"The secret sauce of Hong Kong’s response was its people ...the city’s citizens acted swiftly, collectively, and efficiently, in effect saving themselves."
Fascinating piece by @zeynep on #covid19 response in Hong Kong; they even defied a ban on masks (!)
https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2020/05/how-hong-kong-beating-coronavirus/611524/ …
Replying to @AbraarKaran
Thank you! Everyone lumps them together with Taiwan and South Korea but it's not the case. It was more a grassroots, collective action empowered by a year of movement-building—if anything, they pushed their government to act, not the other way around.
10:00 AM - 12 May 2020
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