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Letters | Hong Kong coronavirus fourth wave: so the show must go on for dance clubs?
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In her fourth policy address, Chief Executive Carrie Lam Cheng Yuet-ngor told the Legislative Council that the government would “spare no effort in achieving zero infections”. If so, why are dance studios still open when the bars, saunas and bathhouses are shut, especially when they are not the source of this latest outbreak?
Restaurants are further restricted to a maximum of four to a table, events such as weddings to 40 people with four per table, but the music goes on for dance studios.
It is widely known that dance studios are the playground of some of the “tai tais” of the Hong Kong elite set. Does that mean the average Hongkonger must bear the brunt of a flagrant defiance of social distancing and mandatory mask-wearing rules in crowded premises?
Please be reminded the third wave was brought on because the government exempted tens of thousands of sea crew from testing and quarantine, likely due to pressure from the shipping industry.
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Government guidelines need to be consistently applied to all sectors, and not indulge the whims and fancy of selected groups of Hong Kong’s privileged.
Glenda Wee, Pok Fu Lam
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