I have never doubt Yeo’s integrity, and as far as I am concerned, his biggest fault was joining a sinking ship. SARS was more our bad luck than his personal misfortune.
Fung was incompetent, and she ran away from it all. A disgrace.
Then it was Ko and gang. 10 days during the peak of SARS, yet w/o any meeting records, this is far beyond incompetence, it just draws so much doubt to their personal and professional integrity that they are presumed guilty of a major conspiracy. And they had the guts to take some fat bonus!
As for TCH, he refused to appear as a witness in the LegCo SARS committee. He met the committee eventually but he wasn’t under oath. Lo Wing Lok one of the committee members also has much to answer to, for he voted against using LegCo’s special power to call TCH as witness.
Only the good die young – Queen
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1 James Mok // Jul 10, 2004 at 11:14 pm
The single most wrong doing that Yoah did in the SARS crisis was instead of leading his team to find ways to administer the medical problem, he led them to find ways to curb the downfall of the image of the Region.
It is so amasing how fast people lose their memory.
As for Chan Fung, she was luckier than Ho that she never did caught SARS herself.
I suggest giving both Yoah and Chan Fung a dose of SARS and then lock them up with cosmatic make-up and a webcam broadcast all over the net and see how exactly and important for them to protect their images with SARS.
2 tin_the_fatty // Jul 13, 2004 at 12:25 pm
We didn’t forget, but it may never be clear who was really fussing about the coincidence between SARS the disease and Hong Kong SAR the place.
It was argued that Chan Fung’s hands were tied as SARS in the Mainland was considered a state secret, which I don’t buy. Chan Fung as a person of science should care more about saving lives than being PC so she was pretty much guilty as charged.
Face it, with TCH’s on-hand modus operandi, it was almost certain that he was pretty much running the show. People don’t go bonkers w/ the LegCo committee prasing TCH, not because he wasn’t responsible for the fu*k up, but because we have totally given up on him as the bastard child of the family—-we don’t talk about him, we don’t mention him, we pretend he doesn’t exist, and we only hope him to go away eventually.
3 James Mok // Jul 13, 2004 at 2:57 pm
As far as SARS is concerned, TCH did OK up until the resignation of Yoah. He could have done even more or better, but he did OK. TCH shouldn’t have praised Yoah upon his resignation though. He should have either fired Yoah, or make Yoah learn from mistakes and have Yoah write a report on the entire incident and how they could have done better. Sort of make him thing, as Yoah seems to be unable to do so on his own.
Chan has always been guilty as charged even before the SARS crisis. She had always said nothing was of any concern, be it Mad Cow Decease or Chicken Flu, or other questioned food imports. Chan should have been fired years ago.
A responsibility does not always have to be a financial one (as seen with the FS Leung’s self-realization which didn’t matter) and doesn’t have to be a flesh one either. Making them realize how they could improve upon their experience would be a good start. However if the person insists there were nothing wrong and refuses to learn from the experience, then he is of no used anymore, hence the Seppuku. But a simple resignation is no responsibility for such a big mistake, especially they still don’t think they have done anylthing wrong, it is just a releave.
4 James Mok // Jul 13, 2004 at 3:15 pm
BTW, TVB’s Monday Report last night had a slightly more in depth view on what happened and what Yoah, Chan, Leung Dr. Tse did or, more importantly, did not do during the crisis. Before last night’s Monday Report, I only refered Dr. Tse on her TV appearence to point out what’s wrong with the message. I didn’t say it was her own fault as the message could have been a decision from a higher authority. But as it turned out in the show, Dr. Tse did a lot worse in other areas in regards to the SARS crisis.
It revealed that the Hospital Authority had not had a single meeting during all of March and April ‘03!
We see a fly and we wouldn’t use a pin to take care of it. Instead we slam on it with a flytrap. We see a rat and we wouldn’t use a stick to take care of it; we use a trap or poison. I thought this was pure elementry. I don’t see how different when it comes to a killer virus of unknown origin. The only way is to slam on it with the most trastic way we could.
Had Ultraman started with the “CrossBeam” against the monsters right away, the monster would have been taken care of and there wouldn’t be any show at all. SARS or any other medical problem is not a show, and shouldn’t be taken as one.