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Hong Kong, 12 May 2021: <\/strong>Who didn\u2019t love Monopoly when they were growing up? Many a rainy afternoon was passed in the Cohen household playing the popular board game, vying with my brothers and friends to become London\u2019s biggest property tycoon while bankrupting everyone else. It was cutthroat and devoid of sentiment. If you were sent to jail, off you went. No wiggle room, no appeal, rules were rules.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

A Hong Kong edition of Monopoly was first made in 1965 and regularly updated. When Boase Cohen & Collins was founded 20 years later, our office location of Wanchai was the cheapest district in the game, immediately after \u201cGo\u201d. By later versions it had progressed almost halfway around the board, urban renewal and gentrification \u2013 and perhaps our continuing presence here in Dominion Centre \u2013 having made the neighbourhood rather more desirable.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Fast-forward to 2021 and we\u2019re playing a similar game. No matter how wealthy you are or wherever you live, a chance roll of the dice can see you incarcerated against your wishes. A resident in your block who you probably don\u2019t know and maybe never have seen tests positive for Covid-19 and Health Secretary Sophia Chan leaps out, brandishing the dreaded card, \u201cGo Directly to Jail, Do Not Pass Go, Do Not Collect \u00a3200\u201d. No wiggle room, no appeal, rules are rules.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

To be exact, Sophia sends you to quarantine camp, not jail. It\u2019s hard to say which is worse. At least in the latter you have edible meals and can exercise outside with fellow inmates for an hour a day. No such luxury when you\u2019re detained at our Health Secretary\u2019s pleasure. Amid scenes of disarray, more than 2,000 citizens were carted off to Hong Kong\u2019s largest quarantine camp, at Penny\u2019s Bay on Lantau Island, last Wednesday after the discovery of a small number of Covid-19 variant cases in their apartment blocks. Staff at the centre were underprepared and overwhelmed. There were complaints about the sparse living conditions, poor Wi-Fi, lack of toilet paper, bed boards with splinters, ultra-cold air cons and requests for extra blankets which went unheeded. More than 30 detainees suffered food poisoning.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This chaos, plus petitions signed by 5,500 residents from the affected estates, led our government to a major relaxation of confinement rules last Friday. From now on, only close contacts of variant cases will be ordered into quarantine, for 14 days not 21, while other residents can simply undergo screening and self-monitoring. Most of the 2,000 reluctant inmates were given a \u201cGet Out of Jail Free\u201d card and released in batches over the weekend. The health authorities were wiser for the experience, Ms Chan said, and \u201cwe may take a more precise approach in the future\u201d.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It left Chief Executive Carrie Lam in defensive mode at her weekly press conference yesterday. \u201cIt\u2019s like we\u2019re working in the dark when determining appropriate public health measures,\u201d she admitted. No kidding! She apologised to those hurriedly incarcerated and thanked them for their understanding, which I\u2019m sure made them feel better. She also announced a controversial plan for mandatory vaccination of domestic helpers seeking to renew their contracts (which had triggered a huge outcry and accusations of discrimination) was being scrapped. However, our city\u2019s 370,000 helpers, having already been forced to undergo one round of compulsory Covid-19 testing, will be required to do another starting this Saturday. This has prompted an angry response from Philippine Consul General Raly Tejada, who says it is \u201cillogical\u201d that the helpers\u2019 employers and families \u2013 who live in the same household, after all \u2013 do not have to be screened as well. He has a point.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Scrambling for positive news, our Chief Executive has announced the public can watch this summer\u2019s Tokyo Olympics (if they go ahead) for free via five local TV stations. In an unprecedented move, her administration has stepped in to buy the rights after none of our city\u2019s commercial broadcasters could strike a deal. Happy days! This will add to my summer of sport TV viewing, which will include Chelsea\u2019s FA Cup and Champions League finals, since being fully inoculated against Covid-19 and testing negative before and after flying still doesn\u2019t exempt me from this city\u2019s draconian quarantine rules should I wish to attend the matches.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

On this topic, our mass vaccination programme limps along. Just 704,600 people \u2013 9.4% of the population \u2013 have received their second jab and can be considered fully inoculated. We are light years away from the 70% required for herd immunity. In their latest podcast<\/a>, Dr David Owens and Professor Ben Cowling make the case for more obvious vaccine incentives to improve the take-up rate. I hope our health authorities are listening. On a more encouraging note, Hong Kong recorded just two Covid-19 cases today, one of them imported, taking the city\u2019s cumulative total to 11,814 infections, with 210 related fatalities.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In closing, I should mention my keyboard will be given a rest next Wednesday as Hong Kong enjoys a public holiday in honour of Buddha\u2019s Birthday. I will write again in two weeks. The break will be spent trying to get to grips with this city\u2019s incoherent Covid-19 policies, since I\u2019m as confused as Carrie. When it comes to baffling decision making, revisions, amendments and U-turns, this government would appear to have \u2013 yes, you\u2019ve guessed it \u2013 a monopoly.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Stay safe and well, everybody!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Colin Cohen<\/strong>
Senior Partner<\/strong>
Boase Cohen & Collins<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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