Ultimately, vaccine refuseniks are to blame for Omicron’s deadly chaos in Hong Kong

Omicron was bound to rampage through Hong Kong, just as it has everywhere else. What I didn’t expect was the government’s incompetent response. Sticking firmly to its belief that it can vanquish the coronavirus in all its forms from the city’s boundaries, it ignored the ample evidence from overseas of what could be expected.But while it is tempting to blame officials for the resultant chaos, those really at fault are the people who refused to get vaccinated.The death toll from the fifth wave of…

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