Has the Hong Kong fifth wave peaked? Yesterday, some people thought so. But they may have spoke too soon as today's total number of reported new cases hit 58,750 (when 32,766 people who tested positive using Rapid Antigen Tests (RATs) were added to the 25,991 people who tested positive using the government's Polymerase Chain Reaction (PCR) tests). As for fatalities: 195 people with Covid died at public hospitals over the past day, and 95 deaths had occurred earlier but were yet to be announced. In short: not good.
What I think I can say with some certainty though is that spring has arrived in Hong Kong -- and brought beautiful, bright blue skies along with agreeably mild weather. Rather than hole up in my apartment, like I did all of yesterday and Sunday, I went out today for a walk: a good part of which was along the Victoria Harbourfront; and a good section of which route I previously had never been on. And over the course of doing so: you guessed it -- I got to thinking once more that Hong Kong is really beautiful and I (still) f**king love Hong Kong!
over to the Kowloon hills and past it to Tai Mo Shan
it took me a few seconds to realize what it was that I was seeing! :b
Today was definitely the closest I've been to the Cross
Harbour Tunnel by foot (as opposed to bus, taxi or car)!
after the fifth wave recedes)
views and seats along with the day's good weather!
that dominates the nearby scenery is called...
given how beautiful the weather was -- but, then, it's a week day
and we're in the middle of the fifth coronavirus wave, after all :S
(very few butterflies out, for instance) but I did spot this bird! :)
6 comments:
Hi There,
I have not walked that section close to the Yacht Club either. May try that route next time. Anyway as for today however good that was, I guess we all experienced that Blood Hell moment when all in a sudden mobile phone of the whole city rang with text and voice messages.
I wonder why they use a disaster class emergency alert on a mere notification, despite a medical one. No major Internation News Agency had picked that up yet, I guess. What a joke on our expense.
T
Hi T --
Actually, I didn't get those emergency alerts -- on either my trusty old Nokia or the burner smartphone. I guess I was excluded because they're stored valued phones -- hah!
What did you think it was when you got the alert? The most extreme response I heard was from someone who thought Carrie Lam had declared martial law in Hong Kong!
Hi There,
Lucky you. I believe the Government had posted a link for citizens to verify if the brands and models of their mobile phones are covered. Generally speaking major brands are all covered.
Also from the news such emergency alerts are sent directly from the Mobile Cells when the Government send the text to the carriers who owned all the cells for the broadcast. In my case, all of them rang\vibrated with the message being read by text to voice at the same time. After hearing a few phrases of the message in disbelieve, I tuned it out and started disabling the emergency alert on all my phone, save one, just in case
I had been working at home for quite a while. Think of this if it occurred when I am in the Office with all the teams present. This is not funning. Once again this proved the Government is run by morons.
T
Hi There,
https://app2.ofca.gov.hk/apps/eas/onlineEnquiry <---- this is the link. Your phones don't seem to be listed. At least not yet.
T
Hi There,
On the other, I also have an unlisted phone (A Nokia X20 on Android 12), but it rang that day with the emergency alert all the same.
T
Hi again T --
I'm happy my phone(s) aren't on the list and didn't get the "Emergency" alert! And, yes, absolutely re this government being run by morons.
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