OK, *now* we're in trouble ...

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For some reason, on the Johns Hopkins CoVID-19 dashboard, Canada, as a country, has disappeared.  (If you switch to the province/state/dependency mode, the individual provinces with infections still show up.)

This is disturbing, for someone who lives there ...

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> - you are in a Wireless environment -

You are not in a timeless (maximum open carrier wait) world of no half-wave-length markings, tangles, and kinked cable. You have avoided all that, but you have entered ...

... the wifi zone ...

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@rslade   Here is some real trouble:  where is 3 Million displaced people going to go? 

https://www.theregister.com/2020/07/01/china_passes_national_security_law_hong_kong/

Regards

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I find the article a little unnerving and hope that calmer heads might pervail (I know I am a dreamer).

I can imagine some of those 3 million folks winding up in Commonwealth countries (UK, Canada, Australia) but that is a huge number and not sure any of those economies could handle an influx like that.

d

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> I find the article a little unnerving and hope that calmer heads might pervail
> (I know I am a dreamer).   I can imagine some of those 3 million folks winding
> up in Commonwealth countries (UK, Canada, Australia) but that is a huge number
> and not sure any of those economies could handle an influx like that.

Yeah, I know what you mean. We let a bunch of them in after 1997, and now ...
oh ... wait ... they're all running restaurants and small businesses now ...

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Coronavirus parties.

A whole new level of stupid ...

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@rslade @dcontesti   I agree, there is insufficient hotel room to go around, let alone police and control the movement of those quarantined.   Do those who are quarantined get the Government to pay for their internment ?  Or does the new arrival pay?

The hotels will happy for the revenue and to fill the rooms, apart from generating lots of antibodies and immunity potentially?

Regards

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>     I agree, there is insufficient hotel room to go around,
> let alone police and control the movement of those quarantined.   Do those who
> are quarantined get the Government to pay for their internment ?  Or does the
> new arrival pay?   The hotels will happy for the revenue and to fill the rooms,
> apart from generating lots of antibodies and immunity potentially?

We've got plenty of hotel space.

Especially if the NHL isn't coming to town ...

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> dcontesti (Community Champion) posted a new reply in Industry News on 07-02-2020

>> I find the article a little unnerving and hope that calmer heads might pervail
>> (I know I am a dreamer).   I can imagine some of those 3 million folks winding
>> up in Commonwealth countries (UK, Canada, Australia) but that is a huge number
>> and not sure any of those economies could handle an influx like that.

>Yeah, I know what you mean. We let a bunch of them in after 1997, and now ...
>oh ... wait ... they're all running restaurants and small businesses now ...

@rslade 

I was actually thinking that 3 million folks was a disproportionately high number of people to be potentially displaced or wanting to move due to the stroke of a pen.  Realistically that is about 40% of the population of Hong Kong (last I was in Hong Kong the population was about 7.5 Million people).    Remember that this number represents about 60% of the total number of folks in BC.

It just seems to be a unrealistically high number of folks to be affected but then I suspect that this was only to be expected after July 1st, 1997.  And I suspect that like many governments sentiments change, priorities change and therefore the rules will change.

It is a shame actually as Hong Kong is such a vibrant city filled with so many wonders.  I guess I will need to update my Chinese visa now to go there.  ;(...another trip to Toronto....ugh.

d

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> >   I guess I will need to
> > update my Chinese visa now to go there.

Uh, Diana, please don't even *think* of going there right now ...

That'd be very poor risk management ...

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