Opinion | Hong Kong officials claim to care about housing and hygiene. What about the homeless?
- Officials have turned their attention to the city’s rat and housing problems, or are at least seen to be doing so
- But when are they going to check on homeless people, whose numbers have grown alarmingly during the pandemic?
And that’s a good thing, because we have been running on near-empty, with one last drop of perseverance in the tank, during our long isolation from the Covid-19-ravaged world and our zero-Covid motherland.
Truly a work of Hong Kong-style ingenuity, “reverse quarantine” may just help us overcome the obstacle to the border reopening with the mainland. While only the full resumption of restriction-free border passage can allow the nation to turn its blueprint for developing an innovative and economic powerhouse in the Greater Bay Area into reality, let’s start with a more modest, partial resumption anyway.
No commitment to reform and opening up can be honoured if the corridors of integration stay shut. Whether for the sake of national rejuvenation or the preservation of decades’ worth of economic integration between Hong Kong and the mainland, we have a duty to reopen borders.