That is a fake shutdown. The airport is still not restricted to Chinese travelers. The problem is Hong Kong is central hub of flights to China and Western world. We noted a Chinese student fraudulently wrote arrival customs form claiming origin as Hong Kong and passed Brisbane checkpoint. This incident was revealed when this guy delighted told the story on social media. Case was reported to authorities for follow up.
In the end it is advisable to have Hong Kong completely close border (with China). Otherwise it is Western world to restrict any non-citizens coming out from Hong Kong.
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I have never seen more selfish people than those in Hong Kong.
When your country is in trouble, most people will rush to help or volunteering to do important things. Large and small companies donate to buy necessary material. College students form network to help distribution of goods & services. That can be seen everywhere in China.
China helps Hong Kong over the years by providing water, electricity, food, and tourists sustaining the HK economy. Now those same people want to strike and shut down hospitals preventing mainland Chinese seeking help in Hong Kong. It is very unfortunate. Just like Trump wants to build a wall on the border, these Hong Kongers want to do the same on their islands.
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I feel for the conditions and situation in HK, but everything that is about HK it's past, present and future owes so much to their fellow country and countrymen in China.
I appreciate the fear and hate to being oppressed but couldn't they put aside fear being converted to hate and convert a little of that fear into courage and sympathy and open their heart and do a little charity and help their fellow people?
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@charles c
Hong Kong is not a place that have much heart.
Senior citizens pushing carts collecting scraps and recyclables while you will see more RR, Tesla, Benz and BMW than you’ll ever see.
Mansion high on top of steep hills and people living decades in cages. The tiny homes and super expensive real estate wasn’t the doing of real estate tycoons, it was the result of middle class home owners voting down affordable housings fearing it would affect their apartment’s value.
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That’s exactly where the fear struck, that kind of living condition will hurt a lots of people if this become a pandemic.
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Here is the medical ethics of those medical workers? That's a kind racism towards the Chinese mainlanders permeating and accepted in HK society. If you don't like the heat, then you should get out of the kitchen.
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You can say it is kinda racism.
Let me put in this way: would you be worry or furious if the border is wide open for Mexicans when you know some kind of mysterious outbreak is happening there?
That’s similar situation in Hong Kong right now. We are human beings, not saints.
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@Bill Whitehead
I am sure many people in Hong Kong would love to be able to get out of the kitchen. but I am even more sure that China would never let Hong Kong escape now that it has it in its control after the British left.
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They really should purify the seawater instead of getting fresh water from China.
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Those doctors are too afraid to go to hospital. So this is their way to avoid their job and responsibility. Smart move!
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I don't know about the morality of excluding people who need healthcare. I'll let those with a greater sense of how to properly deal with health emergencies answer that one. Maybe contingents of healthcare workers from Hong Kong (and other parts of the world including the US) should go to Wuhan to help contain the spread of the virus through treating people in the center of the outbreak. United we stand. Divided we both fail and fall.
But I noticed the pictures of the high speed railway station. Compare those facilities with the decrepit transportation system in the US. The US is obviously in comparative decline. We spend trillions on endless wars and comparatively nothing on preventing wars by raising living standards through intelligent investment in infrastructure and education worldwide. This country needs new leadership along the lines of Bernie Sanders. Trump and more of Trump has been and will be a catastrophic social disaster. The later has just been a financial grab fest by the ultra rich engineered on the backs of the poor and easily duped.
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@Garrett
Thousand of medical professionals from across China have volunteered to help in Wuhan and American’s CDC and EU are working with their Chinese counterparts to develop vaccines and coordinate shipment of supplies. International medical community always come together in emergencies and is probably one of the best examples of the world working together to tackle problems.
This “strike” is just a staged protest by the nativist “pro-democracy” student union. Their protest in Hong Kong haven’t made headline nor even receive coverage for months so this is just them trying to grab headline. Of course trying to portray Hong Kong medical professionals as selfish cowards is low but not a surprise as the student union have set fire to banks, government offices, and mass transit.
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