The Hong Kong workers seem to be able to go about their business because you're probably looking at Central. But even that is not normal. Do you ever expect to see riot police lined up in the CBD of a a major financial center? The MTR closes early in the evening, and ramdomly shuts down whenever the police ask them to. Do you think that's normal and things are fading out?
If you have one friend who works there, then I imagine you are fed one source of second hand information. Try speaking to all your friends and family actually living in HK as a local (if you have any), and try speaking to friends who are actually frontliners, and relatives who are real, not self claimed reporters, working for proper media, and you will see exactly what the real situation is like, and what all this means for the local Hong Kong people.
One photo he showed me on his phone, showed riot police in formation with people eating street food and taking cell phone pics just a few feet away, @livinguktaiwan. He does work in the city center somewhere. I don't know of anyone else there, although a steemer who visited and posted a few weeks ago had no issues except for cheaper prices he was happy for.
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Hong Kong is not totally paralysed yet, you can still go to work, still go out, still go to school unless the police stop you in the MTR station. But to think things are dying down and fading out is the sort of shit the CCP want people who don't know better to believe.
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CCP <<< I have no idea what this is since I do not follow news. But these "events" seems to rise and then fall to oblivion over time. We'll see how long they can keep this one going.
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Apparently you have completely no idea what you are writing about.
I can only imagine how annoying that could be for all those people to whom Hong Kong is important, who have their friends and families there.
It's OK to say "I don't know". It's not OK to say pretend otherwise, telling Hong Kongese that you know better what's happening to his home.
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I'm just suggesting going down to see in person would be better than watching it on the news. I did mention all I know about it is from my friend who walks through it daily on his lunch hour, @gtg.
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Well, I'm one of those who saw it in person.
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What was your experience?
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If all the information you have is from one friend in Hong Kong, you don't follow the news and don't even know who CCP are, then how can you be so sure about your opening comment
As @gtg says, you have absolutely no idea what you're talking about and what is actually happening in Hong Kong.
Your comment is a disrespect to those risking their life fighting for freedom in Hong Kong every day, and a disrespect to the author of this post.
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What I notice is when a good part of my social media blows up with the same story all at the same time, @livinguktaiwan. A recent similar example is the rain Amazon forest fires everyone cared about a couple of months ago. Then it came out that the photos showing the fires were all from many years ago and now no one cares about that issue again. But now there is a guy in one of my natural medicine groups posting about Hong Kong with all kinds of specific information. (until he got thrown out for being off topic).
In the midst of seeing all kinds of random people in my groups all of the sudden caring about Hong Kong and China, my friend showed me the photos on his phone. Why and how would uni students get to the central core to protest - only at lunch time, and without disrupting people going out to eat lunch? If they were trying to shut down business, they should be there all day and at least at the morning and evening rush. The story makes no sense. Only time will tell how long it will go on.
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