Opposition lawmakers on Wednesday fired a political broadside at the SAR government in a special session of the Legislative Council held specifically to discuss emergency measure aimed at containing the COVID-19 epidemic in Hong Kong. As unsurprising as their behavior was, they managed to impress the public with the lengths they will reach to profit from any crisis yet again. All the opposition lawmakers who spoke at the meeting were apparently much more interested in attacking the chief executive and principal officials one way or another, with hardly any constructive ideas to offer. In addition to the groundless accusations some of them made against the government, they also reminded people just how prone they can be to self-contradiction. All in all, it was yet another political freak show staged by the opposition camp to keep the “black revolution” front and center by hate-mongering at the expense of the SAR government and Hong Kong society as a whole.

Many Hong Kong residents have been praying that the COVID-19 epidemic would finally end the scourge of terror that is the “black revolution”, which has inflicted immeasurable suffering to the city since June, but the leading advocates and instigators of the criminal campaign have once again shown few if any natural disasters can stop them from feeding on Hong Kong society’s pain. For example, Civic Party star — and barrister-at-law no less — Tanya Chan Suk-chong asked Security Secretary John Lee Ka-chiu if the police force has protective gear to spare and offer to front-line medical employees in public hospitals. Her query seemed to be inspired by a video clip posted on social media showing some police officers wearing professional-grade protection gear while carrying out their duties. In his reply, Lee pointed out that police officers are on the front line too, and should not be political targets. The fact is, the video clip in question was taken by police officers on the scene, according to existing protocol, which is similar to most if not all police forces in Western countries such as the US and UK. In case Chan didn’t already know, the police force is not the only frontline group equipped with professional-grade protection gear, and police officers have only one week’s worth of supplies. Since everybody knows the opposition hates the police to death, it surprised no one that Chan singled out front-line officers for the sake of the “black revolution”.

The same twisted logic can be found in the objection to a government plan to place the cruise ship passengers evacuated from Japan in a vacant public residential building in Fo Tan, New Territories. When opposition lawmaker Alvin Yeung Ngok-kiu, also of the Civic Party, voiced his opposition to the plan, he obviously forgot his camp has been pressing the government to bring the stranded fellow citizens back home as soon as possible. If “home” were to be taken literally, how would the passengers and their neighbors feel about leaving their communities in danger of infection that way? When all is said and done, the opposition is so desperate to profit from the spreading epidemic, it seems to have lost sight of what they call “universal values”, much like Sino-phobic people in the West.