Hong Kong announced last week that gyms, swimming pools, and hair salons were to be closed until 23 December to slow the rising cases.
Since January, when the COVID War broke out in Wuhan, Hong Kong, a city of 7.5 million people, has registered a grand total of 118 deaths or 0.0015 percent of the population.
Despite the insignificantly low numbers, Hong Kong’s Chief Executive Carrie Lam declared that the current wave of infections is “more complicated and more severe than the last wave.” She called for limiting outdoor activities and limited restaurants to operating at 50 percent capacity.
Lam’s guidelines call for take-out orders only at restaurants from the hours of 6 PM to 5 AM.
“If we don’t control it strictly, there’ll be bigger risks,” she said. “This time we’ll roll out suppressing measures aimed at limiting foot traffic flow on the streets.”
People Suppressed
Jimmy Lai, the 73-year-old media tycoon who has been charged with violating Beijing’s new national security law, was denied bail on Saturday by a judge who was handpicked by Hong Kong’s Chief Executive Carrie Lam.
Lai was seen being led into court shackled in metal chains. He has been accused of colluding with foreign forces. Lai, a billionaire, who was first arrested in August, is the highest-profile arrest under China’s new security law, which sparked violent protests in Hong Kong.
TREND FORECAST: Yes, Ms. Lam, via Beijing, has succeeded in “limiting foot traffic flow to the streets.”
We continually reported in the Trends Journal that Beijing could not quell the extensive Hong Kong protests that began in March 2019, which had well over a million citizens taking to the streets. The demonstrations were in reaction to the Fugitive Offenders legislation bill, which would have allowed China to extradite Hong Kong criminal suspects to the mainland.
As Gerald Celente forecast when the virus first broke out in China this past January, Beijing would use COVID-19 to achieve what they were unable to accomplish before the virus stuck Wuhan: lock down Hong Kong to stop the protests.
That has now been accomplished… and along with Beijing’s new national security law, the city is under the full dictate of the Chinese government.
