[New Coronary Pneumonia] Epidemic prevention measures cannot be too "off the ground"

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Written by: Commentary Editing Room

2020-07-29 07:08

The third wave of the epidemic continues, and the government has tightened measures. From Wednesday (29th), dine-in is completely banned, masks are mandatory in outdoor places, and gathering restrictions have been tightened to two people. In order to prevent the epidemic, the government's "increasing spicy" measures are understandable, but when these measures are introduced, they must be considered and have sufficient supporting support to make the measures feasible and effective.

At the press conference on Monday (28th), the reporter asked the Chief Secretary for Administration Zhang Jianzong about the upcoming "increasing spicy" measures. Under the new measures, how people who cannot work at home should solve the lunch problem. Zhang Jianzong only said "Everybody tolerate for a while," and there is no practical information. He mentioned "buying a lunch box and returning to the office for lunch", but when the entire company has lunch in the company, how different is it from dine-in? What's more, this neglects the outdoor work groups without offices.

Zhang Jianzong's response was, "Can food in country parks? We have no restrictions. Of course, you should not pollute the environment or throw lunch boxes around. Personal hygiene is important." First of all, many country parks have actually been temporarily closed due to the new crown pneumonia, and country parks are far away from the urban area and it is impossible to go back and forth during lunch hours. Zhang Jianzong's proposal is not feasible at all, and it is doubtful whether it is considerate of the needs of the people.

In the sweltering weather, outdoor workers wear masks for a long time. They already know that they have troubles. Now, even the place of lunch is a problem. (Photo by Ou Jiale)

Discuss contingency with experts and industry

It must be pointed out that it is reasonable and important to tighten dine-in meals, but the government should also have cooperating measures to make it happen, including requiring more companies to implement work from home. Of course, the government has no way to ensure that working from home is the majority, but it can also discuss with the expert team and the industry to develop various plans such as restaurants allowing one person to eat, crowds to eat at different times, or setting certain outdoor areas at certain times. Eating without being accused of removing the mask.

In addition to dine-in, the government has similar problems with many other epidemic prevention measures. For example, when cleaning workers work at high risk, the government only knows to distribute more masks. Another example is the expansion of detection measures for high-risk occupations. Taxi drivers had raised the problem of too few sampling locations during the first batch of sampling, and the response was cold, but the government did not improve it, and the problem reappeared in the sampling of minibus drivers. In the general direction, the experts analyzed the virus genes this time and speculated that the third wave of the epidemic was mainly imported from groups exempted from quarantine, but the government exempted the source of the outbreak, that is, cross-border workers, such as Chinese and Hong Kong freight drivers, crew members and other groups. The tightening of quarantine is still insufficient.

What Hong Kong needs is to understand the people's conditions, know the people's difficulties, and be able to put forward a feasible and effective epidemic prevention policy in time. If the government is standing on a high ground and formulating epidemic prevention measures for granted, it is afraid that it will increase the poverty of the people and even miss the opportunity for epidemic prevention.

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