Pressure on Hong Kong’s Hospitals Due to City’s Insane ‘Dynamic Covid Policy’
A couple of days ago, we published a post about Hong Kong, asking why its hospitals are under such pressure when the city is currently reporting extremely low infection and death rates. A reader and Hong Kong resident has provided the explanation.
Just caught up with your Daily Sceptic item on Hong Kong.
The reason it looks horrendous – patients on trolleys outside hospital etc. – is because of Hong Kong’s official “Dynamic Covid Policy”. This involves anyone testing positive being immediately sent to hospital despite the authorities acknowledging that 90% are either asymptomatic or not really sick. Compulsory hospital stays are then 21 days irrespective of severity.
When Hong Kong had few positive test cases, there were enough hospital beds. The recent relatively large surge in people testing positive (as opposed to being very sick) has simply overwhelmed hospitals with people who do not need to be there.
The first fallback was to send positive persons to the designated Government quarantine facilities. These soon filled up, like the hospitals. Today, 4,000 hotel rooms have been allocated with a further up to 40,000 hotel rooms in preparation. There is a large waiting list for these rooms with positive test people told to stay at home and wait for further instructions. From today we have 300 official Covid licensed taxis that you call to take you to your quarantine facility. They were fully booked within 10 minutes!
The good news – if you are actually sick – is that there will therefore now be a hospital bed. If you are not sick, but test positive, you can look forward to an enforced stay in a hotel room at taxpayers expense with no windows that open and only allowed to open the door to take in food left on the floor outside or to take a test in the doorway.
It’s really great to live in such a “dynamic” and safe place as Hong Kong.
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Two things worry me about Covid responses around the world:
1). How can there be so many different ones, for a single ‘real’ disease?
2). Doesn’t Covid-treatment and policy relativism really mean total epistemological anarchism in ALL science and medicine from now on?
In other words, anything goes. Science and medicine are hopelessly politicised and relativised. And that’s scary if YOU have an objectively real disease that needs curing.
Yup. If it’s taken too far it’s the death of science. Science will stop delivering benefits, bridges will collapse, aeroplanes will fall out of the sky. A second dark age.
You don’t think you’re making the word “science” do too much work in those sentences?
When was the golden age of science, in your view? 1600? The 1920s when scientific “research” first got organised in a big way (by DuPont the chemical company)? In 2019 just before the Covid lies took off? Or it’s still to come maybe, with the internet of things and artificial “intelligence” etc.?
Well the “science” died a while ago with the great global warming fraud.
Now just follow the money – that’s science.
When was the heyday of non-money science?
I don’t know enough about the history of science, but it seems much more politicized than it used to be in my living memory.
It’s fine to hold tongue-in-cheek epistemological anarchism like Feyerabend; in other words to believe that in medieval times, trepanning really did work (or why did they keep doing it?), or native American medicine really did cure cancer (perhaps God is a relativist and allowed past techniques to work – in the past?); but to do so in earnest today would surely be Wokery madness biting too close to the bone…
Or people believing covid vaccines work..
….and fairies live at the bottom of every garden!
The corrupt Globalist Billionaires and the Pharma Companies have killed objective science – politicians stood and watched.
“The Science” seems to adapt to how each populace can/has to be controlled. Give it a few weeks and this whole pack of cards is going to fall. Wall St are dumping Pharma stocks – they know the FDA hid clinical trial data.
Search for video’s with “Edward Dowd”, he’s been looking into Life Insurers 4Q reports.
A cynical person might conclude that there is a giant, worldwide experiment going on. But, of course, as I have been told numerous times, “do you really think that governments get together to discuss plans and decide policies?” . No, they just meet up every few months to swap family photos and talk about how the roses are getting on in the garden at home, and how well the grandkids are doing at school.
Only diseases that can make money for Pharma will be ‘cured’. How do we imagine they are going to reduce population by the crazy numbers they want to see? Gates talks of a 15 % reduction – that’s 1 billion just for starters.
( Leave out the Chinese because with an ageing population they want to se an increase in birthrate!)
Why do people still get tested in HK if it means 3 weeks of lockup in a hospital, despite probably having nothing wrong with their health, or, at worst, having a mild cold? Are many forced to get tested or what? Or are they naive, trusting of the authorities, and selfish? There’s got to be a reason.
It’s close to China. They probably can’t get away with farting without a fine.
A reason? Chinese heavy policing perhaps ?
If Hong Kong has a crisis, then it is because Hong kong wants a crisis. Utter madness.
Toby,
Please get on to the Canadian situation. It has gone beyond crazy.
The Canadian government says it’s considering sending even more soldiers to Latvia – to defend Ukraine’s “right” to have US NATO bases – but it can’t control the streets in Ottawa. All mouth and no trousers?
Custer’s Last Stand? Freedom’s last stand?
Comical. Explains why the pictures showed them on their trollies smothered in masks – obviously because there was very little wrong with them and they certainly weren’t struggling to breathe.
It’s not easy seeing the world gripped by insanity. We just haven’t been brought up to believe that most of the people around us could go mad.
They are trapped in the idea that they have to have zero covid cases and are incapable of seeing their lunacy.
I still don’t believe in this photo-op crisis. The orginal statement was that some hospitals were operating at more than 100% capacity. Technically, that’s nonsense as nothing can operate at more than 100% capacity. Hence, it really means some hospitals are treating more patients than someone believed they would ever treat. Note the some here. This means less than all and also, less than most and one could presumably replace it with
a few.
I’m no expert but I think this is the first piece I’ve read that seems totally genuine, not quite what I was expecting. Reading between the lines, this person is acknowledging that they (not the individual) have been duped but are too proud to admit it. I believe we can all understand that, which is an unfortunate character trait of those in power. It would take a brave person to admit being taken in by this farce. The only saving grace would be, being the first nation to publicly announce that the spell has finally been broken and the covid-19 farce demolished. Read between the lines.
There is a sickness……and it’s not “Covid”.
It’s not the vaccines that were administered to the vast majority of adults in the world; it’s those Stupid Pills someone slipped into the water supply … They apparently were “75 percent effective.”
See Canada and NZ for a particularly nasty and life damaging outbreak among the manic political class!
But…but.. I thought the far east countries were the clever ones, the ones who had learned from the experience of the first SARS, had learned the valuable lessons and so were the ones who were the example of how to manage the COVID crisis?
I’m literally wetting myself with laughter seeing how these zero covid idiots are going to get themselves out of the hole they’ve dug themselves into.
UK Column News showed a clip today of some sort of honey trap where some executive from the CDC was discussing rolling out the new Covid jabs for kids and admitting that the safety trials should be longer. He also mentioned that we’re not going to announce anything yet because we don’t want to get people too agitated. That sounds a bit like last summer in UK when vaccines minister said, ‘we have no intention of introducing vax passes, they’re not the British way, also hand job also said the jab it not going to be rolled out to children.
Is all of this stuff I read at the Daily Skeptic really happening?
Did the world ever really go through any kind of Enlightenment?
Absolutely nothing to do with China.
Everything to do with the chinks IMO
I’ve been in hospital in HKG. Old system. Brilliant efficient setup. Then the communists got their hands on it.
‘but test positive, you can look forward to an enforced stay in a hotel room …with no windows that open…’
I thought the advice was to fling the windows open, freezing half to death – or has that changed now? Is that only if granny is in the room?
In response to the previous article (asking the question about why hospitals are seeing so many cases), I commented that it was perhaps because a lot of them weren’t actually ill. Looks like I was right.
Yes and why do readers have to provide the obvious answer rather than the journalists constantly asking questions which have such obvious answers?
Medical Phoney War against the people of Hong Kong – part of the Globalist campaign to weaponise ‘health’ against the global population sponsored by Gates’ “World Health” agenda, the WHO the WEF and the UN.
Population control through making people sick, using that as an excuse to control and inject them to make them sicker and then and providing ung the ‘experimentl’ cure to the obedient. What an earner for Big Pharma!
It seems the planned ‘New World Order’ NHS is destined to play a big part in this policy!
Wait until the British public find out! The cynical would say you can’t beat them, so join them and buy Pharma shares!
It’s certainly not the wonderful, free-wheeling place I recall from living there in the early 1970s. More’s the pity. Wonder if it’s got anything to do with the new landlords?