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Letters | Zero-Covid doesn’t make Hong Kong better than places living with the virus
- Readers discuss the pandemic policymakers who compare living with the virus to ‘lying flat’, exorbitant prices for quarantine hotels, and mask-wearing rules for athletes
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Our new Secretary of Health Lo Chung-mau chooses to belittle countries that are not following our extreme Covid-19 policies (“Coronavirus: Hong Kong gears up for new Covid battle as health chief warns tighter curbs possible”, August 27).
Perhaps he could instead share with us the logic behind the “tighter curbs” and what they might achieve.
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He says he is “glad that we are different from other countries”. Why? We haven’t done significantly better despite all our “curbs”. According to this month’s figures from Our World in Data on daily Covid-19 deaths per million (seven-day rolling average), we are currently doing slightly better than the US but worse than Europe as a whole, worse than the Philippines, worse than Singapore and worse than Asia as a whole.
Lo criticises the UK, yet Britain is now performing better than we are here in Hong Kong in terms of daily deaths per million.
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He smears the West more broadly, saying the government “would not adopt Western-style Covid-19 policies or ‘lie flat’, a term meaning doing the bare minimum to get by”.
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