#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/

#Analysis

Foreign Media Praised Female Leaders For Outstanding Leadership During Pandemic, Yet Carrie Lam is Not Named?

(15 Apr) With the global spread of COVID-19, foreign media have recently compared the anti-pandemic policies of global leaders, and have come to the conclusion that female leaders generally perform better. Taiwan's President Tsai Ing-wen, Germany's Chancellor Angela Merkel, and New Zealand's Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern, among others, have been praised by foreign media as high-performing female leaders. However, Hong Kong's female Chief Executive Carrie Lam, who said she was "quick to respond", didn’t make it to the list.
At the time of writing, there were 1,016 confirmed cases in Hong Kong, which was lower than those in neighbouring regions, yet Carrie Lam has not been credited. Both local experts and foreign media noticed that Lam has been repeatedly criticized for her slow response in recent months, such as the inability to close Hong Kong-Mainland borders. It is believed that Hong Kong's success in fighting the epidemic is largely due to the fact that Hongkongers saved themselves during the crisis.

//one-third of the number of cases in Singapore

//Prohibiting officials from wearing masks; Refusal to close borders; Delays in closing karaoke lounges and beauty salons

//The Government is hopeless, Hongkongers need to rescue themselves

//Hongkongers have completely lost their trust in the Government after 6 months of protests.

Full translation:
https://telegra.ph/Foreign-Media-Praised-Female-Leaders-For-Outstanding-Leadership-During-Pandemic-Yet-Carrie-Lam-is-Not-Named-04-23

Source: The Stand News
https://bit.ly/3cEKt2f

Further reading:
Letter to Ms Boseley, The Guardian
https://t.me/guardiansofhongkong/19763

#SelfHelp #FailedState #CarrieLam #Singapore #Epidemic #HoPakLeung #HongKongProtest

#NetizensVoice

0 infection today, achieved by the HK people, not the government.

(20 Apr) It was frontline medical workers' strike that, although stopping short of full border closure, forced mandatory quarantine.

It was multiple Yellow [pro-democracy] shops, district councillors, and non-governmental organizations that gathered medical protection supplies and shared them with the public.

It was the medical personnel in isolation wards who risked their lives fighting against the disease.

It was the HK people withholding their desire to go out who maintained proper social distancing.

It was the 1755 cases of infection and 299 deaths from SARS in 2003 that remind us today to stay vigilant.

It was the HK people's collective distrust of China that allowed proper defences despite being next to epidemic hot spots. As we focus on anti-epidemic defences, do not neglect our burdens under political suppression, police brutality and ruin of the rule of law.

Hong Kong is not Taiwan. We have no democratically elected government for leadership. We have no centralised method to distribute or sell anti-epidemic supplies. We have no big data analysis to track those placed in isolation or inventory supplies real-time. We have no official that can utter a single reassuring sentence.

Blow after blow, we remain standing no matter when, where or what.

Source: RWBB
https://bit.ly/2WbUeym

#SelfHelp #FailedState #Coronavirus #Epidemic #HongKongers #Taiwan #HongKongSpirit

#SelfHelp #FirstHand #Apr30

1918 | Tin Shui Wai
Tin Shu Wai Connection members distributing pandemic supplies at Kingswood Ginza

#Interview
Families turn to the “Civilian Tracing Chain” in search of missing Anti-ELAB movement protesters

• Lack of trust in the police has led to crowdsourcing on social media communities when searching for missing loved ones

• Front-line photojournalists are at the start of the “Civilian Tracing Chain” as they take photos of arrested protesters on scene

• Social workers act as intermediaries between families of missing persons and lawyers who help the arrested

• Private detectives provide an alternate solution but often as a last resort

Full article :
https://telegra.ph/Families-turn-to-the-Civilian-Tracing-Chain-in-search-of-missing-Anti-ELAB-movement-protesters-04-30

#AntiELAB #MissingPersons #SelfHelp #Trust #FailedState

#Newspaper #SelfHelp
How Hong Kong Did It:
With the government failing, the city’s citizens decided to organize their own coronavirus response

By Zeynep Tufekci, May 12, 2020

//The secret sauce of Hong Kong’s response was its people and, crucially, the movement that engulfed the city in 2019. Seared with the memory of SARS, and already mobilized for the past year against their unpopular government, the city’s citizens acted swiftly, collectively, and efficiently, in effect saving themselves. The organizational capacity and the civic infrastructure built by the protest movement played a central role in Hong Kong’s grassroots response.

1.
Many of the key information sources for Hong Kong protesters had been anonymous channels in the popular app Telegram and their own online forums. These anonymous formats protected the protesters from government repression but created a constant threat of misinformation, as someone could always pretend to be a protester or just be wrong or trolling.

Consequently, the protesters learned to become incessant fact-checkers, used to looking up multiple sources and critically analyzing information. Now they turned their powers to critical analysis to the coronavirus: criticizing their own officials, as well as the World Health Organization, which did not advise wearing masks or travel restrictions, and China, which they saw as covering up the initial epidemic (they were right on all counts).

2.
In response to the crisis, Hong Kongers spontaneously adopted near-universal masking on their own, defying the government’s ban on masks. When Lam oscillated between not wearing a mask in public and wearing one but incorrectly, they blasted her online and mocked her incorrect mask wearing.

In response to the mask shortage, the foot soldiers of the protest movement set up mask brigades—acquiring and distributing masks, especially to the poor and elderly, who may not be able to spend hours in lines. An “army of volunteers” also spread among the intensely crowded and often decrepit tenement buildings to install and keep filled hand-sanitizer dispensers.

3.
When the government refused at first to close the border with mainland China, more than 7,000 medical workers went on an unprecedented strike, demanding border closures and PPE for hospital workers. This strike was only possible because labor unions were formed during the protests.

Now they came in handy for collective action. Protesters also tried to speak symbolically and increase awareness: They advocated wearing white ribbons to show support for medical workers and made art that demonstrated proper hand-washing and correct mask wearing, and that decried the mask shortage.

4.
Hong Kong also teaches that people aren’t helpless, even when their government isn’t helpful.//

Source: The Atlantic #May12

Read the Full Article here
#WuhanPneumonia #FailedState #HongKongWay

#OpinionArticle
Carrie Lam administration scorning the elected councils will be not be forgotten by Hong Kong citizens

(12 May) Hong Kong Chief Executive (CE) Carrie Lam, won the CE election with the Election Committee members only represent around 0.03 percent of the population, was interviewed by Takunpao, a Chinese state-owned and controlled media, and accused the newly elected district councils of having no contribution after being in office term for 6 months, and supported the government officials to dismiss or leave the meetings to boycott the councils. Coincidentally, just one day before this article was published, Casper Tsui Ying Wai, the newly appointed leader or the Home Affairs Bureau, said “The District council is a playground”, and as long as everybody plays by the rule, it will be great fun. The head of the administrative government, publicly disregarded the council, disrespect and challenged the citizen-empowered councillors. This is to pour scorn on the councils, insult the dignity of the councillors, and to eradicate the society’s effort in the success of fighting the virus.

//From January 2020 until today, the Central and Western District council along with other councillors, have discussed and had over 70 discussion papers. And among the discussions, many were about livelihood of the citizens,

//other district councils, under the lack of competence of the government in combatting virus, deployed power and resources, to procure medical supplies, such as face masks, hand sanitisers, bleach, etc.

//Hong Kong government suppressed the council by refusing to provide any venue and secretarial service, and upheld the power under District Councils Ordinance but the council organised meetings on discussion anti-pandemic measures.

//The success of the anti-pandamic measures, was attributed to the civil actions and contributions. She took all the pride of success, and obliviated her inaction

Full translation:
https://telegra.ph/Carrie-Lam-administration-scorning-the-elected-councils-will-be-not-be-forgotten-by-Hong-Kong-citizens-05-18

Source: Stand News

#DistrictCouncillor #Eipdemic #SelfHelp

A Hongkonger’s Voice - Universal Masking

A youtube video posted on 12 May explains the importance of wearing masks to combat the COVID-19 epidemic. Despite having one of the highest population densities in the world, Hong Kong has had relatively few infectious cases because people learned the importance of wearing masks during SARS in 2003.

Professor Yuen Kwok-yung as a key researcher of the SARS coronavirus, stated that wearing masks would prevent the spread of disease, whether symptoms were present or not. "Those who are susceptible ... would protect themselves from getting infected." He stressed its importance in urban areas where social distancing can be challenging. "Even in less crowded places ... a surgical mask can help and remember that wearing a mask itself is a symbol of civility in Hong Kong. When you wear a mask, people think that you are very responsible, very conscientious."

Dr Fan Ning, former president of Medecins Sans Frontieres HK and current chairman of Health in Action said, "When I run out of surgical mask, I would wear cloth mask because it still protects against the ... transmission of diseases."

The template for the cloth HKMask created by Dr K. Kwong can be found at this website: http://diymask.site

Dr Kwong examined easily accessible materials that can be used as a filter in his double cloth cotton mask. Before choosing a filter, it is important to know the material's filtration efficiency and PD flow rate. The former specifies effectiveness in filtering out particles; the latter specifies breathability. Dr Kwong says 70% filtration efficiency is sufficient for general use.

Recommendations: Use a new filter every time. Make sure it fills up the mask so the air you breathe passes through the filter. The mask should cover your nose and mouth with the mask fitted snuggly. Wash your hands thoroughly before and after wearing the mask.

⬇️⬇️⬇️⬇️⬇️Watch
https://youtu.be/qinC8-vKn1M

#YuenKwokyung #FanNing #ClothMask #UniversalMasking #KKwong #SelfHelp #Hongkongers

How Hongkongers fight coronavirus on their own

Given Carrie Lam and Her Government have again and again shown a high degree of incompetence, Hongkongers have trusted the puppets no more, especially in this #epidemic time.

Hong Kong citizens have organized their own #coronavirus countermeasures since January 2020, when the mysterious viral pneumonia was circulating in Wuhan. Hongkongers initiated to wear #facemasks when they went to public places, and they paid particular attention to personal hygiene. Meanwhile, Carrie Lam, Hong Kong's Chief Executive handpicked by Beijing, was staying in Switzerland without a sense of crisis.

Although more than 7,000 medical workers staged an unprecedented strike, Carrie Lam dragged her feet in closing the city’s borders, and never fully closed down the land border with Mainland China -- the most hazardous source of coronavirus.

Furthermore, Lam wavered on facemasks, and even ordered civil servants not to wear them. Meanwhile, public and private hospitals were facing shortage of personal protective equipment. The incompetent government also ignored the empty shelves in stores and shortage of crucial supplies such as rice, noodles, and toilet rolls.

In response, Hongkongers created their own websites to track local information of COVID-19, including the resources of protective equipment and track cases of COVID-19. They get used to looking up instant notification and critically analyzing information through anonymous channels in Telegram, which had been initially used to protect human rights activists from government repression.

For the shortage of facemasks, an “army of volunteers” spread among the intensely crowded and often decrepit tenement buildings to install and keep filled hand-sanitizer dispensers.

Realtime digital maps were not just confined to track police blockades and clashes, they were also used to keep track of outbreak locations and hand-sanitizer distribution points. Moreover, there were volunteers sanitizing subdivided flats with affordable UVC lights.

Lam’s government eventually responded, but it was always a step behind the people.

The Government coped with the epidemic in their way, for example, setting up quarantine centers in dense neighborhoods without public consultation, or even worse, against public opinions.

Hongkongers' self help was not in vain. In early February, the financial outlet Bloomberg ran an opinion piece that compared Hong Kong to a “failed state”. And yet there is no unchecked, devastating COVID-19 epidemic in Hong Kong. Hongkongers, on their own, beat back the original wave, and also beat back a second resurgence due to imported cases.

This success should be attributed to the self-disciplined Hongkongers, who seared with the memory of SARS in 2003 and evolved into a united group during the movement in 2019. Hongkongers act swiftly, collectively, and efficiently. Besides, thanks partly to its history of fighting epidemics, Hong Kong has some of the world’s most prominent experts in infectious diseases.

Now that life returns to normal in Hong Kong, it also means that Hongkongers have to return to the life of protesting: fighting for the release of pan-democracy protesters, and fighting against the bad popo and oppressive legislation such as the "Article 23 Enactment".

The road ahead is certainly challenging, #Hongkongers know that, but they will not yield.

Further reading:
https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2020/05/how-hong-kong-beating-coronavirus/611524/

#Coronavirus #SelfHelp #Hongkongers

#CoronavirusPandemic #SelfHelp
Honesty is a key to Vietnam's coronavirus success

Vietnam has a long border with #China spanning more than 1400 km and a large population of over 95 million, yet it has only recorded some 320 cases of coronavirus and zero deaths, according to the official figures as of mid-May. The last local cases were reported more than a month ago, suggesting Vietnam is now free of community transmission.

While #Vietnam is an authoritarian, one-party state where the freedom of speech and information is limited, most healthcare experts and diplomats believe the official statistics is trustworthy. Funeral homes interviewed by Reuters has also seen no surge in deaths.

Contrary to the alleged cover-up in China in the early days of the epidemic, Vietnamese authorities proactively disseminated information via various platforms at the very beginning. These include regular text messages to all phone users and a creative song called "Ghen Cô Vy" to promote personal hygiene, which has gone viral in Vietnam and beyond. Their transparent response during this crisis has helped unify the public and eventually spared Vietnamese a high death toll.

Honesty in the handling of this epidemic is all the more important to regain public trust in light of the public criticism of the Vietnamese government in recent years. The authorities have been blamed in 2016 for covering up the marine disaster caused by chemical spill. They have also faced protests due to public concerns over China's influence in the special economic zones.

The Chinese authorities, on the other hand, have not learnt from the SARS outbreak of 2003. They have chosen to put politics above human lives by cracking down on whistleblowers in December and January. Critics suggest that serious measures to contain the virus had been delayed by a few weeks because of that.

Sources:
BBC, 15 May
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-52628283

ABC, 13 May
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2020-05-13/coronavirus-vietnam-no-deaths-success-in-south-east-asia/12237314

The Guardian, 1 May
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2020/may/01/testing-vietnam-contained-coronavirus

Reuters, 29 Apr
https://www.reuters.com/article/us-health-coronavirus-vietnam-fight-insi/after-aggressive-mass-testing-vietnam-says-it-contains-coronavirus-outbreak-idUSKBN22B34H

Foreign Policy, 15 Apr
https://foreignpolicy.com/2020/04/15/coronavirus-vietnam-communist-party-hanoi/

Song "Ghen Cô Vy", official English version
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wGoodWEtV8c

#Coronavirus

#NetizensVoice

Hongkongers have evolved through the past year

The boy holding the tailgate sign at the end of the line was a university student, reporters found him when the queue started to shorten at 23:00, pointing all the live camera at him, while he bashfully held up a handwritten card to ask the reporters not to film his appearance. The reporters came up to ask for his thought and the time when he started tailgating, he said that he arrived at 17:00 and started to be “Mr Tailgating” as he found the situation a bit messy, instructing people where to line up for paying their respects from 18:00 to 23:00. When Siu Wan (a journalist) asked for his thought on the movement, he suddenly stood up straight and said, “I think we don’t need to wait for people to start activities online, if we want to participate in any activity, just do it.” (main idea)

I was more interested in the origin of his paper, he chuckled and said, “It’s just lecture notes.” Oh, so he’s a student of Kuo Way. I bet this page of lecture notes from mechanical engineering would not know that it had not only transferred knowledge, but become the guiding light of tens of thousands of Hongkongers tonight.

It’s all thanks to the (government’s) strong suppression on all the (activity) organizations last year. “No cross (with cross being the chill to the bones in the Chinese version of this saying), no crown (with crown being the civic maturity of Hong Kong)”, and last year was a Siberian chill, training Hong Kong to become an absolutely mature civil society which is astonishingly neat. A spontaneous memorial with tens of thousands of people paying their respects has only overflown one trash can, and there wasn’t even a piece of paper bigger than a fingernail on the ground, which is a huge improvement from the Occupy Movement in 2014.

When I talked to other reporters today, we all had the feeling that our comrades were not only back in place tonight, but also evolved since last time. But as the citizens have matured, the regime keep shrinking the room allowed for civic maturity, while RTHK, Foo Tak Building and Hong Kong Alliance are going to be broken down one by one. While the civic energy can no longer be pressed, how will this Summer of Freedom 2.0 go on?

I am worried.

PS: Listening to “Sing Hallelujah To The Lord” again makes me emotional as it feels like a lifetime ago, as I haven’t been listening to it for a year. Before the National Security Law, we probably all need to sing hallelujah to the lord to ask God to keep us safe. Amen.

#NotAChristian
#ButILoveRealChristians
#HeavenHasReservedASeatForThoseWhoShouldGo
#HongkongersRunHongKongWell
#NoNeedToBotherYou

Source: Facebook

Further reading:
The end of the Queue was at Mid-levels
https://t.me/guardiansofhongkong/22554

#SingHallelujahToTheLord #SelfHelp #CivicMaturity #Remembrance #15June #YellowRainCoatman #MarcoLeung

#Survey #Epidemic
What do Hongkongers think..?

“It is believed that the recent epidemic outbreak is mainly caused by the government's failure in immigration quarantine policy.” How much do you agree or disagree with this statement?

Diagram:
64% Agree(yellow); 15% Half-and-half(lime); 19% Disagree(pine) I ; 2% Don’t know(turquoise)

#HongKongPublicOpinionResearchInstitute
#WeHongkongers

Source: Facebook
Translated by: Hong Kong Echo

#FailedState #SelfHelp