Letters | Hong Kong Covid vaccines: focus on health concerns, not cash injections
- Vaccine efficacy information and side effects are determining public attitudes towards Covid-19 inoculation
- Whether or not businesses are actively engaged in vaccination programmes is a secondary factor
Whether or not businesses are actively engaged in vaccination programmes, in my estimation, is a wholly secondary factor when it comes to the public’s willingness and attitude towards vaccination.
First, the shot’s efficacy is the most essential factor in determining public attitudes towards Covid-19 vaccination. Its effectiveness, as well as protective duration, is directly related to the probability of vaccination.
After a year of pandemic anxiety, individuals across the world have learned to carry out better risk assessments of their lives, placing human health over economic and financial variables. People are more concerned about their health than financial incentives.
Wing Chi Lau, Tin Shui Wai
Looking for leaders to jump-start city
What we, especially the Hong Kong government, must understand is that this once vibrant city has stalled. It’s sitting in limbo.
Instead of the one-time entrepreneurial thinking, there’s now a blanket of fear with many walking on eggshells and the main topic of conversation being the pros and cons of vaccinations.
None of this does anything to inspire people to look at ways of rebuilding Hong Kong and putting Humpty Dumpty back together again.
What all this shows is appalling “leadership” and a severe brain drain having already hit this city where many have grown tired of surviving instead of enjoying life.
Hans Ebert, Wan Chai