【絕食第80日】【80th Day of Hunger Strike: Update & Volunteers' Thoughts】
17 / 9 / 2020

▍「除了停止了探訪外，這裡任何東西都沒變過。廁所依然是那麼髒，他們（入境處）連一塊香皂都沒有多給我們。」- 羈留者O生氣的說

自9月6日CIC出現第二單新冠確診，CIC便停止了探訪，所有羈留者都已經十天因探訪暫停而無法獲得一些基本衛生護理物資。以下為義工H的心聲：

CIC對認可物資要求十分苛刻，書一定不要有任何標註，連一個「由XX中學圖書館捐贈」的印章也容不下，「呢本唔入得」；香皂只能是藍色的，但藥房通常是一排六塊的賣，只有兩塊是藍色，總有四塊紫色、白色不知如何處理；以為只要寫著「祝君早安」的毛巾便可以，買到了，職員又說「標誌中一的不是「合」字，這不是正版」，退回，不收；買了兩包M&M想給羈留者，但被告知一次一定要給5包，而且一定要是同一顏色的包裝。第一次聽到時會又生氣又無奈，明明都是香皂、毛巾，這些要求除了用來留難訪客，有任何意思嗎？每次探訪，更是總會見到其他訪客有一些東西因不乎要求而被退回，山長水遠走到來CIC，卻沒法送物資到親人、朋友手上，會感到很可惜嗎？

怒氣與無奈，隨著探訪次數漸多而慢慢地被磨蝕。為了能順利地把物資送到羈留者手上，更是練成了一對金精火眼，去到不同藥房都認得出物資，知道格價合理與否。這一陣子，見到任何藥房都會逛一逛，見到適合的便買下。這幾天都接給幾位羈留者的電話，有的說急需牙膏、香皂（只能通過探訪才能獲得），有的說很悶想收新的書。我想說，我都準備了，只是不知何時才見到他們。

羈留者的來電中，讓我除了知道他們需要的物資外，更是體會到自由對他們的迫切。「7樓的40多人全被送到隔離營了，你有他們的消息嗎？」S問。「我需要幫助。我不想繼續留在CIC，這裡有新冠病毒確診。這裡不安全。」R說。我想這次CIC這次確診引致的Lockdown和全院檢測已充份反映到這個地方十分高危，為何還是要強行把一班無罪的人拘禁，置他們的健康生命於危險中？

「我們差不多所有羈留人士已經聯名向入境處寫了一封投訴書，抗議停止探訪並要求交代原因。」O說。「希望很快可以容許探訪。」

▍“I am very angry about this lockdown. They (ImmD) did nothing more to advance any prevention or protection measures. Just lockdown. We are running out of toothpaste, soap and hand wash.” — Detainee I

Due to the discovery of the 2nd confirmed case of COVID-19 on 6th September, CIC has suspended all visit. All detainees have since been unable to receiving basic hygienic products from their visiting friends. It has been 10 days. Below are some thoughts of our volunteer H:

CIC is exceptionally meticulous, or better put, bureaucratic about the hand-in articles from visitors to detainees. A book must be totally clean, even a stamp that says “Donated by XX School Library” would made the book ineligible for handing in; The soap must be in blue, yet stores often sell this brand of soap in a pack of six, so volunteers would always be left with 4 bars of non-blue soap; when you bought the towel with the exact wording, the staff will always let you know that your towel is “knock-off” and therefore unaccepted; M&M must come in 5 packs of the same colour. When the articles I bought first got rejected by CIC officers, I was very frustrated. In terms of their function, the towels and soap I bought were just fine. And every time I visited, I always saw other visitors’ “unapproved” articles got rejected. Imagining coming all the way with the hope of giving a little something to make your detainee friend’s life slightly better, and yet got rejected for the bureaucratic instructions of CIC, would you feel upset?

Nevertheless, my angry and frustration has been numbed as I visited CIC more frequently. In order to successfully got the articles to detainees, I have become an expert. I have memorised the entire list of approved hand-in articles and know the prices for each item. And over time, I have stocked up these articles for the detainees. In the past few days, our concern group have received several calls from detainees, saying that they are lacking certain hygienic project. “We are running out of toothpaste, soap and hand wash.” they said. I would love to let them know that I have stocked up, yet I now have no idea when I can give things to them due to the lockdown in CIC.

From these calls from detainees, not only had I learnt about the certain items they need, but also what freedom meant to them. “40 detainees from 7/F have been sent to the isolation camp, do you have any news about them?”, detainee S asked me. “Actually I need help. I don’t want to stay long time in CIC. There is positive case here. CIC is not safe.” Detainee R said. I think the current lockdown of CIC have demonstrated exactly how CIC is not safe. There is a high risk for cross-infection of COVID-19 in CIC. So, why is the authority so determined to detain this group of innocent people, and put their health and lives in danger?

“Most detainees have wrote a complaint letter together to the Immigration Department against the lockdown and ask for reasons.” Said O. “Hope this complaint letter could help reopen visit soon.”

今天的解析文章獻給一群努力的台灣國家隊友：外交領事人員
以及他們協調整合的美國眾議員們！

205 位美國國會議員連署支持台灣參加 WHA 以及 WHO 技術會議
點開連署信看到 205 個簽名真的很感動，背後是多少奔走努力
（WHO 是世界衛生組織，WHA 是該組織的大會，世界衛生大會）

美國聯邦眾議院總共 435 位國會議員，國會已實施遠距工作 WFH 兩個月
這樣的艱難下還能有 205 位議員連署，很不容易

一起來看連署信的用字遣詞精選

During this unprecedented global public health crisis, we write to express our strong support for Taiwan’s unconditional inclusion as an Observer in the 73rd World Health Assembly (WHA) and in World Health Organization (WHO) technical meetings.
在這場史無前例的全球公衛危機中，我們堅決支持台灣無條件以觀察員的身份參加第 73 屆世界衛生大會以及世衛組織的技術會議。

-unprecedented: 空前的（近期已經不知道出現幾次了，該學起來囉 XD）
-unconditional: 無條件的
-inclusion: 包含、納入
-assembly: 這個字雖然是ly結尾，但他是個名詞，為集會的意思

Taiwan’s commitment to global public health and its response to the COVID-19 pandemic demonstrate the value of including Taiwan in WHO activities.
台灣對全球公共衛生的貢獻以及對新冠疫情的因應，在在展現其加入 WHO 活動的價值

-commitment to: 對…的貢獻，後接名詞（或動名詞）
-demonstrate the value of: 展現對…的價值，是個很棒的詞組！

Taiwan has an outstanding record of multilateral engagement on a wide range of health challenges.
台灣多方應對各樣公衛挑戰也有出色紀錄

-multilateral: 複合字，多邊、多方的
-lateral: 側邊的，常見的變化還有bilateral 雙邊的，如雙邊會談：bilateral meeting
-engagement: 接觸、參與
＊multilateral engagement兩個字就清楚表達了台灣在全球公衛中的參與程度
-a wide range of: 廣泛的

Despite Taiwan’s outstanding response and demonstrated expertise
儘管台灣展現了其專業性與面對疫情的出色反應

-despite: 儘管，介係詞，後接名詞
＊句構討論：此處結構較為特別，是「儘管台灣的（針對疫情）出色反應 and 展現出的專業」，所以 outstanding 與 demonstrated 都是分詞功能，做形容詞使用。由despite帶兩項台灣的成績（ despite A and B 的結構）

Taiwan’s statistics have been misleadingly included with those of the People’s Republic of China (PRC)
台灣的統計數據卻被誤導式地列在中國的數據之中

-statistics: 統計數據，常用複數型，有統計數據及統計學的含義
-misleading: 誤導的，加上ly變成副詞
-be included with: 被包含於…

PRC has succeeded in pressuring WHO to withhold an invitation to Taiwan to participate as an Observer at the last three WHA annual meetings.
中國成功施壓 WHO，拒絕台灣以觀察員身份參與近三次的 WHA

-succeed in: 成功、達到…
-pressure: 施壓，實質與抽象壓力皆可
-withhold: 扣留、拒絕給予

Given Taiwan’s contributions and the health needs of its people, WHO cannot uphold the spirit of its Constitution to seek the health of all people while excluding Taiwan from participation as an Observer at this year’s WHA.
有鑑於台灣的貢獻以及其人民對健康的需求，WHO 不能一邊將台灣排除在今年WHA 觀察員之列，卻又一邊堅持其為全人類謀求健康之宗旨

＊正式文章通常用 cannot 而非 can’t，cannot 就是一個字，不拆開
-given: 介係詞，考慮到、有鑑於…
-uphold: 支持、維護（尤指法律上的決議）
-Constitution: 此字首大寫，表 WHO 本身的規章、宗旨。此字平時多用來指國家的憲法
-seek: 尋求
＊句中的 while 作為此句的連接詞，不止連接句子，同時這個連接詞也有表示前後句子的對比關係，這邊意指 WHO 不應該以雙重標準，做著與其宗旨相悖逆的行為

205 位眾議員簽名的連署信！ https://reurl.cc/Kk9Dzp

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The Early Sensitive Period
The crucial importance of skin-to-skin contact immediately after birth was demonstrated by the finding that a two-hour separation period immediately after birth inhibited the development of positive effects on social interaction and stress buffering. The mother-infant dyads reunited after a two-hour separation period after birth, behaved like those that were separated not only in the labor ward, but also during the four-day stay at the maternity ward.
These results point to a particular role of skin-to-skin contact during the first two hours after birth, “the early sensitive period.” More surprisingly, the group in which the babies wore clothes differed from the skin-to-skin group, suggesting that clothes act like an insulator from real skin-to-skin contact (Bystrova et al., 2009).

Dad had requested skin-to-skin in the OR from the moment that he stepped foot in the hospital... he must have mentioned it a dozen times.

He + his wife were preparing to welcome twins in to the world after losing their first-born to Krabbe Leukodystrophy at the young age of 20 months.

Staff told him that it would be tough since he would have two babies and needed to be in a scrub suit over his clothes ... So he promptly and without question explained that he had a large arm-span that was ready and waiting to hold his two boys and then took his shirt off and zipped up his scrubs announcing, 'well then.. problem solved!'

This nurse made sure to advocate for him to all 24 other people in the OR that day -- and personally made sure that his request was fulfilled. <3

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