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[Logical Question of International Relations] Eight Conspiracies at Carrie Lam’s Epidemic PressCon 2/3
4. The key to fighting epidemic is to decrease unnecessary movements of population at the critical moments. Declaration at the immigration is a pro-active mechanism. The key point is to make it mandatory at arrival and then approve. It shouldn’t be a voluntary declaration of health conditions, not to mention when the result still objectively ends up an open door even after such declaration without any clear consequence.
Carrie Lam’s idea of fighting epidemic is to use an honour system. In contrast, other places would deny free movements of visitors from the epidemic area even when they are healthy.
5. Besides Wuhan, other places in the nation are locking down one after another. If you believe in the system in mainland, then these places should be treated the same as Wuhan. Rumour has it that Beijing will follow suit. When that time comes, even visitors from Beijing should be treated the same way. The SAR government is just focusing on the Hubei province, and has not disclosed how to identify the epidemic areas. This is not a transparent move, because the general public can decide for themselves only if they know the criteria.
6. “Send a letter to the State Council to request assurance of mask supply.” Here lies massive logical issues. First, mainland is part of the major epidemic area, and has a more severe supply shortage. Hong Kong can’t make things worse at this moment, because this would be truly disregarding people’s feelings in mainland. Second, the masks that Hong Kongers are used to use are mostly not from mainland. If the SAR government just wants to address Hong Kongers’ concern, it should ensure enough supply from all places, rather than just highlight mainland. Third, Carrie Lam said “no upper limit to resources,” and already guaranteed the supply of masks and, thus, had no need to bother the Central Government. All these are, even at this critical moment, done for appeasement by conveying a message of “Central taking care of Hong Kong.“
Source: https://bit.ly/38ACCki
#SimonShen #CarrieLam #Declaration #ChinesePneumonia
[Logical Question of International Relations] Eight Conspiracies at Carrie Lam’s Epidemic PressCon 2/3
4. The key to fighting epidemic is to decrease unnecessary movements of population at the critical moments. Declaration at the immigration is a pro-active mechanism. The key point is to make it mandatory at arrival and then approve. It shouldn’t be a voluntary declaration of health conditions, not to mention when the result still objectively ends up an open door even after such declaration without any clear consequence.
Carrie Lam’s idea of fighting epidemic is to use an honour system. In contrast, other places would deny free movements of visitors from the epidemic area even when they are healthy.
5. Besides Wuhan, other places in the nation are locking down one after another. If you believe in the system in mainland, then these places should be treated the same as Wuhan. Rumour has it that Beijing will follow suit. When that time comes, even visitors from Beijing should be treated the same way. The SAR government is just focusing on the Hubei province, and has not disclosed how to identify the epidemic areas. This is not a transparent move, because the general public can decide for themselves only if they know the criteria.
6. “Send a letter to the State Council to request assurance of mask supply.” Here lies massive logical issues. First, mainland is part of the major epidemic area, and has a more severe supply shortage. Hong Kong can’t make things worse at this moment, because this would be truly disregarding people’s feelings in mainland. Second, the masks that Hong Kongers are used to use are mostly not from mainland. If the SAR government just wants to address Hong Kongers’ concern, it should ensure enough supply from all places, rather than just highlight mainland. Third, Carrie Lam said “no upper limit to resources,” and already guaranteed the supply of masks and, thus, had no need to bother the Central Government. All these are, even at this critical moment, done for appeasement by conveying a message of “Central taking care of Hong Kong.“
Source: https://bit.ly/38ACCki
#SimonShen #CarrieLam #Declaration #ChinesePneumonia
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#PublicLibrary Chief in Hong Kong is Subject to Discipline after Displaying #JimmyLai's Books
Under the National Security Law, civil servants and non-civil servants in Hong Kong are required to sign a "declaration" upholding the Basic Law, "devoting" themselves to the HKSAR, being "loyal" to their work and being accountable to the HKSAR government.
As of September 2021, around 180,000 civil servants have signed the declaration, only 129 have not responded or refuse to sign. Among them, 105 are in long-term employment terms, and the rest are in trial-term employment terms. 113 out of them are in civilian grade, and the rest are in discipline service grade.
Patrick Nip Tak-Kuen, Secretary for Civil Service in the Hong Kong SAR Government attended a Legislative Council (#LegCo) meeting on September 20, 2021.
When answering a question about the penalty for civil servants violating the declaration, Nip revealed that the government had already started the discipline procedure towards a public library chief.
The related librarian is the Director of #ShekTongTsui Public Library. He was suspended from his duty, after placing a number of books authored by Jimmy Lai, the founder of #NextMedia and #AppleDaily, in the "Librarian's Choice for Borrowing". Apple Daily was a pro-democracy Chinese-language newspaper in Hong Kong, which had to shut down due to the government's pressure in June 2021.
Source: InMedia #Sep20
https://bit.ly/3zzVRYB
#NipTakKuen #NationalSecurityLaw #CivilServant #BasicLaw #Declaration #Censorship #Books #Librarian
#PublicLibrary Chief in Hong Kong is Subject to Discipline after Displaying #JimmyLai's Books
Under the National Security Law, civil servants and non-civil servants in Hong Kong are required to sign a "declaration" upholding the Basic Law, "devoting" themselves to the HKSAR, being "loyal" to their work and being accountable to the HKSAR government.
As of September 2021, around 180,000 civil servants have signed the declaration, only 129 have not responded or refuse to sign. Among them, 105 are in long-term employment terms, and the rest are in trial-term employment terms. 113 out of them are in civilian grade, and the rest are in discipline service grade.
Patrick Nip Tak-Kuen, Secretary for Civil Service in the Hong Kong SAR Government attended a Legislative Council (#LegCo) meeting on September 20, 2021.
When answering a question about the penalty for civil servants violating the declaration, Nip revealed that the government had already started the discipline procedure towards a public library chief.
The related librarian is the Director of #ShekTongTsui Public Library. He was suspended from his duty, after placing a number of books authored by Jimmy Lai, the founder of #NextMedia and #AppleDaily, in the "Librarian's Choice for Borrowing". Apple Daily was a pro-democracy Chinese-language newspaper in Hong Kong, which had to shut down due to the government's pressure in June 2021.
Source: InMedia #Sep20
https://bit.ly/3zzVRYB
#NipTakKuen #NationalSecurityLaw #CivilServant #BasicLaw #Declaration #Censorship #Books #Librarian
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石塘咀圖書館館長放黎智英書籍 聶德權：已展開紀律程序 | 獨媒報導 | 獨立媒體
（獨媒報導）《港區國安法》生效後，公務員及非公務員僱員被要求簽署聲明，擁護《基本法》、效忠香港特區、盡忠職守和對香港特區政府負責。目前約18萬名公務員已簽署聲明，只有129名公務員未有理會及拒絕簽回聲明。公務員事務局局長聶德權今日出席立法會會議，被問到公務員簽署聲明後違反的懲處，提到石塘咀公共圖書館館長個案，指已啟動紀律程序。 拒簽聲明的129名公務員