Letters | Coronavirus crisis means Hong Kong’s ‘rainy day’ is here: where is the help for the newly jobless?

I fully agree with Francis Cheung’s commentary (“Coronavirus threatens Hong Kong’s very future if it cannot protect livelihoods along with lives”, April 5). Over the years, financial secretaries have told us we need to save our huge monetary reserves for “a rainy day”. Well, in case they haven’t noticed, it’s pouring now, it’s a veritable typhoon.

So where on earth is the help for those thrown out of work because of the emergency? The help for small businesses? For mom-and-pop stores?

Chief Executive Carrie Lam Cheng Yuet-ngor’s inability to get ahead of the Covid-19 spread in Hong Kong is demonstrated by her clumsy self-proclaimed decision to initially ban the sale of all alcohol (dropped amid a backlash), only to be followed by the delayed closure of all pubs and bars. If hindsight were an Olympic sport, Lam would win gold!