Letters | Hong Kong third wave: Carrie Lam has failed on ‘We Connect’ promise

Do you remember Carrie Lam Cheng Yuet-ngor’s slogan during her chief executive election campaign three years ago? It was “We Connect”. In fact, in a recent interview, she said she has achieved or even outperformed the promises made in her election manifesto.

However, during the coronavirus pandemic, many Hongkongers – be it ordinary citizens, medical experts advising the government or the business sector – have expressed their unhappiness with the government’s performance. The government seems to have been less than effective in this situation, especially in the face of the third wave of Covid-19.

Investigations in university laboratories have revealed that strains of the virus in several local cases were “highly identical” to those of imported cases. Experts suspect airline and shipping crews exempted from quarantine could have been the sources of infection. The chief executive showed her humanistic spirit to these crews, but what about the lives and livelihoods of us Hongkongers?

The ridiculous decision to ban dine-in services in restaurants lasted just 48 hours. This shows an absolute lack of common sense and grasp of reality (“What dine-in ban U-turn says about Carrie Lam’s team”, August 3). It’s hard to stomach that our government officials are paid so highly to make such decisions.