Here's some piping hot tea that will scorch tankies: Hong Kong was saved by the protests. While HK has the memory of SARS, and a culture of mask use, the universal adoption of them was because the entire city had been brutalised by the govt. for months and had zero trust in them.https://twitter.com/SCMPNews/status/1247023431570374658 …
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P.S. - a reminder that the Hong Kong govt. BANNED face masks back in October, so the entire community masking up was in defiance of an oppressive emergency law because protecting the people around us was more important than bending the knee to authority. This is Hong Kong.
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P.P.S. - Flashback 70 days to the newly unionised healthcare workers going on strike to try to force the government to take literally any action at all. Meanwhile pro-Beijing groups held little protests calling for these healthcare workers to be sacked. https://twitter.com/hongkonghermit/status/1223571822144184321?s=21 …https://twitter.com/HongKongHermit/status/1223571822144184321 …
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From masking up in defiance of the still active law, to pressuring the govt. to act, to opposing quarantine camps in residential districts, to organising handouts of free masks and sanitiser, the response in Hong Kong has been community led at every stage. https://twitter.com/rachel_cheung1/status/1248507668060205057?s=21 …https://twitter.com/rachel_cheung1/status/1248507668060205057 …
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With the reminder it’s not time to slack off on the measures that got us here, it looks like we’ve beaten this wave here. We must keep it going, don’t let up, but only single digit infections per day is an absolute win in a pandemic. https://twitter.com/tmclaughlin3/status/1250739175814393857?s=21 …https://twitter.com/TMclaughlin3/status/1250739175814393857 …
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I have a very strong conviction that had the corona happened exactly 12 months earlier, we would have sleepwalked our way through the critical early part of the response with hugely tragic consequences.
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Another heartening thing about the HK community response is that after securing enough supplies for ourselves, Hongkongers as individuals and as groups have been working flat out to send as many masks overseas as possible. This pipeline is to aid the UK: https://twitter.com/hyjpang/status/1250745638310088704?s=21 … https://t.co/QSceI61pDz
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This follows on from another pipeline that was set up to source masks for frontline medical staff in badly hit New York City, a place that Hong Kong could have been if not for our actions here. This is true international grassroots solidarity. https://twitter.com/t1ffany4scale/status/1243606592769138688?s=21 …https://twitter.com/t1ffany4scale/status/1243606592769138688 …
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While the *community* was fully masking up, in defiance of a colonial-era emergency law banning them, the puppet Chief Executive of Hong Kong was proudly making a big show of not wearing a mask, and telling others not to wear a mask. h/t
@yennikwok https://twitter.com/hkrevinfo/status/1224539107956707328?s=21 …https://twitter.com/HkrevInfo/status/1224539107956707328 …
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Thank you for this. This is what I’ve been saying all along. Problem is, there’s no way for us to get N95 masks right now (even the nurses here can’t get them.) The only real and safe option is 100% quarantined.
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You don't need N95s, those "respirators" should be reserved for medical staff. Even surgical masks are fine for the public, and if those are still in short supply cotton homemade masks are great too. At some point you need to go outside, and masks make that a lower risk activity.
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