Hong Kong providing mass testing. Hoping to test 5M or more of the 8 HK residents in the next 2 weeks.
Hong Kong’s worst outbreak in early July was blamed in part on an exemption from quarantine requirements for airline staff, truck drivers from mainland China and sailors on cargo ships.
At its peak, Hong Kong recorded more than 100 locally transmitted cases a day, after going weeks without any in June.
The outbreak has slowed, with the city reporting just nine cases on Monday, the first time in two weeks that daily infections had fallen to single digits. However, the government and some experts say that community testing can help detect asymptomatic carriers to further stop the spread of the virus.
This is how a responsible gov't acts.
They are basically trying to find asymptomatic people to get them quarantined and break any silent transmission chains.
100 cases a day and they take strong action to stop CV-19 from going viral.
Containment strategies. You don't wait for big outbreaks, you strong action as early as possible.
Conn Sen is right, the virus should have been ended by now. I laid out an alternative timetable using China's timeframe as a model. The virus just isn't here now, life is normal. I try to keep a mask with me in case I need to take the subway or just in case/to be considerate. But really I haven't worn a mask in almost 2 months. Take almost no precautions the past month+ except that I avoid the subway more than usual. That's what the US could be entering.