Originally Posted by
kb1992
I still can't believe that elderly people in an advanced modern city like HK refused to be vaccinated.
It's a recipe for disaster.
Worse, the government of HK dare not acknowledge that PRC vaccine is hugely ineffective.
Instead, they seduced people in HK to get vaccine produced in the Kingdom in order to please the emperor.
That's a bit extreme. On the ground, we see the elders as deeply distrustful of western medicine - both Chinese attenuated virus vaccines and mRNA - and a government far more tolerant of them than against dissident young people. Government may have better getting elders to take some herb from Africa would protect them from harm even if it involves (or particularly if they say) steaming in their bare hands for four hours a day.
The only way to get them to vaccinate is a outbreak like the one we're having now. It worked to drive up vaccination numbers in NSW in their last winter, it will work here for our seniors. Of course, it will never be official policy to allow an outbreak, hence all the theatre about testing.
It's a combination of King Pooh commanding back the tide, and the Emperor's New Clothes of everyone trying to say it's working.