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Written by: Review Editor
2020-04-08 06:00
Date of last update: 2020-04-08 06:00The epidemic of the New Coronary Pneumonia raged. After McDonald's announced that no dine-in meals would be held in the evening market late last month, the "Mc Refugees" who lived in fast food restaurants on weekdays had nowhere to stay. Although McDonald's will resume dinner in the evening market from Wednesday (8th), it is necessary to cooperate with epidemic prevention measures. It is really unknown whether the homeless can have Vajjat overnight. When the society was worried, the Home Affairs Bureau seemed to ignore it. It first expressed to the concerned Members that it had no time to meet, and then refused to lend a helping hand on the grounds of non-duty in the Legislative Council. The attitude was disappointing.
The request for an urgent appointment with the Secretary for Home Affairs Liu Jianghua was rejected on the grounds of "busy official business". (Screenshot of Zhu Kaidi's social networking site)
Liu Jianghua is busy
A number of MPs wrote to the Home Affairs Bureau last month to request an emergency appointment with the Secretary on the "Mc Refugee" issue. After waiting for many days, MPs finally waited for a reply on Monday (6th). The request to meet with the Secretary for Home Affairs Liu Jianghua was also rejected on the grounds of "busy official business".
Facing the plight of Mai refugees who were homeless, Liu Jianghua said that he was "very concerned", but the degree of concern did not seem to be sufficient for him to attend the meeting. Silence disappeared for many days, the center was not opened, and lawmakers strongly criticized Liu Jianghua's "Secretary Director" and satirized his disappearance. After being dubbed the "trash can" because of a photo of the election banner, Director Liu has become a joke on the Internet many times. In 2014, the Federation of Students and the Government dialogued, and Liu Jianghua took the stage; in 2019, Liu Jianghua attended the community dialogue, and he still cherishes the word. Now that the Mai refugees are facing a difficult situation, Liu Jianghua has once again used the Dafa method, which has really disappointed the public.
McDonald's resumed dinner in the evening market from Wednesday, but as a restaurant, it has no obligation to assist the homeless. In addition to cooperating with the government's anti-epidemic measures announced by the government earlier, it is no doubt whether it will continue to "open the eyes and close the eyes" to the homeless. More fundamentally, the current population of Mai refugees has been displaced and panicked under the epidemic. As a committed government, it should be actively assisted. Staying on the streets by the homeless is not something that the responsible government should do.
Now that the Mai refugees are facing a difficult situation, Liu Jianghua has once again used the Dafa method, which has really disappointed the public. (Profile picture)
Balance epidemic prevention and temporary residence
Under the epidemic situation, people need to maintain a social distance between people, and crowds should be exempt. However, between providing temporary accommodation facilities and epidemic prevention, the two are not completely opposed, the focus is on how to achieve a balance. While providing temporary shelters, the Home Affairs Department can limit the maximum number of people who can use the center, reduce the density of the temporary housing environment as much as possible, and maintain the social distance between the homeless. Although limited by the epidemic situation, the shower facilities may not be fully open, but the Department can still provide replacement clothing, epidemic prevention supplies, etc., the Home Affairs Department does not need to kill all the possibilities of providing assistance across the board.
The Home Affairs Department responded to Shao Jiazhens last month, saying that according to the current mechanism, it is limited to opening temporary shelters during extreme weather or major disasters, and providing temporary accommodation for "Mc Refugees" is not the policy scope of the Department. Liu Jianghua responded to Members' questions in the Legislative Council on Tuesday (April 7), and then separated the department from the "Mc Refugee" issue on the grounds that "we have no policy to deal with the problem of street sleepers".
However, the agency has both the resources of temporary shelters, community centers, etc., and cannot deal with issues concerning the use of the agency's resources in an irrelevant manner. Moreover, when the policy bureau established the scope of work, no one would foresee the spread of new coronaviruses around the world, and naturally the current problems could not be expected. Liu Jianghua should abandon the bureaucratic mentality, reexamine the mechanism, and actively cooperate with the Social Welfare Department, the Department of Health and other departments. When vulnerable groups need help, why can't officials "help as much as possible"?
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