Covid alarmists are reporting on the situation in Hong Kong, claiming it proves them right in the measures they have backed over the past two years.
The latest reports are of overflowing morgues and a shortage of coffins. Here’s the report from MailOnline.
Morgues in Hong Kong are overflowing with bodies after a deadly Covid wave has forced workers in hazmat suits to dump corpses in shipping containers.
Workers in full PPE gear were seen moving bodies covered in black tarpaulin from a truck into rows of shipping containers outside Fu Shan Public Mortuary on Wednesday.
Hong Kong has recorded nearly a million infections and more than 4,600 deaths less than three months after the highly transmissible Omicron variant broke through.
The bulk of the deaths has been from the city’s unvaccinated elderly population.
A funeral industry representative told local media the soaring death toll had seen a crunch in the city’s coffins supply, with only 300 remaining and expected to be gone by the weekend.
Leader Carrie Lam acknowledged the supply issues during a press conference Wednesday, and said two more shipments of coffins will arrive in Hong Kong from the mainland soon.
The shocking images come just five days after bodies were seen lying abandoned on stretchers next to living patients in a Hong Kong hospital.
A medic working at the hospital told Hong Kong Free Press the photo was taken inside the Accident & Emergency ward of Queen Elizabeth Hospital in Hong Kong and circulated on Friday.
The photo, reportedly taken in early March, showed six body bags lying on stretchers as bed-bound patients struggled to prop themselves up.
Here are the pictures of shipping containers being used for bodies and bodies stored in bags on wards – presumably largely a consequence of strict Covid protocols that require those infected with Covid and the bodies of those who die with it to be kept separate from others.
The response to the situation from Covid alarmists has been both predictable and wrong.
Dr. Julian Tang, Honorary Associate Professor and Clinical Virologist at the University of Leicester, says it’s because not enough people were vaccinated with a good enough vaccine. Criticising the CoronaVac (Sinovac) vaccine for producing “no detectable neutralisation of Omicron”, he says: “Ideally, Hong Kong needs to boost or vaccinate all their citizens with the mRNA vaccines to better control the spread of Omicron.” Has Dr. Tang failed to notice that highly vaccinated countries like Israel and the U.K. have suffered at least as many Omicron infections as elsewhere? It’s incredible that scientists are still peddling the myth that the vaccines prevent or control the spread of COVID-19.
Dr. Adam Kucharski, an epidemiologist and modeller at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, took to Twitter to claim that the situation proved him right: “Given current situation in Hong Kong, it’s astonishing that there’s anyone still out there who thinks that not taking Covid seriously in 2020-21 would have worked out fine. [Hong Kong] is a reminder of what happens when there’s a large epidemic in a still susceptible population – so large epidemics in countries pre-vaccination wouldn’t have ended well.”
The reality, though, is that Hong Kong’s Omicron wave has been dropping fast for 10 days now, and deaths will likely follow shortly. Note that unlike cities in China, Hong Kong has not been locked down, and a ban on gatherings of more than two is only being brought in now (why do politicians bring in extreme measures when infections are dropping?), meaning lockdown can’t be credited with putting the outbreak into reverse.
Deaths in the city have admittedly been very high for the region, as the comparison to South Korea shows. However, the death count per million is still a long way short of the U.K.’s. The chart below also shows that the trajectory has been similar to the U.K.’s winter 2020-21 wave, albeit smaller and shorter. We don’t have excess mortality data for Hong Kong so don’t know the impact on the overall level of deaths.
If the city’s morgue’s are overwhelmed and coffin supplies depleted then there may be an in-built capacity problem, as the U.K., along with many European countries, had a proportionally larger wave in winter 2020-21 without suffering similar logistical problems.
Why is Hong Kong suffering a wave of deaths worse than its neighbours? The main suggestion is that it’s because only 30% of the city’s over-80s were double vaccinated ahead of the Omicron wave, plus the poor efficacy (particularly against Omicron) of the CoronaVac (Sinovac) vaccine. The data show that 70% of deaths have been in the over-80s (around 60% in care homes) and 90% of deaths were not double vaccinated (though that means 10% of deaths were double vaccinated, quite high given just 30% of the over-80s are double vaccinated).
The vaccine explanation is plausible. However, the most important factor is surely the presence of a susceptible elderly population, plus Hong Kong being one of the world’s most densely populated places. The city has also been vaccinating during the outbreak, which evidence indicates contributes to driving the spread. Despite this, the death toll is, as noted, smaller than the U.K. winter 2020-21 wave. The fact that infections are dropping now shows once again that lockdowns are not necessary for this to happen. Vaccinating the elderly population with a more effective vaccine may well have prevented many of the recent deaths, but that doesn’t mean lockdowns were justified or there is value in vaccinating the low-risk population. Hong Kong is not the disaster the Covid alarmists are making it out to be, and it certainly does not vindicate the extreme measures of the past two years.
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So once again, ”Worth reading in full” leads us to a paywall. Why does DS continue to do this when there’s a non-paywalled version of the same story available?
Anyhoo, seems that Khant has just recruited some of the Jew-hating Hamasshole yobs, going by the pictures. That’s my bet anyway. They have the exact same demeanour too. Well they do make up his voter base so he wouldn’t have to look very hard would he?
”TfL said the security guards wore plain, dark clothes while on the job and were also allowed to wear hats.
It refused to comment on the guards wearing balaclavas and masks but said the use of mobile camera vans will be reviewed continually to ensure the Ulez was being enforced effectively.
A TfL spokesperson said: ‘Our security workers are directed not to wear face coverings unless they feel threatened by being closely filmed.
‘Wearing of medical masks is permitted. We will remind our contractors of the situations when they can be worn.
They added: ‘We have hired a small number of qualified security staff who are suitably licensed by the Security Industry Authority, due to ongoing criminal damage to Ulez cameras and vehicles.
‘They are held to high standards of professionalism.
‘Unfortunately, our contractors have been subjected to threats and abuse while carrying out their duties so they are advised to record any issues on body-worn cameras to deescalate conflict and if necessary, record evidence for police investigations.
‘Vandalism is unacceptable and all incidents on our network are reported to the police for investigation.
‘Criminal damage to Ulez cameras or vehicles puts the perpetrators at risk of prosecution and injury, while simultaneously risking the safety of the public.”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-12868309/The-ULEZ-goon-squad-Sadiq-Khan-using-mob-masked-heavies-intimidate-harass-London-homeowners-protect-hated-cameras-Blade-Runners.html
The way to get around paywalls, Mogs…https://archive.is/
Cheers, Aethelred.
Just narks me a bit why we can’t just use a source that already exists sans paywall really…
When it became bloody obvious that the dinghy imports were young fighting age men I repeatedly made the point that they were being brought in as an alternative army. I see no reason to change that opinion.
But wouldn’t we have heard something more definitive about that if it were the case by now? There’s no doubting that they’re all young men and juvenile males arriving, but if there were some sort of clandestine operation taking place, surely some information would have leaked or there’d be some eye witness accounts somewhere, but all we really have to go on presently are rumours and guesswork. I know you mentioned John O’Looney ages back but I’ve not heard anything from him in a long while. I’m not saying it’s not a possibility but we need something more to go on than just theories.
If all of these young guys were being trained up for something it’d all have to be being done in top secret, right under our noses, and these men wouldn’t have the opportunity to be going out and committing the crimes they do, and we have the evidence for this. This would also be an ideal opportunity for some secret intel to be leaked; if one of them committed a crime and it came out that he was here as part of some government initiative to be trained up for some operation. But with the lack of anything much to go on it just doesn’t really stack up for me.
I think they’re simply here as our replacements and the idea is, the men/boys do the arduous journey to get a foot in the door and set up here then they apply for family reunification, then shed-loads of relatives come over. The whole ‘asylum seeker’ farce is nothing but a Trojan horse. So whether your theory is true or not, either way our governments are screwing us over, whichever way you look at it.
Your point of view is more than plausible Mogs. I still see malicious intent behind the import of the dinghy hordes.
“security were held to high standards of professionalism, and had been told they should hide their face only if they feel intimidated by being closely filmed.”
Ah, so “high-standard” “professional” security are so easily intimidated that they don’t like close-ups from a camera. Hmm. Nothing to hide, obviously.
My feeling is that, with the sole exception of the Bladerunners, whenever anybody dons a mask they turn into an absolute arsehole. Yes, ‘bare-cheeked’ arseholes are still ten a penny, but there’s something about the transformation that takes place in a person’s character that emboldens them to behave in a seriously anti-social and hostile manner. The evidence of this is all over the internet, in footage on social media, for all to see. I have literally yet to see, during any type of protest or crowd gathering, people on the *right* side ( that’d be the decent, reasonable folk ) wearing masks. No matter the context it is always the screaming banshee, aggressive lunatics that get up to no good and in people’s faces who wear a face covering. We need the input of Dr Sidley on this observation, STAT!
If I see men, especially young men, anywhere near me, individually or in a group, and their faces are covered in some way, I consider my options and expect trouble.
Well that’s it. 1) They’re mentally ill, or 2) They’re up to no good. That’s my thought process anyway. Fortunately I’m seeing zero masktards round my way.
Ditto.
They either have something to hide, or are about to something they should not be doing, or they are trying to look hard and may be easily triggered.
Or they could be feeling intimidated, since that seems to be an acceptable reason for hiding one’s face according to the Mayor of London
Leaving these “security guards” aside, if someone feels intimidated on the street and wears a mask it tells me they are possibly edgy and likely to kick off – steer clear.
Well, Khan’s performance when being held to account for his actions and their outcomes particularly his refusal to answer questions do not exactly inspire confidence in his motives or agenda.
A dump but an important one – the culling of the elderly in 2020. Paul Weston calls this mass murder. I might have used the same words myself occasionally.
https://www.conservativewoman.co.uk/a-beginners-guide-to-the-great-covid-con-part-3-manufacturing-excess-deaths/
I recommend that everyone reads this article. It’s a very succinct account of an absolutely horrific event.
Thanks RW.
“the security were held to high standards of professionalism, and had been told they should hide their face only if they feel intimidated by being closely filmed.”
Which is tantamount to saying – “this is your excuse, ‘I felt intimidated.’
A bit like saying they can do what they want.
Who decides ‘high standards of professionalism?”
“Masked security “goons” hired to guard Sadiq Khan’s Low Emission Zone cameras have been accused of assaulting and intimidating locals.”
As the ULEZ scheme was not asked for by the citizens of London and Khan is using thugs to protect his instruments of extortion this is looking like a very clever coup.
Also assuming the picture is of one of the actual “security guards”, it’s good to see that their high professional choice of mask is a horror mask designed to frighten and convey aggression. Quite appropriate really.
All the hallmarks of a fledgling totalitarian state. Impose some rules and then use the heavy mob to enforce them.
Surely these goons can’t guard every single camera? I mean the ones they can’t ‘protect;’ will be subject to things like wear and tear, unexplained tornados, meteors, Bermuda Triangle disappearances etc. And, out of scientific interest as I certainly wouldn’t suggest it or promote such behaviour, if someone smeared an epoxy resin over the lens surface, wouldn’t that make it all blurry?
And where is the money coming from to pay for Khan’s version of the NKVD?
No doubt the funds will come from ULEZ ‘fines’.
Beria would be so proud!
This is going down. Doesn’t make me happy because the world after won’t be any better than the world before but at least there is some resistance.
“…claims a security guard purposefully ran her over…”
‘deliberately’ or ‘on purpose’ – not “purposefully” (which means something quite different, although likely to be true of these fascist bastards)
The thing to do here is simply call 999. These are not proper licenced security people, they are threatening thugs. This is a criminal offence, and if Khan has hired them he should be in court. Security people are not allowed to hide their identity, in fact they have their license on the arm, if not they are thugs.
Oh if only that would work. The police if they arrived, would start on the locals. Thats where we are now. There will ultimately be a more ‘vigorous’ response to this stasi reincarnation.
Drip, drip, drip. I fear we may actually be on the verge of true anarchy.
The signs are there.
There will ultimately be a more ‘vigorous’ response to this stasi revival.
What then? Escalation becomes inevitable as more and more of the general population see and feel the effects of ALL the multi faceted crocks of sh1t surrounding them.
They will become more…’enthused’ and more inclined to start looking out for their own best interests.
How did that go with the original incarnation of the Stasi?
All part of much bigger malfeasant plan?
Are ‘they’ awakening a sleeping giant?
I know what I think.
Time will tell.
Employing mercenaries. I see the war is advancing towards the shooting stage.