Rollercoaster Ride
Sunday, 8 March 2020 00:06![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
elusivekMeh, so just right after the so-called "celebration" of being COVID-19 free, the Macau government has brought back some Macau citizens from Wuhan, China.
We had known there were such plans, what we didn't know was how it was somewhat poorly organized.
There are some (I don't know how many) of them that although have a Macau Resident card, their real home is in Wuhan, so even if they come here, they don't have a place to stay. Probably they just wanted to get away from Wuhan maybe, and cash out on all the perks the government is giving out.
A 16 year old kid was refused from boarding the plane because he had a low-grade fever of 37.5C (Policy is 37.3C)
Anyway, this group of people (some 50-something) will be sent to the quarantine center for 14 days. Those that really are from Macau can go home after that. I have no idea what they plan to do with those that don't have a place to stay in Macau.
Maybe it'll be like that other Wuhan woman that was hospitalized (one of the 11 confirmed cases in Macau), got recovered, and simply said "I have no money", and didn't pay for the hospital stay and the services rendered. And these people plan to book into hotels and then ask the government for funding.
There is a saying in Chinese 送羊入虎口 (sending sheep into the wolf's mouth)... as a kid, my friend and I played around with this phrase and changed it to 送虎入羊竇 (sending a wolf into the sheep pen)... it all flows in Cantonese (dunno how it will sound in Mandarin, I suck at Mandarin...) and I think this second phrase suits our situation quite well. They are bringing in the wolves.
We had known there were such plans, what we didn't know was how it was somewhat poorly organized.
There are some (I don't know how many) of them that although have a Macau Resident card, their real home is in Wuhan, so even if they come here, they don't have a place to stay. Probably they just wanted to get away from Wuhan maybe, and cash out on all the perks the government is giving out.
A 16 year old kid was refused from boarding the plane because he had a low-grade fever of 37.5C (Policy is 37.3C)
Anyway, this group of people (some 50-something) will be sent to the quarantine center for 14 days. Those that really are from Macau can go home after that. I have no idea what they plan to do with those that don't have a place to stay in Macau.
Maybe it'll be like that other Wuhan woman that was hospitalized (one of the 11 confirmed cases in Macau), got recovered, and simply said "I have no money", and didn't pay for the hospital stay and the services rendered. And these people plan to book into hotels and then ask the government for funding.
There is a saying in Chinese 送羊入虎口 (sending sheep into the wolf's mouth)... as a kid, my friend and I played around with this phrase and changed it to 送虎入羊竇 (sending a wolf into the sheep pen)... it all flows in Cantonese (dunno how it will sound in Mandarin, I suck at Mandarin...) and I think this second phrase suits our situation quite well. They are bringing in the wolves.
