Letters | As Hong Kong coronavirus curve flattens, schools must reopen for life to return to normal
- A large part of the Hong Kong workforce can’t really return to work properly until the children are able to go back to school
The reality of home learning for a lot of us – especially those with younger kids who are less self-sufficient and independent – is that home learning requires almost 100 per cent supervision for a large part of the working day. In many cases, helper supervision is no substitute for parental supervision.
So, the upshot is that while local business and industry may be able to go back to work, the reality is that a lot of us will have to continue working from home outside school hours and not really be in a position to spend when local businesses and industry open up.
There is talk of a phased return when schools do go back, with older kids going back first; however, the reverse would almost make more sense, with the kids who require more supervision to go back before older kids.
Nicole McMahon, Pok Fu Lam
Covid-19 may be nature’s way of restoring balance
Nature promotes diversity and progress by a fundamental response to the environment to achieve balance – the “Way” of the Tao. Conversely, technologically invasive homo sapiens destroy natural habitats and species in the inexorable materialistic quest for “more” – while only creating more anger, more greed, more envy and more vanity. Our arrogance is astounding.
Christian Rogers, Wan Chai