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香港在Omicron入侵之後，採取了一連串擾民的荒謬防疫措施，事件的發展讓大量外企及人員離開香港。（圖／達志影像）
前述這段話並非來自社運人士，而是香 醫院裡擠滿無症狀患者，真正需要立即處理的
港高等法院法官高浩文（Russell Coleman） 案例無法好好照顧。而且也沒有讓香港人接種
在3月30日處理疫苗授權案件時的發言。香港 夠多疫苗，年長者的接種率更是不足。
在Omicron入侵之後，採取了一連串非常擾民 會出現這些亂象，原因很明顯都跟政治
的荒謬防疫措施，例如禁止了好幾個國際航 有關。在香港眼中，對中國開放早已比對國
班，但當地依然有上千名社區感染；或者明知 際開放更為重要，而且北京當局強調，即使
道從2021年以來，遊樂場接觸傳染的能力並不 病例會因此增加，香港也得繼續這麼做。2月
高，依然下令關閉；甚至撲殺了大約2,000隻 7日的《人民日報》刊了一篇文章：〈「動
寵物倉鼠。 態清零」是香港抗疫的科學選擇〉，但高
更慘的是，香港的醫療照護也做得很糟。 浩文法官在裁決中表示，「決定政策從清
This is not the opinion of an activist, but asymptomatic cases, even though more urgent
rather of Hong Kong High Court Judge Russell cases needed care. It also inexplicably failed to
Coleman in a March 30 case over vaccine vaccinate its population, especially its seniors.
mandates. In the face of the Omicron wave, Hong The causes are quite clearly political. Hong
Kong implemented a number of nonsensical Kong has been placing much higher priority on
and highly intrusive anti-pandemic measures. It opening with mainland China than internationally,
banned airlines over a few internationally imported and Beijing stressed that it must continue doing
cases, even with thousands of ongoing local so even as cases started to rise. On February 7,
transmissions. It shut down playgrounds, even as the People’s Daily ran an article titled ‘”Dynamic
fomite transmission has been known since around COVID Zero” is the Scientific Anti-Pandemic
2021 to be a relatively minor factor. It even culled Choice for Hong Kong. ’ In his ruling, Judge
around 2,000 pet hamsters. Coleman retorted that ‘the person in charge of
More seriously, it also failed to prepare implementing the shift in policy [from “zero COVID”
a health response. Hospitals filled up with to “dynamic zero COVID”] could not give a clear
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