Thursday, October 29, 2020

Hong Kong in 2020

 Hello all, we’re still here in HK.

It’s been tough here since 2019.

First, there's the anti-extradition law protests in HK and then COVID..

But it’s definitely given me a new level of respect ✊ for Hong Kongers, and for Mainland Chinese as well. 

I hope everyone can live together in cooperation for a new future. I hope I don’t sound like a propaganda machine. If everyone respects each other, then there is hope.

When HK Hospitals started to buckle and there weren't enough beds for mounting COVID patients, China sent a team of medics, and construction teams to build makeshift hospitals for HK's COVID patients. I read that these teams were subjected to HK people on the streets yelling abuse at them and being generally unwelcoming. THEY CAME TO HELP YOU. Make that make sense.



The whole word blames Chinese people for Covid. For example: Americans (random people walking in the streets) seem to blame Chinese people (also just random people walking on the streets) for the thousands who lost their lives to COVID in the United States. Not because the average American cannot afford Healthcare. And not that their hospital system just did not work.
People with Oriental features everywhere else in the world will face some form of discrimination, vitriol, resentment from others. Abuse in all forms.




I get it, I DO get it.  
I mean, I'm angry at the state of the world right now, too, thanks to unpoliced practices from a country that SHOULD tighten their control more. Not under any illusion that China definitely has the immense power and the resources to learn and grow a thousandfold from this. China: Not enough hospitals? We'll build some right now and it'll be done in a few weeks! Not enough doctors? We'll get the army to send doctors and medical interns and students where you need them tomorrow! 厲害. However, glaring weaknesses in the American Healthcare system were exposed to the world to see- and I wonder if, under their current leader, are they ever going to learn and fix those gaps? Hmmm. Nah.  
And my great-great grandfather did come from China too. I am 华侨 and wherever I go, I'll get that abuse. So I'll stay put in HK and ride this out with my family.  



Snippets from SCMP


Oh, Hong Kong parents. They try and try and then fly off on the wrong tangent. And then keep flying off further and further on that tangent. WHYYYYY. Tsk.




25 IB perfect scores in ALL OF HONG KONG.
27 IB perfect scores in ONE SCHOOL (Anglo Chinese School) IN SINGAPORE. I am sure that number is higner for ALL OF SINGAPORE.








Update: Still here in Hong Kong.

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