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Simon LAU Sai-Leung: 30,000 Deserters Hoard Resources & Dodge Epidemic
(10 Feb) The Hong Kong Police Force has become a privileged class, looking down on and taking advantage of Hong Kongers. Despite the #CoronavirusOutbreak, citizens commemorated the death of CHOW Tsz-Lok last Saturday. But the police responded with all sorts of violence against the citizens, including district councillors and their chairman, and arrested 60 people. In Sai Kung, residents who protested against the quarantine centre were beaten with blood over their heads. While Carrie LAM and 30,000 police were busy “curbing violence” and “dispelling rumours,” citizens struggled to buy masks everywhere in Hong Kong. Many elderlies cried because they could not get one.
If visitors arriving from the coronavirus epicentre, Hubei province, have brought the virus to Hong Kong, then, according to Professor YUEN Kwok-Yung, up to 1.4 million Hong Kongers will be infected, translating to a death toll up to 21,000 at a fatality rate of 1.5%. The number is 70 times of that of the 2003 SARS outbreak.
I want to ask Carrie Lam and Chris TANG Ping-keung on behalf of all Hong Kong citizens, “which is more threatening to the city’s stability and prosperity, a peaceful memorial event of Chow or an outbreak caused by a virus-spreader?”
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Source: Apple Daily
https://hk.news.appledaily.com/local/daily/article/20200210/20859477
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Simon LAU Sai-Leung: 30,000 Deserters Hoard Resources & Dodge Epidemic
(10 Feb) The Hong Kong Police Force has become a privileged class, looking down on and taking advantage of Hong Kongers. Despite the #CoronavirusOutbreak, citizens commemorated the death of CHOW Tsz-Lok last Saturday. But the police responded with all sorts of violence against the citizens, including district councillors and their chairman, and arrested 60 people. In Sai Kung, residents who protested against the quarantine centre were beaten with blood over their heads. While Carrie LAM and 30,000 police were busy “curbing violence” and “dispelling rumours,” citizens struggled to buy masks everywhere in Hong Kong. Many elderlies cried because they could not get one.
If visitors arriving from the coronavirus epicentre, Hubei province, have brought the virus to Hong Kong, then, according to Professor YUEN Kwok-Yung, up to 1.4 million Hong Kongers will be infected, translating to a death toll up to 21,000 at a fatality rate of 1.5%. The number is 70 times of that of the 2003 SARS outbreak.
I want to ask Carrie Lam and Chris TANG Ping-keung on behalf of all Hong Kong citizens, “which is more threatening to the city’s stability and prosperity, a peaceful memorial event of Chow or an outbreak caused by a virus-spreader?”
Continue reading:
https://telegra.ph/30000-Deserters-Hoard-Resources--Dodge-Epidemic-02-15
Source: Apple Daily
https://hk.news.appledaily.com/local/daily/article/20200210/20859477
#SimonLau #PrivilegedClass #PoliceState #PoliceBrutality #Epidemic
Telegraph
30,000 Deserters Hoard Resources & Dodge Epidemic
(10 Feb) The Hong Kong Police Force has become a privileged class, looking down on and taking advantage of Hong Kongers. Despite the #CoronavirusOutbreak, citizens commemorated the death of CHOW Tsz-Loklast Saturday. But the police responded with all sorts…
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Distribution quotas exposed - Police given 640 thousand masks, and taking 40 times more N95 masks than Department of Health
(15 Feb) While there is only one-month’s stock of equipment for frontline medical staff, the HK government is still refusing to disclose how the supplies are being used. The Apple Daily received documents showing that the police ranks second in number of surgical masks distributed, coming after the Department of Health. In the first round, they were provided with over 640 thousand surgical masks, and they were given the most N95 masks among all departments. Legislator and former doctor Kwok Ka-ki criticises the government for distributing the disease control supplies unfairly, with medical staff who actually contact patients lacking medical N95 masks and protective clothing, while the police is given large amounts of high standard supplies. “It is a complete waste of resources and public funds, and it’s exhausting the already scarce supply of protective clothing,” he says.
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https://telegra.ph/Distribution-quotas-exposed---Police-given-640-thousand-masks-and-taking-40-times-more-N95-masks-than-Department-of-Health-02-16
#Selfishness #PrivilegedClass #PoliceState #MaskShortage #UnfairSuppliesDistribution
Distribution quotas exposed - Police given 640 thousand masks, and taking 40 times more N95 masks than Department of Health
(15 Feb) While there is only one-month’s stock of equipment for frontline medical staff, the HK government is still refusing to disclose how the supplies are being used. The Apple Daily received documents showing that the police ranks second in number of surgical masks distributed, coming after the Department of Health. In the first round, they were provided with over 640 thousand surgical masks, and they were given the most N95 masks among all departments. Legislator and former doctor Kwok Ka-ki criticises the government for distributing the disease control supplies unfairly, with medical staff who actually contact patients lacking medical N95 masks and protective clothing, while the police is given large amounts of high standard supplies. “It is a complete waste of resources and public funds, and it’s exhausting the already scarce supply of protective clothing,” he says.
Continue reading:
https://telegra.ph/Distribution-quotas-exposed---Police-given-640-thousand-masks-and-taking-40-times-more-N95-masks-than-Department-of-Health-02-16
#Selfishness #PrivilegedClass #PoliceState #MaskShortage #UnfairSuppliesDistribution
Telegraph
Distribution quotas exposed - Police given 640 thousand masks, and taking 40 times more N95 masks than Department of Health
(15 Feb) While there is only one-month’s stock of equipment for frontline medical staff, the HK government is still refusing to disclose how the supplies are being used. The Apple Daily received documents showing that the police ranks secondin number of surgical…