Feel strongly about these letters, or any other aspects of the news? Share your views by emailing us your Letter to the Editor at letters@scmp.com or filling in this Google form . Submissions should not exceed 400 words, and must include your full name and address, plus a phone number for verification. It is with weary resignation that I read that the authorities are now actively considering cutting hotel quarantine to a mere three or four days, after their excellent start of removing the despised flight ban mechanism. Once again, the authorities are dragging their feet, and refusing to face the reality that Covid-19 is endemic in Hong Kong, and that the roughly 6 per cent of imported cases have no significant effect. The only beneficiaries of the quarantine policy appear to be quarantine hotels; quite why their financial well-being is more important than the rest of the Hong Kong economy is an open question. A recent report from a group of four University of Hong Kong experts, including two government advisers, was unequivocal and completely explicit: “Imported cases from travellers do not make a difference to the local epidemic situation. As all returning travellers are required to be fully vaccinated, they would not place undue burden on our hospital system even if they have Covid.” The rest of the world has moved on. Hong Kong is no longer at risk of being left behind, it has been left behind, a former international city reduced to a backwater stuck in 2020. It needs to get back to normal now, this month, not at some unspecified point in the future that never comes. There is no need to prolong the agony of quarantine by gradually phasing it out, removing a few days here and there – the entire forced hotel quarantine policy needs to be stopped now. After all, this is what the government’s own scientific experts are telling them. Why is the government not listening? James Webster, Wan Chai Just reducing quarantine won’t bring back tourists I continue to be bemused by discussions in the press about a reduction in the days to be spent in a quarantine hotel. Any such reduction would clearly save on residents’ costs but what will it do for tourists? The Hong Kong economy is in desperate need of international and mainland visitors. Until quarantine is removed in its entirety, as indeed it has been almost universally elsewhere, we will see no meaningful change in our visitor numbers. Andrew Long, Stanley Hong Kong needs to rejoin the rest of the world I am fortunate to be able to read the digital edition of the South China Morning Post daily from my home in the UK. Every day I download the latest copy hoping to see the news that Hong Kong has finally decided to catch up with the rest of the world and learn to live with Covid-19 and that my wife will finally be able to travel to see her parents. Every day I am disappointed. What on earth is the leadership of Hong Kong doing? Do they really think the current policies will have any effect whatsoever on curbing Omicron? Look at the rest of the world. Hong Kong should admit it’s got it wrong; it’s OK, we all make mistakes – it’s learning from them that counts. I could come to Hong Kong now, totally free of Covid-19. I could quarantine and be tested test and released, totally free of the virus. I could then go out into Hong Kong society and catch it. So what the point of Hong Kong’s policy and what is its long-term plan? In the UK, we have moved on. We’ve learnt to live with Covid-19. We had to because we understand that the mental health of the nation is as important as the physical. Life is about balancing risks. The consequences of Hong Kong’s risk aversion are becoming so clear to the rest of the world. Please wake up. Daniel Brock, Oxfordshire, UK