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To: Snowshoe who wrote (183005)	1/22/2022 3:45:52 AM
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Hong Kong undergoing some sort of mandate, and now the coconut joins the Jack in Zoom school as of coming Monday, for a week, and then Chinese Lunar New Year holiday starts scmp.com Omicron: residents locked down in Hong Kong worry about jobs, elderly loved ones, steady supply of food and tests About 2,700 residents must spend five days insider their flats at Yat Kwai House at Kwai Chung Estate after the building was hit by an Omicron superspreader event Several say they are scared of forfeiting wages or even losing their jobs, while others complain the government is already falling behind on its promises to them Sze Lai-shan, deputy director of the non-governmental Society for Community Organization, warned that residents might lose money during the confinement – the longest lockdown since the Covid-19 pandemic in the city. “The employees will lose their salaries and employers will have no income either. How could they be ‘considerate’ as encouraged by the government?” she said. Sze also urged the government to provide financial aid to the residents and support them by providing hot meals. Health minister Sophia Chan Siu-chee said on Friday night the lockdown was necessary given the Omicron superspreader event at the centre of the latest cluster of infections. Chan called on residents to cooperate by remaining in their homes and asked employers not to deduct any wages from the workers affected. The government will arrange for door-to-door specimen collection for people with impaired mobility and the elderly, while others will have to undergo testing at booths downstairs. “They only hand out a single kit for one door while we have three people in my family. I don’t know who among us should take the test,” said housewife Kiki Chan, 36. Officials have also promised to deliver three meals a day and hand out packets of instant noodles, canned food and other necessities. Alex Kwok, a 23-year-old worker at the Kwai Tsing Container Terminal, said he received his first meal box at around 9.30pm. “I heard a neighbour shouting at the staff through his window, saying: ‘Where is our dinner?’ and I decided to count on my mum’s cooking instead of the government,” he said. Hong Kong teachers could face consequences for violating new vaccination rules 21 Jan 2022 But Kwok said he took comfort in the fact he was not locked up at the government-run camp at Penny’s Bay, where some residents have complained about service and management. “Although it is lucky for us to stay home instead of staying in Penny’s Bay quarantine centre, I feel like I am in prison for the stupid mistake made by others. I really want to find out the guy who spread the virus because I don’t want to lose at least HK$3,000 [US$385] without any reason,” he said, referring to his earnings during the lockdown period. His fears over wages were echoed by others. “My boss might fire me if I disappear for five days,” said Ng Wai-chung, 48, a construction worker. “Why shall I bear the consequences for the epidemic prevention loopholes that are caused by other people?” Ng, the breadwinner of the family of four, was set to lose at least HK$10,000 during the lockdown. He said the confinement would greatly inconvenience him and his family, pointing to his 70-year-old mother. “The elderly will feel bad if they continue to stay at home for so long, and the instant noodles are not the right food for them as well,” he said. Money Lo, a 33-year-old employee of a logistics company, said she and her husband will have to share the household’s sole computer while they work. Let them live: vets cite Hong Kong study in call for hamsters to be quarantined 21 Jan 2022 “I had no choice but to hand over all my work to my colleagues, which is quite a burden for them, especially with the heavy workload before Lunar New Year,” she said. She also noted that her mother, a 63-year-old security guard who earned about HK$8,000 a month, had to ask the company to look for a temporary replacement while she was locked up. “I hope the government can think of innocent residents more or at least to compensate us for our loss,” Lo said. “People will be alarmed or even scared after knowing I am from Yat Kwai House, and my boss won’t allow me to resume work soon even though the lockdown is finished.” Kiki Wong, a 28-year-old beautician, said she was worried about her cat, her only household companion. “I am afraid that the officers will take my cat to the Penny’s Bay quarantine centre, and maybe they will kill my cat like the hamster cull if it carries the virus,” Wong said. She urged the government to offer financial support to the residents during the lockdown, especially since she had no income due to the closure of the beauty salon where she worked. “I have no plan in the following five days, but I hope the food and the daily necessities won’t be used up by then,” Wong said.