Dealing with Covid-19 since mid-January, you can check out Bridget’s perspective from Hong Kong in the form of art, entertainment, and a few choice words. Living right next door to China and technically – but also not technically in China (I need a visa to go to the mainland) – we have a front seat to Covid-19, aka Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome Coronavirus-2 (SARS-CoV-2). That includes hearing what’s happening in China, and being directly effected by the virus as it explodes across the border and makes it way into Hong Kong. In the beginning, it was quite scary hearing about the SARS-like Wuhan Coronavirus bringing the city at the epicentre of Chinese transport, to its knees. Once China announced shutting down the city, thousands of people in Wuhan fled, and people from across China frantically tried to get out. There were scary videos from the streets of Wuhan posted on social media. The Hong Kong SAR/China border was flooded with so many people trying to get in, it looked like a zoombie apocalypse. The HK Government refused to close the borders. So anyone could come and go, whether they had Covid-19 or not. Having been through SARS, the citizens of […]

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