Hong Kong hospitals buckle under Omicron wave

Really surprised at the low vaccination rate in such a crowded city.

That dystopian picture does not look like a hospital. The CCP simply collected these people because they tested positive and shoved them into that horrible looking place.

"Now, with a disease that is more transmissible/severe than flu, and requires exposed staff to quarantine, HK's hospitals are sandcastles in a tsunami."

.... it is also a disease that for the vast majority of people is harmless and does not need massive restrictions. But HK is stuck with the CCP narrative.

The old and most at risk chose not to be vaccinated...

Well, some decisions have consequences...

The covid narrative is a busted flush and it's becoming increasingly hard to sustain the draconian measures around the world.

This has the portents to be a disaster. So far Hong Kong has a low death rate, but with so many unvaccinated old people and the transmissibility of Omicron, this could kill so many.

Ego Sum Lux Mundi

The covid narrative is a busted flush and it's becoming increasingly hard to sustain the draconian measures around the world.

No, it isn't. You are mistaken. I just worry about the loss of life that will ensue.

Plenty of vacant factories in places like San Po Kong. Why could the government not have set up temporary recovery/waiting spaces in them. Better than being on the sidewalk. Even Hong Kong gets cold in the winter!

Have they thought about exporting the elderly to Mainland Chinese hospitals?

The photo of over crowded hospital is very disturbing. Good luck health care workers and thank you - god speed.

Omicron is less dangerous than the other variants and with high levels of vaccination among elderly people in places like Japan and the UK, probably will end up killing less than a slightly worse than average flu season - but in HK with so many older people unvaccinated and spreading as fast as it does, it could still wreak havoc there if they are not careful.

The vaccines work.

jojo_in_japan

The photo of over crowded hospital is very disturbing. Good luck health care workers and thank you - god speed.

If that photo shows a hospital I am the easter bunny. That is a storage facility, very much like the horrible places that XiJi Pings government uses for quarantine.

Luddite

The vaccines work.

Sure they work to decrease the hospitalization risk for a few months. Which is why vulnerable people should consider them. They do not work to stop infection and transmission, which is why the "zero covid" police introduced by the CCP and now copie in HK is so stupid.

Who would believe a word the CCP Muppet Carrie Lam has to say? This one more notch on the thumbscrews for Hong Kong by the CCP. Very sad.

That's what happens when hospitals become full - patients have to be treated on the parking lot literally

So don't fill up the hospitals with your sick Covid patients - don't get hospitalized

Focus on the covid situation in Japan instead of HK! Death toll has been so high this month yet there isn’t any talk about it. Just closing restaurants at 8/9 isn’t the answer as it doesn’t work! Better strategies could be used rather than this idiotic restaurant closures.

Like mainland China, Hong Kong has adhered to a zero-COVID strategy

Haha - that's obviously a great success! Meanwhile, in England everything is back to normal, with all restrictions and controls lifted. I know where I'd rather be!

Nihon Tora

Omicron is less dangerous than the other variants and with high levels of vaccination among elderly people in places like Japan and the UK, probably will end up killing less than a slightly worse than average flu season - but in HK with so many older people unvaccinated and spreading as fast as it does, it could still wreak havoc there if they are not careful.

Yes. It is sad to note that the death rate in the US under Omicron is higher than user Delta. The reason is, that with low vaccination numbers Omicron is infecting many more people and even though it is less severe, unvaccinated (and not just the elderly) are still prone.

Bill Adams

Like mainland China, Hong Kong has adhered to a zero-COVID strategy

Haha - that's obviously a great success! Meanwhile, in England everything is back to normal, with all restrictions and controls lifted. I know where I'd rather be!

And yet 150 people are dying every day in England from Covid.

2020hindsights: And yet 150 people are dying every day in England from Covid.

No. With covid, **not **from covid.

Deaths from covid are insignificant.

No.  With covid, not from covid. 

Deaths from covid are insignificant.

So if I stab you through the heart and you die, the cause of death is blood loss? Heart failure?

No. The cause of death is the stabbing.

If you get Covid and it exacerbates your comorbidities so that one of them kills you, the cause of death is Covid, because if you hadn’t caught it you’d still be alive.

Great analogy @cleo 9:43pm. Covid causes a cascade of physiological failures resulting in death.

@cleo 9:43pm: “So if I stab you through the heart and you die, the cause of death is blood loss? Heart failure?

No. The cause of death is the stabbing.

If you get Covid and it exacerbates your comorbidities so that one of them kills you, the cause of death is Covid, because if you hadn’t caught it you’d still be alive.” -