Just Visiting
COVID-19 sucks. I think everyone would agree with that statement considering it’s made the last few years miserable. At the beginning it was actually pretty “normal” in HK and I felt incredibly lucky living here. People were still going out, albeit with masks, I was able to work (restaurants back home were closed or only doing takeaway), live was peachy in HK. It’s only recently that HK has turned into a shitstorm with an avalanche of increase cases and deaths.
Now before you think “oh this is another fuck the government, fuck Carrie Lam” post, it’s not. They have enough haters already and I don’t need to add to the pile. I would say this is more of a “why are you bitching so much about the government when you’re not even born/raised here” type of post. I get that the HK government’s handling of COVID has been horrible and that they deserve to be called out for it but why you have to be so mad if you’re a random expat? You’re just fucking visiting. You’re just here for a vacation, on a working-visa, to teach English as a means to support said vacation/visa, trafficking drugs, laundering money, whatever. The point is you’re not stuck here, you’ve got options. You can choose to leave HK and go home to a living space which is probably bigger than your 200 square foot flat here.
The people who more deservedly should be making Fuck Carrie Lam posts are the people born and raised here. Those who actually have roots and no way out. Random expats, you absolutely have the right to complain and judge but just be reasonable about it. You don’t need to tell your friends how “crappy” HK is now cause of the gov’t every time you see them and spam their social media feeds with it. Just stop being a shit disturbing instigator when you’re not really going to do anything about it and when you sure as hell won’t be here in 2047.
Chow