2022年1月6日
Brian Wong
EJ Insight
On quarantine, pandemic controls and common sense
We all saw it coming – the emergence of communal transmission of the highly contagious omicron variant. For a vast majority of the past two years, Hong Kong has remained – through its rigorous, at times excessive, perhaps, stringent quarantine regime – immune from the deleterious, crippling effects of COVID-19. But as with most things in life, nothing gold can stay. And for liberty, the price is eternal vigilance.
Several facts are worth noting – facts that should not be taken as fixed and unchanging, but should be taken as holding as certainly true for the foreseeable future.
The first, is that China is unlikely to abandon its Zero COVID-19 policy any time soon. The contagiousness of Omicron and other variants, the potential devastation COVID-19 could wreak in the country, the looming political conferences and plenary meetings of the year, as well as the prospective repercussions of perceived inability to contain the pandemic, are all excessively high costs that neither the Chinese people nor Beijing is willing to bear. ...
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