It’s being reported that Hong Kong’s hospitals are at capacity and overflowing with patients during the current Omicron wave. For example, Sarah Newey (from the Gates-funded Global Health Security team) at the Telegraph writes:
Hong Kong is battling a record Covid surge that threatens to overwhelm the city’s hospitals, with several hospitals already reported to have run out of space.
The crisis is being blamed on the arrival of the highly contagious Omicron variant and relatively poor vaccinations rates.
On Tuesday Carrie Lam, Hong Kong’s Chief Executive, warned that a fifth wave of infections has “outgrown our capacity”, as dramatic photos emerged showing dozens of patients waiting for care on medical beds outside A&E departments.
Makeshift tents have also been set up to treat people, while health authorities warned that several hospitals are already operating at over 100% capacity.
It comes as the city reported 1,619 new cases on Tuesday, according to official data, plus around 5,400 preliminary positive infections. This is on top of 2,071 new cases on Monday – the highest daily count since the pandemic began.
As recently as the end of January Hong Kong was reporting fewer than 100 daily infections, but some medical experts have warned this figure could skyrocket to almost 30,000 in March.
“The problem we are facing is given the magnitude, the pace of and the severity of this fifth wave, it has outgrown our capacity,” Ms Lam told reporters.
She added that while there are currently no plans for a “widespread city lockdown”, the situation would be continuously reviewed given the “severity and speed of this latest wave”.
Ms Lam also doubled down on Hong Kong’s ‘dynamic zero’ strategy which seeks to introduce strict, localised measures to curb transmission – much like the policy still in place in mainland China. So far, the city has reported 26,000 infections, including a little over 200 deaths.
Here are the three photos that accompany the story.
It obviously looks worrying, particularly when Hong Kong had so far avoided any severe waves of Covid deaths. That the city is only seeing hospitalisations surge now that the population is highly vaccinated and with the milder Omicron variant is something that requires explanation. Some would credit the city’s extreme infection control protocols, but Covid has been similarly mild in nearby Japan and South Korea – though Japan did have a moderate wave of deaths in spring 2021 and South Korea a moderate one this winter (pre-Omicron). Both countries are now seeing a strong Omicron wave and deaths in Japan are at a record high, though still low by international standards (see below). Why the rest of China is not currently reporting such a surge is also odd.
A further mystery is why Hong Kong hospitals are under such pressure at all when the city is currently reporting extremely low infection and death rates (see top and below). You might say the deaths are lagging, but the same can’t be said of infections.
Perhaps most of the infections are concealed somehow – Hong Kong reportedly requires every single positive Covid case to isolate in Government quarantine facilities, which surely gives a strong incentive to keep quiet about it. But even so, you have to wonder why an outbreak that is barely registering in reported infections or deaths (so far) is causing hospitals such problems.
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1) Vaccine damage?
2) VAIDS?
Plus damage to immune system and multiple other aspects of physical health by both prolonged fear and restrictions
German TV presenter rolls eyes, becomes incoherent in mid-sentence and collapses on camera .
Anchor : “Let’s move on to the next item”
Stop taking the boosters guys. Not working…some expert docs calling effects of vaxx “immune erosion”..vaccine induced immune deficiency syndrome.you won’t even be able to mount a response for the common cold, and other mild illnesses. Please reconsider taking the boosters until all the trials are finished and all the safety data is in.
Demographics is destiny. Note the ageing population, and the quite startling excess of females from 25+. I’d go ahead and infer this is due to go-getting – and healthy – males emigrating, leaving behind… well, what gets left behind.
c.f. Scotchland, both demographically and genetically.
The female surplus is likely because of maids, cleaners etc from elsewhere in Asia.
Or it could be males turning into females
Gender fluidity makes this graph un-inclusive, I’m going to raise this in the High Court (Twitter).
Who can tell?
If it will get me a job, I’m prepared to identify as an iguana…
Hmm, fair point, thanks for pointing it out.
I’ll stick with “They old!” then. Given our own parlous fertility rates, that’s our not-too-distant future right there.
I wonder if the people in hospitals – soon to disappear? – might have an over-abundance of ‘freedom protesters’?
If you take away the hospitals, technically there’s no overflow. Problem solved.
That was what the NHS did during the last year or so. It’s good to think that the Chinese are still learning from us….
And I believe that the teachers are experimenting with this technique for solving the education crisis…
Yes, I suspect they are especially vulnerable to the new virus.
This, my friends, is the ‘benefit’ of the CCP!
It comes as the city reported 1,619 new cases on Tuesday, according to official data, plus around 5,400 preliminary positive infections. This is on top of 2,071 new cases on Monday – the highest daily count since the pandemic began.
Two thousand daily cases a day in a population of 8 million is small compared to rates in other countries, especially the UK.
Good job they are not in the midst of a Hong Kong flu pandemic.
Are we really going to believe anything being reported about HK?
The CCP need a compliant population there how they achieve it will not be publicised.
Indeed, this has a strong feel of those early images of Wuhanese dropping dead in the streets.
Does the style guide at the Telegraph specify punishment of death if the words “omicron variant” are not preceded by “highly contagious” in all copy?
His real name is Stephen Yaxley Lennon you know
and his address is …….
I didn’t get that at first, I must be getting old or still recovering from a good night out in the pub.
– Beowulf (real name Olaf Skullsplitter).
Yeah the point is that, just like the TR stuff, the phrasing around covid is centralized, it is imposed from outside newsrooms. There are NUJ edicts, but it’s likely these reflect “Trusted News Initiative” messaging. None of this is news, it’s brainwashing. MK Ultra.
No, just a fine from their World Health Sponsor ( we know who!)
No videos of people dropping dead in the street? I miss the glory days of February 2020. They’ve become very lazy with the propaganda.
Much easier to use drones
Answer. They both lie. The CCP and the Global Health team at the Telegraph.
Have the ‘Global Health Team’ taken over and fully occupied the Telegraph yet , or are there still pockets of resistance?
I wouldn’t know, as I have cancelled my subscription.
Telegraph is confused. They run comments and articles that have a place on this site. But their Gates funded team sticks to the script.
Use Bypass Paywalls with Firefox and you can get most publications around the world.
It used to be said “Never trust what you read in the newspapers”. Add to that anything which has a CCP source or linked to Gates, or both, and you’re in a land of fantasy or brainwashing; or perhaps both of those, too.
There is clearly a major outbreak of respiratory disease – it’s a virus called ‘masking’.
‘Masking’ will certainly worsen any respiratory disease a person might have!
I expect Pfizer will be working on a “Masker Respiratory Syndrome Vaccine ” to deal with it. ( 6 doses a year)
People with breathing difficulties, ie, serious COVID, are certainly not going to wear them. But patients rolled out to have some fresh air (the Hong Kong idea of fresh air at least — normal humidity there is like the situation immediatley before a thunderstorm in Europe) and sunshine well might.
If they are in hospital because they have breathing difficulties, why are they wearing face coverings, which will simply make it worse? Some of them have masks and face shields.
Helps reduce their oxygen intake and makes them worse…..then they can go on a ‘plan’ as soon as the Midazolam arrives!
Hong Kong is having a number done on it by China. SCMP is reporting this wave could last 5 months according to “medical experts”, so the HKers who can are trying to escape into Shenzhen. Presumably they’re not being told it’s just a cold- a brief Google suggests that confirmed cases are reported as being in hospital. HK remembers the original SARS very well and there is probably a high level of genuine concern, into which has been seeded a great deal of panic. If every positive case is being taken into hospital regardless of severity, that could indicate why the hospitals are struggling.
But also- I lived in China for a bit, and you went to the hospital for everything- if you needed antibiotics, if you needed vitamin C, if you were a bit tired… They don’t have GPs, and hospitals are not just for the seriously ill. They all look like the photos above. I never went to a hospital in HK but I wouldn’t be surprised if they look like those photos most of the time as well. British hospitals typically do, in a flu season.
Wouldn’t escaping from HK to Shenzhen be as difficult as escaping from East Germany to West Germany during the Cold War?
HK’s border with mainland China is sealed shut: in fact one of the main justifications HK has for pursuing a zero-covid policy in the first place is to persuade mainland China that it’s safe to reopen that border!
Global Health Security have a consistent message in their propaganda section of the DT.
Which is “Its not over, panic, get another vaccine shot or we’re all going to die”
Its pretty tedious
The DT is now a disgrace to free and honest investigative journalism – a sad loss, ruined by Globalist ownership and interference and cowardly Editors.
Neither the government of HK nor that of China would ever lie or distort the truth
Do we know which ‘vaccine’ has been given to its population? Is it mRNA? (I’m assuming it is – and this may explain why we’re not seeing the same thing play out in China).
This seem impossible to establish for certain.
It is from:
And definitely not from an injected experimental gene therapeutic that induces spike proteins to attach to ACE-2 receptors causing inflammation and cellular destruction.
It’s winter. It’s a seasonal virus. This doesn’t appear to have registered with world ‘leaders’.
Here are the figures from S Korea. Repressive masking mandates. Unvaxxed not allowed in bars or restaurants. Mandatory quarantine for everyone entering the country. Massive Vax uptake. Guess what? None of it works!
https://en.yna.co.kr/view/AEN20220215002653320
At this time of the years, it’s decidedly T-shirt season in southern China. It may have been a bit like late March in the UK a month ago.
Hong Kong is actually tropical by the astronomical definition (it’s at 22.3 degrees North) even if its climate is a bit shy of tropical because of the strength of the Siberian High Pressure in winter.
My thoughts? Rearrange this anagram into a well known dismissive word. SLOBLOCK.
Hong Kong Hospitals? The New Prisons?
Are the force vaccinating the people ?
What is really going on?
Organ harvesting. You wake up dead.
I think you’ve made an error on Hong Kong’s Covid policy: the quarantine facilities are for contacts of the infected rather than the infected themselves.
Anyone who actually tests positive (regardless of symptoms) is automatically hospitalized, which may explain why they’re overflowing.
Another factor is that Hong Kong’s vaccination rate among the elderly (ie the very people most likely to die from Covid) is pitifully low: perhaps due to a combination of lack of desire to travel and trust in the government’s Zero Covid strategy?
Simple answer to this question: Just as everytime so far, the overflowing hospitals have been wished into existence by COVID propagandists attaching exaggerated claims to a normal situation and context-less photos people who aren’t familiar with the situation in Hong Kong can interpret properly.
As someone who has actually lived in Kwun Tong in the past (within walking distance of Ngau Tau Kok subway station), the first thing I note when seeing these photos is that they have an air of being unusually spacey and relaxed for local conditions. During day time, one will have serious problems finding locations with that few people in them there.
My first thought was that the hospitals must be overflowing with freedom loving folk who’ve had their heads bashed by Hong Kong cops.
Sometimes I’ve wondered if the West ought to do a population exchange with China: the West gets the pro-democracy Hong Kongers, while Hong Kong (which I guess due to its British colonial past would be more able than mainland China to absorb immigrants who don’t speak Chinese) gets Western zero-coviders in exchange.
I’m generally unhappy about the idea of more mad mask lovers coming here and expecting us to integrate into their culture but exporting zero-coviders to Hong Kong for some time could be a good idea. They’d be in for a nasty culture shock upon discovering that Chinese people are not geneticallly lactose-intolerant.
More staged photos ‘leaked’ to ‘the West’ to keep the fear going. An incentive for everyone to take the 4th jab.
Another possibility is that many of them could in fact just get up and go home. How many of these people are panicking on account of having a cold – maybe a nasty cold, but a cold – and think they’re dying? I’ve met a lot of such people here – where it’s known as ‘man flu’. Psychosoma. Some are serious, some are saps.
My son lives in HK and is going about his daily life as usual. There are many people out and about and 98% are wearing masks. Even the babies are westing masks although my son has refused a mask for his child.
No Hong Kongers are allowed to leave the island but this has been the case for many months. It seems to me there is propaganda at work again. My cousin in India was telling me last hear that UK was totally locked down as so many people were dying?????
Lies, lies and damn lies.
Isn’t it a shame Hong Kong will not use ivermectin and other repurposed drugs as early treatment?
Gates funded Global Health Security team? Nothing dodgy there then.
Isn’t it the case that anyone testing positive in HK is required to spend 21 days isolating in hospital, asymptomatic or not?
If so – and I believe it is so – then given that HK hospitals are always 90%+ occupied, it’s hardly surprising that the hospitals are overflowing.It didn’t matter much when “cases”were in the hundreds but it does now as the number has shot up.
The Telegraph’s global health security articles are not to be trusted in any shape or form. They’re basically a branch of the Gates Propaganda Department.
Is it also possible to compare within the vaccines? The Astrazeneca product is of a completely different type to Pfizer so it doesn’t seem quite right to lump them together in the statistics.