Kong, complete control. There is no Hong Kong government.
It's all going to plan. COVID just provided some decent cover.
Keep thinking peeps.
Be nice to each other.
Bella? Come girl. Bed.
Woof
