Living Through COVID-19: A Perspective From Hong Kong

Abstract

Hong Kong has been affected by the new coronavirus (COVID-19) since January 2020, almost 3 months earlier than most of the places around the globe. Once the epicenter of the severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS) outbreak, the people of Hong Kong learned from their painful past and responded to the current epidemic quickly and accordingly. The creativity, mobility, compassion, and resilience demonstrated by Hong Kongers are understood and discussed through Viktor Frankl’s paradigm of the meaning triangle. The influence of COVID-19 on clinical practice, particularly the wearing of face masks during face-to-face therapy sessions is also briefly discussed.