I was just seeing this yesterday. I walked across Central on Hong Kong Island yesterday, where the majority of Westerners work. White people made up less than 1% of the people I passed by, and yet somehow being such a tiny minority… they made up the majority of people I saw going maskless (or wearing it pulled down under their chin, or with their nose poking out the top like some kind of simple-minded moron).
And the thing here is, even after you set the science aside (obviously you shouldn’t, but if), the culture here is to wear a mask. Before covid we always wore masks when sick. With SARS we wore masks. Now we wear masks. It’s been established a courtesy to the people around you for more than 10 years now. Yet the demographic of outsiders who think themselves above observing local culture is overwhelmingly populated by Western Libs. If I could place bets on what kind of accents the maskless Asians in Central had, I could make a fucking fortune.
I was just seeing this yesterday. I walked across Central on Hong Kong Island yesterday, where the majority of Westerners work. White people made up less than 1% of the people I passed by, and yet somehow being such a tiny minority… they made up the majority of people I saw going maskless (or wearing it pulled down under their chin, or with their nose poking out the top like some kind of simple-minded moron).
And the thing here is, even after you set the science aside (obviously you shouldn’t, but if), the culture here is to wear a mask. Before covid we always wore masks when sick. With SARS we wore masks. Now we wear masks. It’s been established a courtesy to the people around you for more than 10 years now. Yet the demographic of outsiders who think themselves above observing local culture is overwhelmingly populated by Western Libs. If I could place bets on what kind of accents the maskless Asians in Central had, I could make a fucking fortune.