2022年2月9日
Brian Wong
EJ Insight
The dilemma Hong Kong confronts
We're in a COVID limbo.
Before us is a fork – a fork that takes us down two paths. The first constitutes reopening Hong Kong to our very own country – to dissolve the quarantine and isolation requirements that stand as barriers prohibiting cross-border travel into the mainland; the second constitutes reopening Hong Kong to the world at large, and accepting the fact that we will, at least for the foreseeable future, remain cut-off from the mainland. Both prongs have their merits and demerits – and the following seeks to map out the considerations and weighing-up of such pros and cons.
Prior to then, one may ask – is this not a false dichotomy? Is this not a forced dilemma? Surely we can open up to both the mainland and the world concurrently, OR we can remain – perennially – cut off from both, in pursuit of the ever-so-elusive zero-COVID end objective at hand? Term the former option the "Unreserved Opening" (UO) option, and the latter "Unreserved Closure" (UC) option. ...
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