Taiwan’s epidemic is severe, Andy in Taiwan Hong Kong people special free meals, hoping to give back to Taiwan.
Taiwan’s epidemic continues, many fast screening stations in Taipei long queues, medical and nursing pressure increased, but also because the nearby restaurants closed and difficult to buy food. Some Hong Kong people in Taiwan volunteered to provide free meals, hoping to give back to Taiwan, saying “if not with Taiwan to tide over the difficulties, why should others help us?” (Wen Haixin Taipei report)
Thursday (20), the whole of Taiwan into the second day of alert three, the official announcement of 286 new local cases, another nine imported cases from abroad, for six consecutive days a single day local cases exceeded 100. Among them, in Taipei’s hardest-hit Wanhua district, 40 new cases in a single day.
The authorities urged those who had been to high-risk areas and had suspected symptoms to take the initiative to undergo screening. Taipei City 5 fast screening stations are crowded with people, medical and nursing work pressure increased greatly. One of them is the Zhongxing Hospital of Taipei City United Hospital because the nearby restaurants are closed, and it is very difficult for the medical nurses to buy lunch boxes.
Hong Kong people in Taiwan free meals to support medical care “If not with Taiwan to face difficulties why should others help us?”
Fortunately, there are at least three restaurants willing to send free meals for medical care. One of them is the “September Tea Restaurant” run by Hong Kong people in Taiwan. They provide free lunch and dinner for medical staff from Thursday, a total of 70 lunchboxes, for a temporary period of two weeks, if there is still a need for future support will continue. They also openly collect messages from netizens and write cheerful words on the takeaway bags to encourage medical care.
Under the epidemic, the restaurant’s business dropped by about 70%, and the original owner, Andy, planned to launch a “food emergency package” to subsidize operating costs and mitigate losses. But after learning that the hospital is in urgent need of support, he joined the voluntary delivery of food without saying a word, saying that he hopes to take action to change the impression of Taiwanese people on the selfishness of Hong Kong people. Andy is pleased that many Hong Kong people in Taiwan have also offered to help.
Andy said: because they (Taiwan medical care) more thanks not to me this restaurant, but more thanks to the people of Hong Kong, so it is enough. Said Hong Kong people have helped during the epidemic, to help the medical care. They have something, you have to help it. And in recent years the Republic of China government has really helped Hong Kong people a lot, this time more Hong Kong people need to come out and repay Taiwan. If it’s not fair that we Hong Kong people do nothing while Taiwan is purely giving unilaterally, then Hong Kong people don’t deserve to be helped. If we don’t share the difficulties during the epidemic, why should the ROC government continue to help Hong Kong people afterwards? Do what you can.
The original owner Andy intended to launch a “food emergency package” to subsidize operating costs. (Wen Haixin photo)
Production process to pay attention to health bento is not sloppy
Although it is a free lunch, but Andy will not be sloppy, he strives to give medical care every day the lunch style has changed, and is boneless food, convenient for the busy medical care to eat. In addition, hygiene is also Andy’s most concerned about a part of the work, the reporter from time to time see him sterilize his hands.
Andy said: when preparing meals for medical and nursing staff, we must sterilize, wash our hands well, wear a good mask, and check each other before making. Because the medical staff is the front line, we have no possibility to add burden for them and infect them, so we must do a good job ourselves.
Andy, the owner, is very particular about the meal menu for medical care. (Photo by Wen Haixin)
Taiwan can be said to be slower than other places for a whole year before the outbreak of the epidemic, but in contrast to the epidemic prevention situation in Taiwan and Hong Kong, Andy believes that the epidemic prevention guidelines of the government of the Republic of China are relatively clear, such as clearly pointing out the contingency measures for different epidemic prevention levels, but the measures in Hong Kong are relatively untargeted.
In Hong Kong, there is “Travel with Peace of Mind” and in Taiwan, there is “Taiwan Social Distance” developed by the Executive Yuan in cooperation with private organizations. But Taiwan’s program has been launched for less than a month and has been downloaded more than 4.8 million times, while Hong Kong’s MileagePlus has only reached about 4 million in about 5 months after it was launched under the government’s “coercion”. Some people in Hong Kong are very disgusted with the “My Home Travel” and are reluctant to use it, worrying about privacy issues, which Andy believes reflects the public’s distrust of the Hong Kong government.
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