So much this. The seemingly reasonable position of “they should follow due process” is, so often, just a mask because people are lacking the courage to say: I want no immigration (or no immigration from no white countries).
See also: “why don’t they apply for asylum from their country / the border”

Massive opportunity if someone can televise this! 🤭

Also, I wouldn’t ask “what’s more virgin than a computer” aloud within VP Vance’s earshot

Universal surge pricing (or this kind of variant) should be banned. Probably a bit tricky to define in a law but come on, besides bulk pricing, every citizen should be able to buy the same dozen of eggs at the same price.
And yet why am I not surprised

The fact there has been fires in mainland China seems to prove that metal scafoldings aren’t a perfect solution either - and it remains to be seen if bamboo was the key judging by the conversation so far (attacher - infographics by Bloomberg summarizing hypothesis so far)

lack of authorities to obtain documents and testimonies, or due to offline pressures to not open these can of worms - will fall short of public expectations and further diminish the public trust in the HK government.

But there are also more human aspects - potential corruption in the selection of the renovation contractor, why 16 notices by the Labour Department documenting fire safety gaps did not yield any results - that people want to hear about. Any enquiry failing to explore those aspects thoroughly - by

The government, to date, has been very quick at acting on the developers. No doubt we’ll get a technical explanation of what started the fire and what happened from then on.

Of course the public wants answers as to the various points of failure that got us here (159 dead, 40 still unaccounted for, thousand of lives impacted) but what they ask, need and (above all) deserve is a *progressive* analysis of what went wrong. Going fast risk leaving some key aspects untouched.

The cause for worry is not only that the commission will have no statutory powers to compel various stakeholders to come make testimonies under oath, but also that Lee seems to signal he’s choosing this option over a proper enquiry for speed reason.

one aspect where the scorecard to the government is less positive: an independent inquiry. Well done on swiftly arresting a number of persons linked to the developers doing maintenance work on the building, but the current commission risk falling short of what’s needed to closure.

have changed dramatically the outcome, and it’s well established that inspections, when they happen, are ineffective due to the lack of sanction on repeat offenders.
You can have change to the kind scaffolding used + strengthening codes in areas of oversight + enhancing enforcement at the same time