My Take | Hong Kong’s quarantine policy turns into reign of terror
- People are living in fear – not of catching the virus, which probably will not kill them or wreak havoc in their lives, but of the government’s strategy
A close family friend recently spent 21 days in quarantine because she took a kung fu sword class in which the instructor contracted Covid-19.
Her daughter and husband, thankfully, only had to isolate themselves for a week. All three tested negative from the beginning.
A friendly reader wrote about his own fear of not being able to take care of his elderly mother and an old dog.
“I am definitely more afraid of being locked up at Penny’s Bay than getting Covid!” he wrote.
“I have had ALL my jabs including the booster. It’s like being sent to prison for something not our fault. I am petrified as I have an old mother and an old dog and it would be disastrous if I am sent to a dirty facility for 21 days. Both might die.”
Many pet owners we know have expressed similar worries.