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1. Santa Claes 🇸🇪🇭🇰🎅 (clacke@libranet.de)'s status on Wednesday, 09-Feb-2022 03:41:50 UTC Santa Claes 🇸🇪🇭🇰🎅
   You want to tell the taxi driver clearly where you're going, but when you look up the characters two of them each have four different pronunciations depending on context.
   • Santa Claes 🇸🇪🇭🇰🎅 (clacke@libranet.de)'s status on Wednesday, 09-Feb-2022 06:43:10 UTC Santa Claes 🇸🇪🇭🇰🎅

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     We arrived in the right place about three hours ago. Still queueing for my compulsory covid test (day 26 of international arrival) and the queue in front of me snakes through an entire park, I estimate around 1000 people in front of me and I advanced maybe 500 places since I arrived.
     
     #hongkong #covid
   • Santa Claes 🇸🇪🇭🇰🎅 (clacke@libranet.de)'s status on Wednesday, 09-Feb-2022 06:45:00 UTC Santa Claes 🇸🇪🇭🇰🎅

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     It's like queueing for tickets except that instead of getting to see an awesome concert you get poked in the nose and throat for 20 seconds and then you can go home.
   • Santa Claes 🇸🇪🇭🇰🎅 (clacke@libranet.de)'s status on Wednesday, 09-Feb-2022 06:51:00 UTC Santa Claes 🇸🇪🇭🇰🎅

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     • lefarfadet
     @lefarfadet yeah I'm literally queueing 4-6 h for a test that takes less than a minute.
     
     I left hotel quarantine last weekend and this week I'm on self-monitoring. The test needs to be done today or I get a 5000 HKD.
     
     I tried to book a slot two nights ago like an idiot and every single slot in Hong Kong was taken until Sunday.
     
     Had I just had like 10% less ADHD I would have booked last week and could have just strolled in today, got it done in half an hour, taxi included.
   • lefarfadet (lefarfadet@mstdn.io)'s status on Wednesday, 09-Feb-2022 06:51:01 UTC lefarfadet

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     @clacke
     Woaaah ga yao! And after that, you'll get to go home ?

   • Santa Claes 🇸🇪🇭🇰🎅 (clacke@libranet.de)'s status on Wednesday, 09-Feb-2022 07:32:28 UTC Santa Claes 🇸🇪🇭🇰🎅

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     • Elias Mårtenson
     @loke Nope, hence the queue. Most people here will probably be potential contacts of known cases, as anyone with symptoms isn't allowed here.
   • Elias Mårtenson (loke@functional.cafe)'s status on Wednesday, 09-Feb-2022 07:32:29 UTC Elias Mårtenson

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     @clacke are they managing to stay at 0 cases in HK?

   • Santa Claes 🇸🇪🇭🇰🎅 (clacke@libranet.de)'s status on Wednesday, 09-Feb-2022 07:42:13 UTC Santa Claes 🇸🇪🇭🇰🎅

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     • Elias Mårtenson
     @loke Until Jan 23rd there was a steady trickle of 40 cases per day, all from travel, all contained. Then on the 23rd there were 100 cases extra, spread from two health workers to a residential estate. It's been growing since then, no downward trend visible yet.
     
     Previous blooms have fizzled out in two weeks and peaked at 200 people/day , this one, mostly Omicron probably, is now at 600/day.
   • Elias Mårtenson (loke@functional.cafe)'s status on Wednesday, 09-Feb-2022 10:34:23 UTC Elias Mårtenson

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     @clacke Yeah, once Omicron hits there is very little they can do, unless they want to completely lock down.

     Singapore is at 13k per day now, with a post-CNY peak of 30k? And this is with most of the same restrictions that have been in place for the last year or so.

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   • Santa Claes 🇸🇪🇭🇰🎅 (clacke@libranet.de)'s status on Wednesday, 09-Feb-2022 10:37:06 UTC Santa Claes 🇸🇪🇭🇰🎅

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     • Elias Mårtenson
     @loke If this doubles every week, which is very roughly how the bars above look, we'll be at 30k/day in like 6-7 weeks.
   • Santa Claes 🇸🇪🇭🇰🎅 (clacke@libranet.de)'s status on Wednesday, 09-Feb-2022 10:48:29 UTC Santa Claes 🇸🇪🇭🇰🎅

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     • Elias Mårtenson
     Ok, now I see headlines that we're already reporting 1200 cases today, so I guess more like 3 weeks.
     
     @loke Ok,
   • Santa Claes 🇸🇪🇭🇰🎅 (clacke@libranet.de)'s status on Wednesday, 09-Feb-2022 10:50:55 UTC Santa Claes 🇸🇪🇭🇰🎅

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     • Elias Mårtenson
     @loke As long as they figure out a way to phrase that without losing face, yes.
     
     In polls a majority of Hongkongers already support a "living with covid" strategy.
   • Elias Mårtenson (loke@functional.cafe)'s status on Wednesday, 09-Feb-2022 10:50:56 UTC Elias Mårtenson

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     @clacke at that point do you think they'll drop the quarantine?

   • Santa Claes 🇸🇪🇭🇰🎅 (clacke@libranet.de)'s status on Wednesday, 09-Feb-2022 12:12:10 UTC Santa Claes 🇸🇪🇭🇰🎅

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     • Elias Mårtenson
     First death in six months reported today
     
     www.scmp.com/news/hong-kong/he…
     
     @loke
   • Elias Mårtenson (loke@functional.cafe)'s status on Wednesday, 09-Feb-2022 12:12:29 UTC Elias Mårtenson

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     @clacke here they have staff manning every entrance to malls etc, originally for contact tracing but these days there is no point to it anyway. But they can't get rid of it, because the people doing it would lose their income, which is the only explanation why they still do not it.

     Well, I guess the other reason is to make sure no unvaccinated people enter any shops.

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   • lefarfadet (lefarfadet@mstdn.io)'s status on Wednesday, 09-Feb-2022 13:46:23 UTC lefarfadet

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     @clacke
     Ah... well, the french say: "if you have no head, you'll use your legs"... which is like if you cant think properly, you'll have use your muscles.

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   • Santa Claes 🇸🇪🇭🇰🎅 (clacke@libranet.de)'s status on Wednesday, 09-Feb-2022 13:46:46 UTC Santa Claes 🇸🇪🇭🇰🎅

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     • lefarfadet
     @lefarfadet That is a Swedish saying as well, with which I am very well acquainted. 😁
   • Santa Claes 🇸🇪🇭🇰🎅 (clacke@libranet.de)'s status on Wednesday, 09-Feb-2022 13:48:46 UTC Santa Claes 🇸🇪🇭🇰🎅

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     > could have just strolled in today, got it done in half an hour, taxi included
     
     Correction: Actually it looked like the queue of people with proper bookings also took 1-2 hours for some reason.
   • Santa Claes 🇸🇪🇭🇰🎅 (clacke@libranet.de)'s status on Wednesday, 09-Feb-2022 13:50:42 UTC Santa Claes 🇸🇪🇭🇰🎅

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     • lefarfadet
     @lefarfadet The exact Swedish saying is "What you don't have in your head, you'll need to have in your legs".