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1. Santa Claes 🇸🇪🇭🇰🎅 (clacke@libranet.de)'s status on Thursday, 17-Mar-2022 06:54:20 UTC Santa Claes 🇸🇪🇭🇰🎅

   • Elias Mårtenson
   @loke Estimates of the full extent of cases, reported and unreported, range from 17% to 50% of the population. Clearly we can't all go to Penny Bay.
   
   But coronavirus.gov.hk is very thin on information on how mass testing will happen and how positive cases will be managed.
   • Santa Claes 🇸🇪🇭🇰🎅 (clacke@libranet.de)'s status on Friday, 18-Mar-2022 20:56:46 UTC Santa Claes 🇸🇪🇭🇰🎅

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     • Elias Mårtenson
     @loke It's surprising that the Hong Kong relative case numbers peaked at twice the relative numbers of Singapore. That cannot be explained with the "dry tinder" effect, as Singapore has had similar low case numbers over the last two years.
     
     hongkongfp.com/2022/03/12/covi…
   • Elias Mårtenson (loke@functional.cafe)'s status on Friday, 18-Mar-2022 20:56:47 UTC Elias Mårtenson

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     @clacke also with omicron I have think you only test positive for an short period of time, so even mass testing will only give a partial result. Although statistical analysis will probably give more useful information.

     It seems to me that when omicron hits, it basically infects everyone that can be infected very quickly which seems to be what happened in both HK and SG. If that's true, then things should hopefully be much better within a couple of months.

   • Santa Claes 🇸🇪🇭🇰🎅 (clacke@libranet.de)'s status on Saturday, 19-Mar-2022 08:42:14 UTC Santa Claes 🇸🇪🇭🇰🎅

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     • Elias Mårtenson
     @loke That might explain a lot of the difference.
   • Elias Mårtenson (loke@functional.cafe)'s status on Saturday, 19-Mar-2022 08:42:15 UTC Elias Mårtenson

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     @clacke I suspect that Singapore had much larger numbers of unreported cases. Doesn't HK so mass testing? Singapore never did that, and even if you test positive using an ART test, there is no requirement to report it, and you're just supposed to stay home for a few days. All those cases are never seen in the statistics of course