Health

Covid-19: Hong Kong is preying on the helpless again, so where is the Equal Opportunities Commission?


What is it about our government and domestic helpers? Quite the most disgraceful moment of the Covid-19 epidemic so far was the suggestion that it would be a good public health measure to cancel their days off. Now we have – in response to one case (ONE CASE!) an order that the entire overseas domestic helper population must get tested.

Predictably this meant, in many cases, that the helper must get a test on her day off. The resulting rush led to distressing scenes of women spending up to seven hours of their supposed holiday queuing in the open air.

Foreign domestic workers wait in line under the sun to get Covid-19 tests. Photo: Apple Daily.

Clearly, this is partly a result of our government’s scorn for the interests of poor people. If it became necessary to test all property developers, or all senior civil servants, we can assume, I think, that more humane and convenient arrangements would have been made.



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