For the third day in a row, there are no new COVID-19 cases in Hong Kong.  Things already seem to be returning to normal, with more people out and about at the weekend.  The rules on restaurants capacity have been removed, but tables are still supposed to be 1.5 metres apart (or with a physical…

Paul Christensen posted a comment and directed my attention to something he had written in the SCMP The cold, hard maths of whether a coronavirus shutdown is worth everyone’s loss of quality of life Do the benefits of the Covid-19 economic shutdown justify the costs? This is a fundamental question that governments need to address,…

In the last three weeks the number of COVD-19 cases in Hong Kong has increased from around 270 to 1,001.  That sounds a bit scary, but other countries have seen much larger increases over the same period (25x in US, 15x in UK). The biggest factor by far has been the large number of people…