Hong Kong this year, the most popular activities to participate in the New Year, in addition to worship, not to go to the temple to offer incense, but to queue for drug testing – many days all 19 community testing centers in Hong Kong, are all full, some centers have to book until Friday (20), or even Saturday (21), before the quota test, can be described as the most disturbing.
The reason why there is such a “spectacle” or farce is that the SAR Government announced earlier that since Thursday, that is, the seventh day of the Lunar New Year, a variety of premises and restaurants in the evening dine-in, are reopened under the conditions, and the conditions include the need to arrange for staff to do testing; however, this long-term practice of continuous body check, but the front-line staff and testing manpower, and Do into the long-term pressure, and the Government obviously underestimated the number of people, the impact of the pressure of testing in Hong Kong, so it has become a long queue.
When the Government continues to call on everyone to reduce the “social distance”, hoping that the public during the Chinese New Year, reduce non-essential New Year activities, then these long lines at the testing center, even in advance of the appointment, but also to wait for more than an hour; and in person queue, it takes two hours, this is not rather increase the risk of people infected with the virus?
The same number of people gathered on the street, there is a “restriction on gathering” restrictions, even in the open air, from demonstrations, rallies, marches and even voting, it is said to be prohibited due to the Epidemic; but on the other hand, the same density, in public transport, or outside these testing stations, long queues for testing, everything claims to be The government, which claims to be “scientific”, suddenly does not have to be afraid of crowds, and does not have to keep “social distance”!
Representatives of the Hong Kong Catering Association estimated that an average of 20,000-30,000 employees daily, will go to the testing center waiting, and this is only an “average” figure, but the reality will certainly be in the public’s “off-peak hours”, gathered together to become the testing of the busy Time; therefore The SAR Government’s approach today is to make a lot of “whole colors and water”, constantly using mandatory testing, sealing buildings and even asking the public to keep repeating the test, when all the people are potential drug carriers, as a “disease assumption”.
The only time this presumption works is when the virus has spread into the community to a limited extent, and then trying to identify potential carriers from these high-risk individuals; however, the revelation from the four waves of the epidemic in Hong Kong so far is that the frantic testing in the local community can find only a very limited number of carriers; the testing itself does not help to stop the virus, but still relies on the public’s self-discipline preventive measures.
The government did not close all the border gates, and even made a “presumption of no disease” for people coming from the land gates in mainland China – why should people from the UK be quarantined for 21 days even if they have negative test results, but not from mainland China? The government even claims that if the number of infected people falls to a single digit or a low double digit, customs clearance with mainland China can be resumed?
This double standard, of course, does not help to prevent the epidemic, but is a crazy nuisance to the public. It is no wonder that Chief Executive Carrie Lam Cheng Yuet-ngor is constantly scolded by the public with foul language when she visits the district. This is the public sentiment that we can all see, but the government turns a blind eye to public grievances!
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