Hong Kong is different. Xi wants to integrate it into China. It cannot come into China as a wealthy province with dual loyalty to Britain. It must be impoverished, crushed, and chopped up. It must come into China as a beggar. I am only surprised that it has not yet been split up.
You need to do what it takes to get out.
To add to the previous, employers frequently forbid discussion of salaries. Each employee is convinced by their boss that they are uniquely overpaid and that talking about it would result in lowering their salary to the mean. Such forbidding is legally unenforceable, but people can be bullied into all kinds of things.
There are alternate interpretations. https://www.patreon.com/posts/63491893
"We are a family that believes in science. We believe in masks, and we believe in vaccines"
From CNN:(https://www.cnn.com/2021/09/15/us/illinois-family-vaccine-obit/index.html)
From the original obit: (https://www.sj-r.com/obituaries/i0039023)
It's all good -- until a month before your options vest.