I live in Hong Kong. The mask mandate here is entirely pointless, and has not made any difference to our handling of the pandemic. What has on the other hand i

I live in Hong Kong. The mask mandate here is entirely pointless, and has not made any difference to our handling of the pandemic. What has on the other hand is extremely aggressive tracing, tracking, and quarantining of all potential contacts. I've had a few friends who were unlucky enough to get caught up in a cluster, and the ones who caught it got out of the hospital far quicker than their contacts got out of their government quarantine. Rather aggressive tactics, but it's effective. But it's obvious that masks had nothing to do with it. There are plenty of unmasked activities (dining, drinking etc) that haven't spawned clusters, while masked activities (gym, dance club) spawned our big clusters.