What the graphics indicated would be the case if people
in Hong Kong got vaccinated against the Wuhan coronavirus!
Seven years ago today, the Hong Kong police shot 87 rounds of tear gas at pro-democracy protesters assembled at Admiralty and, in so doing, effectively caused the Umbrella Movement to come into being as well as a 79 day occupation of key thoroughfares in the city. Just one pro-democracy protestor returned to Admiralty today -- but trust me when I tell you that this anniversary did not go unnoticed and uncommemorated by many.
At the same time, life does indeed go on. And Hong Kong social media was fixated today on the USA's Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) having raised Covid danger levels in Hong Kong (as well as Singapore) to "moderate risk" despite there being zero local transmissions in Hong Kong in months and Hong Kong government advisor Bernard Chan stating that "Our hands our tied" -- with the implication that Beijing's calling the shots -- with regards to deciding Hong Kong's pandemic policy!
With regards to the latter: David Webb Tweeted the following: "Bernard Chan, #HK ExCo Convener, goes off piste and nails it. Full points for being candid. He has no idea what it will take to get the mainland border open, and as for opening the international border and resuming financial hub status, forget it." So much for Hong Kong's being Asia's World City and all that.
Adding to Hong Kong's pandemic woes as well as the derailment of its attempts to be taken seriously as a world class city: there are rulings being put in place in Hong Kong that don't make much sense at all (unless you consider that they're being effected by a kakistocracy). To be sure, many of the new regulations being imposed on the city are being done in the name of public health. But people are suspecting that something else -- very nefarious -- is behind this.
The point that many Hong Kongers don't trust the government, including with information about the Wuhan coronavirus (including vaccines against it), is well known. So it's amazing to find that, as of this past weekend, a larger proportion of Hong Kong has been fully vaccinated against the Wuhan coronavirus than the U.S.A.!
More than incidentally, all but two of my friends have gone and got their coronavirus vaccines (and, should there be any doubt: all of them opted for the BionTech/Pfizer over Sinovac). And since the majority of my friends are indeed "yellow", I think that I do feel safe to state that one can indeed be "yellow" and vaccinated here in Hong Kong! :)
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