Hk-Sin bubble not hapenning
 

We just can't catch a break

What's happened? Today's operations update said it was set to kick off this weekend.

12 with previous links and 9 without. I believe that the requirement is an average of 5 non linked cases per day over a 7 day period before it is called off.

https://m.mingpao.com/ins/港聞/article...Lw92jSZAr3Bs0Q

It's in Chinese for those who can read it otherwise there is a government official wanting to expand Quarantine to a mandatory hotel stay for 14 days plus 7 days in your own home. Heads up for any commuters...

No final decision yet, non bubble flights are still available.

https://www.channelnewsasia.com/news...ov-22-13604284

Great. Testing, 3 hours flight plus a few hours isolation to see a different mall.

Can't wait.

if you see both HK and SIN as merely a collection of malls you have a sad life ...

If you think Singapore is worth that kind of trip I am not sure who has the sad life. Not holding you back!

The SIN and HKG of 20 years ago perhaps. Right now that’s about all the modern day traveller sees. Shopping malls. And if they haven’t had enough of that they can experience their final fix at the big shopping mall, with an airport attached.
Along with that other excrescence. DXB. One big lala land. And they’re about to discover how vacuous and hollow basing ones’ entire economy on that is. Bit like relying on mainland spending power to bail you out of the sh@t.

Breaking Coronavirus: Hong Kong-Singapore travel bubble ‘postponed by two weeks’, with Chinese city facing surge in Covid-19 cases
SCMP reports it but CNA still says its on

S'pore-HK air travel bubble deferred for two weeks: Ong Ye Kung
He said they will review the new launch date within two weeks.

13 without previous links today. I cannot see that number going down quickly. It's a shame as this would have been the start of something great for the region to get back to partial normality. Also have to add that Singapore is really just a shopping mall. Sentosa is as cultured as a walk down peel street at 2am with gollum by your side. Best to jump the border into Malaysia and really have a holiday (when it opens)

Malls a zoo and the 4 floors, what else?

HK pulled the plug on the bubble not Sinkieland.

Very interesting. Common sense prevails

Singapore bee hoon, laksa, curry puff, chilli crab......thats about it.

plus 61 international schools which the entire world will send their teenage kids to for safe environment.[Very little drugs]

Oh and 7 Trillion [yes Trillion]financial industry ofcourse.

Why do you think they are so smug.

Sinkieland
 

.... and the best drivers in the world

I'm beginning to believe that Pprune has lost any relevance... :rolleyes:

about as much relevance as the HKAOA forums

It doesn’t matter. Chek Lap Kok is down 98-99% traffic volume. No bubble is going to change that

It is relevant.

This travel bubble was to be the test case for the world to follow.

​​​​​​Small steps.

You haven’t factored in the ineptitude of our Gov.

I say it again... what is the end game here in this region?

This virus is so ingrained in the population globally, it is going to be impossible to irradiate for a long time, perhaps years. Even with a vaccine, it "only" has a 90-95% efficacy, but is clearly a good result. There will still be minor numbers of cases in many countries, not just after a widespread rollout, but in any case 99.5% of people make a full recovery. Surely there needs to be a balance here, rather than governments continue to crash their own economies?

Are countries such as HKG and SIN going to prevent foreigners inbound travel without a vaccination certificate? If so, Cathay may as well be targeting their spring marketing campaign at octogenarians!

And the vaccine only protects against 1 of 3 strains.

More bad news: also with or without the inoculation Covid virus can happily exist inside your throat whether you have been immunised or not.

AND any potential vaccine will likely be effective against ONE type of coronavirus. There are an infinite spectrum of them. Ya can't shut the world down over a flu but there are people who have tried and done great harm in terrifying the world. So's things won't be back to 'normal' for quite awhile. Or at least until the puppet masters run out o' stuff and reap the rewards of what they've sowed.

Annual flu deaths in US is 35-43k.

Covid deaths in US so far 250k.

If you the Minister of health would you make the call that it's just a 'normal' flu don't be scared and get on with life?.

Most of them with co- morbidity. A death rate of 0.08%. I’ll take those odds.

Deaths caused by smoking each year in the US, 500,000, yet cigarettes are still for sale.

Yup, you couldn't make this madness up if you tried. The most epic case of mass hysteria in modern human history. The UK acknowledged on Friday that the total deaths from "all causes" over the past 12 months were barely any different than the previous 12 months. Ponder that statistic...

Take this with a grain of salt as it is a Danny article. I feel that it will only be a matter of time until CX is locked out of their own city with the draconian Department of Health in charge. How long can the economy keep running in this case. At least the north is happy.

https://www.scmp.com/news/hong-kong/...SQrwetg4-yjmVg

CX were banned for two weeks from flying into HK from MNL a couple of months ago. I wouldn’t be surprised to see a two week ban coming from LHR.
Sing bubble ain’t gonna happen for a long time.