Well, nice to know @livinguktaiwan ...

"If you were upvoted by them you should automatically go on the whitelist."

... but that did not happen. While I believe you and I may have "engaged" with each other prior, during my "Road to Recovery" trip posts, I think we became better acquainted. And in this summary post of that trip, I listed all of the stand-out support I received, including votes from OCD. A number of them ...

Anyway, thanks for the post link. I missed that one. As I imagine you know far better than me, it would seem to me to be very important the world understand what is happening in Hong Kong. Since, whichever way it goes, there will likely be a direct impact on China's dealings with Taiwan, which they also consider theirs ...

P.S. Perhaps someday I will be able to go to a SteemFest. But, not this upcoming one ...