Opinion by Keith B. Richburg: There are fledgling signs of pre-covid normality, both good and bad.
An unvirtuous cycle soon reinforced itself: People were not trusted to isolate at home if they tested positive, so they were forced into government camps. As people stopped trusting the government, they ceased to report positive cases.
Another punitive rule intensified isolation. Airlines could be banned from flying here if five people — or 5 percent of a flight’s passengers — tested positive for covid on arrival. Never mind that international carriers required pre-departure virus checks. With airlines loath to risk having their already-strained flight crews undergo lengthy quarantines, many simply scrapped Hong Kong from their itineraries.to the United States since mid-2020.
The lack of trust cut both ways. Many people here stopped trusting the unelected government imposed by Beijing. Vaccines were freely available here from early in 2021, far earlier than most places in the region. But there was initial
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