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1. Santa Claes 🇸🇪🇭🇰🎅 (clacke@libranet.de)'s status on Thursday, 03-Mar-2022 06:03:11 UTC Santa Claes 🇸🇪🇭🇰🎅
   Supermarket right now:
   - no meat
   - no veggies
   - very little dairy
   - no bread
   - no fruit except
   - avocados (?) (!)
   - 4 packs of toilet paper left
   - of which 1 not like apple scented
   
   #hongkong #covid
   • Santa Claes 🇸🇪🇭🇰🎅 (clacke@libranet.de)'s status on Thursday, 03-Mar-2022 10:45:15 UTC Santa Claes 🇸🇪🇭🇰🎅

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     • silkevicious
     @silkevicious We just entered this situation. Hong Kong has held near-zero for two years, with 2-3 brief contained bursts, but now we have endemic spread.
     
     Later this month mandatory testing starts and will go on for a month. Nobody knows what it means, so everyone is stocking up in case they can't go out later.
   • silkevicious (silkevicious@libranet.de)'s status on Thursday, 03-Mar-2022 10:45:16 UTC silkevicious

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     @clacke are you still in that bad situation?
   • Santa Claes 🇸🇪🇭🇰🎅 (clacke@libranet.de)'s status on Thursday, 03-Mar-2022 12:27:44 UTC Santa Claes 🇸🇪🇭🇰🎅

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     • jay 🌺
     @j12i Yep. Lots of shelves gaping empty.
   • jay 🌺 (j12i@weirder.earth)'s status on Thursday, 03-Mar-2022 12:27:45 UTC jay 🌺

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     @clacke no veggies? woot?

   • Santa Claes 🇸🇪🇭🇰🎅 (clacke@libranet.de)'s status on Friday, 04-Mar-2022 07:39:10 UTC Santa Claes 🇸🇪🇭🇰🎅

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     • silkevicious
     • jay 🌺
     Park 'n' Shop: "[We're rationing staple purchases starting today.]"
     
     But people already bunkered all the food; Every fridge and freezer is fully stocked. It's not like panic purchasing is going to go on for weeks. Panicking people have a year's worth of toilet paper now.
     
     @silkevicious @j12i
   • Santa Claes 🇸🇪🇭🇰🎅 (clacke@libranet.de)'s status on Friday, 04-Mar-2022 12:52:21 UTC Santa Claes 🇸🇪🇭🇰🎅

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     Hong Kong is now the leader in daily covid cases per capita and we have more than the US *in absolute numbers*. Of course, that's us catching up to two years of basically zero.
   • Santa Claes 🇸🇪🇭🇰🎅 (clacke@libranet.de)'s status on Friday, 04-Mar-2022 12:55:16 UTC Santa Claes 🇸🇪🇭🇰🎅

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     But it's not "ok, then never mind". The cumulative numbers don't look all that great either. We're already surpassing Singapore in deaths per capita:
     
     twitit.gq/kjoules/status/14996…
     
     > Covid-19 deaths, Singapore vs. Hong Kong
     
     > Total deaths
     > 🇸🇬 1094
     > 🇭🇰 1554
     
     > Total deaths per 1M population
     > 🇸🇬 200.7
     > 🇭🇰 209.9
     
     > Deaths in the last 7 days
     > 🇸🇬 66
     > 🇭🇰 1027
   • Santa Claes 🇸🇪🇭🇰🎅 (clacke@libranet.de)'s status on Friday, 04-Mar-2022 13:00:22 UTC Santa Claes 🇸🇪🇭🇰🎅

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     That's still like a 20th of Sweden's toll and hopefully the fact that we mostly avoided the variants before Omikron and have a mostly vaccinated population means it's still going to end up much lower.
     
     Not as vaccinated as Singapore, which is over 90%, but we might get there later this month.
     
     The dilemma here is that those who need it the most are also those who least want to risk going out.
   • Elias Mårtenson (loke@functional.cafe)'s status on Friday, 04-Mar-2022 18:38:20 UTC Elias Mårtenson

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     @clacke What does the trend look like? Is it still going up?

   • Santa Claes 🇸🇪🇭🇰🎅 (clacke@libranet.de)'s status on Friday, 04-Mar-2022 18:38:20 UTC Santa Claes 🇸🇪🇭🇰🎅

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     • Elias Mårtenson
     @loke yep, still a hockey stick graph