#ReclaimHongKong #SelfHelp
Proposal Passed in District Council to Stop Inviting PRC Officials From Hong Kong Liaison Office to Funding Activities

The Central and Western District Council in Hong Kong have passed a proposal to stop inviting PRC officials from Hong Kong Liaison Office to funding activities. The proposal was raised by Kam Nai-wai, a founding member of the Democratic Party and also a District Councilor. The discussion took place during the second finance committee meeting on March 12, 2020.

Pro-democracy district councilors questioned that the participation of PRC representatives in local activities could be an act to infiltrate the community. They mentioned that organization should not used regional funding activities to show their political loyalty.

District Officer representing the Hong Kong SAR Government Susanne Wong has repeatedly refuted the district member’s opinions on this issue, arguing that they should not be restricting guest invitation. The officer claimed another discussion with the Home Affairs Department is necessary and said that “guest invitation should not be in the scope of discussion within the district council meeting”.

She further stated that “(she) cannot see how the Hong Kong Liaison Office is intervening with the autonomy of Hong Kong”.

Source: In-Media #Mar12 #DistrictCouncil #Infiltration #Autonomy #PoliticalLoyalty

#OpinionArticle

Hong Kong fares “slightly better” in coronavirus battle due to pro-democracy protests

While Japan and South Korea are stricken by the epidemic, Hong Kong's situation is, touch wood, not as bad. Surprisingly, we are doing better than Singapore, especially in light of the gross incompetence and deliberate acts of bad faith by Carrie Lam's administration. This is not due to "good luck", but cause and effect.

1. As mentioned many times, the Anti-ELAB movement has greatly reduced the influx of mainland Chinese tourists in the past six months. Despite Lam's refusal to close the border completely, the number of mainland Chinese tourists has dropped drastically towards the end of last year. We no longer saw frenzied shopping in preparation for the Lunar New Year. Even Sheung Shui, a district best known for its parallel traders*, was "liberated". One can imagine, if this year is like last year, Hong Kong's affliction was inevitable. (Some speculated that because Chinese tourists were turned away from Hong Kong to other places, the virus was spread to other countries instead.)

//people have no expectations towards any measures she proposes, choosing instead to think hard on self-help.

//Hongkongers have undoubtedly learnt our lesson. The government and the Hospital Authority are the only ones who learned nothing.

Continue reading:
https://telegra.ph/Hong-Kong-fares-slightly-better-in-coronavirus-battle-due-to-pro-democracy-protests-03-16

Source: Facebook
https://bit.ly/2ISrzbC

Further reading:
Hong Kong Manages to Slow Down the Spread of COVID-19
https://t.me/guardiansofhongkong/18566

#Coronavirus #SelfHelp #antiELAB #SARS #SharingEconomy #DistrictCouncillor #FailedState

#FaceMasks #SelfHelp
Made-in-Hong Kong Masks:
The Return of Local Industries?

At the results announcement on March 19, Victor Li, son of tycoon Ka-Shing Li and chairman of CK Hutchison Holdings Limited, seemed to imply that the group might start a production line to manufacture "Made in Hong Kong" facemasks.

Source: HKET #Mar19

#FailedState #SelfHelp
Cleaners Delighted To Receive Extra Surgical Masks Distributed By Union, Representative Laments At Government’s Incompetency

The Cleaning Worker’s Union has recently been distributing surgical masks to frontline cleaning workers in the community. A reporter from Hong Kong In-media joined union representative Leung Tsz-yan in distributing them. Cleaning workers were delighted when they received these extra masks.

Union representative Leung lamented at their reaction and criticized the Hong Kong government’s incompetence in providing them with enough protective equipment. Since the protests last year up until the current epidemic, these cleaners went among the firsts to be affected because of the lack of protective gear.

Source: InMedia #Mar21 #ChinesePneumonia #CleaningWorkers

#HKMedics #SelfHelp
Hong Kong Medical Doctor Explains Hongkongers' Fight Against Wuhan Pneumonia

Dr. Alfred Yam-hong Wong was interviewd by Die Welt to share insights about Hongkongers' methods in curbing community outbreak despite the city's close proximity to China, the epicenter of the coronavirus outbreak.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PtS99rJMcsU&feature=youtu.be

#WuhanPneumonia

#OpinionArticle #ChipTsao

Darwinism in the Pandemic

//And Europe, including Switzerland, crammed full of elites, is a complete mess under this pandemic.
 
//Wuhan Pneumonia is a major reshuffle of global intelligence. Taiwan, Hong Kong, Japan and South Korea are ranked the top four respectively in terms of community response. The people from those areas did not have any convoluted arguments. They just acted quickly to protect themselves once they encountered the virus.
 
//Taiwan is not part of the WHO, or in other words, the Triad [organised crime syndicate]. The Taiwanese people, including President Tsai Ing-wen, knew from the beginning that the African Director-General of the WHO, Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, was a liar.
 
//It became the world's most learned in the specialisation of tropical diseases. Hong Kong should have been the worst affected after the Handover. However, Hongkongers experienced over 20 years of political resistance. From the protests against Article 23 to the Umbrella Movement to the Anti-ELAB Movement, Hongkongers continually underwent rebirth in the wake of war and trauma, making them highly sensitive to distress.
 
//In terms of confronting the virus, the quality of awareness and response within the communities of Taiwan, Hong Kong, South Korea and Japan is better than any European country. This is a completely new phenomenon.

Full Translation:
https://telegra.ph/Darwinism-in-the-Pandemic-04-10

Source: Apple Daily

#Taiwan #Korea #Japan #Epidemic #Italy #WHO #Tedros #SelfHelp #Darwin

#Newspaper

14 days with a quarantine tracker wristband: Does it even work?

//With the wristbands, the semi-autonomous Chinese territory is the first place to both track people and place a marker on their bodies. Everyone arriving from foreign countries is required to wear the bands while remaining isolated for two weeks.

//Was this high-tech bracelet actually just a strip of paper?

//Those under quarantine could serve out their two weeks anywhere in the city, so long as they wore their wristband and stayed within the perimeter they registered on an accompanying app.

//The young woman, a fellow Hong Konger studying abroad, had actually never been issued a wristband

//At the airport, Song and the other arrivals had learned that they would be texted a PIN. Only with the PIN could they register the boundaries of their digital cage. But none had received the PIN.

//The longer they spent gazing at this thing on their wrist, the more skeptical they became that it — on its own — did anything.

//“They are just, like, waterproof strips of paper,” Song said. “I don’t know if they have any digital things embedded in them.”

//He said it was strange that there had been so much hype around something so “useless.”

//From then on, whenever her phone was in an unregistered spot, it emitted a horrible beep. Stopping it required scanning every family member’s wristband QR code.

//But what if you just left your phone inside your apartment, within the registered boundaries, and walked outside? Would the authorities ever know you violated quarantine?

//“The government can lie to us and tell us this is tracking you all the time, and I think if you believed that, you probably wouldn’t go out,”

//So, in the end, Hong Kong’s rigid quarantine system seemed to work. But what had kept Lalwani fully isolated were her own instincts.

Full Article: Chicago Tribune, (08-Apr)
https://bit.ly/2V5yvci

Further reading:
Passenger: Epidemic screening at the Hong Kong airport is loose and sloppy
https://t.me/guardiansofhongkong/18938

#Wristbands #QRcode #SelfHelp #WaterproofPaper #Quarantine #Coronavirus #HongKong #Instinct

#Interview #LiYi #LeeYee

83-year-old Li Yi: I don’t have long to live, but I believe Hong Kong young people have wisdom beyond imagination 5/6

▶️ Part 4

Was the police like this before?

"The police used to be..hmm...Since the establishment of the ICAC, the image of the police had really changed. I really don’t know what happened lately. I can’t say that there aren’t any good people at all. 5-6 years ago, I once left a bag on a taxi. There were thousands of dollars in the bag. I went home, and my domestic helper told me that the police made a call and said the driver brought my wallet to the police. I thanked the driver and I went to the Central Police Station. The police took my things out and counted them for me. They were very professional and humane. I was very impressed. For example, they said, ‘don’t count the banknotes in the public as others will see them.’ Then, they gave me a room to spread the bills open and count one by one, so I could check if everything was there. The things were done in a very orderly way, they were doing their job to helped me ... there will always be good ones left, but now there is a grouping effect, and good things will disappear. When everyone is together, they influence each other. If you don't follow the others, you look bad in the group. It seems that in Chris Tang Ping-keung’s dinner earlier, if you didn’t sing and laugh along, you were the odd one. In fact, not everyone necessarily wants to participate. This is the case. Due to such effect It's hard to say if there is any good person. This may be the biggest tragedy of Hong Kong. It is because police officers are public servants whom everyone has the most contact with. When there is an incident, such as domestic violence, you call the police. Police is important for the society to run. Now the police is behaving in such way, this really brings a lot of damages (to the society). "

//we must adhere to our original values, to fight continuously, in various forms, on various fronts.

//only a small group of Hong Kong people are infected. It is out of everyone’s expectation. The self-protection awareness of Hong Kong people is hardly seen in the rest of the world. Everyone is wearing a mask now.

//Hong Kong has its own quality.

//Hong Kong is the most civilised place in the world. The quality of Hong Kong people is also the best in the world, be it about the communication with foreigners, the integration with the world, and people’s kindness to others.

//our international contacts and mobility are beyond everyone ’s imagination.

//It’s not that Chinese don’t speak good English, but they don’t speak like us.

//How can you be ‘Chinese’? How can we be ‘Chinese’? We just need to be ourselves, we just need to be a human being and then that will be good enough"

Continue reading:
https://telegra.ph/Was-the-police-like-this-before-04-22

To be continued

Source: Stand News, (25-Feb)
https://bit.ly/3aARccx

#AnsonChan #DeniseHo #JoshuaWong #BrianLeung #Taiwan #1997Handover #CivilServants #Masks #LowestBidWin #FreeWill #HKPF #FailedState #SelfHelp

#LettersToEditor #TheGuardian

Letter to Ms Boseley, The Guardian

Editor’s note: This is a letter from a subscriber of our channel.

Dear Ms Boseley,

I would like to provide some feedback on your article "Test and trace: lessons from Hong Kong on avoiding a coronavirus lockdown" published on 17 April 2020.

There is nothing you can learn from Hong Kong unless you want your country to degenerate into a failed state. The reasons why we could cope with the coronavirus better than other places are simply that (1) Hongkongers have lost all trust and confidence in our government; (2) we know by instinct that Chinese figures are fake. We know in our hearts that the Hong Kong government is ignorant, incompetent and totally untrustworthy, that it has been blind and deaf for many months, that it would never put the interests of Hongkongers in any priority. To survive, we must rely on ourselves solely.

The terrible experience of SARS in 2003 definitely helps raise the awareness of personal and public hygiene. You are quite right to point it out. When we heard about the outbreak in China in late January, we knew instantly what we needed and which items of personal protective equipment (PPE) were the most essential. Everyone rushed to buy face masks and alcohol hand gel between late January and the entire February. And I must remind you that WHO said wearing masks had little to no effect in preventing the coronavirus infection. Ordinary Hongkongers have done all we can to find PPE from Taiwan, South Korea, Japan, Indonesia, Thailand, Vietnam, India, North America, South America and the whole Europe.

I need to emphasise it is "ordinary Hongkongers" because our government has never assisted the people of Hong Kong to acquire any PPE. Frontline health workers repeatedly said they did not have sufficient masks (doctors and nurses had to reuse their masks all day long). It was "ordinary Hongkongers", many of whom donated a few boxes each time to the medics. When we learnt that elderly people and low-income families could not afford to buy masks as prices went up more than 10 times, residents and shop owners in the neighbourhoods volunteered to provide free resources, such as masks, gloves, alcohol, liquid bleach, etc. In the time of coronavirus we have created an economy and a culture of mutual self-help. The solidarity of Hongkongers, the spirit and willingness to fight for the benefits of our fellows (by acquiring PPE from around the world and sharing it with others), the determination and sense of urgency to protect this place that is our home, these have nothing to do with WHO guidelines.

Continue reading:
https://telegra.ph/Letter-to-Ms-Boseley-The-Guardian-04-22

#SelfHelp #HongKong #Epidemic #Coronavirus #MedicalStaffStrike #TravelBan #WHO #Taiwan #ChinaThreat #ChinesePropaganda

Hong Kong people want change of not just the government

About 90% of Hong Kong's food supply is imported, and most of it comes from mainland China. But that's about to change. The outbreak of the novel coronavirus has been causing a lot more people losing confidence in the farm produce from mainland China. There is practically no way for Hong Kong consumers to trace the place of origin of the farm produce they consume. As such, there is an increasing number of Hong Kongers buying locally grown vegetables.

Hong Kongers shop locally grown vegetables not only because of their concern about food safety, but also because of their support for local farming. Mapopo Community Farm is in the city's North District and sells locally grown organic vegetables. Besides, it is a "yellow shop" of Hong Kong's "yellow economy", which encourages people to spend money on protester-friendly businesses. Notwithstanding the rampage of the disease, Hong Kongers are still fighting for democracy.

With local farms such as Mapopo Community Farm, Hong Kongers are provided with a wider range of choices which are, more importantly, healthier and safer. Thus, the Government should not ignore the significance and contribution of local organic farming, nor should it rely so much on the supply from Mainland China as it currently does; Hong Kongers are aware that they have the right not only to choose their government, but also what they eat.

#YellowEconomyCircle #HongKong #LocalSupport #LocalFarmer #SelfHelp

Further reading:
https://qz.com/1819651/local-farms-in-hong-kong-are-thriving-because-of-coronavirus/

https://qz.com/827508/hong-kong-now-imports-nearly-every-single-thing-it-eats/amp/